Vern Eames

Hi dad...it's been so long since I've spoke to you and I'm sorry for that. I've been doing really good with my new job....almost 6 months now! Aren't you proud?! :) I haven't spoke to anyone but mom in a while. I hope they are all doing well and with you watching over them I'm sure all is well! Summer is almost here! I can't wait to go camping and hang out on the lake! I miss that! Well I better get back to work, I was just thinking about you and remembered I could write to you on this so I...

Hi Sweetheart...August is almost over...nothing much has changed since I wrote last..I'm working hard at staying employed..:) and you know how difficult that can be for me! I miss you more every day..but I finally get it...you are not coming back..I hope you are saving me a place where you are hangin' out. This is hard honey..I know you are with me sometimes...I hear a song that we liked or one that you said reminded you of us..I just miss you so much...your eyes, and the way you looked at...

Hi Baby...the year mark just passed...hope you and Frankie liked the flowers I brought and the beer from Dean. We all miss you so much...we always took pride in the fact that we have such a close family...I am happy to say that all is well.
There is a space in all of us where you, and only you, live. The girls got tattoos in your memory, and you were on everyone's mind even more than usual on Friday...I went out with Karen to try to hide out in the music..like I have done most of my...

Hey dad...so a year today is what they have been saying....seems like only yesterday....I hate that memory...I have so many good memories, no great memories of you....and then that one...I wish it could be erased....Mom is trying really hard, she really is but its so hard for her....its hard for everyone...I worry constantly about them all....I hate feeling helpless....Nothing I can do to make their tears or my own go away....We all miss you so much....I just wish you didn't have to leave so...

It's so hard to believe that it has already been a year today Butch. You are missed so much by so many people. Chuck is still having a hard time with it all. He hasn't been hunting since you left us. He talks about going but as of yet he hasn't managed to get it done. He bought a new gun yesterday and I know he would have been on the phone with you telling you all about it if he could have. As for me - I think I am still pretending it's not real. It hits me pretty hard when I go down to Az to...

aiden (he typed that by himself to say hi to you)

Hi daddy,
a year today. I plan on sleeping all day :) but wanted to tell you how much I miss you first. I really wish you were still here to play with Isaiah, you'd really get a kick out of him. Aiden says he misses you. He says he wants to go back to the church to see you, he means the funeral home. He talks about you a lot, and how he's sad you're gone.... I love you so much, there's a hole in our family without you.

Well Baby..today would have been our 27th anniversary....I can't even put into words how much happiness you gave me over the years...thank you for always being there for me, putting up with my attitudes (most of the time :) and for helping me raise a wonderful family....and now they are raising wonderful families. All because you asked me if I wanted to make a couple of people jealous one fateful night at Johnnie's Other Place...whatever you are doing up there in Heaven, enjoy yourself and I...

Hi Baby....the 4th of July just came and went...we had a bar-b-que at Chelle's....I thought about how we just stepped out of our front door and watched the fireworks at Surprise Stadium last year..... we stayed home because you were not feeling well...I never suspected it would be our last time..I watched from the edge of Chelle and Deans pool this year and we had a pretty good view...lots of OOhhs and Ahhhs from the kids...only ones missing were you, Cody, Ernie, Aiden and Isaiah.....you...