I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I LAID EYES ON OUR LITTLE LESTER LEADBELLY. HE HAD FUR MADE OF SILK, AND WAS AS SOFT AS A LITTLE COTTEN BALL. HE WAS MY GRADUATION PRESENT FROM NURSING SCHOOL FROM MY DAUGHTER LORI, WHO BY THE WAY ALWAYS MANAGED TO FIND THE LOST SOULS THAT WOULDN'T HAVE A LOVING HOME IF IT WASN'T FOR MOM AND DAD. WHAT BETTER EXCUSE COULD LORI HAVE! HE IS YOUR GRADUATION PRESENT! HE WAS A TINY (A MERE 6 WKS OLD) LITTLE WHITE WITH ORANGE SPOTS CREATURE WITH BIG BLUE EYES. JUST FULL OF LIFE AND WONDER. IT DIDN'T TAKE US LONG TO REALIZE WHO WAS GOING TO RUN THIS HOUSE. WHERE THERE WAS TROUBLE YOU WOULD FIND MY LITTLE LESTER. HE WAS SO MISCHIEFIVOUS AND INQUISITIVE OF ALL THAT SURROUNDED HIM. HE LOVED HIS NEW FOUND BROTHER WEASEL (NOW 14 YRS. OLD). HE CHASED HIM AND TACKLED HIM AT ANY OPPORTUNITY. WEASEL WAS NOT IMPRESSED BUT OVER TIME HE CAME TO LOVE LESTER. WHERE YOU SAW ONE YOU SAW THE OTHER CLOSE BY. HE LOVED TO BRING LIVE BIRDS IN THE HOUSE TO SEE MOM'S REACTION ESPECIALLY AFTER A TWELVE HOUR SHIFT! FEATHERS EVERYWHERE!!!!!! I CAN HEAR HIM NOW (" lOOK WHAT I BROUGHT YOU HOME MOM"). HOW PROUD HE WAS OF HIS CATCH. HE WOULD PLAY WITH ANYTHING THAT MOVED EVEN SNAKES!! HE KNEW THIS CREATURE WAS MOM'S LEAST FAVORITE. WHEN I WOULD SEE HIM PLAYING IN THE GRASS BEHIND OUR HOUSE I KNEW, AND I WOULD CALL HIM AND HE KNEW HE WAS IN FOR THE TALK WHICH BY THE WAY WE HAD MANY. THE THREAT OF ADOPTION DIDN'T BOTHER HIM ONE BIT. HE THOUGHT ADOPTION MEANT YOU WILL BE WITH ME FOREVER IF YOU BRING ONE INTO MY BED. IF I HAD A PENNY FOR EVERYTIME I SAID, STOP IT LESTER, GET DOWN FROM THERE LESTER, WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE LESTER,GET OVER HERE WE NEED TO TALK, LEAVE YOUR BROTHER ALONE LESTER, I WOULD BE A MILLIONAIRE. IMAGINE HOW RICH I WOULD BE IF HE HAD LIVED A LIFETIME! THOSE ARE THE TIMES I MISS YOU THE MOST. EVEN WHEN HE WAS SCOLDED HE WOULD STILL COME RUNNING TO YOU FOR LOVE. THE FIRST NIGHT I HAD HIM HE SNUGGLED AND SUCKLED MY CHIN AND CONTINUED TO SUCKLE UNTIL HIS LAST DAY. IT WAS OUR SPECIAL TIME TOGETHER. DAD'S SPECIAL TIME WAS WHEN HE WOULD COME HOME AND PICK LESTER UP WHERE EVER HE WAS SLEEPING AND BRING HIM OUT TO SHOW THE WORLD HOW LONG HE WAS. LESTER WOULD ALLOW DAD TO FLING HIM AGAINST HIS CHEST AND REST HIS HEAD ON DAD'S SHOULDER AND DANGLE FULL LENGTH, HE WAS AS PROUD AS DAD TO SHOW OFF HIS LONG BODY EVEN WHEN NOBODY WAS AROUND EXCEPT FOR US. I'LL NEVER FORGET THE TRAGIC DAY WE LOST HIM BY A SPEEDING CAR OR SOMEONE ON THEIR CELL PHONE. IF I COULD JUST GET THAT HORRIBLE DAY BACK AND CHANGE IT! I KNOW NOW THAT GOD LOVES YOU TOO. HE NEEDS YOUR DEVOTION AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AS I NEEDED IT. LITTLE DID I KNOW HOW OUR LIVES WOULD CHANGE AND HOW MUCH YOU WOULD BE MISSED. HE TOUCHED SO MANY LIVES, MISS JEWELS, MASTER JACK, RANDY, LORI AND CINDY,AND ALL WHO KNEW HIM AND NOT TO SAY THE LEAST WHO MISS HIM THE MOST,MOM,DAD AND EVEN WEASEL. HE WAS A FREE SPIRIT WITH SO MUCH LIFE IN HIM. IT'S SO SAD HE LEFT US AT 3 YRS. OLD. WE THANK-YOU LESTER FOR COMING INTO OUR LIVES AND BRINGING SO MUCH FULFILLMENT, JOY AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TO ALL OF US. YOU WERE MY SPECIAL FURYBABY CHILD. FOR NOW WE LIVE WITH THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES AND THE TIME YOU GAVE US. TODAY HE IS WITH ALL HIS BROTHERS AND SISTER, SOARS THE SKIES, PLAYS IN THE CLOUDS, CHASES ALL GOD'S CREATURES, LAYS ON GOD'S LAP AND SLEEPS IN GOD'S BED. WE WAIT FOR THE DAY WE MEET YOU IN HEAVEN AND YOU AND ALL YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTER COME RUNNING, LEAP INTO OUR ARMS AND WE WILL ALL CROSS RAINBOW BRIDGE TOGETHER. SADLY MISSED BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN BY ALL THAT LOVED YOU ESPECIALLY MOM AND DAD. YOU LEFT US TOO SOON! P.S BROTHER SAY'S HE WAS GLAD HE WAS WITH YOU UNTIL THE END AND MISSES YOU TOO! 5/28/07 IT IS SUMMER AND COMING UP ON YOUR ANNIVERSARY OF YOUR DEATH JUNE,4,2005. TWO YEARS AND IT STILL FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY. I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY SWEETIE, STILL WISH I COULD CHANGE IT. THE MEMORIES FLOOD MY HEART AND THE TEARS COME WHEN I LEAST EXPECT IT. SOMETIMES WITH LAUGHTER AT ALL THE CRAZY THINGS YOU WOULD DO. BROTHER STILL MISSES YOU. HE HASN'T BEEN THE SAME SINCE YOU LEFT US. YOU KEPT HIM YOUNG AND HE IS SHOWING HIS AGE NOW. I LOVE YOU MY DEAR LESTER. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE WITH ME IN MY HEART. SWEET DREAMS. LOVE MOMMY 06/04/07 IT'S 2 YEARS TODAY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN GONE. I AM RELIVING THAT DAY AND CAN'T STOP THE TEARS. BROTHER PULLED OUT YOUR STRAWS OF THE TOY BOX. I COULD NEVER HAVE A DRINK WITH A STRAW IN IT. YOU ALWAYS HAD TO CHEW ON THEM. JUST ONE OF A THOUSAND MEMORIES. IF TEARS COULD BUILD A STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN I WOULD BE THERE TO BRING YOU HOME. THE PAIN IS AS STRONG TODAY AS IT WAS THE HORRIBLE DAY YOU LEFT ME. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES SWEET BOY LOVE MOMMY 7/08/2007 I ASK GOD EVERY SUNDAY AT MASS TO KEEP YOU SAFE AND GIVE YOU A HUG AND KISS FROM ME AND ALLOW ME TO TO REUNITED WITH YOU WHEN I GET THERE. I MISS YOU SO MUCH SWEETIE, WISH I COULD KISS YOU ONE MORE TIME. LOVE MOM P.S CLIMB EVERY MOUTAIN UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN. 8/30/07 HI SWEETIE, IT'S BEEN AWHILE BUT THINK OF YOU EVERYDAY AND MISS YOU MORE THAN EVER. WE WILL BE MOVING INTO OUR NEW HOME IN A MONTH AND HOW I WISH I WAS TAKING YOU INSTEAD OF YOUR ASHES AND ONLY MEMORIES. IT MAKES ME SMILE THROUGH MY TEARS TO THINK OF THE MISCHIEF YOU COULD INTO. YOU CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE BEEN A HANDFUL SWEETIE. AFTER ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASIER BUT EVERY TIME EVERY DAY A MEMORY REMINDS HOW MUCH YOU MEANT TO ME. KEEP MILO SAFE, I KNOW YOU ARE PLAYING TOGETHER. TIL WE MEET AGAIN I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU, SWEET DREAMS OF OUR GOOD AND SPECIAL TIMES TOGETHER. LOVE MOMMY 9/10/07 HI SWEETIE, I HAVE TO TELL YOU I HAVE GOTTEN SO MANY SYMPATHY CARDS AND E-MAILS FROM SO MANY FRIENDS AT RAINBOW BRIDGE THIS WEEK THAT FEEL MY PAIN AND CARE. I TRIED E-MAILING THEM ALL TO THANK-THEM AND HOPE I DIDN'T LEAVE ANY-ONE OUT. UNCLE DENNY IS VERY SICK AND I FEEL LIKE I'M ON A ROLLER COASTER. I WAS AT OUR NEW HOME LOT TODAY AND IT JUST DIDN'T SEEM THE SAME. WE WILL GET UNCLE DENNY AND AUNT POLLY THERE RIGHT BESIDE US AS IT SHOULD BE TO TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER. I COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK HOW BUSY YOU WOULD KEEP UNCLE DENNY WHEN WE WEREN'T AROUND, THE STORIES HE COULD TELL. I KNOW HE WOULD BE AS BAD AS YOU, WHAT YOU DIDN'T THINK OF HE WOULD. THE TEARS WERE FLOWING WITH LAUGHTER, A QUIET MOMENT ALL BY MYSELF. MAY-BE I SHOULD SUGGEST HIM BABY SITTING YOUR ASHES, IT WILL BE SAFE I THINK. MEMORIES GET ME THROUGH EACH DAY. THERE IS NOT A DAY THAT I DON'T THINK OF YOU MOST WITH A TEAR OR TWO. TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AT RAINBOW BRIDGE THAT ARE LETTING MY MOM KNOW SHE IS NOT ALONE LESTER THANKS YOU. YOU WILL BE FOREVER IN MY HEART AND THOUGHTS, YOU WERE TRULY ONE OF A KIND MY PRECIOUS LESTER LEADBELLY. WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE FOR ONE MORE SUCKLE!!!! LOVE AND KISSES MOMMY 1/25/08 HI SWEETIE. 2007 HAS COME AND GONE AND IT IS 2008, STILL HAVE NOT MOVED INTO OUR NEW HOME. IT WILL BE SOON NOW AND I WILL BE SO SAD TO TAKE JUST YOUR ASHES BUT WILL HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE FOR YOU NEAR ME WHERE I CAN LOOK AT YOU EVERYDAY AND REMEMBER THE WONDERFUL AND UNFORGETABLE MEMORIES YOU GAVE ME IN 3 SHORT YEARS. STILL WISH I COULD TAKE YOU INSTEAD. BROTHER IS GETTING OLDER BECOMING HIGH MAINTANCE. IF YOU WERE STILL HERE HE WOULD BE LOW MAINTANCE, HE MISSES YOU TOO AS I DO. I'M GIVING YOU A MAGNOLIA AS I'M DOING MY HOME IN ONE OF MY FAVORITE FLOWER IN YOUR MEMORY. JUST HAD TO TELL YOU I STILL MISS EVERYDAY AND WILL NEVER FORGET YOU. SWEET DREAMS DARLING. LOVE MOMMY 9/24/08 IT'S BEEN A WHILE BUT EVERYDAY I THINK OF YOU AND WILL NEVER FORGET ALL THE MEMORIES AND LOVE YOU GAVE ME. WE ARE IN OUR NEW HOME AND THINK OF HOW YOU WOULD HAVE LOVED IT HERE AND WOULD HAVE BEEN SAFE. MAKES ME SMILE TO THINK OF THE TROUBLE YOU COULD HAVE AND WOULD HAVE GOTTEN INTO. YOUR ASHES ARE ALWAYS CLOSE BY, IT MAKES ME SAD YOU ARE NOT HERE, BUT A PART OF YOU WILL ALWAYS LIVE ON WITHIN MY HEART. THERE IS NOT A NIGHT THAT I DON'T LOOK UP TO HEAVEN AND KNOW YOU AND I WILL BE TOGETHER SOMEDAY, I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT SPECIAL SUCKLE YOU ALWAYS GAVE ME. YOU WERE SO SPECIAL AND I THANK-YOU FOR COMING INTO MY LIFE FOR A SHORT TIME. YOU LEFT ME TOOOOOOOO SOON. LOVE AND HUGS FROM HEAVEN AND BACK MOM JANUARY 11,2009 MY SWEET LITTLE LESTER TIME GOES ON BUT I MISS YOU AS MUCH TODAY AS THE LAST TIME I SAW AND FELT YOU SO CLOSE TO ME. I THINK OF YOU EVERY DAY AND CAN'T HELP WONDER HOW YOU WOULD HAVE LOVED IT HERE IN OUR NEW HOUSE. BROTHER IS LOST WITHOUT YOU, SOMEDAY I WILL BE READY TO GET ANOTHER YOU BUT FOR NOW I LIVE WITH THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES WE HAD. THE TEARS STILL FALL FROM TIME TO TIME WHEN I THINK OF THE MISCHIEF YOU GOT INTO AND HOW YOU MADE ME SMILE. YOUR PICTURES ARE ON THE WALL WHERE I CAN SEE YOU AT ANY TIME, THE ONE I LOVE THE MOST IS THE ONE WITH THE RAINBOW BRIDGE POEM. I WILL MISS YOU AND LOVE FOREVER MOM 04/26/09 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE YOU WOULD BE 7 YEARS OLD TODAY. I WILL ALWAYS TREASURE THE MEMORIES YOU LEFT WITH ME. THINK OF YOU EVERYDAY. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE AND MISS YOU. MOMMY 6/5/09 YOU HAVE BEEN GONE 4 YEARS. DOESN'T SEEM POSSIBLE THAT I STILL FEEL THE PAIN. THE PAIN IS AS GREAT TODAY AS IT WAS THE DAY I LOST YOU. I HAVE GREAT MEMORIES OF YOUR SISTER AND BROTHERS WHO I LOVED DEARLY BUT YOU WAS MY SPECIAL ONE. I GUESS IT WAS THE SUCKLES YOU GAVE ME. I STILL WISH I COULD HAVE JUST ONE MORE. I THANK GOD FOR THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES YOU HAVE LEFT ME WITH OVER OUR 3 SHORT YEARS TOGETHER. STILL HAVE YOUR ASHES AND KEEPSAKES CLOSE BY AS A REMINDER OF THE LOVE, LAUGHTER, AND MEMORIES YOU GAVE ME. YOUR PICTURE WITH THE RAINBOW BRIDGE POEM IS ON MY WALL AND EVERYTIME I WALK BY IT (WHEN NO ONE IS AROUND I GIVE YOU KISS AND TELL YOU HOW MUCH I MISS YOU, IT OUR SECRET SWEETIE) YOU ARE STILL INCLUDED IN OUR FAMILY PICTURE. I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU SWEETIE. P.S AUNT ETHEL JUST CALLED AND TOLD ME IT WAS OK TO CRY TODAY AND SHE MISSES YOU TOO!!!! UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN HEART. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES SWEET BOY! LOVE MOM 10/04/09 HI SWEETIE, I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M THINKING OF YOU SO OFTEN. I SEE YOUR PICTURE AND YOUR ASHES BESIDE ME DAILY AND STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY THE PAIN DOESN'T GO AWAY. I KNOW THE PAIN WILL GET BETTER, IT'S JUST NOT TODAY. NO MATTER WHAT I DO I THINK OF THOSE SUCKLES AND WISH I COULD GET JUST ONE MORE. WHEN I LOOK AT THE STARS AT NIGHT , THE BRIGHTEST ONE IS YOU LOOKING DOWN ON ME AND WISHING YOU WERE STILL HERE WITH ME. CONTINUE TO SLEEP ON GODS LAP AND MAY-BE GIVE HIM A SUCKLE! I WILL ALWAYS MISS YOU. I WILL LOVE AND TREASURE THE MEMORIES FOREVER. P.S I KNOW BROTHER STILL MISSES YOU, HE HAS BECOME HIGH MAINTANCE. LOVE ALWAYS SWEETHEART MOM 1/20/10 HI SWEETIE, ANOTHER YEAR AND YET I STILL MISS YOU AS MUCH AS THE DAY YOU LEFT ME. BROTHER IS GETTING OLDER, WILL BE 19 Y/O IN MARCH. THERE ARE DAYS I KNOW HE STILL MISSES YOU, HE SEEMS TO BE LOST. I KEEP SAYING I WANT A KITTEN JUST LIKE YOU, BUT IN MY HEART I KNOW I CAN NEVER REPLACE YOU. I LOOK AT YOUR PICTURE AND ASHES EVERYDAY AND STILL WONDER WHY I COULDN'T HAVE SAVED YOU. 5 YEARS YOU HAVE BEEN GONE. STILL DOESN'T SEEM POSSIBLE AND TIMES THE TEARS STILL FLOW WHEN I LEAST EXPECT THEM. I STILL TALK TO FRIENDS ABOUT THE MEMORIES YOU GAVE ME. FOREVER TREASURED. LOVE YOU SWEET GUY. MOM 6/02/10 TODAY IS YOUR 5TH. ANNIVERSARY OF YOUR DEATH, MISS YOU AS MUCH TODAY AS THE DAY I LOST YOU. IT'S BEEN A TEARY DAY. AT TIMES I FEEL THAT SILKY SOFT FUR OF YOURS AND MISS THOSE SUCKLES. LOOK AT YOUR PICTURE AND ASHES NEAR ME AND WISH I COULD BRING YOU HOME. BROTHER IS GETTING OLD, NOW 19 YEARS OLD AND SHOWING HIS AGE. HEARD FROM FATHER AARON. HE NEVER FORGETS YOUR ANNIVERSARY AND LETS ME KNOW THAT MILO IS TAKING GOOD CARE OF YOU, GOD KNOWS YOU NEED IT WITH YOUR FREE SPIRIT. I'M SURE YOU ARE BEST OF FRIENDS. I WAIT FOR OUR REUNION AND THAT SUCKLE AND MILO'S GENTLE KISS. YOU AND MILO WILL ALWAYS HOLD A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART. LOVE MOM JULY 29,2010 HI SWEETIE, TODAY WE HAD PUT BROTHER WEASEL TO SLEEP, HE WAS GETTING SO SICK, NOT EATING AND ONLY DRINKING A LITTLE WATER. HE MADE IT TO 20 YEARS OLD. THE TEARS ARE FLOWING AND HOME IS SO QUIET. I KNOW HE IS WITH YOU IN HEAVEN AND YOU HAVE REUNITED. I KNOW YOU ARE ROMPING TOGETHER IN THE CLOUDS AND SLEEPING IN GODS BED TOGETHER. MY HEART ACHES FOR LOSS OF YOU TWO WONDERFUL FURBABIES WHO BROUGHT SO MUCH JOY AND LAUGHTER IN MY LIFE. YOU ARE BOTH RIGHT BESIDE ME AND EVERY TIME I LOOK AT YOUR ASHES I REMEMBER THE TREASURES MOMENTS WE HAD TOGETHER. GIVE BROTHER A BIG KISS FROM AND TELL HIM I MISS HIM AND WAIT TIL WE UNITE AT RAINBOW BRIDGE AND SLEEP TOGETHER IN HEAVEN. LOVE AND KISSES FROM MOM 12/11/11 HI SWEETIE THINK OF YOU OFTEN, WE KNOW YOU ARE TOGETHER WITH BROTHER, HOPE HE CAN KEEP YOU OUT OF TROUBLE. WE LOST ANOTHER BROTHER MORTIMER ON SEPT. 14,2011 AND STILL HAVE NOT FOUND HIM. PRAY TO ST. ANTHONY EVERY DAY. IF BY SOME CHANCE HE IS WITH YOU, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF HIM AND TELL HIM WE MISS HIM SO MUCH AND WISH HE WOULD COME HOME. MERRY CHRISTMAS, STILL HAVE YOUR TOYS AROUND, CAN'T SEEM TO PART WITH THEM. AS MY TEARS FLOW, KNOW YOU ALL WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART. LOVE MOMMY 6/4/12 HI SWEETIE TODAY IS 7 YEARS SINCE YOU LEFT ME, STILL FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY. THE TEARS ARE FLOWING TODAY, JUST WISH I COULD HAVE THAT ONE MORE SUCKLE ON MY CHIN. YOUR TOYS WILL ALWAYS BE HERE AS A REMINDER OF YOU. I MISS YOU AS MUCH TODAY AS THE DAY YOU LEFT ME. YOUR PICTURE IS RIGHT BESIDE ME. EVERYDAY IT MAKES ME SMILE WITH THE MEMORIES WE HAD. THANK-YOU ROBERT FOR REMEMBERING LESTER EVERY YEAR. STILL HAVE NOT FOUND YOUR BROTHER MORTIMER, IF HE IS WITH YOU AND BROTHER PLEASE TAKE CARE OF HIM, HE WAS A SPECIAL FURBABY LIKE YOU AND BROTHER. LOVE MOMMY

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