Home Sweet Home

Today was a big day for all of us. We got to come home tonight about 6 PM which was just over 48 hrs from his birth. We are getting settled in and hoping to get him on a good schedule over the next few weeks. He seems to be a little calmer here at the house but it could be that he is not getting poked and prodded by nurses every couple hours. Our experience at Community North was excellent. We couldn't be happier with everything from the building, room, staff, doctors & food. They really did a nice job and made it a great experience for us. Here are a few pictures of our room.

Main Room

"The Man Corner"

This is our picture on our way to the hospital Monday night

Here are the last pictures of us at the hospital on our way out

Ready to go home!

We came home and enjoyed the cake that my work friends made for us. Grandma & Grandpa Richards are down for a little while with us and Matt & Janelle Spencer stopped by as well.

We know we won't get much sleep the next few nights, weeks, months but who cares when you can look at a face like this...

Watching him grow...

L, M & N

He is Here!!

Lincoln Lee Troyer was born at 5:26 PM yesterday.
He was 20-1/2" long & 7 lbs 4 oz.

Mommy and Lincoln are doing great. He is eating his fair share and we all got some sleep last night so we feel a lot better today. We will most likely be headed home tomorrow but they haven't really told us any of that yet.

It is insane all the emotion involved in having a child. Even though we both knew it was coming and thought we were prepared, we were immediately given a larger capacity to love that we never knew before. Everything about him is perfect and we can't keep our eyes off of him.

Thanks again for all of your prayers, thoughts & messages to us. We can't wait for everyone to meet him!

Matt, Natalie & Lincoln

It's a Beautiful Day... or night!

Well the time is finally here! We are at the Community North Hospital tonight here in Indy and Natalie is all hooked up to the baby monitor. We are expecting our little Lincoln to make his debut into the world sometime tomorrow hopefully. We are both still in disbelief that it is really happening. With all the doctor visits the last few weeks, it felt like the normal drive to the hospital to get checked out.

We have also tried to keep things exciting on our last day. We were loading the car up tonight and the dogs decided they needed to run which led to both of us chasing the dogs about a block away from our house! Our neighbors got a kick out of Natalie running through the grassy field down the road. Matt & Janelle, thanks again for housing our wild dogs for a few days for us! We know we owe you big time for taking on Nixon!

Well here is one of our first ultrasound pictures of Lincoln at 10 weeks.



It has been an incredible journey and extremely fascinating to see him grow and develop all of his parts. We are in awe of God's creation and are so excited to be able to hold him tomorrow!

We will keep you all posted and get pictures up as soon as possible. Thank you for all the love and support we have felt from so many close friends and family.

Matt & Nat

The countdown begins!

As most of you know, we are approaching on the birthdate of our first son! We are so excited to meet our little Lincoln and still trying to wrap our brains around the idea of raising a child as far as teaching, being an example for him, etc. We are blown away by the beauty of God's creation every time we see Lincoln on the ultrasound screen and I am sure the amazement will continue once he arrives in a few weeks.

July 28th here we come!

PS - Look how hot Natalie is right now!