Mine starts a couple months before the announcement.
- Got married in October 2010 (we met from an MMORPG around a year earlier, we quit around August/September 2011), originally planned for December, moved up to October
- Started getting together documents for Permanent Residence to Canada in December 2010
- Moved to Canada in April to be with my wife
- Submitted Canadian Permanent Residence App in May 2011
- Wife gave birth to our baby girl October 5th, had a memorable 5 day stay at the hospital (Postpartum and then NICU), came home with baby for Canadian Thanksgiving
- Became a Permanent Resident of Canada in mid-late October (citizenship late 2014)
Sufficed to say, the last year has been busy as hell, and so far the best year of my life.