Hard to believe you are gone. You should still be here!

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Jake! Miss and Love you everyday!

Jake, love you and think of and your Dad often. Miss you both!
Love , Uncle Jack

You should be here! Happy heavenly birthday! Love you.

Miss you dad

Jake, miss you. Love , Uncle Jack.

Happy Heavenly Birthday Jake! You are loved and missed so much!❤️

Happy birthday Jake. You are forever in our thoughts. ❤️

Jake, Not a day goes by that your not thought about. You are missed and loved so much. ❤

Happy Heavenly Birthday Jake! You are missed and loved so much! ♥️

Jacob, you are always in my thoughts. Love Uncle Jack

Today Marks the unimaginable 5th.anniversary that you left us. You will always be loved and never forgotten. I know you are watching over your girls and family.You are loved and missed so much!❤❤

Hi Jake, I was just thinking about how I miss your many early morning or late evening phone calls. You called for advice on any major event going on in your life or to Simply discuss Questionable politics.  When had some good but heated talks at times. But also with respect for each other.  I Would love to hear your thoughts today. 
Miss you 

Sharman (Mrs. Shambo)

Dear Jake,You have been on my mind alot.Your girls are growing up so fast and are beautiful. You will be missed as always for the holidays. I know you will be with us in spirit Love and miss you always!

Happy Heavenly Birthday Jake! Love you! You are missed so much.

Jake,it is so hard to believe it has been 4 years since you left us.Your girls are growing up so fast you would be so proud of them.You are forever in my heart!❤❤ Love and miss you so much!

Jake another Christmas without you isn't any easier.You are so missed.I know you were with us in spirit.Forever in my heart!❤

Ugg....sooo many cool things your missing. Wish we could talk about stuff again...Dude the Steelers tied the Browns.........THE BROWNS !!!!!!!!!!!. And my boat is still awesome ( no birds nest - lol ) your picture still at the helm though. Your sweat shirts are HUGE on me-----lol.. ok talk later ....love ya man

Happy Heavenly Birthday Jake! You are missed and loved dearly.Forever in my heart!❤

Happy birthday brother, always wish you were here with us, I still talk to your brother from time to time. And I caught a sick ass wahoo off the coast of Roatan.... you would’ve been super impressed it was as big as me

There is not a day that goes by that you aren't loved and missed.At times my heart gets very heavy.I miss Chinook too.Love and miss you always, Grammy

Always ❤️ !!

Happy Birthday in Heaven Jake/Mr. Basta

Happy Heavenly Birthday Jake! I know you will be celebrating with your Dad! Love and miss you!

Jake, I think of you so often. I truly miss you and your Dad. I know the both of you are enjoying God's promise.
Love always, Uncle Jack

Forever in my heart and missed deeply!We love you always! ❤️

"When we lose someone we love we must not learn to live without them but to live with the LOVE they left behind." Jake certainly left us with a lot of LOVE when he was taken from us 2 years ago. We miss and love you every day, please continue to watch over us and keep us safe. ❤️

Remembering you is easy,I do it every day. Missing you is a heartache
That never goes away. Love you always! ❤️

Hey Buddy
Now that you have Chinook back...do you mind if Freddy hangs with you guys, He's been up there for a about a month or so now and could use some company.
HE DOES NOT SWIM !!!!

Jake we now have two angles to watch over your family. I know Chinook mwas real happy to be with you again.You both are forever loved and in my heart.xxoo

Jake,there is not a day that goes by that you aren't thought of.Some days it hits me like it just happened. Forever loved and missed.

Jake,This would of been your third year at Ironman.I want you to know how proud I am of you and I know right now you are cheering everyone on from heaven.You are forever loved and missed.

Happy Birthday in heaven! We love and miss you! Love from all of your girls

Happy Birthday Jake, love you buddy

Happy Birthday! You are always in my thoughts, forever in my heart. Truely blessed. Your girls are growing up fast and are beautiful! They too are truly blessed to have a part of you always in their hearts. Love always!

It has been a long year since your passing, we think of you often and miss you dearly.

Thinking of you Basta girls. Even though I never met Jake, I am sure he is very proud of you all. Jake you have amazing and talented daughters. I look forward to seeing them every week because they make me laugh and brighten my day. Jess is great with them. She is the strongest women I have known. Thinking of you all.

He Buddy, it was great seeing everyone this weekend ( you missed a lot of food ). Jess showed me all the signs in your name ( pretty cool ). I left you a DF cap in the hole ( just to screw with you ). All the girls are great and Jess is doing fine ( very strong, you'd be proud ). All the boys miss you and will stop by in June and have a beer with you ... Your brother kept me out till 2am ( way past your bedtime) ...We had a toast to you in some weird plastics shot glass ( looked like ketchup cups ) ... All in all it was a fun and sad weekend.. Got to know a lot more of your peeps ... Love/miss you

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since I last talked to Jake. I can still hear his voice and his crazy laugh, which will always make me smile. We were only friends for a few years, but he was the kind of friend that left a truly lasting impression. My strongest memories of Jake were during the first year he trained for Ironman, and the time he spent preparing for his second time. We talked all the time, comparing training notes and plans, passing time on the phone while on bike trainers, swapping stories about our kids and families and experiences and friends, ironing out frustrations, exchanging triumphs, and sharing an obsession (?) that can be hard for some to understand—and how life changing it can all be. He picked my brain and called me “Coach”….he wanted to earn that medal and make his girls proud, even though they didn’t quite yet understand what it meant. Seeing him at that finish line was a pretty special moment. Jake had such a great Ironman spirit—“anything is possible” is the motto—he didn’t doubt that he could do anything. As it turned out, he was right!

During our very last conversation, the night before he died, we were discussing my daughter’s upcoming high school graduation. He joked about how he would be “soooo old” by the time Carmela graduated from college, and we laughed at the vision. He told me that he thought my kids were great, how he thought of my teens as “his friends, too,” and I remember how proud that made me feel, how much I appreciated that. He talked about all the things he looked forward to doing with Ava, Giana, and Carmela as they got older, how it would only get increasingly fun for him. Obviously, that conversation stuck with me. It seems unfair that these things will never happen. I miss him a ton, and think about him all the time. I miss hearing the stories of him being a silly daddy with his girls, his plans for teaching them new things, or how he looked forward to planning a date night for Jess. When I think about how much he loved his family and loved life, how many people he connected with and the lives he touched, how much he packed into his short time here, and how much was packed into our relatively short friendship, I am so very grateful for his friendship and it reminds me to make all of my own time count. I like to think he’s able to watch over his family and friends, even if he doesn’t answer back…

To Ava, Giana, and Carmela, I hope that you are constantly reminded of how precious you and your mommy were to your daddy.

Jake - you were such a great friend….miss you so much

Dear Ava, Giana, Carmela...You were the luckest girls to have had such a wonderful Dad. He loved you all so much! His joy on his face when you walked into the room. He would just melt. He was a big teddy bear that let you do whatever to him. Even putting makeup on him with the jewels. He was loved by so many people. He touched the hearts of many people in such a special way. He truly was a special person. Hold these memory's close to your hearts. For it is truly a great treasure! Love Nana ❤️

Miss you more than ever today!I know your watching down on all the friends and family that love you!

Still talk to you every day.... You getting any of it?
Miss you a lot ... Coming to see you soon

Dear Ava,Giana and Carmela, my favorite memory of your daddy was on May 15,2015 when he put the Sombrero hat on one morning when he was taking you both to school and his exact words were "can I wear this hat to school"" and you both yelled "NO".I will never forget that day!!

Love you always and forever! ❤️

I will always remember Jake coming into the nursery on Mother's Day with those three little girls searching for the perfect gift for mommy. He let them each pick out their own special gift, whether it was a single geranium, a packet of seeds or a huge tree they wanted to put into the vehicle and take home immediately to plant. Great guy, great dad. He is sadly missed and thought of so often. Miss his ALWAYS smiling face.

Not a day goes by that I don't think about you Jake. Love you buddy!

I just looked through the pictures and they tell it all of what a great daddy,husband and friend he was.Jake you will forever be in my heart.I miss you so much!

Hey Jake
I met you working at Snow Country, I was a 16 year old shop monkey working in the back of the shop mounting and tuning skis. We always had a multi day waiting period for new skis to be mounted, you would come back and twist my arm (really, you grabbed my arm and twisted) in order for you to make a sale with a same day turnaround. Maybe that was why you were salesman of the year twice (in one year) and fished the river over 365 days one year.
Over time you became one of my best friends and I'm proud to claim you as a buddy. Miss you man.

miss you