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Special thanks to CM Advisor and Content Contributor Stefani Jones for sharing this story.<\/p>\n

When my brother Kevin passed away unexpectedly in 2014 at age 25, my family was devastated. Even more than a year later, it\u2019s still hard to believe that he\u2019s not just going to walk through the door one day with his gruffy beard and a big hug for anybody in his path.<\/p>\n

One of the only bright spots in the days after we heard the news was the chance we had to share our memories of Kevin with each other. I had made a Creative Memories album with many of Kevin\u2019s photos and stories from birth to age 12 when I was a relatively young Creative Memories consultant, and the day after he died I took the album to my parents\u2019 house. This book brought both smiles and tears to the literally hundreds of visitors, friends, and funeral attendees who came to pay their respects and reminisce with our family.
\n\"Remembering<\/a><\/p>\n

“There\u2019s that dangerously mobile little boy who practically lived in a tiger costume until he started kindergarten…”<\/p>\n

\"Remembering<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s the little essay he wrote about how holding his new baby brother was the happiest experience of his life. I wished I had kept his book current, but more than that I was happy I’d taken the time to put this all together well before we \u201cneeded\u201d it, and I was so relieved that I didn\u2019t have to try to hunt down an entire lifetime of photos and stories in the days between his death and his funeral. This album isn’t anything fancy–it’s fairly simple and unadorned–but it’s a celebration of a wonderful person, and that’s what’s important.<\/p>\n

My family is glad to have some of our best “Kevin” memories documented in something tangible that we can go back to whenever we\u2019re missing him. Even though some would say there are there are “easier” options available for photo sharing, nothing replaces an\u00a0album\u00a0for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special thanks to CM Advisor and Content Contributor Stefani Jones for sharing this story. When my brother Kevin passed away unexpectedly in 2014 at age 25, my family was devastated. Even more than a year later, it\u2019s still hard to believe that he\u2019s not just going to walk through the door one day with his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95570245,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4289191],"tags":[82034,16940],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-stories","tag-photo-albums","tag-scrapbooking"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kevin1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NsZA-2h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":113840,"url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2026\/05\/14\/the-official-guide-to-the-creative-memories-scrap-journal\/","url_meta":{"origin":141,"position":0},"title":"The Official Guide to the Creative Memories Scrap Journal","author":"Creative Memories","date":"May 14, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"We all know and love the classic 12x12 album. 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