Christmas card 2014

Shreeve 2014 top 10

1-Moved to a new home in beautiful Ogden. It's a midcentury contemporary home that is seriously like nothing you have ever seen. We're loving it!

2-Bryce is in school for his MBA, loving his job at UMB, and working hard refinishing cabinets in our new home.

3-Jenn is running around (literally) at home raising 3 young boys and excited to start joy school (an alternative preschool) with some local moms in our new neighborhood.

4-Oliver is loving his new big trees, bikes, fish and fire trucks.

5-Liam's enjoys collecting (well, mostly throwing) rocks, leaves, and running amuk at the park. And trains. Our twins are ALL about trains right now.

6-Owen is now walking, talking, playing with his brothers, and still our cuddle bug.

7- We had a lot of family fun this year. Some of the boys favorite adventures included bear lake, st George, hiking, and disney on ice.

8- We are LOVING the newly dedicated Ogden Temple five minutes from our house.

9-This fall we potty trained the twins where we reflected on the 13,000 diapers we changed in the last 3 years.

10-Climbing, jumping, running, throwing, braking, exploring, pulling, pushing, and creating adventures like only little boys can.

We hope your year was a happy one full of adventures as well! May God continue to watch over you and your family.
-The Shreeve Family

Memorial Day

As a kid, I always loved Memorial Day. I'd wake up early to make flower arrangements with my grandma from the flowers growing in her yard. Then we'd head out to the graves of family members I'd never met, listening to stories of their life. It was a magical holiday for me, thinking about my family who had gone before me and wondering how it would be to meet them.

I still head out on those early morning trips to the cemetery with my grandma. But now I place flowers on graves of people I have known and love, people who I want to always remember, honor, and pass along some of the precious memories and lessons they have given to me.

Our boys are still very young, but last year we decided we would go to our grandparents graves. We picked flowers from our garden, and made them each a bouquet. Last year our boys ran around the cemetery grabbing everyone's pinwheels. To combat this problem, we brought pinwheels for them to put on the graves.

Our stories are pretty simple right now. "Great-grandpa Brown flew an airplane!" "Great-grandma Illum loved making cookies and singing." "Great-grandpa Hyer was a farmer and drove tractors" "great-grandma Shreeve loved to dance" etc. But, I'm excited that I'll be able to share these stories with them, just as stories were shared with me as a girl.

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