2016 RECAP

Wow, I cant believe it’s already a new year! 2016 was a big year for me. So many amazing, incredible, once in a lifetime things happened to me and I’m so blessed for it all! Let’s have a recap, shall we?

Things that happened in 2016:

• Turned 20 years old
• Met Sadie Robertson at her book signing which resulted in the funniest picture EVER
• The Panthers made it to the Super Bowl (gotta represent the home team!)
• Graduated with a 2 year degree (at the same time my cousin graduated with hers!)
• Baby sister turned 16 *cries*

• Traveled to Nashville for the first time (You can read about it here,here, and here!)
• Got accepted into my #1 school
• Road tripped with my mom, sister, and best friend to Atlanta to meet Kian &JC on tour
• Got Abby hooked on Teen Wolf
• Took my sister with myself and Abby to soundcheck at the 5SOS concert
• Went with my family to see Lindsey Stirling perform the next day (read about both concerts here!)

• Had all four of my wisdom teeth removed
• Traveled to Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where I check off a life bucket list item of eating at Cafe Du Monde
• Had the annual family beach trip to Sanibel immediately after

• FREAKED OUT over the PLL summer finale
• Got obsessed with a handful of amazing new television shows
• Celebrated my one year blogiversary!
• Babysat A TON (and I wouldn’t have had it any other way, love those kiddos!)
• Traveled back to Atlanta with my dad and sister for Dragon Con (and met some of Hollywood’s finest)

• Started my first semester at my new school
• Took a “Children’s Literature” course that was about comic books and superheroes and the homework was to watch the correlating superhero movies (a dream come true in the college world, at least for me)
• Took a family weekend trip to Boone

• Baby sister learned to drive (again *cries*)
• Voted in my first presidential election
• Best friend got accepted into Hogwarts (delivered by a special anonymous owl *wink wink*)
• Had a MAGICALLY WONDERFUL time at the happiest place on earth!!! (Magic Kingdom and Epcot!)
• Developed a new love for Star Wars
• Started learning Italian (buongiorno!)
• Made all A’s and B’s
• Celebrated a wonderful and very merry Christmas at home with my favorite people in the entire world

And just like that, it’s a new year!  A whole new year full of new experiences, new people, new places, new knowledge, new accomplishments. I am QUITE excited about this new year. I feel different about it, different than I ever have. I feel like some big things are going to happen this next year. Maybe not big to other people, but big for me. And I’m ready, ready take this year on head first! Let’s do this 2017!

What is something you are looking forward to in the new year?

xoxo Ariana

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