Happy Birthday Branden. Hard to believe this would have been your 28th birthday. Ryan and Jake still talk about you. Ryan has your skate board and has your hat in his car , says helps keep him safe. I hope you know how loved you ate and how important you were to everyone. 
I hope you're jamming out and having a great time. 
Love Jena

Hi baby I don't usually write to you on the day you left.
Your dad and was suppose to spend the day together.
we try to spend the day you came to us and the day you left together.
i can say God has been good to me this is the first your I have a calmness about today. I guess I am really starting to accept your gone more importantly
I realize your with God.
a day go by I don't think of you. How I wished did a better job. I miss you so much son. i believe I will see you soon, i still have to figure out what Gods will is for me. what does he want me to do, he saved me for a reason.
Branden I love and miss you so much

Happy Birthday little brother. 27 wow. So crazy to think you would be pushing 30 now. Wish you were still here. I love you.
Alicia

Happy 26th birthday little brother. It's weird and difficult to think that you would be 26 today. So much of my childhood was shaped by your birth, and my adulthood by your death, it's hard to imagine how things would be if you were still here. Where you would be, how my life might be different, how our family would be different. You are still so loved and missed.

happy birthday son
you would of been 25 years old. I an getting together with your sisters.
we are having brunch together to honor your birthday.
we are going to buy five NA books and donated them to an new comer in recovery. i feel that is one way I can honor you is by helping the addicts that are still suffering.
last year and this year I have been able to celebrate your life with me.
Your Dad I spend every birthday and august 26th together.
that is the day you enter our life and the day you left us.
I am learning that I will always have my bad melt downs in missing you.
i am learning that is now a big part of my life.
When you left then grandma I was pretty lost.
I know it has taken me 3 years till I was even ready to accept you were gone.
and stop running from the pain. I still have a long way to go.
right now I am just walking through life in angry, I don't seem to have a lot of compassion for others most of the time.
I know that's not who I am and working hard to get through that part.
I will never be the same person I was when you were here. I stopped looking for her. I am trying to find the new me on a new journey in this life.
I don't want to be on this journey however I have no choice.
I either walk through this like a big girl learn the lesson that sit before me,
or I join you. 
I am also trying to accept this is my process for the rest of my life.
I just want you to know I am getting .stronger.
my heart still hurts the same. I love you son talk soon
               love Mom

Hi baby it has been a long time since I have written to you on this sight
However I think of you every single day.
your birthday is in two days. your sisters and I are getting together for your birthday.
  Damn what can I say you been gone almost five years, I still have days like you just lifted. I am in therapy and clean now, I couldn't keep running from the reality that you are gone
I kept looking for the old me to come back. i realized I will never be the same.
I hope to grow and learn some profound lessons in life.
I hope to help other women with their pain.
today I am not ready to help any one I am still trying to get through my days just one day at a time.
         I love you my love I will write again soon
                          love Mom

hey Branden. I've never written on here before, so i don't know what to write. But I do miss you, dearly. Not once have I not thought about you. I'm in therapy, my room is now yours. So many things have changed since you left, I hate that I learn new things, live life, change, and a lot more without you. You're always in my heart and I will never forget you. You are too important to be forgotten. I love you. xoxo

I know today is 3 years & I think of branden everyday but today especially. I hope that today you are surrounded by love and great memories, Trina. I miss him very much. I can remember meeting him in elementary school & growing up together, he used to call me and sing cute is what we aim for songs to me on the phone, we would laugh and laugh about it.

I remember when Branden was about 5 or 6 and he asked me to marry him, I had said son I cant marry you I am your mother.
He just kept saying please mom marry me please mom marry me.
Till I just gave in and said yes son I will marry you.

I remember just a year or so before Branden passed. I was having problems with my neck and I had to show him how to rub it out. I am laying on the bed and he is ribbing my neck out and he said this feels weird doing this to my mom. Then he said there is not any thing I woulds'.t do for you to make you feel better

I remember one night when Trina was having a get together, and Branden was going outside to hang with friends. He was early teens maybe, and my son was still a young kid. Trina told Branden to take Kevin with him, and Branden did. Kevin really enjoyed hanging out with the bigger boys, and Branden treated him like "one of the guys", and not like he was just some little kid that he had to let tag along. I could see that he helped Kevin feel like he was a part of.

Hello Son
I have really been missing since you have been gone.
I have been thinking your birthday is coming up.
I decided this year we will not have your party on your birthday.
The last two years we have been doing it on your birthday.
That don't seem to work for me. last year I cried all night the day before your birthday. when it came time to have your celebration
. I was a mess and just wanted to get it over and be alone.
I don't want to that way any more, I thought if we do after then maybe I can really celebrate your life. I can't believe it's been 3 years and at the same time I feel like it's been forever since I have seen you hug you.
      love you my baby boy

I think of you often and make no outward show, but what it means to lose you, no one will ever know. You wished no one farewell, not even said goodbye, you were gone before I knew it, and only God knows why. You are not forgotten, nor will you ever be, as long as life and memories last, I will remember thee. To some you may be forgotten, to others a part of the past, but to me who love you dearly, your memories will always last. Nothing can be more beautiful than the memories I have of you. To me, you were someone special, God must have thought so too! If tears could build a staircase and memories a lane, I would walk all the way to Heaven, and bring you back again. ----- Anonymous

hello son here we are in the second thanksgiving and your not here.I am sorry i cant do this I miss you so fucken much

To the Family and Friends of Branden,

Please except my deepest condolences. It is unnatural to lose one so young in death. Although I didn't have the pleasure of knowing Branden, I was touched because he passed away in the same month and year as my mom. I've found comfort in knowing that "there is going to be a resurrection" (Acts 24:15) I hope that you'll find comfort in knowing that you can see your loved one again during a time when "death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away." (Revelation 21:4)