Hey Sis...your beloved son, Hunter, whom we love and cherish dearly visited with us this week in Ohio. We had a beautiful time and he remembered and honored your birthday with a beautiful bouquet of flowers to bring to your Memorial Tree. He picked out these lilies as he said they reminded him of the flowers he gave you on Mother's Day. You have such a special boy who loves and misses you every day. He shared with me that he knows you are with him always.

It has been one year without you Sis...and I still cannot believe you are gone. You are missed beyond belief. So sorry we have struggled so with your loss...it's just that you were so very loved and the loss of you has been so very deep. I find myself always reaching for my phone to call you..Really trying here, honest, really trying. I know your first Christmas in Heaven was beautiful. Our first Christmas without you has not been good..I didn't even get to message on here..when Dad received his news during the holidays...well, nothing seemed like a holiday anymore. With your absence and his diagnosis...well, what can I say. But we missed you, Love...we really missed you being here...now, I am just helping Dad get through...walk with him as he makes his journey, just as you did. Helping Mom through this too, they both miss you so deeply. This morning, on this anniversary, I kept your photo at my desk with a pretty little butterfly...and I thought about how you will be waiting there when Dad takes his journey there..it was comforting to know that you will be there with open arms to bring Dad there in Heaven..I know it won't be long..and I can hardly bear the thought of losing him, too. We love him so very much. But somehow knowing you will be there waiting for him, well it was comforting...I love Sis, I miss you, A part of me died with you that day..My beautiful sister.

No, I cannot believe you have been gone for one year, today the anniversary of the day we lost you. It has been so hard to go on without you...