PLEASE VISIT MY BROTHER'S SITE:  david-hicks-2007.memory-of.com  LIGHT A CANDLE WHEN YOU VISIT PLEASE.

Christmas 2009 Hope you have a merry christmas in heaven, I miss you

Oct 19, 2009 Hey girlie, sitting at work thinking about you. In 6 days you would have been 21...wow, hard to imagine what you would have looked like as a 21 y/o.  I miss you so much and love you with all my heart.

July 5, 2009 Hi sweetheart...been a long time since I've posted. I am sorry. Today marks your 5th year in heaven. I miss you so very much. I go back to that night 5 years ago. I think maybe if I hadn't told the doctors to stop, maybe you would have gotten okay. I also know the trauma your body took and knew you would never pull out. That was the hardest thing that I have had to do. I know you have your brother and pop there and I miss you all. Ally didn't know you but she is learning all about you as we tell her stories about you all the time. She has some of your things now and knows that they used to be "aunt Rachel's" stuff.  Sometimes I just don't know how to go on, sometimes I just don't want to. Sometimes I feel like it would be better if I join you three there in heaven but it is so hard to leave Ally. She sure misses her daddy too and talks about pop from time to time. Daniel, well hun, I think he has gone on his own way. He wants nothing more to do with me or Mike. I know you see and know all and see what he is doing. There is nothing that we can do to help him at this point. I still stay in contact with your friends, Breanne, Allison and Cassie. They miss you alot! God, I just wish I could turn back time 5 years but I can't. I love you and always will...Mom

December 25, 2008 Merry christmas sweetie. I miss you so very much!!

October 25, 2008  Happy Birthday Rachel. Today you would have turned 20 years old...no longer a teenager, can you believe it?  To me this is a turning point age...you know, no longer a pesky teen but not quit yet an adult.  What would you be doing if you were still here?  I do miss you so very much and I also miss David and your pop.  I am glad though that you have them there to help you celebrate. I have decided to not work tonight. I know sitting home alone isn't the best thing to do but Mike can't take off so I must do this alone.  I just wish that I could feel your presence, and David's.  I love you so very much that it hurts so very bad. Let me see you guys in my dreams today, if I sleep, ok?

July 5, 2008,  Rachel, you have been gone for 4 years today.  Last night, your pop came to be with you and David.  I will miss him dearly but glad that you two could be there for him.  Every day that goes by I miss both you and David.  Now I miss your pop as well.  Please take care of him.  I love you all so much.

Jan 1 2008  I guess that I should wish you a happy new year...I don't feel much like celebrating a new year.  I miss you so badly!!
 
October 25, 2007  Happy Birthday Rachel.  You would have been 19 today.  I wish that I was back home to visit you today.  You are always in my heart.  I know that you have David there so you have someone to celebrate today with.  I miss you and David so much.  Life just isn't the same here without you two.  Daniel wants to visit with you today but won't be able to get out there.  Just know that you are in all our hearts.  I Love You Rachel....mom

July 5, 2007  It has been 3 years since I last saw you. I miss you so much.  You now have your brother in heaven.  I just don't think that I can understand why God had to have you and David. I hope someday to forgive Him for taking you two. I love you both and would give anything to have ya'll here with me.  Love, Mom.

            
          
    October 25, 2006                             
 Today you would have been 18 years old, a senior looking forward to her prom, graduation and life as an "adult". We miss you so very much but I want you to see what others are sending to you on this page. For all you guys, thank you so much. Today is so hard. Seeing these beautiful pictures and words help so much. God bless you all! Rachel, your pop is going to have to put Foxy to sleep, please play with her. Remember how she  liked to play in the floor and run with you outside? Take care of her. I love you my sweet angel. Mom

                   
                                  This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Rachel Hicks who was born in Arkansas on October 25, 1988 and passed away on July 05, 2004 at the age of 15. We will remember her forever. It has been a year now and I think that I can start adding to this.  Rachel lived life to the edge.  She started hanging with the wrong people and starting running away, using drugs attempted suicide twice.  She had gone to visit her dad in Michigan, came back and decided that she wanted help.  She found a drug rehab and wanted us to look into it after July 4th holiday.  She then wanted to go on and become a counselor for other teens.  She was killed in a car accident on the 5th of July.  She was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car.  I had preached to her about wearing a seatbelt so often.  I told her what I saw as I worked as an emergency room nurse.  I do not understand why this happened when it looked like she had finally got things going straight.  Rachel was born on October 25, 1988.  She was such a beautiful baby.  When she was 18 months old, I gave birth to her brother Daniel.  She also had a big brother, David, who was 4 years older than her.  We started calling her mama hen because of how she mothered Daniel even at such a young age.  I remember when she was in kindergarten, the teacher would have to get onto her because Rachel would try to run the class!  She would remind the teacher when it was snack time, rest time, etc.  Rachel had a jungle gym outdoors and was swinging by the bars when she could barely run.  She started gymnastics when she was about 8 years old and had advanced to preteam level within the first few months.  She was in competitions then.  She was always a free spirit and did not care what people thought of her or how she dressed.  Before her death, she had a pair of lounge pants, oversize shirt and leopard house slippers that she would often wear to the store if she so minded to!  Her stepdad and I would tell her that she couldn't go in the store like that and she would tell "let someone say something about how I am dressed!  We'd laugh and watch her march in the store like she owned it.  There is so much that I can say about my daughter but I will stop here for now.  I hope to add more to her life story later. Thank you for reading about my daughter.
August 24, 2005  This is a poem that was given to me by Rachel's friend, Brianne.  I feel that it deserves a spot here.                                        
                               

Rachel-Our Lost Friend
Taken away so quickly

Rachel-Our Lost Friend
Thrown about like a doll
Her spirit now brightly shines
She lives in us all
So small
Yet with a heart so big
I cannot forget her face
Now her friendship that still lives
I still see her lying on the table
All broken and bruised
And I stop to think
This could not have been what she would choose
Her body is not alive
But I see her soul every day—
the clouds, the sun
the moon and the stars—
"As free As A Bird Now”
In Heaven looking down
I still hear that laugh
It fills the air all around
I know she’ll still come and see me
But I still can’t help but say
Why did she have to be taken away
From the car that day?

 Written by Brianne Wheeler

  

1-1-06 I have been able to get a couple of pictures of Rachel on here.  Hope to do more.  This holiday season has been really tough.  Rachel, I miss you so very much.  I miss your laugh, Mike misses getting on to you for staying in the fridge so much! ha  I hope to get a couple of your favorite songs on here so be patient with me.  I miss you and love you.  Keep watching over us. Love, mom.