My sweet Amy.  You are still forever on my mind.  I don't think that will ever change.  It's been 15 years.  Wow.  Seems like just yesterday that my heart was crushed into a trillion pieces.   But then again it seems like I haven't seen your beautiful face or heard you contagious laughter in 100 years.  I remember when you were little and Stephen hit you as you walked by him and you just turned around and whopped him with your bottle.  Haha!  That was my girl.  You had spunk!  Something I don't have.  I admire you girl.  You were everything I wished I was.  But like a supernova your brightness was cut out way too soon.  You were a very bright spot in our home.  I also remember when you were only 10 months old, you just stood up in the floor and walked across the room!  Haha!  Only you Amy!   And when you were about 18 months old, you would bring a clean diaper to me and lay down for me to change you!  You had life to live and not much time to do it, so you said let's get this show on the road!   I guess that is why you were so passionate about so much.  You knew somewhere deep inside that you didn't have much time to do all that you could.  I am so sorry you could not stay with us.   It makes me very angry a lot of times.  Probably most of the time.  I love you baby girl.  Always.  I will always love you.

i remember amy, coming to our  home with angie hines, amy was very polite, and a sweet young lady. she will forever be remembered in my heart. her parent's and brother are  wonderful people working for the lord. every time i pass the place where her life was taken i think of her, and it is so nice that laurel park school put her name birth and death date on the bench in front of the school. god had another work for her to do so now she is working for the lord in heaven. amy, had very loving, and kind parent's. and i will forever love them.  amy, was beautiful at her funeral, and the church was filled to capacity. what does that tell us. amy, was loved by many.

I remember how hard your little body sobbed when Jennifer died.  I sure hope you have seen her in Heaven.  I remember the last time you saw her, yall jumped on her bed and threw stuffed animals all over the room.  You were two of a kind!


I also remember how much you cried when Delores died.  Hopefully you have seen her in Heaven too.


I remember how pretty you looked everyday when you left for school.

I remember that day that my coworker parked her car in our driveway and you accidently backed into it, and I hollered at you.  I will forever regret that Amy.

I remember you were so happy that last night when you got home from Florida and you could not wait to show me the charicature that you had drawn at Disney World.  You were so proud of it!  It is so beautiful.  It is displayed proudly in our living room and will be forever!!!!!!!


I remember how you felt sorry for your brother because that girl he was married to would not do any housework or clean, and he had to do it all (not that he did that much himself, lol, but he did all the cooking and what cleaning got done), and then you wanted to know if I had a key to his house so you could go over and help him out.

I remember that you cried at his wedding because you suddenly realized that you were actually going to miss him.  All of the groomsmen saw you cry and they cried too!  LOL.   Guess what, he is divorced from that girl.   A fact that I know you would have been happy about, LOL.


I remember one night when you had 3 different guys waiting for you in the parking lot at church.  One came to see if you would go somewhere with him.  One actually had a date for the movie with you that night.  And one was begging you to forgive him............AND you spent hours on the phone with him after going to the movie with guy#2.


And you thought you were not pretty.  You are the most beautiful girl I have ever in my life known or seen.


I love you.  Always.  Always.  Always.  Mom                       

Amy I remember when you were about 10 or so and you would come and sit in my lap and pretend you were still a baby.   I LOVED it.   WISH I could hold you again.  So hard to believe that you were doing that at 10 and only 6 years later you were snatched away from me.


I remember one time you told me that you did not want to have children when you grew up, mostly because you were scared that it would hurt, but we sure did not know that you would never get to experience having children.


I remember you and April always making that sound "Slurp" when talking about pizza!


I remember at the beach, you and Kristina saying "THE WOODS" all the time, very funny.


I also remember at the beach when you and her met those guys and they wanted you to come out with them that night to the arcade in ocean lakes, so we said you could, and they came by to pick you up on a golf cart.  It looked like something from a Flintstones episode!!!


I remember that you drove the car home the day you got your learner's permit and it was snowing!!!!!!!!!!!


I remember how you loved your car.  You were so proud of it.   Took good care of it.  Never knew it would be what took you away from me.  

You had my diamond earrings!!!   You would take them from my jewelry box and wear them.   You were buried in them...........


Your contagious laugh.  We have a little smiley face thing that laughs, and it sounds SO MUCH like you.  I pick it up every now and then just to "pretend" I am hearing you.

I love you baby.   More memories to come.      
                   

Amy was a child that was so full of laughter.  She brought joy to everyone who knew her.  So many of her friends talked about her crazy personality and smile.  She had a lot of very good friends.   She was the sunshine of our house.  The house is so sad and lonesome without her.  She was looking so forward to being a senior in high school and going to proms, and was trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life.   She was very passionate.  She loved dearly and deeply.   She had a special place in her heart for anyone that was picked on or teased.  She would take up for them.   Sometimes it got her in trouble, not bad trouble.  She was such a wonderful daughter.  This world is definitely missing out on the impact she would have made.   We will never know what she  might have done with her life, but I know she would have turned out great, because she was a great girl!

Never has a daughter been loved or missed as much as Amy Elizabeth Shupe.

More memories to come..........................