This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Christina Marie (Lamphier) Steinman who was born in New York on December 31, 1980 and passed away on March 28, 2005 at the age of 24. We will remember her love  forever.  
 
               
Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

To all who visit her here, please light a candle. You can't imagine the comfort it brings to know she was thought of today by you.

 

Love is like a butterfly,
it goes where it pleases
and it pleases where ever it goes. 
             

    


Peace Dove

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
~ R. H. Heinlein



      May the wings of the Butterfly kiss the sun
       and find your shoulder to light on.
     To bring you luck, happiness and riches,
                         Today, tomorrow and beyond.                


Sometimes Love is for a Moment,
   Sometimes love is for a Lifetime.         
 
Alaskan Nights
March 15, 2003
Michael Lewis Steinman to Christina Marie Lamphier

            

     


 







Christina Marie Steinman
US ARMY




One of the many things I will miss is getting a card just because.



It would bring me more joy than I can say, if you would never forget
-not even for a single day-
How Wonderful you are...
in my eyes and in my heart.
I am so often at a loss to find the words 
to tell you how much you mean to me.
In my imagination, I compare you with
things like the Sunshine in my mornings,
The most Beautiful flowers in the fields,
and
The Happiness I feel from being Blessed by knowing
YOU.
You were the answer to a special prayer.
I think God knew that my world needed
Someone 
exactly 
like 
YOU.











 A Tribute to the Goldfish of Alaska


Footprints in the Sand

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each, I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints; other times there was only one.

During the low periods of my life I could see only one set of footprints, so I said "You promised me, Lord, that you would walk with me always. Why, when I have needed you most, you have not been there for me?"

The Lord replied, "The times when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you."


 This poem gave Christina hope and made her smile ~:)



The day you came into my life, everything changed.
Not only did God bring you to me, He also brought me to you.
Thank you 
for making me feel so special.
no one had made me feel that way before.
I will always be
grateful
that we cared so very much.
Always remember

 I LOVE YOU

with all my heart.





BUTTERFLY

Spread your wings and prepare to fly
for you have become a Butterfly.
Fly abundantly into the sun.
If you should return to me,
we were truly ment to be.
So spread your wings 
and fly
Butterfly.
~:~
M. Carey



One hundred hugs from our hearts to yours.

We send this special Hug because we can't be there to hold you... 

 and whisper how much we care.


As I look at the Many stars that twinkle in the Heavens above,

I wonder if the brightest one is
 
YOU....

Reminding me of what it means to

LOVE.



We Celebrate the Day You Were Born
Into This World

New Years Eve 1980

BUTTERFLY IN THE WIND

A child is like a butterfly in the wind.
Some can fly higher than others,
But each flies the best it can.
Why compare one against the other?
Each one is different.
Each one is special.
Each one is Beautiful.


We Celebrate Your Life
1st Year Angelversary
March 28th 2006

A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam....
and for a brief moment,
it's glory and beauty belong to our world....
but then it flies on again, and although
we wish it could've stayed,
we are so thankful to have seen it at all.


How do I say Good Bye to what we had?
The good times that made us laugh, I wave Good bye.
I'd thought we'd get to see forever, but forever's gone away.
It's so hard to say Good Bye to yesterday.
I don't know where the road is going to lead.
All I know is where we've been and what we've been through.
If we get to see tomorrow, I hope it's worth all the pain/LOVE.
It's so hard to say Good Bye to yesterday.
And I take with me the memories to be my sunshine after the rain. 
It's so hard to say Good Bye to yesterday.



A message From Christina Marie


Do not stand at my grave and forever weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the Autums gentle rain.
When you awaken in the mornings hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds circled in flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there. 
I did not die.

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

~ ;) Love, Christina

 
Happiness lies for those who cry,
Those who hurt,
Those who have serched,and
Those who have tried.
For only they can
appreciate
the importance
of people
who have
touched
their
lives.