Cleaning out my Mom and Dad's house

My Mom passed away on Sept 1st. My wife and I met most of my family in Salt Lake City Utah for the job of cleaning out the house and making the necessary arrangements for her funeral. We all meat today and cleaned out various parts of my parents house and went through their life time of stuff. Both my parents kept everything it seemed, but in that we found the most amazing family treasures. My dad had built my mother a cedar lined chest. It was buried in the very back of the garage behind all of my dads tools and stuff. The chest was the last thing well pulled from the garage and we found their most treasured things, among them were mine and my sisters baby clothes in blue and pink complete with booties and shoes, the bride and groom from my parents wedding cake, a Japanese flag from WWII and more photographs. We all worked together to sort through their life time of memories, pictures, papers and stuff. People complained that they kept everything, but turned out that was good thing. We found almost every greeting card we had ever sent them. We have boxes of photographs covering everything.We even found a newspaper announcing the victory of the war. Everyone did great and really worked well together. Wow what a job. But I must say it was much easier than I expected. We have more to do but we distributed their precious memories on to the 3 generations that were there. Tomorrow we have a private viewing and then on Thursday the funeral.