This is the place where John & Shana will share their experiences together. We wanted to create a scrapbook of our memorable times together, and Shana just wants to blog! We think of this as our digital memory catalogue and we hope you enjoy reading as much as we enjoy posting! J&S

Oh my gosh, how time goes by! It’s been a couple months since we’ve done any posting. I wanted to share some of our wedding photos by the husband and wife team, Oh Darling Photography. They really could not have done a better job, especially with the freak snow/hail/rain storm we had to contend with. Dustin and Whitney rolled with the punches and really produced some amazing photos, photos that we will cherish forever. Our [...]

After our lazy 4 days in Fiji it was time to start our journey in New Zealand. We began in Auckland, a city in the upper North Island. We stayed in a hip little town called Ponsonby and we felt right at home. Our accommodations were in an amazing B&B, the Great Ponsonby Art Hotel, right off of the main drag of Ponsonby St. This is where Johnny and I fell in love with the [...]

Our three week honeymoon began in Fiji, halfway around the globe. Fiji was a much needed break from regular life, especially after planning a wedding for almost a year! Not that I didn’t love planning our wedding but you know, it was time to pretty much do nothing. And do nothing we did, for 4 days. After 2 flights, two cab rides and two boat rides, we arrived at our destination, Toko Riki Island in [...]

We got married! On October 29th, 2011 Johnny and I tied the knot! What a day. We had so much fun and now have so many wonderful wedding memories to look back on. Waking up the day of, I was so excited that not even a freak snow storm could bring me down! Snow, rain, confusion of bus drivers, who cares! We had a ball and it’s so fun looking at everyones photos of the [...]

Sometimes it takes a big event to get the whole family together. In this case, it takes an upcoming wedding! My amazing Aunts and cousins threw me a really great bridal shower at Luther Landing this past weekend and everyone had a great time, especially me. My Aunt Annie, Aunt Dottie, and my cousins, Calynn and Judy Ann put together a great event for me and really made me feel extra special. They thought of [...]

Every year Johnny and I attend a day at the US Open in Queens. I’ve lost track but I believe that this year will be our sixth year going together and we always have a blast! I was never a tennis fan per se but watching these amazing athletes up close really blows me away and I quickly turned into a fan. We have a little trick of getting the good seats and one year [...]

Last weekend everyone on the East Coast hunkered down for hurricane Irene. Not able to spend anytime outside, Johnny and I were all set for our big project of screen printing our wedding invites. Johnny designed the invites and we got our screens cut at Standard Screen which also hooked us up with all of the necessary supplies. We did a couple test runs and we were soon up and running and pounded out all [...]

Last night Johnny and I went to Meredith and Kiley’s new apartment which is about 7 blocks away. They just moved into a spacious apartment with, wait for it, a backyard! Every Brooklynite that I know dreams of having a backyard, a garden, patio, or some sort of outdoor space. Well Meredith and Kiley lucked out and found a great place but it wasn’t without a lot of hard work that the backyard became useable. [...]

This past Saturday was our first official beach day of the Summer! Johnny and I, along with Jared, Guy, Blair, Jody, Kenny and Justin drove on out to Ft. Tildon beach which is located in the Rockaways. Ft. Tildon is one of the nicest beaches in the area for us New Yorker’s and we’ve been out there several times now. Just a little history for you, the beach is named after one of our former [...]

Welcome to summertime. New York City, and most of the country, is stuck under what the weather people and media are calling a “Heat Dome“. Sounds pretty appropriate to me. Just stepping outside to water the plants on the fire escape garden cripples me with sweat. There’s no relief for me right now. I work out of the attic in our apt. Even with the a/c cranking it’s a toasty 90 degrees right now. Stay [...]