Our 1st Anniversary

What a vacation! I've been M.I.A for the past few days because Mike and I were celebrating our 1st wedding anniversary! We spent the weekend in Burlington, VT. We wanted to go somewhere we had never been but on a budget seeing that we just bought a house. Burlington was so beautiful, we stayed at the Hilton in an amazing room overlooking Lake Champlain.

We walked around Church Street, poked in and out of shops, had lunch and sampled beers at The Vermont Pub & Brewery.

We brought our wedding cake with us and dove into that after lunch!

Yup...this happened! Why wouldn't you eat cake in bed...right out of the box?

Still looks delicious!

This is all we could eat until we felt sick...

We walked down to the water and took a trip to the Burlington Aquarium! For our 1st year dating Mike took me to the Boston Aquarium so it seemed fitting that we would spend our 1st year married at an aquarium!

We made reservations at a great restaurant called Leunig's right on Church Street so we could people watch! We had a bottle of wine and SO much food!

Appetizer: Curried Coconut Mussels

Cheese Plate: Had my first cheese plate at a restaurant, Mike's a cheese guy (I'm not) but it was amazing!

Mixed Green Salad: I LOVE salad! It had a Maple Vinaigrette that was delicious!

Entree: Mike got Cavatappi Carbonara and I got the Maple Walnut Crusted Salmon

Dessert: HA-we were too full! 

On our way home we stopped by the Ben & Jerry's Factory, Cabot Cheese store, and the Lake Champlain Chocolate store! If that weekend wasn't relaxing enough, we decided to go to the beach on Tuesday!

Of Course we had seafood for lunch at the beach but for dinner Mike had a great idea to make grilled pizza!

Well, that's where I've been and what we've been up to! So thankful to have an amazing husband and happy we could celebrate and remember our wonderful wedding day!

We even got some love in the mail from our families!

My Day-Friday

Today I caught up on laundry and cleaning, you know, normal housewife shenanigans. Hubby worked from home today so it was fun having him around the house and listening in on his conference calls. 

Have you ever put something away and thought to yourself,  "This isn't a good place for this..." but put it there anyways? Well we needed a copy of our marriage licence...and...I kinda didn't really know where it was...GULP!

We have a large credenza with file cabinets, however, it had files from 2005, files that we certainly do not need. SO...within 5 minutes of organizing the credenza we found our marriage licence! PHEW! But I couldn't stop there, so we continued to organize paperwork and got rid of A LOT too!

This is ready for shredding!

Since we have a fenced in yard, we rarely take Izzy on walks anymore but it was gorgeous out so we took her on a long walk down to the lake...she likes to lead the way!

We ordered food from TC Lando's (YUM!) and had a picnic at the local Arboretum. We hadn't been there in years, it was so beautiful and peaceful!

Today's blog has nothing to do with teaching because it's FRIDAY and who wants to talk about work!?!

Time to go have a birthday drink with one of my best friends!

CHEERS!

School Shopping

I recently took a trip to go outlet shopping for the new school year. I rarely spend money on myself anymore and during the school year I feel like I’m always getting something for my classroom or for my students. So I was very happy to take a little time to pick out some things just for me! 

My first stop: Banana Republic

I love Banana Republic but I love their outlet even more. If you know me you know that I don’t like to pay full price for anything and I usually have a coupon to use! Bargain Shopper right here! I always find something I love at Banana Republic and they always have some kind of sale or clearance items that I can get my hands on. They also have a teacher discount!!! I bought this purple and gray dress! It's light, comfy, and the perfect length!

 

Next stop: Sperry

I have never owned boat shoes but always like the style of them and usually buy them for my husband. So after trying them on and being fickle for a good 20 minutes, I decided to get them! Then I wanted to wear them out in the city the other night…and I got blisters on my heels L I know I’m suppose to break them in but hey, sometimes pain is beauty!

I Need an e-card!

Only 2 more weeks of summer! Oh, you thought teachers had summers off? HA, most people think teachers have 2 full months off in the summer…WRONG! At least at my school we are only given 6 weeks off this year, womp womp womp. I can’t complain much, I did have a very fun, relaxing summer filled with staying up late, waking up late and many laughs with family and friends.

However, these e-cards are so fitting right now:

   

I have pinned many teaching activities in the past few weeks …see I have been doing professional development! I’ve been looking for more math games that students can do independently if their partner is not ready to play the next game. I want easy to get, easy to set up, no teacher needed activities. I really liked this one: 

 

 

Students will have a start and finish popsicle stick and teachers can color code them for differentiation! LOVE it!

Happy Hump Day!

Teacher Tip Tuesday

Back to school ads and commercials are (already) here! Remember the days of back to school shopping? You thought you HAD to have the newest and coolest trend. Well, things never change and I love seeing the new trends my students want and wear.

I definitely had the widest flares I could find and remember everyone having the white and black Adidas shoes. 

The kids at my school wear uniforms and they look so darn cute in them, especially the girls in their jumpers. Having to wear a uniform can be boring so when we do have dress down days, they go all out! These are the shoes that are in right now: high tops and BLING BLING.

Ok, back to getting ready for school. Since I’ve seen these ads and commercials I’ve been thinking about what I love to have for the beginning of the school year (teacher style). 

Today's Teacher Tip:

Get your hands on some Mr. Sketch Markers!

 

Ms. Chandler (my amazing co-teacher) brought these back into my life 2 years ago when we were teaching first grade together. The kids call these the “teacher markers” and one even thought they belonged to Mr. Sketch because clearly you put your name on the stuff that belongs to you. These are a great way to jazz up your anchor charts and of course they smell fabulous!