Myles is flying!

Myles with some of his cousins playing together!

Grandma Kitty's four Grandson's,  Gavin, Myles, Zane and Henry

Myles all set in his Hepp shirt ready to get the truck
ready for the 4th of July parade!

Cousin Colby and Myles working on the truck
for the parade!  These two boys are learning
early on how to fix things!!

Myles in Grandpa Jerry's truck and ready to go!

Myles and Casey and family went to Virigina for a Hepp
family reunion!

Myles on the air plane for the first time!
How excited he was!  He got to use
his own car seat on the plane.

Grandpa Jerry and Grandma Linda with Ryan & Mallory with Colby
and Casey and Travis and Myles infront of the
Marine Crops Museum

 

Myles showing Travis his 'Big Muscles"
 

Myles & Colby found Daddy/Uncle Matt's bench at
Marine Corps League Picnic at Aero Park.

 

 

Matt I still feel sometimes you are going to walk through the garage door and

I will get to see you again!  I know that is not possible but I do feel you around

me alot!  I love you and miss you so much. When ever I see a blue dragonfly I

think of you spreading your joy and smile to everyone!

 

 

The Dragonfly

 

Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads,

thee lived a little water beetle in a community of water beetles.

They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond with few

Disturbances and interruptions.

 

Once in a while, sadness would come to the community

when one of their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a lily pad

and would never be seen again.  They knew when this happened;

their friend was dead, gone forever.

 

Then, one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge

to clim up that stem.  However, he was determined that he

would not leave forever.  He would come back and tell his friends

what he had found at the top.

 

Whe he reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the

surface of the lily pad, he was so tired, and the sun felt so warm,

that he decided he must take a nap.  As he slept, his body changed and

when he woke up he had turned into a beautiful blue-tailed dragonfly

with broad wings and a slender body designed for flying.

 

So, fly he did!  And, as he soared he saw the beauty of a whole

new world and a far superior way of life to what he had never

known existed.

 

Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking

by now he was dead.  He wanted to go back to tell them, and explain

to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been before.

His life had been fulfilled rather than ended.

 

But, his new body would not go down into the water.  He could

not get back to tell his friends the good news.  then he understood

that their time would come, when they, too, would

know what he now knew.  So he raised his wings and flew off

into his joyous new life!

 

Miss you Matt!  Spread your wings and we will see you one day!