ode to uncle chris

with the posting of z's bday, i just had to include an "ode" to her uncle chris, not only because the two of them have the most adorable love affair with each other, but also because A- he moved (mean ol' uncle chris), and B- he wins the best birthday gift, maybe EVER!!!!
let's give a lil' background info shall we...
chris and sky met in high school, volleyball buddies. they stayed close and even went to new zealand together for 3 months, which became the sleeping in the same tent, falling from the sky, sloshing through pitch black tunnels together, kind-of-close. chris came for sky's homecoming, which is when he met me, because sky and i didn't spend one second apart from each other the minute we saw each other again. and i immediately thought chris was awesome!!! so then, after much convincing and condo craziness, chris decided to move to utah. he was here about 7 months, in which time zoia fell head over heels for him!!! the 3 of us were like a replica of the scrubs "family"(okay 4 of us, including z, but since there is no baby in scrubs, she is not included in the replica) w/ sky and i playing turk & carla, and chris as JD (and the best part is that chris actually kinda looks like zach braff!)
so in those 7 months there was a lot of camping, attempted hikes, driving, swimming, eating, shopping, etc. during one of the shopping adventures, at IKEA (the happiest place on earth), zoia decided to climb into the bin of sheep skin rugs!! and there she stayed for about 15 minutes until i pried her purple-lipped, screaming body from the bin. (she loves things that are soft. rugs, stuffed animals, garments, ya know....) so sweet uncle chris decides that for her bday he is going to drive the 45 minutes to IKEA to get her one of the coveted rugs.
and his drive paid off because when she opened his gift everything disappeared and she cuddled with the thing and hasn't stopped yet. in fact she not only sleeps with it every night, but she drags the thing around like a blanket!!!!!
so that is the ode to uncle chris!!!! we love you. and miss you.


p.s. if anyone knows how i can rotate pics on blogger can you let me know!!! i can't figure it out. they are flipped when i view them but when they post, they are turned again.... (computer retarded, yup that's me!!!)