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Never Forget Those Who Came Before

Without our grandparents and their parents and their parents none of us would be here today, take the time to spend time with the family you have, get to know them, listen to their stories, call them, do some family history research. And never forget that you are loved, and your family needs your love too.

Families can Be together Forever Through Heavenly Fathers Word... part of a hymn from my church.


with love, Arianna

Balloon

Kids are amazing

Simple as that

HIKING

2 weeks ago I went on a 10 mile, 2 day hike in Wyoming with my brother's boy-scout troop! I hadn't been hiking in 8 months prior to this trip, and I was thrilled to be backpacking again! Nature is my way to connect to myself without distraction, it brings me peace and I feel closer to God. I love the feeling when you just want to give up and sit down and take a 10 minute break because you just went on a steep uphill with lots of boulders you had to step up on, and then just pushing forward anyways. I love seeing the trees dance in the wind and the day turn to night. I love the camp fire and sleeping on the ground, I love the wild and I can't wait until my next trip like this!

One thing that is helpful to remember when Hiking is that, It's all in the mind, you can tell yourself you can do this, and that your strong, or you can say that this is hard and that you suck at hiking. One way makes it much easier and happier to hike and the other makes it feel like a burden and something you never want to do again. Also remember to breathe, and breath correctly, and purposefully, It'll make the world of difference, when your going up a hard trail breathe deep, smooth and slow, instead of panting. It'll give you more energy, Also talk to the people you are with, get to know them better. You will be surprised at how much better you will get to know someone after you talk while on the trail, it is a place to be open and let yourself pour out into the souls and spirits around you.

Go do something adventurous! Don't be afraid of the unknown. Get out there and live!

with love, Arianna

I love my mum

Breath Taking

Peek Beyond the Leaves

Best Best Friend ever <3

Back in the Day

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LONDON!

Today we arrived around 7-8 in the morning UK time, which would be like 1-2 a.m. my time in North Carolina! Of course I end up getting sick and not feeling well before we take off from New York, being on planes for 12 hours in one day isn't the best thing for ones health. Luckily I managed to not throw up the whole time! Yay me! :P When we arrived in London it was still dark and dreary, I was hoping the whole time that today would not be rainy and gross, and it wasn't  Score! The taxi drive to our hotel was awesome, I had my face glued to the window the whole time and I was mesmerized by all my surroundings, first of all London has so much history, and everything is so much fun to look at, second there is just so much going on!  It is defiantly a very busy place, third, I love cars and exotic cars and this place is full of them, when we passed the Aston Martin car store along with Lambo's, Ferrari's and pretty much every other exotic European car you could dream of, my mouth was gaping open with envy. So when we finally arrived at our hotel, I took a shower, and took a 3 hour nap, the jet lag is pretty bad jumping 6 hours ahead in time plus taking a red eye flight. Today has been amazing, we went walking around the area around our hotel, we went to the Victoria station, rode some buses around Westminster, and went to ride the London Eye, and I took a bunch of pictures! Which will be posted along with this blurb that I am writing. Unfortunately the SIM cards we purchased for our phones didnt end up working, but oh well, at least we have wifi! It feels pretty cool to just be sitting in this hotel room knowing that I am in London, this place is quite fantastic and I would love living here if I could ever afford it, but its pretty dang pricey, so I doubt that would ever be possible. Me and my mum have been attempting British accents while we are here, we are not very good, but getting better! It refreshing to see so many attractive men here! Who dress themselves very fashionably, its like all the hotties in the world hide out in Europe! But of course I think we all already knew that. :P well time to get on with it then loves, pictures!