We ran track together Jr yr. and went to a dance together. I remember the trip to Erin's house in Ethal so well. You were such a goofball. You drove in the middle of the street the entire way there. I was so mad and scared!!! We looked so good that night, didn't we? I have a picture attached from our fun game of twister at Erin's before the big FEAST Mrs. Rhonda cooked for us. It's very sad to think that I spent time with you, made memories with you, got to know you... and now you are gone. I am thankful for the chance to know you and apologetic that our friendship didn't extend past HS. I know you and I had a special connection that year. We both needed each other. I'm just thankful I could be your friend. I just want you to know... I knew :o). The smiles in the hallway and showing up at my locker randomly were a dead giveaway. Had I not been preoccupied by a super jerk I would have let you know I knew. :o) Fly High... Fly high
I never thought I would ever meet someone who talked as much as I did. But then I met Chris this semester. I bet our phone bills were really high. Chris came over to my apartment to study for one of our exams (I should have known that there wouldnt have been any studying accomplished). Of course Chris got lost on the way over. We sat on the couch and my dog Sir Kensley automatically jumped right into his lap. Poor Chris, I even got out my huge "college years" photo album and he sat there and listened to every story about every picture in there. I know he was prob bored out of his mind. Chris would call me almost every day and we would talk for hours about God only knows what.
I was really upset when my uncle passed away the Feb 6th and I overslept one day of clinicals. Chris wrote me on facebook and knew that I was stressed out and upset about missing. Then he told me that he locked his keys in his car one morning of clinicals (with the car running)!!! Since then we became very close and started talking. He always knew how to cheer me up.
Last week I was sooo sick with a stomach bug and Chris called me every day to check up on me and joke with me and said I had C.Diff.
I was always stressed about school and studying. Chris always knew how to calm me down and take some weight off my shoulders. I was going to work in the ER with Chris this summer and someone said that I didnt seem qualified for the job. I started second guessing myself and Chris got so mad that someone would make me feel like that. He believed in me and was trying so hard to get me a job so we could work together this summer.
I loved Chris' facial expressions. We both picked on eachother about these weird faces we would sometimes make when we were thinking hard and in deep thought.
Chris loved how I always wrickled my eyebrows when I was focusing on something. He always laughed and said how cute it was.
I wish I had more time with Chris and more memories. Every day a new random memory pops into my head and always makes me smile. Chris Im sorry I was so focused on school that we never got to go on our date. I pray you now know how I felt about you. I miss you more each day! Thank you for everything! You are my sunshine! I love you! Rest in Peace
How you proclaimed "DOLLY PARTON!" excitedly throughout the night when we all played scene-it and you didn't get any other ones and if you missed you would be like I did get "DOLLY PARTON!! " You kept smiling and just it made me laugh so much. I recently reminded me of this.
More recently the other night when I was hanging out at Stephen's and we were all watching movies and he was trying to get you to come out and you wouldn't, but you kept participating in conversation and making us laugh from your room. Then you were just saying things and I kept laughing. I couldn't stop. You had an infectious personality that made people around you forced to be happy. You were one of the funniest people I knew and I wish I had to opportunity to get to know you better. You made so many people's lives better w/ your spirit I wish you could have known that. You were a really great person and you'll definitely be missed.
I miss your smile, you always seemed to have a smile on your face and whenever I was around you, you always made me smile too. And you'd make me laugh so much!!! And so hard!!!
I remember when I used to live at "the apartment" with you, Ron, Kyle, and Phil and you made me believe that there really were ghost living there too; Because that stupid blender keep going off all on its own without anyone being near it!! And I was so scared! Everytime it would go off you would gasp and say what was that? And I'd be like, I don't know, what was that? And you'd tell me, I think it was the blender! (all frightened sounding) And then you said to me, oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that there were ghosts living here. And dumb me would be like, oh my God, are you serious?! And you're like yeah (you-smiling the entire time) but I still believed you! You keep it going as long as you could, but after the blender repeatedly would not stop going off and I ended up running out of the apartment so scared! You came and made me come back inside while laughing so hard trying to tell me that there really weren't any ghosts!!
I think about and miss so much, when it was just you and me hanging out together talking (when I was living at the apartment) but mainly laughing so much; and us watching dumb crap on the t.v. that I didn't like, but you liked to make fun of!!
And how I would always TRY to clean the apartment because it was always such a mess!!! But, no matter how hard I'd try, you'd keep throwing stuff all over the floor, so I'd just give up!
I don't even know where to start. One of my favorites was by far probably around Christmas. Chris and I had decided we need a Christmas tree in the house, and everyone else in the house was just being all "scrooge" about it. Well Chris had this fake Christmas tree from the apartment, and we go get it and start putting it together, and we were really excited. After we get it just about done we noticed the base was broken, well Chris was like O I know let's duct tape it together. So of course we did and then as soon as we set it up it fell down completely. It was a total loss. However we didn't let it ruin our Christmas spirit. The next day I went out and bought a new tree and some cheap lil ornaments. And as we are putting it together it ends up looking exactly like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. It was not exactly the prettiest. Then we start putting ornaments on and of course drinking. After we are finally finished I look in the mirror ad realize I had ornaments in my hair, he had randomly been putting them in my hair. Then we go to turn the tree on, and we realize we forgot to decorate the back of the tree. It was one the ugliest trees, but we had the most fun ever.
Chris never knocked on my door; he would always scratch on my door or just come in. Didn't matter if I was naked or not. He would be like; it’s nothing I haven't seen before.
The constant battle of who had Snuffalufugus.
Taking turns tucking each other in at night.
Me just walking through the den to go to my room, and him just grabbing me, and not allowing me to go to my room or to sleep. I had to stay and watch TV, drink, or hang out with him. And he wouldn't let me go until it was bedtime.
Him running and jumping on my bed and he would always do it so hard he knocked everything off my nightstand and everything out of the electrical socket.
Playing dig dug for days and constantly trying to outdo the each other. Then it was warlords, he whooped my ass, and he absolutely loved it. He would make me play with him even though there was no chance in hell I was going to win, unless he let me.
The one night he got pretty drunk and took a sleeping pill to help him sleep and made me sit on the couch with him and he told me the story about a butterfly and shit. Except it took about an hour and half, and I was not allowed to leave until he told me this story, it was Important! He said I needed to know it.
Every time I came home from going out to eat, him being like what did you bring me. Or if we were just sitting on the couch watching TV he would just turn to me and be like I am hungry, what are you cooking ME for dinner. Or JENNIFER FIX ME SOMETHING TO EAT, I AM HUNGRY!
He was the most compassionate and one the greatest people I have ever met. He was there for me through everything, no matter what. He would even take care of me when I was sick, or when I was really upset he would sleep with me or just stay with me until I feel asleep.
He was one the greatest people I have ever met, and I loved him so much. And I miss him so much it is unbelievable. Word’s can’t express how much of an impact he made on my life, and I will certainly never forget him.
