Christopher Allen LaRoche was born on April 5, 1983 at 2:19 a.m. in Concord Hospital, Concord, NH. He was the first born of a set of twins and weighed in at 7 lbs, ½ oz. He has an older brother, Jeremy and his twin brother, Patrick.

Chris was an extremely outgoing and happy child. He loved to visit his Uncle Royce and Aunt Nancy on their farm in Vermont. He did all the normal things as a child, playing hockey, soccer, and baseball and he was a boy scout. Moving from New Hampshire to Virginia to Indiana and then to Pennsylvania, gave Chris the opportunity to make many friends. A favorite story is when Chris was young and camping and he decided to knock on the doors of neighboring campers and asked them if they wanted to be his friend.