Happy Birthday Sweet Dustin, My beautiful, and special son I hope that today you are having a birthday party in Heaven. I pray there are birthday parties in Heaven, and I hope yours is perfect, with 19 lit candles on a cake iced with happiness and joy, With gifts made of love and laughter, For my beautiful birthday boy. Oh how I wish that I could share today with you, Just like the other Birthdays you had. Instead I am left here with just memories and tears wishing you where still here. Mommy will be sending you a message written on a big red balloon, Please catch it Dustin, when it comes up to you.............. and read your birthday message, I'll send just for you. With all my love, Your Mom Forever Dear Dustin Today is your birthday I want you to know That in my Heart You are always with me. Not a minute goes by that I don't think of you I wish I could go back 19 years ago and do it all over. I wish I could go back three years and you would be here This nightmare I live would not be here I wish I could see you, touch you and hold you that would be the greatest gift of all I want to hold on to you, today with a smiling face No bad memories, all good memories of you Race through my mind so fast that I cannot grab hold of one to keep with me. I need to let that one bad day go, and remember the wonderful 16 years That I had, That you gave me, Just for today, If I had one wish, it would be for you. I wonder what you would wish for today. I wonder if you are celebrating. Love from Mommy, 2-21-2004 WE DO NOT NEED A SPECIAL DAY We do not need a special day To bring you to our minds. The days we do not think of you Are very hard to find. Each morning when we awake, We know that you are gone. And no one knows the heart ache As we try to carry on. Our hearts still ache with sadness And secret tears still flow. What it meant to lose you No one will ever know. Our thoughts are always with you, Your place no one can fill. In life we loved you dearly; In death we love you still. There will always be a heartache, And often a silent tear. But always a precious memory Of the days when you were here. If tears could make a staircase, And heartaches make a lane, We'd walk the path to heaven And bring you home again. We hold you close within our hearts; And there you will remain, To walk with us throughout our lives Until we meet again. Our family chain is broken now, And nothing seems the same, But as God calls us one by one, The chain will link again. ~ Written by Connie Dyer, BP/USA, Springfield, IL Thank you Susie Dunn for the locket and heart Forever loved and remembered Dustin James Ellis 2/21/1985-3/17/2001 Four Years have come and gone yet my time stands still my heart realizing you are not home When will my heart completely heal February 21 your Birthday I still hurt inside But March is much worse For that's the month you died and my heart cried Time has changed me The road has been tough So hard to believe you would be 20 years old and In my Heart you will always be loved and remembered but forever sixteen To my son Dustin James Ellis Whom I love with all my heart Love Mom Thanks to Billy Kayser's mom, Diane for the birthday cake above and the gift below.