One Year Anniversary

We celebrated one year (already!!) on August 6th! I won't bore you with how I can't believe how fast it has gone (although it really has gone fast).

A couple short things I've learned about myself the past year:

I love being a wife.

I have found much joy from serving my husband. In particular, I love to make a meal for him. What I need to improve in- chores :)

I am more selfish than I think.

This may seem odd for someone to read, but there are many times when I learn just how many selfish desires I have that inhibit me from being the wife I am striving to be and that God has called me to be. I am thankful for these awakenings.

Can't wait for many more years to come with this wonderful guy!!

Mark took the day off for our anniversary. We considered taking a weekend trip. However, after being in New York for 10 days, then heading to Okoboji for 3 days- we had only been home for a couple of days since all of our traveling. What sounded most relaxing to us was being home with each other. We spent part of the day painting a room in our house, had a special delivery of cupcakes from Beth and Courtney, two of our employees and friends, and had dinner at Brown Bottle. Of course, we ate our wedding cake as well :) We had a fun time celebrating!

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IT'S A BOY!

Yep, we are having a boy!! These two girlies are going to love up on him more than he will know what to do with. Let's just say after the first two girls, Mark was totally prepared to be an all girl dad. When he saw the ultrasound and asked the technician if this ultrasound looked different than the last two, and she agreed, his response was, "Huh." He smiled at me and said, man, we have a lot to do. The tech laughed throughout the ultrasound and kept whispering to me, "He's funny." Mark would stare at the ultrasound, measurements, etc. and turn around every couple of minutes and say only a couple words, "Wow, this will be different," "It's really real," "Huh," "We've got to start a new spreadsheet of names." We had a fun day finding out the gender, and Abby had fun seeing the baby on the ultrasound. We didn't let her in on the secret of boy/girl, as she wanted to be surprised. Poor Emma did...

Our girls

Oh these girls. I never imagined I’d have girls- plural. Maybe one girl, but not more than one. I always envisioned our family being full of boys, just as both of our families are, and many of the generations of families are that come before ours. To be completely honest, I kind of wanted it that way too - it's what I've always known. However, one summer day, when I pregnant with Abby, I could feel God changing me, placing this tenderness on my heart and whispering to me that I don’t make the plans, he does. I could tell that I needed to make a shift, that my heart wasn't in the right place, and that he was going to be working change in me. It wasn't that I didn't ever want a girl, I had just been so convinced for so long that we would have a boy first. Then, two girls?! Sisters are a new concept in our family. 3 boys, 1 girl. 5 boys, 1 girl. Even both of my parents sibling sets are made up of boys (plural) and one girl. Can I just say th...

Honeymoooooon!

Mark and I headed to the Dominican Republic the Monday following our wedding! We had such a great time but were definitely to get home to Cedar Falls at the end. We stayed at the Hard Rock Resort in Punta Cana. The resort was beautiful, ocean was beautiful, food was delcious and plentiful and we just had ourselves a nice trip :) My favorite new thing I tried was probably the guacamole... this is a food that has always kind of grossed me out, but I decided to try it and it was so tasty! Mark was a big fan of the variety of meats at the Brazilian Grill restaurant (as was I). We tried so many different meats that were cut off a skewer hot off the grill! Yummy. Here are a few pictures from our trip :)

Mark & Haley Iehl

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