The Philnetwork

May 8th 2018, it's been 14 years that we lost our son Philip James Donovan. What an inspiring young man, he brought a smile to your face even when you were mad at him. Growing up he would do some off the wall goofy stuff and video it, this reminds me of one time him and Trevor Culp had each a 5lbs bag of flour to flour someone's house but ended up having a flour fight with each other. The other day I was going through some music and ran across a song that Sean Jenkins, Steve Daugherty, and Josh made so I played it. He had some great friends that became our friends and family. As time goes by and we get older, we move on and grow our family. I want you all to know you all are still in our hearts and love you all no matter what state you are in.

May 8th 2016 It's been 12 years now and it's still hard to deal with, so this year we decided to be selfish and go camping on this date. Not really to be selfish cause Phil loved to camp also, so this is for him and for us. To this day it is still real hard to except his death mostly the way it happened, we miss him dearly I'm sure everyone that has met him or in that case heard of him feels some of the pain we do. We don't want you to feel sorry or us but to share his life,... his happiness, his joking around, his caring, his helping people who need it, to spread all of his good traits to those who needs it, even those who don't. I feel that if you help one person a day without expecting anything in return , you will get a reward in the future from someone else. Can you imagine if we all do that and others do it also and it grows and grows what this life changing experience could do? I want to welcome all the new people that has joined the philnetwork , it is an open group so you can post words of encouragement or ask questions... Thank you all for being you... LIFE IS GREAT Richard and Gerrie

May 8th 2015 it has been 11 years that our son was taken from us, although he is still with us every day in our hearts and minds we still miss his physical body. Memories is all we have and as time goes by and we get older we relive the great times we had, kind of funny how most of the time we remember just the good times and hardly any of the bad. We see a lot of his characteristics in our grandchildren which is a great thing to see he lives on, as they do these things we sh...out out Phil did that... The Philnetwork is still here and is still growing with new faces young and old, babies are being born from all the fine young adults that knew Phil, it is a great pleasure to have met all of those that knew Phil and to keep in touch with us, to be a part of there new families as they grow. Memories are a great thing to have and sharing all those memories is fun too, how one person remembers one thing as the other remembers something else. I remember one time when I was getting ready for work, I was just getting out of the shower when Phil knocked on the door cause he had to use the bathroom, I opened the door and asked him if he had to go so bad that his back teeth were floating? he says WHAT? so i asked him again, "do you have to go so bad that your back teeth are floating?" he says "whatever", so I go to the bedroom to get dressed and Gerrie is just waking up still groggy from sleeping yells at me "WHO IS BECKY FULTON" I say, "what? who?" she says "WHO IS BECKY FULTON? YOU WERE JUST TALKING TO HER IN THE HALLWAY..." I start to laugh and say "no I was just asking Phil if his back teeth were floating" Gerrie was a little bit more awake now as we both start laughing... to this day we still laugh at this and share this memory... Anyways we would like to thank everyone of you who is a part of our Philnetwork family ... we love you all no matter what... Richard aka Wildomar Pops Gerrie aka Wildomar Mom the Parents

July 9th 2014: Today is Philip's birthday, he would have been 30 years old. We miss you son and always will. The joys and spirit live on through the love he shared to all his friends and family. Live life to its fullest cause life is great... PJD in my heart forever...

May 8th 2014: this is the 10 year mark that changed our lives forever, as you all know our son and your friend was taken from us on may 8th 2004. it was and still is hard to fathom that this has happened but it did and we have to deal with it everyday. we want to thank everyone of you for your support and love that you share with us, as you know our house is open to all and we will not turn anyone away that want to share, hang out, cry, talk about anything that is on there m...inds, work on a project, feel that they are in a funk, or just want to expand there horizons, that means even you can come over. if you do come over and bring a friend that friend becomes part of " The Philnetwork". if you feel your friendship with your friend is over because of some reason that doesn't mean that there friendship with us is over and shouldn't dictate to us who we can have as friends. Phil was a loving person caring person who had alot of friends and and some of those friends didn't like some of his other friends, that didn't mean he would defriend the ones they didn't like he would just hang out with them at different times. So if you feel like not being my friend because of someone else, then so be it, but remember this you are still and always be our friend and part of our family. Some of you have moved out of state, some of you have made your own families, and the rest of you are still deciding what your going to do, we are so proud of you for all of your hard work you have done for yourselves. it is great to see the growth of your lives and how you got there, little bumps and hurdles, twists and turns, dips and valleys, follow your dreams and reaching for the stars. life is great... The Philnetwork Wildomar Dad Wildomar Mom