2016: Twelvemonth Inward Review
I had planned to start this weblog post amongst a brusk blurb almost how this is something I do every unmarried year. But, I only went dorsum to read lastly year's "year inward review" post, as well as I obviously didn't write it. Oops... I estimate this is something I do *almost* every year.
At the terminate of 2016, I read soooooooo many tweets as well as facebook posts almost how 2016 was the worst yr ever. But, for me, it was the best yr ever.
I also continued the annual tradition of Universal Letter Writing Week.
Australia. Flew dorsum to US. Stranded inward LA. Atlanta. Pneumonia. Bronchitis. Shaun's visa arrived. 2016 Challenge. Universal Letter Writing Week.
The most notable happening of Feb was that Shaun moved to America!
This meant that nosotros had almost a calendar month to ready for our March twelfth wedding. Thus, Feb consisted of buying marriage rings, a marriage cake, marriage flowers, supplies to create marriage programs, as well as a zillion other things.
Shaun's identify unit of measurement flew to America at the kickoff of March. They were a huge assist amongst lots of lastly infinitesimal marriage prep. I ended upwards taking off schoolhouse the calendar week earlier Spring Break inward guild to acquire everything ready for our marriage which was the Sabbatum earlier Spring Break.
And, here's the argue why 2016 was the best yr ever!
My necklace featured the digits of pi, as well as it was made past times the lovely Katherine. I took a huge opportunity as well as ordered my marriage clothing from Amazon (affiliate link). I ended upwards LOVING it!
After the wedding, nosotros had a mini honeymoon inward Bricktown. We had a lot of paperwork to acquire done on Spring Break earlier I had to had to caput dorsum to school, therefore nosotros decided it made since to have got a mini honeymoon correct later on our marriage as well as a longer trip during the summer.
I came dorsum to schoolhouse equally Mrs. Carter. This was a hard adjustment for my students.
For Easter, I tried my manus at making an Australian favorite: Hot Cross Buns. I had never eaten i before, but I ended upwards LOVING them.
Another affair that happened inward March was that Shaun as well as I had our minds blown past times James Tanton as well as his exploding dots.
Apr was consumed past times grad school. I had to goal my literature review for my activity query projection (you tin read my finished query projection here) as well as start my lastly degree for my master's. My students were busy taking end-of-instruction exams.
In May, I finished both my quaternary yr of teaching as well as my master's program. Shaun as well as I made the trek to Arlington, Texas therefore I could walk across the phase as well as have my diploma. Since I did my master's programme solely online, I wanted to do something inward mortal to create it appear to a greater extent than "real."
High Yield Geometry Routines
At the kickoff of June, nosotros celebrated Shaun's 29th birthday amongst the best chocolate cake. We skipped the icing, as well as instead I made homemade whipped cream to become betwixt the layers. Yum!
Shaun's identify unit of measurement got him a bread machine (affiliate link) for his birthday. We have got used this staff of life machine SO much this year! I love beingness able to lay inward the ingredients at night, set the timer, as well as wake upwards to fresh staff of life inward the morning.
Shaun as well as I attended an OERB Workshop inward July therefore he could have iii gratis graphing calculators for his classroom. I roped him into helping me create stellated icosahedrons to hang upwards inward my novel classroom.
We also made ii life changing purchases.
The previous tenants inward my classroom had a habit of stapling stuff to the wall. There were hundreds of staples that would demand to live pulled out. I had remembered some #MTBoSers beak almost the magic of flat staple removers (affiliate link) a few years back. I ordered ii off of Amazon (one for me as well as i for the husband), as well as nosotros were SO happy amongst ourselves.
If you lot pass whatsoever fourth dimension at all pulling staples out of walls or bulletin boards, you lot must purchase i now! It is magnetic, therefore the staples you lot trace out stick to it. It is really magic!
We also bought an Amazon Basics Shredder (affiliate link). It makes going through our junk postal service therefore much easier.
We also finally got some to putting together our invitee mass from our marriage inward July. We used an album (affiliate link) that held 8" x 8" papers. Guests at our marriage were invited to write a message or describe a film for us on pieces of bill of fare stock (cut to 8" squares) to live lay inward our guestbook album. It ended upwards turning out super cute!
In August, I started my fifth yr of teaching. Our district had to combine our middle schoolhouse as well as high schoolhouse into a unmarried edifice due to huge budget issues at the nation level. This meant I had to decorate a create novel classroom! You tin run across pictures of all of my novel classroom decorations here.
I won a gratis document camera (affiliate link) from Ipevo.
I was making therefore many novel activities for my classroom that I decided to guild a second laminator (affiliate link) to hold at home.
After therefore many years of playing Witzzle amongst my students, I finally establish a used re-create on ebay to buy.
Shaun as well as I kept upwards our tendency of making adult purchases. In August, nosotros bought electric toothbrushes as well as a laser printer to supplant the inkjet printer I'd been using since I started college.
In September, I attended some other OERB Workshop. This was a scientific discipline workshop, however, because I am at i time teaching a physical scientific discipline class. This was never inward my plans, but nosotros had a scientific discipline instructor lastly yr retire who was non replaced due to budget cuts. I got loads of gratis scientific discipline supplies for my classroom! I blogged almost the workshop as well as the supplies I received here.
ThinkFun sent me a set of MathDice (affiliate link) to utilization amongst my students.
Shaun started playing the guitar at church building which has helped us acquire to a greater extent than involved. The other exciting affair that happened was I got a novel phone. I wasn't planning on getting a novel phone, but I accidentally dunked my old telephone inward a drinking glass of water. :(
Thankfully, Oct brought amongst it a 3 twenty-four hours intermission known equally Fall Break. I became a flake obsessed amongst the Great British Bake Off. I started watching the original initiative of all flavour on YouTube. I tried out some of the recipes including a Victoria Sponge as well as a Cobb Loaf.
I got role of my grant stuff inward the mail. I ordered giant, group-sized dry out erase boards as well as hundreds of markers.
My SmartBoard projector died. The schoolhouse ordered a replacement bulb, but later on it was installed the projector would non remain on for to a greater extent than than thirty seconds. So, I spent almost ii months of the schoolhouse yr without a projector. This was TOUGH.
I introduced my students to the 5-4-3-2-1 Challenge.
ThinkFun sent me some games to bear witness out inward my classroom as well as write reviews of. I reviewed both Shape Logic as well as Brick Logic.
Probably the biggest affair that happened inward Oct was that Shaun as well as I bought a novel (to us) car! When Shaun moved here, nosotros were waiting on him to acquire his dark-green bill of fare as well as driver's license straightened out earlier nosotros bought a minute car. Then, when he got a chore at the same schoolhouse equally me, it became much less of a priority on our to-do list. Over Fall Break, nosotros finally decided to create it happen.
We ended upwards buying a 2015 Toyota Corolla from Hertz. It was a onetime rental car, as well as nosotros are completely happy amongst it! It's the newest machine either of us have got always owned. And, we're sort of inward love amongst the reversing camera.
I celebrated my 27th birthday inward November. We celebrated past times trying a novel to us restaurant: Pie Five. We also went to downtown Stillwater for some yummy gelato. I got lots of novel kitchen gear for my birthday which made me super happy.
We celebrated Thanksgiving amongst my family. This was Shaun's initiative of all always Thanksgiving. We ate waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy also much! It was suprisingly warm for November, therefore Shaun taught my identify unit of measurement how to play bocce (affiliate link).
I continued my baking obsession past times baking myself a birthday cake as well as making crescent rolls.
The residuum of my grant materials (science as well as standard supplies) arrived!
Cake pans. Flour as well as saccharide containers. Thanksgiving. Bocce. Grant materials finally arrived! Baked crescent rolls.
My physical scientific discipline students grew "Chemistrees."
As my students were working on semester tests, I worked on organizing my classroom as well as sorting all the activities I had created during the initiative of all semester of the year. I blogged to a greater extent than almost my arrangement scheme here.
Almost equally presently equally Christmas Break had began, I came downwardly amongst Strep Throat. This was definitely non fun. Antibiotics took attention of my sore pharynx pretty quickly, but I was plagued amongst a mild mutual frigidity over Christmas. :( We celebrated Shaun's initiative of all American Christmas amongst my family. We got lots of games for Christmas which kept us super occupied. Our favorites have got been Mobi, Three Up Three Down, Don't Take My Word, as well as Tic Stac Toe.
My parents got Shaun a disc bocce set for Christmas. Lucky for us, the discs are inward the colors of America as well as Australia!
Shaun asked for a cricket bat for Christmas. We bought PVC piping at Lowe's therefore he could create his ain cricket stumps. It was warm plenty i twenty-four hours inward Dec for us to play an afternoon of backyard cricket. I'm definitely soundless learning how this whole cricket affair works.
For Christmas, I asked for an exercise bike (affiliate link). I haven't used it real much yet due to battling what seems similar affliction later on affliction later on illness.
We had my parents as well as sis over to our solid for New Year's Eve. We made pizza for luncheon as well as pavlova for dessert. We spent the afternoon playing games as well as watching the Great British Bake Off.
And, that was only some of what happened inward 2016. It turns out that doing life amongst your best friend/husband is pretty amazing.
At the terminate of 2016, I read soooooooo many tweets as well as facebook posts almost how 2016 was the worst yr ever. But, for me, it was the best yr ever.
January
Jan began "down under." I traveled to Commonwealth of Australia lastly Dec to pass Christmas amongst my then-fiance. During that trip, nosotros journeyed to Sydney for Shaun's K-1 visa interview. This was a actually large bargain because if this interview didn't become well, nosotros wouldn't live able to acquire married according to our plan. Thankfully, nosotros had all the correct paperwork, as well as nosotros were approved!
We said a teary goodbye on Jan 2nd, as well as I set out to wing from Adelaide to Melbourne to LA to Dallas to Tulsa. When I landed inward LA, at that topographic point was a occupation amongst the cargo concur on our A380. It would non opened upwards which meant nosotros could non exit our luggage to create the trek through customs. When the occupation was finally solved as well as I had made it through customs, I had missed my flying from LA to Dallas. After waiting inward occupation for 2+ hours to acquire on some other flight, I was told that they would have got to lay me upwards inward a hotel inward LA since the adjacent flying out was such a long wait. This began my initiative of all as well as only sense of California. I walked out of the airdrome to grab a omnibus to the hotel, but I rapidly became overwhelmed as well as outburst into tears. At this point, I was ready to become dorsum inward the airdrome as well as only facial expression it out there. Eventually, I got over my fearfulness of the the crazy LA traffic as well as establish the bus. I went to my hotel room to have got a shower as well as have got a nap. Then, I had pizza as well as took a omnibus dorsum to the airport. I ended upwards having to wing from LA to Atlanta, as well as therefore I flew from Atlanta to Tulsa.
It was a mess getting dorsum home, as well as I have got no wishing to always become dorsum to LA. My parents picked me upwards at the airdrome as well as brought me my machine therefore I could drive home. Within a few hours of getting home, my legs started pain similar crazy. I was convinced that I must have got developed a blood clot from all of my flying. The flying from Melbourne to LA is almost fifteen hours lone all past times itself. My parents took me to the doctor. Luckily, I didn't have got a blood clot, but I did have got both a sinus infection as well as pneumonia.
My students participated inward the 2016 Challenge (updated 2017 Challenge posted here).
We said a teary goodbye on Jan 2nd, as well as I set out to wing from Adelaide to Melbourne to LA to Dallas to Tulsa. When I landed inward LA, at that topographic point was a occupation amongst the cargo concur on our A380. It would non opened upwards which meant nosotros could non exit our luggage to create the trek through customs. When the occupation was finally solved as well as I had made it through customs, I had missed my flying from LA to Dallas. After waiting inward occupation for 2+ hours to acquire on some other flight, I was told that they would have got to lay me upwards inward a hotel inward LA since the adjacent flying out was such a long wait. This began my initiative of all as well as only sense of California. I walked out of the airdrome to grab a omnibus to the hotel, but I rapidly became overwhelmed as well as outburst into tears. At this point, I was ready to become dorsum inward the airdrome as well as only facial expression it out there. Eventually, I got over my fearfulness of the the crazy LA traffic as well as establish the bus. I went to my hotel room to have got a shower as well as have got a nap. Then, I had pizza as well as took a omnibus dorsum to the airport. I ended upwards having to wing from LA to Atlanta, as well as therefore I flew from Atlanta to Tulsa.
It was a mess getting dorsum home, as well as I have got no wishing to always become dorsum to LA. My parents picked me upwards at the airdrome as well as brought me my machine therefore I could drive home. Within a few hours of getting home, my legs started pain similar crazy. I was convinced that I must have got developed a blood clot from all of my flying. The flying from Melbourne to LA is almost fifteen hours lone all past times itself. My parents took me to the doctor. Luckily, I didn't have got a blood clot, but I did have got both a sinus infection as well as pneumonia.
My students participated inward the 2016 Challenge (updated 2017 Challenge posted here).
I also continued the annual tradition of Universal Letter Writing Week.
Australia. Flew dorsum to US. Stranded inward LA. Atlanta. Pneumonia. Bronchitis. Shaun's visa arrived. 2016 Challenge. Universal Letter Writing Week.
February
This meant that nosotros had almost a calendar month to ready for our March twelfth wedding. Thus, Feb consisted of buying marriage rings, a marriage cake, marriage flowers, supplies to create marriage programs, as well as a zillion other things.
March
Shaun's identify unit of measurement flew to America at the kickoff of March. They were a huge assist amongst lots of lastly infinitesimal marriage prep. I ended upwards taking off schoolhouse the calendar week earlier Spring Break inward guild to acquire everything ready for our marriage which was the Sabbatum earlier Spring Break.
And, here's the argue why 2016 was the best yr ever!
My necklace featured the digits of pi, as well as it was made past times the lovely Katherine. I took a huge opportunity as well as ordered my marriage clothing from Amazon (affiliate link). I ended upwards LOVING it!
After the wedding, nosotros had a mini honeymoon inward Bricktown. We had a lot of paperwork to acquire done on Spring Break earlier I had to had to caput dorsum to school, therefore nosotros decided it made since to have got a mini honeymoon correct later on our marriage as well as a longer trip during the summer.
I came dorsum to schoolhouse equally Mrs. Carter. This was a hard adjustment for my students.
For Easter, I tried my manus at making an Australian favorite: Hot Cross Buns. I had never eaten i before, but I ended upwards LOVING them.
Another affair that happened inward March was that Shaun as well as I had our minds blown past times James Tanton as well as his exploding dots.
April
May
At the kickoff of June, nosotros celebrated Shaun's 29th birthday amongst the best chocolate cake. We skipped the icing, as well as instead I made homemade whipped cream to become betwixt the layers. Yum!
Shaun's identify unit of measurement got him a bread machine (affiliate link) for his birthday. We have got used this staff of life machine SO much this year! I love beingness able to lay inward the ingredients at night, set the timer, as well as wake upwards to fresh staff of life inward the morning.
July
We also made ii life changing purchases.
The previous tenants inward my classroom had a habit of stapling stuff to the wall. There were hundreds of staples that would demand to live pulled out. I had remembered some #MTBoSers beak almost the magic of flat staple removers (affiliate link) a few years back. I ordered ii off of Amazon (one for me as well as i for the husband), as well as nosotros were SO happy amongst ourselves.
If you lot pass whatsoever fourth dimension at all pulling staples out of walls or bulletin boards, you lot must purchase i now! It is magnetic, therefore the staples you lot trace out stick to it. It is really magic!
We also bought an Amazon Basics Shredder (affiliate link). It makes going through our junk postal service therefore much easier.
We also finally got some to putting together our invitee mass from our marriage inward July. We used an album (affiliate link) that held 8" x 8" papers. Guests at our marriage were invited to write a message or describe a film for us on pieces of bill of fare stock (cut to 8" squares) to live lay inward our guestbook album. It ended upwards turning out super cute!
August
In August, I started my fifth yr of teaching. Our district had to combine our middle schoolhouse as well as high schoolhouse into a unmarried edifice due to huge budget issues at the nation level. This meant I had to decorate a create novel classroom! You tin run across pictures of all of my novel classroom decorations here.
I won a gratis document camera (affiliate link) from Ipevo.
I was making therefore many novel activities for my classroom that I decided to guild a second laminator (affiliate link) to hold at home.
After therefore many years of playing Witzzle amongst my students, I finally establish a used re-create on ebay to buy.
Shaun as well as I kept upwards our tendency of making adult purchases. In August, nosotros bought electric toothbrushes as well as a laser printer to supplant the inkjet printer I'd been using since I started college.
September
ThinkFun sent me a set of MathDice (affiliate link) to utilization amongst my students.
Shaun started playing the guitar at church building which has helped us acquire to a greater extent than involved. The other exciting affair that happened was I got a novel phone. I wasn't planning on getting a novel phone, but I accidentally dunked my old telephone inward a drinking glass of water. :(
October
I got role of my grant stuff inward the mail. I ordered giant, group-sized dry out erase boards as well as hundreds of markers.
My SmartBoard projector died. The schoolhouse ordered a replacement bulb, but later on it was installed the projector would non remain on for to a greater extent than than thirty seconds. So, I spent almost ii months of the schoolhouse yr without a projector. This was TOUGH.
I introduced my students to the 5-4-3-2-1 Challenge.
ThinkFun sent me some games to bear witness out inward my classroom as well as write reviews of. I reviewed both Shape Logic as well as Brick Logic.
Probably the biggest affair that happened inward Oct was that Shaun as well as I bought a novel (to us) car! When Shaun moved here, nosotros were waiting on him to acquire his dark-green bill of fare as well as driver's license straightened out earlier nosotros bought a minute car. Then, when he got a chore at the same schoolhouse equally me, it became much less of a priority on our to-do list. Over Fall Break, nosotros finally decided to create it happen.
We ended upwards buying a 2015 Toyota Corolla from Hertz. It was a onetime rental car, as well as nosotros are completely happy amongst it! It's the newest machine either of us have got always owned. And, we're sort of inward love amongst the reversing camera.
November
We celebrated Thanksgiving amongst my family. This was Shaun's initiative of all always Thanksgiving. We ate waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy also much! It was suprisingly warm for November, therefore Shaun taught my identify unit of measurement how to play bocce (affiliate link).
I continued my baking obsession past times baking myself a birthday cake as well as making crescent rolls.
The residuum of my grant materials (science as well as standard supplies) arrived!
Cake pans. Flour as well as saccharide containers. Thanksgiving. Bocce. Grant materials finally arrived! Baked crescent rolls.
December
My physical scientific discipline students grew "Chemistrees."
As my students were working on semester tests, I worked on organizing my classroom as well as sorting all the activities I had created during the initiative of all semester of the year. I blogged to a greater extent than almost my arrangement scheme here.
Almost equally presently equally Christmas Break had began, I came downwardly amongst Strep Throat. This was definitely non fun. Antibiotics took attention of my sore pharynx pretty quickly, but I was plagued amongst a mild mutual frigidity over Christmas. :( We celebrated Shaun's initiative of all American Christmas amongst my family. We got lots of games for Christmas which kept us super occupied. Our favorites have got been Mobi, Three Up Three Down, Don't Take My Word, as well as Tic Stac Toe.
My parents got Shaun a disc bocce set for Christmas. Lucky for us, the discs are inward the colors of America as well as Australia!
Shaun asked for a cricket bat for Christmas. We bought PVC piping at Lowe's therefore he could create his ain cricket stumps. It was warm plenty i twenty-four hours inward Dec for us to play an afternoon of backyard cricket. I'm definitely soundless learning how this whole cricket affair works.
For Christmas, I asked for an exercise bike (affiliate link). I haven't used it real much yet due to battling what seems similar affliction later on affliction later on illness.
We had my parents as well as sis over to our solid for New Year's Eve. We made pizza for luncheon as well as pavlova for dessert. We spent the afternoon playing games as well as watching the Great British Bake Off.
I realize at i time why Australians create pavlova inward the summer! It was super difficult to notice fresh fruit to decorate amongst inward the middle of winter.
And, that was only some of what happened inward 2016. It turns out that doing life amongst your best friend/husband is pretty amazing.
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