Happy Birthday Matt...You would be 26 on the 15th...The song comes to mind once again- "Who You'd Be Today"...We can hardly believe it has been this long- it feels like yesterday you left us. Wish I could see you for a day in heaven and all the beauty you are in now and what your life is like there. Your birthday celebration is so much better than we can ever imagine. We miss you every single moment still, I still look for you everywhere I go, everywhere I am. Daddy goes to your grave and spends time with you and cares for your flowers. They are glorious this year Matt. Be with us at the beach. Todd, Jenn and the 3 boys and Dad and I are going tonight. Ride with us, ask God to keep us safe, and warch over Kerri and Shawn and the boys while we are gone. Be back on here when I can honey, as soon as I can. Love you forever and always- Happy Birthday...Mom, Dad, and all of the family.

Happy Heavenly Birthday Matthew.

My thoughts are with you and your family

on this special day.

Love always

Sue XOXOX

   How do I begin to write to you when you have been gone from us for three years Matt? It feels as if we live in a vacuum still. You in Heaven-us on earth.

   Every day is as hard as the day before-yet somehow life keeps us moving each day. You somehow let us know you are with us. So many signs, and I don't miss a one. Ohhh Matt, how do I stop asking why? We loved you beyond love, would have done anything and everything to keep you with us. It seems God had a different plan for you- for us. No matter what we did, the doors were shut to us. You said all you ever needed was Daddy & I....and your sister and brother... and your nephews. Something happened inside your body, which we couldn't- nor the doctors couldn't get to. I torture myself saying what more should we have done? Why were we all so blind sited?

    All I do know, is that you are with your Grandfather, June, Elaine, Beau, Buddy, and that God has you in the psalm of his hands. You are healthy and whole, smiling that beautiful smile, those darkest sparkeling brown eyes are shining brighter than they ever did here. You are loved with agape love- no bigger love than this- even all of us can't love you with that kind of love from God. How do we fill the hole that is sooooooo big in each of us left behind? Help us honey, to keep putting one foot in front of the other- to be there for each other- to love - to live- to laugh- as you would want us to do...

    My Matthew, oh God- how I miss you- how we all miss you- Wish you were here to meet our new baby- Daniel Keith King- I will meet him tomorrow. You have already somehow I know.

   Ask God to put his hands and blessings on all of your nephews, honey. To keep they safe from harm, and to have a full life and to not send anymore grief... I pray for Kerri, Todd, and Daddy to heal every day. The pain inside them hurts me so deeply. Help all of us who have lost our child- to find a way to go on.

   Stay near my Matt- I feel you behind me now as I type this- looking over my shoulder as you always did- saying, "relax Mom".... and then giving me that smile of yours.......

   Come to my dreams honey, show me how you are- where you are- give us peace - until we are together again.

   All my love, forever and always,

                                            Mama        

Hey Matt, Cannot believe it has been 3 years since we last heard your voice, seen your face, gave you a hug.  Still cannot believe this is real.  I know you are watching over us all, but we wish so much you were here....coming to see the boys, Alex, Ryan, Brayden and Garrett play tball.  seeing Taylor, Collin and Daniel for the first time (although I am sure you met them before we here did).  What we would give for one more day to spend with you. I would not want anything more than to have All of us, once again together as a family, up at Mom and Dad's.  All the nephews playing in the creek, Mom making enough food to feed an army (which is good practice for when the 7 boys are older ), just the usual get together.  just to see you smile and hear your laugh once more would be a dream come true. 

I know you are in a better place, free from any pain and suffering you had here on earth, that is what I have to tell myself every time I am angry questioning why we cannot have you here with us.  I now have to find peace in the fact that you will be waiting for us when it is our time to join you in Heaven.

Continuing watching over us, especially the boys.  7 nephews will keep you busy !!! but I know there is nothing Uncle Matt cannot handle.

LOVE & MISS YOU!!

Jenn

~June 18th 2008~

In loving memory of

'Matthew'

my thoughts are with you and all of your family

and friends.

Much love always Sue XOXOXOX

Matt, I thought your Mom {Diane} may enjoy this verse as I so often see the joy the presence of butterflies bring.

Snapping fibers of cocoon

Blinding brilliance of high noon

Wings unfolding, spreading, dry

Coast is clear, my darling....FLY!!

(Gina Schmitz)

For my dear and loyal friend Diane,

Thank-you for always being there for me.

With love to you always.

Sue

XOXOXOX

         Hi honey, Another Mother's Day has come and gone... Spending the day with your brother and sister and all of the boys and Gram Kepple here at home. Having all of the kids here was very helpful to get through the day. I hope you were here to see how big all of the boys are getting, and what a great job Kerri & Jenn and Shawn & Todd are doing in raising them. Your nephews miss you.....their Uncle Matt will foever be in their hearts.

        Please watch over Kerri as she is in her last weeks of carrying your 7th nephew & she is feeling so tired & heavy with child... help them to decide the perfect name, and give him a kiss for us .... you see him before we do...

        Watch over Collin as he goes for ear tubes on your brother's birthday Wednesday. Keep him safe & healthy....Alex and Ryan too with their coughing.... Oh Matt... Watch over all of us honey, stay close as best you can, and know how much you are loved & so gravely missed..... Someday we will be able to hug & see one another again...just seems so far off.

          We love you, forever & always....

                                                     Mom xox

Thank you for visiting Chris and always leaving kind words and beautiful gifts of graphic and love. God Bless you and send you comfort. Matt has an angel on earth.  Love Angie

Hi honey, Easter time has come once again, with us here, and you there. It is 2008, nearly 3 years since you passed to heaven. Impossible to take in still, but we do know you are (because of what Easter means) complete, healthy,  whole, and happy. It is us who are left behind that are having such a hard time until we too can be there with you. Only then will we fully understand and our pain will be changed to joy...

We love you Matthew, so very much. Stay near to us all honey. Spring is here, butterflies about to return...

Forever and always our love...  

Hi Matt,

This is the hardest time, at your sister's birthday, trying to celebrate when it is so hard to do with you not here with us. Kerri is so heart broken, she misses you so much I can't even begin to tell you how deep it goes. You know honey, as it is the same for you. Stay near to her, to all of us ... We love you forever and always ...

Dearest Diane, Tim and family. 
Wishing all a wonderful and gentle  Christmas.
                                                



With much love from Sue XOXOX