Because some have been asking I thought I'd clear up any confusion about the master plan here:
1) Get married
2) Honeymoon for 2 weeks
3) Back to NC for a couple of days and then move up to CT for 2 years
4) Parents take my current house for another year, sell their current house all while building a new house for them (they need a downstairs master, mom can't walk up stairs very well anymore) then sell my current house before we move down.
5) While in CT we build our new house down here for our return.
Because of step #5 to the master plan, we're also frantically interviewing builders for our upcoming house project (that's also why we're renting up in CT instead of buying) before we leave.