Uncle Chris

This last weekend I went down to St. George to go to my Uncle Chris's funeral. I got to perform in a surprise musical number. I got to the funeral about 15 minutes early and my mom and sister informed me i was singing with a group of cousins, so we ran through the song like once before the funeral began. Surprise!

The funeral was really good, and probably my favorite part was when parker was pretty much yelling "why are you crying?" "there's water on your eyes" over and over again, it was pretty funny. Overall the funeral was really good, they had his three sisters tell about his life and their memories of him, then my cousin did the nieces and nephews perspective telling memories that we all had of him, mostly involving horses, bowling, charades, elvis, performing, etc. Besides our musical number, the great nieces and nephews also sang a song, it was so cute!

I will miss my Uncle Chris, but I am so grateful for those memories that I have of him. I can't imagine not having such a special uncle like Chris. I really dont think the word uncle describes him correctly, he was kind of like a grandparent, because I got to see him whenever I went to see my grandparents, and kind of like another grandkid because he would always play with me. I still have the necklace he gave me when I was like 5. I will always remember the good times I had with my uncle playing games, like chicken foot and canasta. I remember him picking to be my partner in canasta, and then laughing at me when I would say silly things or do something crazy. I remember one time we were playing and I kept singing the song that played when the clock struck the hour (i think it was the cinderella song) and I would sing it really crazy and he would just laugh at me. . . good times. . . anyways, it was good getting to go to the funeral, and I am glad I got to see my family again.

P.S. I dont have a scanner, so I stole these pictures from Krista's blog. . . Thanks Krist!