Summer Lovin'

BIG news: Neal got a transfer down to Long Island! He starts at his new branch, about two minutes from our apartment in Franklin Square, on June 15th.

It's almost summer, and we're ready for a hectic couple of months. Neal and I will both be busy adjusting to work and taking classes. We'll also be moving and planning an engagement party.

This weekend we started the move. We moved a bunch of my stuff into the apartment, and we got a brand new 42" 1080p HD LCD flat screen tv! Our parents gave us some awesome gifts - Neal's parents bought us a queen sized pillow top mattress, and my parents are going to buy us our dual recliner microfiber couch. So exciting!!

On Saturday, I started sending out engagement announcements/party invitations. The first batch went out to family. It took me about nine drafts to finally get the perfect invitations but I designed them myself on photoshop. I'd post an image here but there's too much personal info on it. For our party, we decided to have "two sittings" so that we can fit everyone in our backyard. Basically, we are going to have our family and older. My parents are renting a 20ftx30ft tent for the party with 60 chairs, 6 tables, and it also comes with lights so we can party all night or as long as we can last.

Now I must take a couple minutes to relax before bed, I'm still beat from packing, unpacking, and organizing so much of my stuff. Nightynight!

Apartmento

We found an apartment! It is untraditional for us to live together before marriage, but this commute is really tough! We're going to be moving into a great one bedroom apartment in Franklin Square sometime during June. Neal's working on a transfer down to Long Island, and he starts Queens College the last week in June, when I start camp.

Below is a scaled blueprint (1 box = 1 ft.) of our apartment that Neal and I made last night on Paint (click on the picture to see the full image, the bedroom appears cut off below!):

We also made our first craigslist.com purchase! We traveled to Fresh Meadows, about 20 minutes away, in Queens, and a nice young family sold us a great table for our apartment:



In wedding news, today we took a few engagement photos and are getting ready to send out Engagement Party invitations. Look for those soon, coming to a mailbox near you!