Matalie Troyer

TRIing to cure cancer

2010-02-05T16:02:00.009-05:00

( LeeBob's Crew at Light the Night 2009)

Matt and I have started a new journey this year. Some of you may know already, but we have signed up to be apart of the Team In Training Triathlon team with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. We have been busy going to all of the events, learning about fundraising and meeting our team and coaches. Now all we have to do is train :) Neither of us have been very active lately, my excuse was the baby, but that can only last for so long. So we decided to do this together to raise money for the LLS. As many of you know my dad, Lee, is currently undergoing Chemo for ALL, a form of Leukemia. The race is on June 12. Almost a year from when dad found out he had cancer. I can't wait to have him at the finish line and know that all of our hard work has paid off and is helping our family and others like us to battle these awful diseases. We have a website where we are raising funds and have some information about the event. Please follow along our journey to keep up on what we are doing. There is information about how to donate to our cause on the website as well. We are excited!

http://pages.teamintraining.org/in/wieltri10/ntroyerjqr

To learn more about or join Team in Training here is their website

http://www.teamintraining.org

To follow along my dad and his journey visit his website

https://www.carepages.com/carepages/leebob

Putting a face with cancer

Something that effects us all!

Dad at his first treatment

Dad with his sweet machines

Link with Lauren, one of our teams honored heros who is battling Leukemia ( she is 6)

These are just some of the small reasons we are raising money for the LLS!

Here is some info on the Triathlon we are doing

Elkart Lake Triathlon

Olympic Triathlon and Elite Triathlon

1.5K swim, 45K bike, 10K

June 12, 2010 30am

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Lately

2010-02-03T14:56:00.002-05:00

This is what we have been up to! This little guy keeps us busy. He turned 6 months old last week. At his doctor's appointment he weighed 17 lbs 4 oz and was 27 inches long. Growing just as he should! He has also started to eat some baby food. Right now he really loves sweet potatoes and fruits. I have found that I like his banana baby food from Target probably more than he does! Would that be weird to buy that as a snack? Ha. So here are some pictures and a couple of videos of little Link lately. Enjoy.

Update

2009-12-03T21:47:00.006-05:00

We have not done well at updating regularly and for those who check on us regularly, we apologize.

Lincoln is now just over 4 months old and life has been so good with him in it! We feel so blessed to have such a sweet, happy & usually laughing baby. We also understand that it means he will either be crazy when he gets older, or #2 will be the polar opposite.. :) So we are enjoying every minute with little Link!

Here are a few pictures of Lincoln recently.

Bath Time!

Thanksgiving

Newsies

Best Buds, Abe & Lincoln

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Nixon loving her brother

How can you resist?
All snuggled into mom's sling

Pictures

2009-08-20T13:44:00.005-04:00

Here are some pictures of our little Link from the last couple of weeks. As of this morning he weighed in at a little over 9 pounds! He is growing so quick:( We are loving every minute of little Lincoln, even those at 4 in the morning. He is such a sweet baby that just wants to cuddle...so we do... all day :)

Some teaser photos from a shoot we had done when he was 5 days old. Our very talented friend Amanda took these. Her website Amandaelpersphotography.com has all her info if you are

looking for some great family photos.

Video Time

2009-08-09T20:25:00.002-04:00

Big smiley!

We Need Your Help!!

2009-08-07T21:50:00.006-04:00

As most of you may already know, Natalie's father, Lee Richards, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. He is currently in his 3rd round of chemotherapy and is fighting this awful disease.

On September 22, Natalie & I will be walking in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Light The Night Walk at East Noble High School in Kendallville to raise funds to help find a cure for blood cancers. LLS is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient aid.

Please join us in the fight to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. You can help by making a contribution to our fundraising efforts for the Light The Night Walk. Help us reach our goal of raising $5,000 as a team in 2009 by making a contribution.

Here are some suggested donation amounts and the impact you can have:

$20 (Leukemia is the leading cause of cancer-related death among children under the age of 20)

$52 ($1 a week for an entire year)

$100 (100% chance for a cure in the future—with your help!)

$150 (Enough to provide one patient with financial assistance for a year)

$360 ($1 for each patient who will be diagnosed in the next 24 hours)

$500 (Enough to fund a Family Support Group for an entire year)

$1,000 (Enough to provide one patient with co-pay assistance for a year)Other (Every dollar helps us move one step closer to putting cancer out of business!)

Please sponsor us. By doing so, we will be helping save lives together. Your contribution is 100% tax deductible. In addition to your valuable sponsorship, I encourage you to join me at Light The Night by joining my team, Lee Bob’s Crew, and walking with me as we take steps towards cures. Click to DONATE or REGISTER and click the “Walk With Us” tab at the top of the page.

Thank you for supporting us in our effort to save lives!

Sincerely,

Matt & Natalie Troyer

Big Pappa with Lincoln

Family Fun Time

2009-08-01T18:14:00.007-04:00

We have been having a lot of fun with little Lincoln. Watching every little thing he does and every noise he makes. It is pretty crazy how much we feel he has changed in his first few days of life.

Great Grandma Troyer, Vickie, Lindsey & Jenny all came down yesterday to visit Lincoln. Sorry Jenny we didn't get a picture of you with him since you were scared! :)

Aaron & Jenny Lee got him a pretty sweet outfit as well so we will see how long he can keep it clean tonight.

Grandpa Lee's sister Pat got Lee and Lincoln similar hawaiian shirts so we get some pictures of them together today.

The dogs are warming up to Lincoln and we are impressed with how they have handled it. Nevada is pretty concerned with him when he is crying or making noises and Nixon just kinda stays away and doesn't understand what he is or why he is moving around.

Nevada is trying to get back in the #1 spot with her mother. We don't think she will be able to steal that spot from little Lincoln though.

I'm sure we have a biased opinion, but it seems he gets even more cute every picture we take. This is currently in top place.

That's all for now. More to come.

Home Sweet Home

2009-07-30T22:25:00.008-04:00

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!!

2009-07-29T08:39:00.004-04:00

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!

2009-07-27T22:17:00.004-04:00

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!

2009-07-11T09:10:00.002-04:00

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!

For those who appreciate Switchfoot & Nickel Creek

2009-01-14T18:08:00.000-05:00

Fiction Family - When She's Near from ATO Records on Vimeo.

Gaub Babies

2008-08-01T23:19:00.006-04:00

So for those of you that haven't been following the Gaub babies at

www.carepages.com/carepages/GaubGirls2

Natalie's sister Lisa had her twin girls on June 10th in Philadelphia. My company purchased a piece of equipment a few months ago that needed picked up and it happened to be in 20 minutes from Andrew and Lisa. We worked it out to take one of my company trucks so we could get a free trip to Philly and the company could get the equipment. What seemed like a great plan really turned out to be a long trip home. To make a long story short, it took us 40 hrs to make a 9 hr trip home. We broke down 3 times and got towed all 3 times to Chevy dealerships. (The first 2 times I guess they just couldn't figure out what was going on) We ended up staying an extra night at a hotel and still didn't get home until 1 AM on the 3rd day. Needless to say we were tired and frustrated. Here is a summary of the trip home:

Us broke down at midnight after we coasted out of the tunnel through the mountains in PA.

But we did have an awesome time while we were there. We got to hang out with Nora a lot since she was home. We had to visit little Ella everyday at the hospital. Ella is supposed to be home on the 11th as of our last update but you can follow their story on the link above. Here are some pictures of the little ones:

Natalie with Ella

Matt and Ella

Ella's tiny little foot

Ella

Nora (sorry Nora, we need more pictures of you)

In no way with this post give you a good understanding of what they all have gone through. The girls have been very strong and have gone through way more than the average person already. Feel free to check out their story and we will let you know when they get a new blog after Ella is released.

Cubs Game

2008-08-01T23:13:00.003-04:00

We made a trip up to my favorite place on earth on June 22nd to see the Cubs play the White Sox. We hung out at the Cubby Bear with Rhett before the game. Problem was that the game got changed from TBD to a 7 PM Central time game which got us back home about 4:30 AM on Monday and I was at work by 8. It was worth the trip to see the Cubs sweep the Sox. I am saving my money to hang out in Chicago when they play in the World Series this year!

Dogs

2008-08-01T23:10:00.003-04:00

So we decided on the name Nixon for our new puppy. She has been a handful for us and is growing so fast. She is the same height as Nevada now but just skinnier still. The vet said they wouldn't be surprised if she gets to be 50-60 lbs. We'll see how it goes!

Newest Troyer!

2008-06-16T22:14:00.003-04:00

Well we broke down today and got another puppy. Our Foxie passed away back in September and we have noticed the change in Nevada so the best way to cure that was to get another one for her to play with. We adopted the new puppy from the Humane Society here in Indianapolis and knew we had to get her the moment we saw her. Here are a few pictures of the dogs. We still haven't got a name but have a few good ideas. Feel free to comment on some name ideas as well!

As I type this, she is chewing on the cord to our computer so I gotta get going.. Here we go again...

Deck remodel

2008-05-26T17:50:00.005-04:00

We got started on our deck project this last week and made some great progress over the weekend. Mom & Dad Troyer came down and helped get most the way done with the deck. The old deck was 12 x 12 and the new deck is about 14 x 21 with another 10 x 10 so it a lot larger. Here is a before picture and how it looks today. Just need to finish the other stairs and the rails this week. Don't look at the house though! We are planning on residing the house sometime this summer as well and we should have all the major projects done! Enjoy!

After tearing off the old deck and adding some more posts.

New from back door view.

New deck without stairs on other side and the railing.

Finally a post!

2008-03-04T22:03:00.003-05:00

We know its been a while since we have posted anything and for that we apologize.

Natalie and Nevada hanging out

Check back soon. Hopefully you will see something new before another 3 months go by!

Merry Christmas

2007-12-16T14:15:00.000-05:00

Mia's Birthday

2007-12-09T19:34:00.001-05:00

This weekend was Natalie's sister, Mia's birthday. I won't tell you her age since she didn't sign my waver but Mia and I graduated the same year from high school. Natalie's parents came down and we had a fun weekend. Friday night we went to Benihana and had some amazing food. Then Saturday, Natalie went to work for half the day and we went shopping. Then Saturday night we went to El Torito Grill. It was a fun weekend with family and here are some shots from Friday night.

New Wheels!

2007-12-09T19:31:00.001-05:00

Natalie and I traded in my truck and bought a 2006 Jeep Commander. We are pretty excited about it. Here are a couple pictures of it.

Christmas Decorating

2007-12-03T19:05:00.000-05:00

Here are some pictures of our house this Christmas. We finally put up some lights outside for the first time ever. We would have shown pictures of the inflatable nativity and the giant snow globe with 47 elves but we never bought them because we really don't like those things.
(Sorry to anyone who has those in their yard and is offended.)

Living Room

Entryway

Dining Room

Rathskeller & Rob Bell

2007-12-01T11:22:00.001-05:00

Last night we got invited to go to dinner at the Rathskeller downtown and then go see Rob Bell speak at the Murat. We were invited by Jeff Krajewski who is our neighbor and our pastor at Common Ground Church here in Indy. We went with 10 of our neighbors here on our street so it was fun to hang out and with and have such cool neighbors. We were surprised when we got the the Murat that we had front row seats in the Great Hall that seats about 2500 people. Rob Bell came in and spoke for about 2 hours with no notes or anything. He is a captivating speaker who uses his incredible historical knowledge to help people understand our role as followers of Christ. His spoke about gods throughout human history and how people try to please their gods through rituals such as sacrifices at alters. He tied it to how we are not so different in that we get caught up with rituals and how things are supposed to be and a lot of time miss that our God is different and is a God of love. That's my short summary and he could explain it extremely better than I just did!

Eye level with the stage

Front and center

Great Hall at Murat

Rob Bell on the alter

Philly & Cape Cod

2007-11-28T02:30:00.000-05:00

At the end of October, Natalie, Eric and myself set off to Philadelphia to visit with Natalie's sister Lisa and brother-in-law Andrew. We were there for about 5 days and had a great time.

Andrew & Lisa Gaub

Eric, Nat, Matt

Andrew

Shopping in Ardmore, PA

Geno's Steaks

Pat's Steaks

So different but so much alike!

Formerly known as Richards Sisters

Last night in town

After 5 days of wearing out our welcome in Philly with Andrew and Lisa we knew it was time to leave. OK so we really had to get to Newark, NJ airport to pick up Mom & Dad Troyer on our way to Cape Cod for the family vacation. We stayed in Cape Cod for a long weekend while my brother-in-law Jon and his friend Dave ran the Cape Cod marathon. I'm sure most of you have seen a lot of pictures from this weekend on a couple other blogs so we will do a brief highlight.

BODYSLAM!

Pre-marathon

Cheering section

The Bohm Family

The runners

I don't wanna be a chicken. I don't wanna be a duck. Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!

Tia & Chicken

Unkie Matt & Chicken

Mom & Dad Troyer

Nat & Kelly

Fall Camping Trip

2007-11-27T21:27:00.000-05:00

I'm sure by now you all are excited to see a new post from the Troyer's! Back in October, we went with a group of friends on a camping trip. The first night it was just the guys and then Saturday night the girls showed up. We had a great time and great weather and here is a photo summary of the weekend. Enjoy!

Jeremy The Firestarter

Team Matt

Breakfast Time

A deer named Anthony. Jeff Gordon was the mean one.

Anthony liked my Mountain Dew

No one saw Tim take this picture.

Stupid human tricks!

Finally the girls are here! Time for some sanity!

One Year Down

2007-09-30T21:16:00.000-04:00

Well today was our 1st Anniversary! For our anniversary we went to the Cubs vs. Reds in Cincinatti yesterday with Mia and Tim. It was fun even though the Cubs already clenched the National League Central Division on Friday so neither team played their starters to save them from getting injured.

Today we woke slept in and walked with Nevada to have brunch at Taste, a small cafe about a mile from our house. Then we went to Walmart to get some items (I know its an exciting day), then we came home and swapped presents. Since the 1st anniversary is supposed to be paper gifts, I got Natalie a single flower and a subscription to Better Homes & Gardens. Natalie was going to get me a tree but got a cactus instead because she was afraid I wouldn't take care of an indoor tree and it would die. We just didn't want to deal with that symbolyzm so hopefully I won't kill the cactus.

Then we watched the Colts kick Denvers butts and Natalie made Chicken Taco Bake (an old favorite my mom used to make us kids) and had the bottle of wine that Kelly & Jon got us. Then we ate our cake we saved from the wedding last year. It was really good but there was so much we decided to cut it up and take it to our neighbors. They were appreciative but we also made sure they didn't know it was a year old even though it was very good and moist even after a year.

Here are some photos from yesterday at the Great American Ballpark in Cincinatti.

Photo Booth Mirrors

2007-09-23T09:50:00.000-04:00

Tonight we hung out at our house and just messed around with the Photo Booth program on our Macbook computer. Tim, Eric, Abby, Wayne and Mom Troyer came over so here are some funny shots that we came up with. These pictures are made up multiple peoples arms, legs, etc.

Bowling Fun

2007-09-21T23:41:00.000-04:00

Tonight we went out to eat at Naked Tchopstix and had crab rangoon, sushi, undo and sake-bombs with Tim & Mia, Eric & Abby, Wayne and Janelle. It was nice to get out and have some fun. Then we left and went bowling for a couple games.

Natalie:

Matt:

Mia:

Tim:

Eric:

Abby:

Wayne:

Matt:

Janelle:

Very Sad Day

2007-09-20T17:57:00.001-04:00

I can honestly say yesterday was the worst days since we have been married and possibly one of the worst days of my life. Our dog, Foxie, passed away at our house last night. We have been in and out of the vet for the last two weeks because she has been having seizures and strange, unexplainable pains. After tests, a spinal tap and more test, they finally thought yesterday she had epilesy since she had 5 seizures throughout the night on Tuesday. We left her at the vet all day yesterday and when I went to pick her up she had another seizure with all the doctors and nurses around. They kept her for another couple hours and started her on the anti-seizure medicine for us. They told us she would be out of it all night but that she would start to get better. After sleeping a couple hours at home she whined a bit and then stopped breathing and her heart stopped. We took her to the emergency vet but it was too late.

After talking with our regular vet today he can only assume that she had a brain tumor and it just took over her body in the last two weeks. It has been a very rough night and day for us. I got Foxie 5 years ago when she was just a few months old. She just turned 5 on September 2nd and has been such a good dog. We feel like we were robbed of so many years with her since she was still so young. Foxie was very intellegent, stubborn, kind of aggressive, but also was so loving. She loved to sleep in our bed, cuddle with Natalie when she was sick, play fetch with anyone and act like Natalie and I didn't exist when we would take her to mom & dad's (Troyer) house in LaOtto because she loved being with them.

Here is a glimpse of Foxie time with us.

Greekfest 2007

2007-09-07T23:19:00.000-04:00

Tonight we walked to Greekfest which is about 1/5 a mile from our house. They had tons of food, drinks, live music and lot of people there to enjoy it with. Matt had a gyro & calamari. Natalie shared baklava, greek fries, spinach pie, cheese pie and honey puffs with Janelle. It was excellent food accompanied with Keo, a greek beer. Here is a snapshot of our evening.

The girls of Greekfest:

The boys:

Matt & Nat:

Matt & Andrea:

Tim & Janelle: (They aren't a couple, can't you tell??)

Matt & KEO:

Home Remodel

2007-09-01T03:35:00.000-04:00

This is Matt's first post but don't get used to it. I may not get around to too many of these.

This is a little glance into our lives over the last 6 months. We bought the house in April. Gutted it and put it back together and moved in about 6 weeks! We couldn't have done it without all of our family and friends. Thanks to: Phil & Kathy, Lee & Teresa, Eric, Alex, Wayne, Josh, Tim & Mia, Jeremy & Brooke, Matt & Janelle. How blessed are we to have such great family and friends!

We found the house when I was driving around one day looking a list of potential real estate deals in the area we were looking at (42nd & Broadway). I got out to grab the flyer and the homeowner came out so I asked if I could walk through. The house was a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom & office, 1900 Sq. Ft. 2 story on a basement. It had more stuff packed in every room than Mom & Dad's Troyer's garage when we I looked at it but I saw past the junk and knew there was TONS of potential.

I called Nat and we setup a time to walk it together. We looked at it 1 more time with both of our dads before we put an offer in. We came in significantly below asking price, and she took our first offer!

We closed in like 2 weeks and left the 3 hour closing and immediately went to the house and started demolition, followed by working every night and weekend. It was SO much work but so rewarding. We turned it into a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath & office. We decided to turn one bedroom into a bathroom and close off the once only upstairs bath to give us a master bath.

Here is a brief summary of before and after pictures:

Living Room before:

Living Room after:

Office before:

Office after:

Dining Room before:

Dining Room after:

Kitchen before:

Kitchen after:

Master bath before:

Master bath after:

That is just a small look into our home. I will upload more of the outside which we are working on now. We have the inside 99% done with the exception of the basement. This weekend I am working on a new fence for the backyard for our 2 little monsters so they can run.

Happy Blogging!

Indiana State Fair

2007-08-16T21:56:00.000-04:00

My mom came down tonight and we headed to the State Fair for some fun and junk food. Mia, Tim, Mom and I made the mile treck to the Fairgrounds.( Matt had to work late ) We ate curlyfries, corn, porkchops,lemonade,dippin dots and tested fudge. This was a list of what everyone ate, we did not all eat everything, ha. It was fun, but we will have to go earlier next year to see more of the 4H animals.

We ran in Abby's mother and she took us around in her golfcart. She is the Director of the State Fair, and a very sweet lady.

Little Ones and Front Porch

2007-08-15T23:38:00.000-04:00

Since our favorite nephew in the whole world lives so far away, we have to get our fix here. Luckly we live across the street from Matt and Andrea, who we have become pretty good friends with They have two kids Averie 4 and Rowan, their son just turned two and we were invited over for some cake and icecream. ( Trey you could have a playmate ;) It's nice to have kids around they are so much fun.

Monday night Nate , MIchaela and Lily came and stayed with us. It was soooooo good to see them. We were having so much fun we didn't take any pictures. We did however take some of Lily at Breakfast. She is such a sweet and smart little girl. She has grown so much since the last visit. She is now counting to 10 and singing songs. We enjoyed their visit so much. Time flew by way to fast. Wish they didn't live half way around the world :(

This is for you Kathy. Matt and I painted the front porch the other night. When we moved in the porch was in need of some TLC. We will show some pictures in the post we'll do about the house. We power washed it clean and put the first coat of paint on. I did that with the intentions of painting the checkerboard pattern soon after. 3 months went by, and life got busy. Finally on Sunday we got motivated. After hour or so of measuring and taping this is what we ended up with. Not so much the original plan, but we like it none the less. Much better than the crappy porch it was before. Our own little cottage. :)

Our new door knocker

Jeremy Camp Concert

2007-08-15T23:17:00.000-04:00

Jeremy Camp was playing at the state fair this year, and Abby, being the sweet girl she is, got us back stage passes and free tickets to the concert. So before the show Eric, Abby, Wayne, Matt and I waited by the gate and were escorted backstage where we got to meet Jeremy. It was a quick meet and greet, but he was very nice and we were very glad to meet him. Casting Crowns opened for him. It was a great show and we all had a great time. Thank you Abby and Cindy for hooking us up!!

Us and Jeremy Camp

Lisa and Andrew Visit

2007-08-15T21:57:00.000-04:00

A couple of weeks ago Lisa and Andrew came to visit. Cousin Justin who is on leave from the army came and stayed with us for a night as well. A great time was had by all. Lot's of time was spend in Broad Ripple and on the front porch. We even had a front porch party. We love having family come and stay with us. It's never long enough.

Matt and Andrew at Scotty's Brewhouse

Talking about having a front porch party

Our front porch party :)

So Proud.........

The Girls
Lisa , Mia, Natalie and Teresa

First Post

2007-08-08T11:35:00.000-04:00

We are finally joining Blogland. We will try to update as much as we can, but no promises. I may go back and post some things about past events to keep everyone updated.
-Matt and Nat