Showers of Happiness

It's finally down to one month until we are officially Phil and Katie Tiedeman! While I know that day will be beautiful and full of happiness, it's the steps that will get us to that day that are a little bit hectic and frustrating. But I suppose it takes a little bit of work in order to achieve a lifetime of happiness :)

This past weekend was a bridal shower here in the Springs. It was co-hosted by one of my bridesmaids, Sarah, and my mom. We had about 20 ladies (plus Baby Ian) here to help celebrate and it was such a great afternoon to sit and chat and catch up with everyone! One of the best parts of the day was seeing one of my old girlfriends, Jamie, whom I grew up swimming with on the club swim team. Unfortunately, the day was extremely hot and we don't have air conditioning in our house, but the three fans that we had going did an okay job at keeping things on the cool side (the downpour of rain also helped)!

One of the best parts of the day as well was when Sarah arrived with the cake. (Yes, I know that I love cake, but that's not the reason why it was the best part). She had picked it up from the store and the inscription read 'Congratulations Katie and Pil.' I guess they forgot to add the 'h' to Phil's name :) So, we had a good chuckle about that. Here I thought the only confusion with names was going to be spelling out my last name (Chmielewski) when I am changing last names after the wedding!

As for other details in our life, we're taking each day as it comes. I am preparing for my 10K swim on Sunday, so please pray that I make it out of the lake alive! I'm also trying to find motivation to start packing up some of my stuff so I can head down to Texas in a few weeks. Phil has been doing great keeping up with his 'honey-do' list. He booked our honeymoon tickets (to Jamaica!) and has arranged/signed/made the first payments for our first apartment. I think both of us are just ready to be done with this distance relationship and all of the planning through the phone, so we are definitely counting down the days!