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!

For those who appreciate Switchfoot & Nickel Creek

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

Gaub Babies

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

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

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!