9:39pm 11-05-2023

Laurie & Dennis

Happy 30th Birthday Evan!!

My how quickly time passes ~ here we are another year later and it’s your 30th birthday and yet it just feels so fresh that you were just here with us….

Lots of medical “stuff” has been going on since my last note in July… as you already know your mom & dad have had some big health issues (especially your dad.. I’m glad you put a bug in Gods ear that he still has work to do here & thankful that his surgery turned out so well). I’ve had some minor surgery (compared to the last few… lol), but we are still awaiting the results ~ which seem to take forever. We’re praying things are still okay. Maybe with alittle of yours, grandmas & Gods help everything will be ok & we can make some progress on my trigger point injections so I can get some relief & at least take the edge off of the pain and make life more bare able.

AbbE & Angel have their health issues as well ~heart problems, kidney disease, sever osteoarthritis, possible cancer, huge hematoma. Ugh! I’m so tired of medical problems.

Your folks had to put Molly to rest and that was hard on them too…14 yrs old…that’s a long time. Grandpa lost his pup as well, but God brought him home on his own terms. So now you have lots of 4 legged friends to play with these days! Bet you’re having a ball & grandma is happy to have her puppy back with her! MissE, Rocky, Buddy & Molly!! What a party!! 🐾🎈🐾

On a good note, your mom took a nice buck bow hunting ~ bet you had a big smile on your face when you saw that! And now that their cabin is just about complete, you’ll have to visit and share some special moments there with mom & dad. They need new memories to fill the cabin.

Your brothers & sisters are holing their own…All your nieces & nephews are growing like weeds! Guess that’s what makes me feel old some days…..that was just you…and things you did, and now another generation is doing a lot of those same things. Time stops for no man… or so they say. Send down a touch of the fountain of youth so uncle Dennis & I don’t feel quite so old, okay? ~ lol.

Better close this up so you can go enjoy your party day! We love & miss you more than words can describe. Give everyone BIG HUGS & kisses from us

Love you Evan! Happy 30th Birthday!
We miss you!
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis

12:00am 07-08-2023

Laurie & Dennis

Hi Evan,
Another Angel day without you… just doesn’t get easier, but thank God, it hasn’t gotten worse. I pray that you’re having a wonderful time in heaven! It’s difficult to imagine the beauty and all the love that surrounds you. I’m so glad that you’re there so you can keep an eye on our MissE & Rocky and they are being well taken care of by you and grandma. ❤️

There hasn’t been tons of exciting news or activity going on around here…I’m finally out of my body brace as of late April (in it 3 yrs 2+ months) ~ I feel like a piece of spaghetti. I know ~ you’re chuckling to yourself…Aunt Laurie looking like a stick person with a squiggly line for her middle area. Lol Physical therapy says it’ll get better with time…I hope they’re are right.. I go back down to Milw next week for the neurosurgeon to review my neck & discuss my back pain.
Uncle Dennis is starting to show his age too ~ neither of us are spring chickens anymore.

As you know, Kristen had a baby boy last Nov ~ Bauer David….so that makes you an uncle once again and he was born very close to your birthday on 11/10/22. He’s a cute little peanut, even has pretty red hair, just like yours AND they also adopted a fox red lab named Ruby ~ she fits her name. We haven’t met her yet, but she looks beautiful in the pics Kristen has sent me. And Landen has grown even more and now he can legally drive a car! Can’t believe how fast time flies. Courtney had her lung collapse again … which was a big scare! Your mom & dad started building a cabin at their land, but we haven’t seen it other than pics… bet you would’ve had fun pounding some nails in! And the last news I know is (hopefully, it’s permanent), grandpa got his hearing back since his fall last Oct, so that was very good news!

Just wanted to let you know we are thinking about you today ~ always know you’re loved, missed and never forgotten!

You’ll be forever missed and loved!!!!
Love you sweetheart,
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis

11:49pm 11-05-2022

Laurie & Dennis

Happy Birthday Evan!

My goodness how time flies… I hope you’re having fun there with grandma, MissE, and Rocky! I sure do miss all of you!

Uncle Dennis brought me home from the hospital last night… So I’m pretty sore, that’s an understatement ~ extremely very sore! Lol but you and your birthday have been on my mind all week.

Thought with Kristen being due 10/30/2/ and now at 41 weeks, I think it would have been awesome if she had delivered on your birthday, but doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. Guess that’s ok, then you get to have your own special day!

Everyone in the family seems to be doing OK, some better than others but that’s life. Your mom and dad have gotten a good start on their cabin up at the land. I’m sure you would’ve loved going there, but I’m sure you’re watching from up above.

We just wanted to wish you a happy 29th birthday! And pray that you’re happy with Jesus showing all the most fun things to do there!

Enjoy your day Evan!!
We love & miss you every day!
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis

3:54am 07-07-2022

Laurie & Dennis

7/6/22

Hi Evan,
Another angel anniversary (big sigh)… This makes 22… Just seems like the years go so much quicker and yet in other respects it stand still.

Covid caught Uncle Dennis & I this past Dec… the docs are calling us long haulers ~ I still can’t taste or smell worth a diddly. You became an uncle again to Weston’s little guy on Mar 24th (he has your first name)… we’ve only seen his birth pic. Grandpa has had his share of heart issues & surgeries & your mom has her never ending skin cancer issues & just had surgery on her knee… Drew is still struggling with his health ~ just wish they could figure out what is going on. Courtney seems to be holding her own (fingers crossed) but I don’t hear much from her or Nick. Leni, has had a couple surgeries, but has done very well! I finally was released from my back brace but I’m having my next back surgery in a few weeks with another to follow in a month or so…we shall see. I pray these stabilize my spine.
BUT on a positive note… (which I know you probably already know)… Kristen is expecting a new niece or nephew to come late Oct! I know it probably wouldn’t sit well with some of the family, but I think it would be cool to share your birthday!! Lol

We think of you so often but thought of you so much this past weekend over the 4th when we were up north & out in the boat & kayak and saw butterflies & dragonflies ~ we miss you Evan! I wish we could’ve taken you out in the boat with us as you grew up, but I guess we have to settle for you watching from above.

Thinking of you & missing you sooo much Evan! Please give grandma, MissE & Rocky big hugs & kisses for me!

Love you!
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis
♥️

8:57pm 11-05-2021

Laurie & Dennis

Happy 28th Birthday Evan!
It’s been a rough week of funerals & angel birthdays ~ I know you probably don’t mind, but it’s so difficult to say goodbye to friends and remember & miss you.

Things have been crazy as usual around here… uncle Dennis & I had several ticks embedded this year and it finally took its toll and uncle Dennis came down with Lymes disease & 3 different tick borne diseases as well that landed him in the ER & also a hospital stay… I know you were watching out for him especially when he was set to come home and his heart stopped beating and all the nurses came running with the crash cart! Just like on tv! He’s doing fair… I don’t think the antibiotics have completely knocked it out, so I guess we’ll see on the 12th. I’m still dealing with back issues & still in my “turtle shell”… Hailyn & Lily thought it was definitely interesting that my body is so hard ~ lol. My neck is bad & my kidneys could use a little Angel dust to heal them up as well as my brittle bones…guess we’ll see what they look like come Dec. send a little luck our way, okay!?

Congratulations on being an uncle again!!!! As you already know, Kristen & Andrew had a baby boy, Aug 5th, and named him after you, Tyne Evan Nickelatti! He is a sweetheart! I’m sure you’re watching over him just like you do with all your other nieces & nephews!

Thank you for the beautiful gift you gave me for your birthday ~ you must’ve helped grandma’s Christmas cactus blossom early ~ just for your day! Thank you! I needed the pick me up!

We have been bow hunting ~ and seen several nice bucks, but they were too far to risk the shot. Landen got a nice 8pter during bow hunting & Owen got a spiker in the youth gun hunt. Rumor has it your dad got a 9pter last week? but we haven’t seen any pictures.

Better close this up, I just wanted to wish you a very happy birthday and to let you know you are thought of all the time and we miss you so very much!

Love you,
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis
💝💔💝

11:59pm 07-06-2021

Laurie & Dennis

Hey Evan!
Just thought I’d drop in and say hi… Today makes 21 years since you passed away… And it sucks! I would love to have something inspiring to share with you but I don’t. We were up at the cabin this past weekend and the daisies and the butterflies were out and it was just beautiful and I couldn’t get you out of my mind. It reminds me of so many times in the of past years gone by ~ I don’t know where they go but I cannot believe that this makes 21 years and it is still disbelief to me that you are no longer here.

As you probably know grandpa has had some difficulties with his heart and had some major surgery done to replace a valve… I’m sure you were probably over seeing his surgery as it was a very scary one and I know that even though he never used the word terrified, he was terrified to do the surgery. Thankfully, everything turned out well.

Drew has had more than his share of health issues… I pray you can talk to God and ask him to please heal him so that he can live a happy life without being in so much pain, breathing difficulties, and having all of these crazy reactions that make him so miserable. Amanda broke her ankle and thankfully that also is pretty much mended now. And happy news for him and Amanda and Landen… They broke ground for their new house this past weekend. I’m so proud of them considering all of the health issues that they have been dealing with.

I am sure that Kristen has already shared with you that you’re going to be an uncle again! Real soon!! We weren’t able to make it to Hailyn’s birthday party, but some of the pictures she shared of Emmett ..oh my gosh!.. there’s so much resemblance of you in him.

Courtney has had more than enough problems with her lung collapsing & it’s pretty scary… We are all hoping that this last surgery took care of the problem. So as much as I keep asking of you to talk to God ~ please add her to your list so that she stays healthy and that she does not have any more issues.

We both know that your mom has been dealing with more than enough issues with the skin cancer, I hope that you can bend Gods ear a little on that as well so that she can get that under control and not be so miserable.

Knock on wood uncle Dennis and I are hanging in there. I’m still in my back brace as my bones are not healing as quickly and as well as they should be… This makes 1 1/2 years being in this body cast… it is definitely old! The puppies are getting older they both turned six and I dread the fact that they are getting older… It’s too bad that they don’t live as long as people do but then again you didn’t live as long as we would’ve loved for you to have been around. I guess you did a lifetime of loving all in one short time and that’s what our four-legged family does with us.
Gives us all the love that we need in a short period of time.

I guess I better close, we miss you so much Evan and truly wish that you were here. I hope that you’re happy and you’re keeping grandma, MissE and Rocky company.

We love you very much,
Aunt Laurie and Uncle Dennis

9:57pm 11-05-2020

Laurie & Dennis

Hi Evan! Happy 27th Birthday!
Oh my gosh!!!.... Wow! Another birthday! Boy am I getting old!

What a crazy year...pandemic, riots, looting, mandatory masks (which I could see you liking only because you would’ve thought they were fun & you probably would’ve had a ton of different ones to wear), social distancing, goofy election, sports with no fans, and school with no schools or kids ~ lol...
You & grandma must be laughing & shaking your heads at all the shenanigans! It has been crazy!!

We’ve keep busy up at the cabin putting in a lawn for the pups to play in and planting some treats for the deer to come & munch on. You’d like it... we have Fred & Fredette (the turkeys that visit us on a regular basis), and a doe & her 2 fawns that like to wander thru, as well as a couple bucks that hang around & play hide n’ seek in the windows!

Today you were really on my mind as we had to take Angel back down to Madison to have her checked out by a second specialist at the veterinary school…(tons of tests & now we have to wait for the results). You would’ve loved it! All the different animals coming there to get treated. What a combination of pets!! And a K-9 police dog that was soooo cool! Please put in a good word for both our pups ~ AbbE & Angel are not 100% and Angel needs the most attention right now and I’m selfish as I don’t want to loose another pup. MissE has Rocky and you to play with for now and the girls need each other so they just need to get better and stay together and stay healthy!

Uncle D had eye surgery on both eyes, and I’m still in my body brace till at least February... boy is that getting very old!

Please ask God to look after Drew as he’s still not doing great and getting sad about not being able to do the things he loves! And Kristen & her crew are currently battling the Covid virus ~ they could all use alittle help from above & I know you’re just the guy to make sure it happens.

We miss & love you very much Evan! I pray you & grandma are looking out for each other and all of us!

Happy Birthday Ev!
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis

12:03am 07-07-2020

Laurie & Dennis

Hi Evan,
Just Aunt Laurie wanting to reach out to you and let you know how much you are missed! 20 years and it still feels horrible inside knowing that you are not here for us to hold you and touch you. I don’t know where the time goes… Just seems like yesterday…

A few things have changed since we last chatted in November… I’ve had a couple surgeries with some cancer scares, fortunately they were abnormal/pre-cancerous so that’s good! The world seems to have gone crazy with this goofy Covid-19 virus & a ton of rioting and protesting. Just seems like the world is not a happy place to be right now. I think you and grandma, my MissE & Rocky and all of the rest of our loved ones that are there with you are in a much better place than we are right now.

I pray that you’re having a good time and enjoying your visit with Jesus. Please say hi to grandma for me… I miss her terribly these days ~ along with my puppies. Just remember we love you very much and we miss you even more!

With all our love,
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis

11:39pm 11-05-2019

Laurie & Dennis

Hi Evan!
Happy 26th Birthday! Wow! How times flies! I have no clue how it seems to fly by & yet it seems like such a short time ago we were celebrating your last birthday here with us....we miss you...even though you aren’t physically here we still think of you so often.

It’s been a difficult few months lately ...We lost several friends from an explosion, going through a cancer scare (that I’m not out of the woods from yet), uncle Dennis still trudging along with his bad back and yesterday being told that my latest back fusion didn’t take...Drew had his back surgery about a month ago as well & I’m worried for him that he doesn’t end up like me. Please mention to God that he has so much more to do in life ~ he needs to make happy memories pain free ~ he needs his back to heal up properly!

We’ve actually been able to use the cabin and see some beautiful sights and birds and especially butterflies! We were able to watch some caterpillars spin their magic and turn into beautiful monarch butterflies! We watched them eat their way through a ton of milkweed plants and then crawl up and attach to the front & sides of the cabin. What an awesome front row seat to see the beauty of nature right in front of our eyes! God’s gift to us that life goes on, and even during the changes, we grow into something so beautiful and unexpected that it takes your breath away! But I’m guessing you have front row seats to all these wonderful moments!

Evan, if you were here I would wish you the very best life has to offer you for your birthday, but I’m sure you already have the best of everything in heaven! Please give grandma a hug from me, and love up my MissE & Rocky ~ I miss them all terribly...Just know you are not forgotten and we will continue to love & miss you!

We love you Evan!
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis

6:29pm 07-06-2019

Laurie & Dennis

Hi Evan!
Another Angel day anniversary... makes me sad to think that this is now 19 years without you. How unbelievably fast the time has passed and how much has changed.

You got another one of our baby's with you this year... As I’m sure you, MissE and grandma have already greeted Rocky… January 11, 2019. He came to join all of you in heaven. It was a very sad day, those that don’t have real kids just don’t understand that our pups are our kids. I am just so glad that you were there to play ball with MissE & now Rocky! It really wasn’t his time but Dr. Sue & Dr Jeff said that the poison from the neighbor last fall is what probably did him in… So I am so glad that he is now by you and no longer in pain or miserable. I know you’re gonna love his snuggly fur and his calm soothing comfort. I know grandma is enjoying him!

You show yourself one we really need it… Between you, the pups and grandma we get so many signs from heaven, thank you for that. As I’m writing this I just had a butterfly float by my knee, a hummingbird about a foot and a half from me and the daisies are out like crazy. Such wonderful signs from heaven and all of you guys.

We’re finally able to stay at the cabin. Hopefully, the water will be inside the cabin this next week and we will have running water! It is so beautiful up here to see nature and all of its glory. Last night I took a shower in the rain, you would’ve loved it! I would have definitely held up to my “crazy Aunt Laurie” name… But it was fun and it felt so good! And then we wake up in the morning to deer about 5 yards from the porch…

Otherwise not a lot else is new around here… I’m still having back and neck issues, I thought this summer I would really be able to enjoy it but they have found some other problems. Just can’t seem to win. Uncle Dennis is having some major issues with his back as well, he needs surgery and is absolutely scared to have it done, considering everything that I’ve been through, I can understand him being paranoid. So we shall see when and if that will happen anytime soon. Talk to God, would you? We really could use a little bit a help with the health issues.....

We don’t see much of your brothers and sisters or mom and dad or grandpa for that matter… So I really can’t fill you in there. We were able to see them at your nephew Landen’s 12th birthday party. Kristen‘s newest little one, Leni, is so cute! Somehow I can picture you holding her on your knee and bouncing her up-and-down. Lol I don’t know why that comes to mind, but I could just see you doing it and watching both of you laugh.

I suppose I better close this up, I just wanted you to know that we we’re both thinking of you on your angel day and that we miss you very, very much!

With all our love & missing you so much,
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis

6:48pm 11-05-2018

Laurie & Dennis

Hey Evan!
Happy 25th Birthday! Wow! That’s a milestone! We just celebrated Emmett‘s 5th birthday on Saturday… He reminds me so much of you! I wish you were here to see your nieces and nephews grow up. But I am sure that you are watching them from above and keeping a close eye on them. Would’ve been nice to of been able to be outdoors for a little while for his party, but it’s been so cloudy, dreary, windy, rainy & cold ~ kind of fits my mood these days. I hope that you’re enjoying your birthday up in heaven. I hope that grandma and MissE gave you an awesome party to remember your special day.

Well I did have my second major surgery this summer… So by my tally ~ just this summer alone..will put me over the million dollar mark for the year. Boy, there sure are a whole lot of other ways that I would’ve enjoyed spending that kind of money and having a healthy body to be able to be able to do whatever I wanted to. There is a possibility I’ll have some other surgery this year pending some diagnostic tests in a couple of weeks… That has me a little spooked. Uncle D must be spooked as well as he doesn’t really wanna talk to me about it and there’s not really anybody else to share with… So I guess you’re it That’s ok, our secret.

Since your birthday, we did make quite a bit more progress on the cabin up north. It’s getting very ~ very close to being done (except the outside landscaping, except I fear it’s going to be too cold and too difficult to actually get up to it during the winter. But we have several areas that I guarantee you would’ve loved sledding down the hills on! I still remember one of the last times that we went sledding with you and the family at yours and grandma and grandpa‘s property. I can still picture you in your Green Bay Packer winter outfit and your red rosy cheeks when you came in from being outside and we were all in the teepee trying to warm up! That was a very fun day!

We had a major scare with Rocky about a month ago… Our stupid neighbor poisoned him with mice/rat poison shoved in hotdogs… all because he ate a few of his stupid cherry tomatoes. I thought for sure that we were going to lose him… That we were going to have to put him down on grandma‘s angel day. Since then he slowly gotten better. Not 100% but better.

Grandpa took another tumble and ended up in the hospital with a fractured wrist and a cracked eyesocket. Thank goodness that your mom takes such good care of him…as I have not been much help with all of my surgeries. I guess God does provide for those who are in need (and it’s also a distraction for her due to your younger brother Weston, who is been a bit of a pain in the hinder). Please ask God to keep an eye on him… He is a troubled young soul that just doesn’t know his way and needs a little extra guidance.

Well I hope you’re having a great day! Please tell grandma and MissE that I miss them very much!

Happy birthday again Evan! We miss you very much!
With all our love,
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis

11:09pm 07-06-2018

Laurie & Dennis

Hey Evan,
Another year without you... uncle Dennis & I were just saying in the truck today that neither of us could believe it’s been 18 yrs since you left us. We just can’t believe how this much time has passed and where has it gone? and yet sooo much has changed in all this time. I imagine it only feels like a blink of an eye to you...and yet it feels so fresh in our hearts...

As you already know, (I’m sure)... you’re going to be an uncle again! Emmett & Hailyn are going to have a little brother or sister and are very excited!

Grandpa is still having heart issues and you know your dad just had some surgery again yesterday… Those goofy kidney stones just keep coming back ~ if only they were diamonds! They cost as much ~ considering surgery charges… and me well… I’m probably going to be the bionic woman by the time I see you again… I am so tired of surgeries. I get to see the neurosurgeon again this next week and see what he has to say about doing my neck now that the back has been done again. Funny, 18 years ago the blue brace that I was wearing for your funeral I now use as a back up brace to the new brace that I have… Talk about things going around full-circle.

We are finally moving forward with the cabin even though it’s scaring the crap out of me as to how we’re going to cover all of the medical bills and still build it. The last couple times that we’ve been up there we’ve seen so many butterflies and today I was in tears because of all of the daisies and butterflies flying around.

We know you’re near... just keep an eye out for all of us, will you!?! We miss you lots and think of you more often than you can imagine.

We love you Evan! And miss you so very much!
Aunt Laurie & Uncle Dennis

8:52am 07-06-2018

Christopher's mommy

Dear Sue - You and your family are very much in my thoughts and prayers today as you remember your precious Angel Evan on his Heaven day.
love and hugs,
maria
Christopher's mommy forever

11:14pm 11-05-2017

Laurie & Dennis

Hi Evan ~ Happy 24th Birthday!

You’ve been on my mind ALOT lately...last night I had a dream and you were in it! Thank you for stopping in and checking on usl...can’t remember much, but you, grandma & even MissE were in it. It was like a present for me even though it’s your day! It was sooo very nice to see you all.

We’ve only hunted once this year, so I can’t share any deer hunting stories with you. We do have a set of twin bucks that we’ve been watching grow all summer... a “low ten” & “high nine” plus one we call “crooked horn”. I know, you’d laugh at us for naming them and I’m sure you’d have come up with some better names than those, but at least we can tell them apart.

We did some excavating on the land, but it looks like we’ll be waiting to put anything up till spring ~ we can’t even get the trailer up the hill cause it’s so wet and mushy. Guess we may be bringing it home since we told the campground we were leaving. Just wish I had a crystal ball sometimes so I knew we were making the right decisions. I miss talking to grandma and at least running it by her for her input. If you wouldn’t mind, could you tell her? Let her know I’m struggling ~ maybe send a sign that it’s going to be ok, and that I don’t need to worry about how we’re going to finance everything and that she’s proud? I know your mom would be proud of you too for listening and just being here for us. She misses you sweetheart...she puts on a good show, but I know both your folks miss you.

Which leads me to having you talk to God about your dad...he’s having some very serious health issues and he’s scared. I know that the rest of the family needs him and is very worried, so please ask God to take care of him. Nick could use some support as well since his stroke. You know he’s doing pretty good, but he could use you in his corner ~ just like he’d have been in yours.

Hope you enjoyed your “cheeseburger no pickles” Birthday party that Kristen and her crew brought up to you for your birthday tonight. I loved how the kiddos sang you happy birthday and she shared the video with me! You are still a large part of all our lives!

We miss you and love you very much Evan!
Always in our hearts

6:23pm 11-05-2017

Christopher's mommy

Dear Sue - You and your family are very much in my thoughts and prayers today as you remember your precious Angel Evan on his birthday.
love and hugs,
maria
Christopher's mommy forever

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