Summer 2012 Weddings

I know it is October, and I know I am horrible at updating our blog, but I decided to go back and write a few posts and share a few pictures from our past few months.

June brought two weddings that both Mark and I got to play a part in. On June 23rd we celebrated with one of my roommates from college, Meredith and her now husband Landon :) I was Meredith's personal attendant and let's just say I definitely had a few tasks and jobs throughout the day! It was so fun to celebrate with Mere and Landon.

These are the my lovely "college" friends whom I adore... all we are missing is Natalie who was in Haiti!!

So thankful to have been a part of Mere and Landon's day! Doesn't Mark look good in that purple?!

Mark's brother Andy and his wife Hilary got married the next weekend, on June 30th. Mark was the best man in their wedding which was a lot of fun for him:) With Mark having four brothers and myself having three, I seems like I just keep getting new sisters all the time- this is wonderful :)

Rehearsal night! The bottom left picture is Mark, Caleb, and Aaron, with their groomsmen gifts that they could not stop playing with!

Fun wedding :) If you ask me, Mark did a fabulous job on his speech/toast.

More pics from their photographer:: Stricker Photography

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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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