her son, kaden, the boy who had just played the drums at his school concert was just 13. and just like that, they were gone. the crash was head-on. and in school counselor jason thompson's life, the lights went out. >> that night of that realization, i'll never forget that, that news. >> nor, of course, will erin's mother, diana. >> we were both just bonkers, just -- oh. >> or her sister, amber, who with david, her husband, missed erin so much, they'd made plans to move to montana to be close. not possible now. >> that was the hardest -- the hardest piece of news we could fathom. >> and to lose both of them and the baby, it just didn't even seem like it could be real. >> and here in the little house he shared with the love of his life, where he'd been waiting with such excitement for their baby to arrive, jason like job of old, was overcome by the heaviest sorrow of a whole life of sorrows. >> it's like i'm 9 years old, you know, and 79 when my sister dies, and then i'm 19 years old at 89 when my mother dies of cancer. then now i'm 39 in '09, and i lose my family. >> miss