Hi buddy, sorry I haven't posted in so long, believe me, it's not a lack of thinking about you! Not a day goes by that I don't think about you and miss you. Your mom is right, we talk about you all of the time, how precious our memories are of you. Like the time you were just a tiny tot, and said the word raviolioliolioliolio!! Once you got rolling on the word ravioli, you just seemed to get stuck on it!! Or the time you were trying to be so helpful, and put your bowl of spaghettios on the counter in the kitchen and it landed on your head!! The look of utter shock!!! We couldn't help but laugh!! Or how easy it always was to get you to smile, from the time you were just a baby, just learning how. Or how you would tap perfect strangers on the shoulder in the store, if they weren't paying attention to you!! What a precious little boy, and such a wonderful young man you grew to be. We feel the huge void you've left us, without you here everyday. It's a tough month this month, as your birthday is soon approaching, another one without you here. You left us far too soon honey. I love you infinity times nothing, and I miss you as much!! Im sending you hugs and kisses, I hope you can catch them all! Aunt Lisa

Hey Eric I don't get on your site very often because it always makes me cry. I still struggle with your death. You were my best friend and one of the few people I could tell any thing too. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about and talk to you. You were always the protective big brother. I remember telling you that some one was giving me a hard time at school or some where I went and you would tell me that they better not let him hear them say any thing or do any thing other wise you will give them a piece of your mind. LOL there was a few times you did that. You were always so logical about things but some times it was hard to get you to not think about things logicly. I miss you correcting all my papers for school I am never sure how good my paper is with out checking them because I have always sucked at grammar and spelling. I am also very worried about my math classes because with out your help I wouldn't have made it through my last ones and I have to take at least 3 more. Some times I feel like you are standing next to me. Which I wouldn't doubt it for one minute that you would be checking up on me. We were so close. I don't understand why you had to go so soon. Its hard thinking about my wedding and the thought that you aren't going to be in it. I couldn't have ever asked for a better big brother then you. I knew I could always count on you for every thing. I always depended on you. It was hey Eric this and hey Eric that. I remember one thing that you did often was run your hands through you beautiful red hair. One thing you always did well was give back rubs. You would walk up behind me and rub my back you did that to mom too. We had so many plans for the past summer that we never got to do. One thing was we were supose to go to ceder point but we didn't get to go. I am so thankful that you pushed my into getting my drivers licens. I can't say if I would have it now if it wasn't for you. I love you very very much. I wish you were still here in living form. But I know with out a doubt in my mind that you are here in spirt form around me all the time. I strongly believe that you are my gaurdian angel and that you are always watching out for me. I LOVE YOU SOOOO.....MUCH!!!!! And I miss you VERY MUCH!!!

i did not know eric all that well but when i meet him his arms where open to new people. His trust and his little gams that he would play with you where awsome. Becauseof eric i dont judge people anymore and i thank him for that. i am sorry for your loss Mr. & Mrs. Simmons. Just remember that in his life Eric has touched so many people he will not be forgotten

Hiya Eric,

I can't believe it's been over a year since you shockingly went LD on us. Man, I wish you were still around. You could explain this infinity times zero thing to me. Doesn't that equal zero? lol, I'm sure you'd have an explanation.

It's weird. I remember when I first came to this site, I was taken aback by all your pictures. I had talked to you almost daily for what seems like ages, but I had never seen what you looked like. It's a shame we never hung out, since you really don't live far from me. Anyway, the weird part is that your face is now familiar to me, simply from routinely coming here and reminiscing with all the people who cared about you. To me, that says a lot about how great a guy you are. We all just keep coming back because you are indeed missed.

Tiger is still and will always be remembered.

One year, oh Eric we miss you so much! It's so hard to think that we haven't seen your beautiful smile, heard your wonderful laugh or felt your hugs for a year, and that we'll never see you or hug you againj in this life. We've now been through all the first's without you and they were all so hard. Oh how I wish I could hear you say, "love you grandma" again. On New Years Eve, at the stroke of midnight, my first thought was of you and that you would never see a New Year. At Christmas our thought were on you and I looked at the packages for the family and thought about the fact that there were no packages with your name on them. I think of you every single day, and yes, I shed tears every day, today as soon as I opened my eyes you were on my mind (and in my heart). As your grandpa said the other day, "we'll never for get him, he's in our hearts forever". It's been so hard to watch the pain your parents and Marie have been in this year, wishing I could make them feel better, but knowing that's not possible. Nothing we can say or do will make the pain go away. I know you would feel so bad to know that our family is in such agony. Nothing ever prepares a parent for losing a child, nor a grandparent losing a grandchild. Everytime our doorbell rings I so hope (even though I know better) that I'll open the door and you'll be standing there, with that big grin, laughing and saying, "but grandma it's tradition"!

love you Eric.

Eric

I can't believe it's been a year since you left here, it has passed with us being in a kind of fog nothing ahead seems very clear anymore one day runs into the next, I still wish each night as I fall a sleep that I could somehow wake up from this. or that you will just walk through the door at the end of the day like none of this is real. And I awake each morning to the cold reality. We are thankful for the kindness and comfort that others have shown us. I have your picture in a frame on the desk that reads Forever in our hearts , it broke our hearts to lose you, But you did not go alone for part of us went with you on the day God called you home. And how true it is. I am sure you know how much we miss you as much as we love you son I send you my love today as I do everyday I Love you nothing X infinity divided by 0 and I miss you as much as I love you

Mom

Eric

11 months now you have been gone, we miss you every moment it's still hard to believe that your not going to come through the door at the end of the day, Once I dreamt that I did call you on the phone and asked you to come home now and you said ok then I woke up.... I so wish I could pick up the phone and call you, We know that nothing will ever be the same again, You know that you are forever in our hearts and memories we cherish the time we had with you, And wish so deeply for more I LOVE YOU NOTHING X INFINITY DIVIDED BY 0!!!! And I miss you as much as I love you son

I send you all my love to Heaven XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Hey TH !

Seri and I just got back from our huge vacation ! we were gone for 5 months !! And we got engaged !!!

I just wanted to post and wish your family a Merry Christmas, just wanted to let them know that you are forever in our hearts and we miss you dearly.

Love Melly and Seri

Merry Christmas to you in Heaven buddy. I wish with all of my heart that you were here with us. Grandma Simmons got an oak banana hanger last night, and it just made me cry. No one else would understand the meaning of that, but I know you sure do. I never knew just how much losing someone could hurt, until we lost you. You are such a special person, with a heart bigger than life. I look at your picture and just want to hug you, feel you squeeze my hand, give me that big grin of yours. We are all trying so hard to get through the days without you here, and it's just the hardest thing in the world. I hope you feel all of the love we send you everyday. Just know that we all love you nothing x's infinity and we miss you as much as we love you. It's hard to find the right words to say everything we feel, but I think you know. I love you sweetie. Aunt Lisa

I am thinking about you today, as I do everyday, it's just some days hurt more than most. Today is one of them. Last night the Compassionate Friends group had a candlelight vigil all over the united states, and on the internet as well. Your Mom, sister, myself and Grandma D. all posted on the website for you and lit a candle in your honor and your memory. Hope you got the messages we sent. I can't believe it's been 10 months today since we lost you. Your mom is right when she says in some ways it seems like yesterday and in some ways it seems like it's been forever since we got to hug you, talk to you, kiss your cheek, hear your wonderful laugh or see your dazzling smile. I know you are with us in every way you can be, but it's just not the way we want you to be. Your Mom is right about Christmas too. It's really hard to find any kind of joy in it this year, knowing you are not here to share it with us, with all of your smiles and special thought out gifts, enjoying spending time with our family, and chowing down on all of the holiday food you so loved!! Your absence leaves such a huge hole in our family. I never knew I could miss someone so intensly, as I miss you. We watch for your signs, and relish in the ones you get through to us. Some of those signs you leave for us make us laugh!! Like eat more ice cream. There are only a few of us that know what that mean, but the meaning is going in the right direction!!! I hurt for me, but honey, I hurt even more for your Mom, Dad, and Sister. It's so hard to not be able to" fix" their hurt and pain. I try to be there for them, but the only person who could truly "fix" any of it, would be if you could be here with us. Our time with you has been far too short for this lifetime.

Well buddy, just know that I will miss you everyday, from now until the day we meet again in Heaven, I know you will be there to greet each one of us with your beautiful smile and big hug, as our times come. I love you nothing X's infinity and I miss you just as much. You still are and will always be my favorite redhead in the whole wide world. XOXOXOXOXOXO Aunt Lisa/Mom

Good news! Melania and Seri got engaged. Congrats to them both. So I didn't get the promo that I was hoping for cuz they don't want to pay me. It's lame but it's not the end of the world. I think I'm going to take it easy next year. It's holiday season so I wish you and your family a very Happy Holiday just in case I won't be around. I hope everyone is well. They miss you but I know you are still with them.