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1. I get to go home today! I am so excited. These next few weeks are going to be rough as Jim and I both travel opposite weeks for our jobs. So lame. I hate travelling so it’ll be nice to spend a few days at home.
2. I ran a half-marathon last Saturday with Jim. I was so proud of him as he ran his first! I didn’t run my greatest but that’s okay. I learned how now to give up on myself 
3. Oh I forgot to mention, Jim and I are leaving for our HONEYMOON on Monday. I am so beyond excited!
4. My Red Wings are 3-1 in their series against the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I love hockey and I love that my team is doing well. Hopefully we’ll see the Penguins in the finals 
5. Another new favorite picture:
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Okay so favorite pictures from the ceremony time! Since I got some of my pictures back!
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7 Quick Takes (100) The “we’re married!” edition.
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1. I still feel like we’re in a dream. Are we really married? It was absolutely perfect. I’m composing my thoughts for some longer posts in the near future, but wow. I am so, so blessed. I cannot wait until we get our professional pictures back! And I know I shared this one on Monday but it is my absolute favorite:
2. In other happy news, I am positive now of my date of confirmation! June 2! I will be confirmed with two other girls and I am beyond excited. It also happens to be the Sunday after we get back from our honeymoon so there will be lots of happy and exciting things that week!
3. It was surprisingly easy for us to start living together after over 3 years of living apart. We operate on almost the same schedule (although we had to compromise on dinner time) but I’m really happy that it was fairly easy for us to adjust to each other. Sadly in a week I’ll be going on another work trip so he’ll have the house to himself again, but I’m glad we are getting 2 weeks to ourselves.
4. Everyone kept telling me that they could just see the happiness and excitement in our faces all day. I was just so excited to marry Jim that I was hardly stressed at all. It was actually pretty refreshing not having to worry about everything. The florist that came in told me that I was one of the calmest brides she has ever seen!
5. I was kinda sad that we didn’t get to dance much. I was so worried about seeing everyone and making sure they were having a good time that I completely just neglected going out on the dance floor! Thank goodness I was still able to dance to Gangnam style and the last few songs of the night. I also figured we are going to 5 more weddings this year and will have plenty of time to dance when not having to entertain guests
6. Yeah I have a half-marathon in a little over a week. Have I run more than 3 miles in the past 3 weeks? Nope. This will be interesting for sure! However, it’s Jim’s first half so we’re planning on running a long run this weekend to get ready for it (that should be interesting )
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Have a great weekend!
We’re married!
Oh my goodness. Saturday was everything I dreamed of and more. I’ll obviously be posting more about our wedding in the coming weeks (especially after we get our pictures) but it was absolutely perfect. I couldn’t hold my tears back walking down the aisle to marry my best friend. It was literally a dream come true and the best day of my life. I felt like I was in a dream all day but when I woke up on Sunday and realized it was reality, I just couldn’t believe it! Once I get more pictures, I will write more about the day Until then, here’s some of my favorites so far. Thank you so, so much for your prayers and your well wishes. I am so blessed to have the best friends, family, and husband in the world!
I sang our first dance song to him
7 Quick Takes (99) The “our wedding is tomorrow” edition.
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I seriously cannot believe that it’s finally here. I get to marry my best friend tomorrow. It’s only been 594 days since we got engaged and 1194 since we started dating (not that anyone is counting). Can I just say how LONG those 594 days were? Because they were. And now I don’t have to wait much longer! I’m so excited to see my family and friends and wear my beautiful dress and come home to our house and aaaah I am just so excited! Also, I probably won’t be checking this much today as I have a lot to do and I might have written these on Tuesday so bear with me. So for these 7QT I’m going to share my favorite things about my future husband and some awesome things he’s done for me
1. When we were in college, I had this absolutely awful day. I got back from class and there was a beautiful bouquet of flowers on my desk and a note letting me know how much he loves me and how he hopes my day will get better! I think at that moment, it definitely did!
2. I mean, he proposed by singing to me. *swoon* I can’t say that his singing voice is any sort of on key, but it’s the thought that counts
3. I’m sure you have heard this story a million times but we made a deal that if I started running he’d start golfing. I am so, so grateful that we made this deal because I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have running in my life! I love that it’s something we can do together.
4. I visited our house a few weeks back to help clean and organize. He had dinner all ready to put in the oven for me and it was great! I am so grateful for someone who shows me he loves me by making dinner when I had a stressful day at work!
5. Even if he doesn’t run all the races I do (I like the longer distances, he likes the shorter), he always supports me and is on the sidelines cheering me on. He watched me almost every weekend in college play golf and I have to say that running and golf aren’t the most exciting sports in the world to spectate. I love how he always supporting me in everything that I do!
6. Our first date was playing a video game. Hah. He texted me and asked me if I wanted to play guitar hero (my favorite game) together at my dorm room and that was our first “official” day of dating. He sure knows the way to my heart.
7. He’s enthusiastic about cleaning. No joke. What kind of man is enthusiastic about cleaning? I have me a winner, I tell ya!
And now, I want to thank all of YOU for praying for us, being reading my vents, for listening to me complain about how long our engagement was, for giving me great advice, and helping me through our engagement. Your words and advice has helped me tremendously and I appreciate every single one of you! I can’t wait to share our pictures with you and I hope that you will pray for us tomorrow!
Have an amazing weekend I know I will!
7 Quick Takes (98) The “holy crap my wedding is in a week” edition.
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1. Sooo yeah my wedding is in a week. I wrote about my bridal accessories over at Fine Linen and Purple. I completely neglected my fitness blog. Mostly cause I’m not doing anything fitness related. Except eating a lot and drinking beer. Yeeeep.
2. I feel like I should have a ton to do. Or something to be stressed about. I think it’s just still surreal to me. Although I read the 5 stages of wedding planning and got a good laugh out of it.
3. I wish I wouldn’t have decided a half marathon would be a good idea two weeks after our wedding. I’ve ran exactly once this past week.
4. Good thing I’m running a color run and a 5K this weekend. So there’s 6 miles to add to the mix.
5. I think I am really stressed but it’s like inception where I have this calm cool look on the outside but I’m freaking out otherwise. I think my coworkers are concerned about me. I’m so weird.
6. Kinda glad I only have 4 more work days until I get to go home for the wedding festivities. Still, wow. Do you guys remember when I announced our engagement, over a year and a half ago? Wow. If you’re bored, you can check out my other wedding posts from the last almost 20 months. Woo.
7. Completely unrelated, I am obsessed with the new Fall Out Boy CD. That is all. Oh, and I’m seeing them in Cleveland in September and I may be like extremely fan-girl excited.
7.5 Needed a funny picture because none of these made much sense. Sorry, readers.
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Have a great weekend! It’s my last one of being a Gedert!
Finally will be coming home
Over two years ago I wrote about why I wanted to become Catholic. Two years is a long time. I had gone through RCIA thinking I would be able to convert last year and still have my grandpa officiate my wedding. When I found out that wasn’t possible, I was absolutely crushed.
Discerning you want to convert and then having to wait a long period of time isn’t ideal, and it caused me to lose my faith. I became increasingly depressed and angry when I went to Mass. I hated sitting at the pew while everyone else was able to take communion. I felt like people were just staring at and judging me. I never felt welcomed once. I grew up in a church where I felt welcomed and was extremely involved. It was hard for me to become involved in a church I felt unwelcomed in. Besides, I couldn’t sing or read anyway. Singing at church was something that I looked forward to, but I couldn’t do it anymore. I hated feeling this way, so I stopped going. I would go random times with Jim if I was with him, but otherwise I’d just skip out. Why would I go somewhere I feel uncomfortable?
What I am saying is it was hard. Extremely hard. Two and a half years of waiting to be able to be confirmed was hard. Finding out my brother also wanted to convert and my parents being more okay with that than they were with me was even more difficult. I guess I had lessened the blow with telling them I wanted to convert, I don’t know. It just made it more difficult for me. I even told my brother once that I didn’t want to be Catholic anymore because I was so frustrated and he just could not understand why. It was because I let the devil get the best of me.
I see why my mom got so upset when I told her I wanted to convert two years ago. She didn’t want to lose the opportunity of my grandfather marrying me, and this is probably going to be his last wedding of our family. I understand that. I honored that by waiting. It wasn’t easy, and I became extremely frustrated along the way, but my wait is almost over.
I found out that I will be able to be confirmed in a little over a month, tentative date of June 2. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have a lot of exciting things going on in the next month and a half. After the past two years of knowing I wanted to be Catholic, educating myself on all the teachings, and going through RCIA, I’m ready to come home. I would really appreciate your prayers in the next month or so as I come closer and closer to becoming Catholic.
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1. I didn’t get on the Hood to Coast team, but that’s okay! I appreciate your prayers for me! I”m going to try again next year and hopefully I’ll have a more clever idea for a video. If anyone wants to help me, you’re more than welcome to give me some ideas
2. I’m sure you all heard about the tragic events in Boston and Texas this week. Please join me in praying for everyone involved. The Boston incident really hit home for me as a runner, and a few of my friends were there either running themselves or cheering on their loved ones. Thank God they’re all okay. I am so absolutely grateful to be a part of the running community where everyone comes together to show their support for these people and for each other. On Tuesday, there was a movement to run and wear a race shirt in honor of those in Boston and for everyone impacted. I wore my latest race shirt and ran 3 miles, one for each person who died. I don’t know why this impacted me so much (probably because I am thinking of how my loved ones watch me at my races and wait anxiously at the finish line for me) but it was the least I could do. I also love how Adidas made shirts that you can buy and 100% of the proceeds goes to Boston. I’m definitely buying one when they come back in stock!
Edit: there was reports of a shooter on the campus of MIT at 1 am. Please pray for this situation as well.
3. Okay enough serious sad talk for now. Our wedding is two weeks away! I had a guest post over at the lovely Stephanie’s about my wedding style. Check it out if you haven’t!
4. Tomorrow I have my hair trial, make up trial, final meeting with my DJ, final meeting with my reception hall, and a test tan (I am SO anti-tanning, but it’s just a light spray tan because right now I blend in with my dress. Sexy). Whew. And then on Sunday, I am hosting my best friend’s (and MOH) bridal shower! She’s getting married July 27 and I’m her matron of honor. I made this awesome cake for her, I hope she likes it! There was this one time I was awesome at making cakes hah
5. It’s honestly just strange to me that our wedding is just 2 weeks away. Our engagement was very long and I have become very impatient, but I am so, so ready to marry my love and see his wonderful self every day and grow together. I am so, so ready.
6. And the awesome thing is that I haven’t really been stressed. I’m so easy-going about everything (ask some of my bridesmaids, my easy-goingness drives them crazy sometimes!) But I just keep saying that most of these things don’t really matter that much. At the end of the day, whether I fall down the aisle or my skin is pasty white or my hair looks like crap, I’m still marrying Jim and we’re still beginning our life together. Nothing can stop that from happening!
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I seem to do this a lot.
Have a great weekend!
Wedding Guest Post
I have a post over at Captive the Heart today where I talk about my wedding and our wedding style! Go check it out!
Sneak peek:
You know you want to
Only 17 days to go!
Pray for Boston
It's so hard for me to imagine why anyone would want to hurt innocent people. It truly feels like someone attacked members of my family, the running community. I've gone on and on about how awesome the running community is and how they would do anything for anyone, and someone tried to hurt that. The good thing is, there are good people in the world.
