End of June Update

We have had a wonderful June! Filled with birthday parties and school ending... summer beginning , sleepovers with Logan's friends and Logan got to spend almost a week with his Grammy and Grandpa Dave (my Mom and her husband).  He had a great time just lounging around at their house, playing with their dog Marley < and swimming in the pool! Great start to the summer for sure! We close out the last week of  june mostly hanging around our house, going to parks and playgrounds and packing up for our July 4th weekend trip to Roanoke, VA! We are very excited and ready for this mini vacation and to see many friends that we have not seen in almost a year....however, I am slightly concerned about how Isaac is going to do on the drive down. It takes us about 5 or 6 (maybe a little longer now) hours to get there and he can barely stand the 1 hour drive back to see our family in Dillsburg and Hanover! So, please pray for us as we embark on this journey...for Isaac to nap most of the way and be happy the rest of the time with playing with his brother and contentment! We will make sure we have lots of little pit stops to stretch out the legs along the way. We will also post an update once we are back and plenty of photo's to share I am sure.

God Bless you all and have a great end of June!

Father's Day

A Happy belated Father's Day to any father's reading this post!

Father's Day : A day set aside to celebrate the Dads, Step-Dads, and Father figures in our lives. A wonderful day , indeed! However, for some of us, Father's day brings saddness as well. When you have lost your Dad, there is an emptiness that comes with this day. I have had a deep emptiness for 10 years now. Well, let me say that I "had" a great emptiness on this day for a long time. Everyone else was buying their Dad's gifts, cards, talking about the day, making plans for cookouts and special parties...and I was dreaming about what I would be doing on this day. Not having your Dad on Father's Day plain stinks! Just like not having your Mom on Mother's Day does. While I still experience a great saddness with Dad being gone...since I have met and married Matt..I have found that I can now celebrate this day with great joy! Matt is not "My" father but he is an amazing Father to our two wonderful sons! I can celebrate along with them, this awesome Dad that God placed in all of our lives! What a blessing!! It is incredible to me, the ways that God takes a sad and desperate situation , and brings about good and joy within it. He truly does take any bad thing and turn it around for our good. What an awesome God! And this brings me to another joyful experience on Father's Day. Even before I met Matt...God filled me with such joy and peace during this day. He reminded me (and still does) that although I had a Father here and he loved me deeply and I loved him...that God is my true Father! He is Papa to us all and though I will always miss my Dad...i can celebrate God's love for me as my ultimate Daddy!! Amazing.

And lastly...it took me a while to realize this. But , this year I have come to accept and celebrate the gift that my Mom's husband, Dave, is in my life. He is not my real Father..and I am not his real daughter...but...we are both in that place now. He lost his daughter just a few years ago. We both have a great void in our lives. And now, God has put us into that void for each other. I will never get my Dad back in this life..and he will never get his daughter back in this life. But we have each other! We can continue on in this life together. As "daughter" and "Dad". He has been in our lives for 5 years...and we have always gotten along pretty well , especially in more recent years. But, I still held him at bay, not letting him or anyone in the spot my Dad once was. I have too..i have to let go of that. My Dad, Robert Christopher Lemmon, Jr. will always be my Father. He will always hold a special place in my heart and soul that NO ONE could ever fill. I will always miss him, especially on Father's Day. But, I have my heavenly Father, Creator, God who loves me unending and will never leave me...I have Matt, my husband and Father to my children to celebrate and love...and I have Dave Merrill...my "step father" to make memories with and share in this life with as my "dad". Wow...God surely pours out his favor and love on his children!!! I am so thankful! :O)

Hello and Welcome to our first Blog Post!

Hello from the Reynold's gang! We are Matthew, Meghan, Logan and Isaac...oh, Tiger and Frogs too! We are just getting started on our blog, so please be patient with us as we update and change things here.

A little about us: We just moved a few months ago to a new town in Lancaster County, and we love it here! We do miss our family and friends back home, but we are making the most of our new opportunity! Matt has a wonderful new job out here at a cheese factory and we are enjoying the benefits of that! I (Meghan) am a stay at home mom/Massage Therapist. I am very much enjoying being at home with our boys. At the same time, I am looking forward to getting back in the Massage business and building up a good client base here. We really like our new neighborhood and are getting to know our neighbors pretty well. We have been attending a church called LCBC and really like it so far! We are musicians by hobby and excited about pursuing that more and seeing where it goes!

A little about our kids: Logan is 7 1/2 yrs old (turning 8 in July!) and is one awesome, interesting, and adventerous kid! He has always had a passion for animals (as anyone knows how he loves Tiger and his frogs and toad) and he enjoys being outdoors , hiking and camping, helping Daddy around the house, and hunting for "wild animals" in the back yard and nearby streams and woods! He recently has taken an interest in basketball and archery! He is a wonderful big brother to Isaac and very helpful..we feel so blessed! He is so full of life and is a very loving and caring young man. He has a great outlook on life and we are so very proud of who he is and who he is becoming.

Isaac is our toddler..he just turned 1 in May! He is such an interesting and sweet little guy! Allot like his big brother :O) He loves Tiger also, actually we think Tiger is his best friend at the moment! He loves balls, cars, going on walks and being outside. He loves to have his shoes on and gets excited when we say "shoes?" He also likes to ride around on Daddy's shoulders or in the hiking backpack. He walks everywhere and is learning to talk and can say a few words such as "ball", "shoes" , Daddy and Tiger. He is such a joy and a wonderful addition to our family!

Tiger is our cat and he is pretty awesome! He is truly a friendly, people cat and loves to be around us all the time. If we all go upstairs he follows and has to be in the same room as we are. He is a cuddly, sweet cat. We also have two frogs and a toad that live in Logan's room.

That is about all for now. Thanks for reading and we will be updating with pics and more stories soon! God Bless!