We have known this was coming for a while now, but yesterday they released our bishopric.  We went in to visit with President Despain on Tuesday night and he made it official.  I think Kelley is feeling relieved, but a little lost.  That's been such a big part of his life for so long, it would leave you feeling kind of empty to not have it anymore.  I know he has thoroughly enjoyed his association with the good men he's worked with and will miss that too.  They just had a lot of fun. He has had a lot of experiences, some good, some bad, some really hard that have molded and refined (I used that term very loosly...I heard a couple stories yesterday, one over the pulpit,  about Kelley that re enforced the fact that he won't ever change some things, like the way he can make people around him laugh.) him over the past several years. (I'm still harping at him to write in a journal so these stories won't be lost)

They called Josh Smith as the new bishop and I think he will be great.  He has called Brian Berlin and Colby Briggs as his counselors.

After church we drove up to the cemetary to take some flowers for Kelley's folks and Pat's grave.

Later, Curtis came over and we had a nice bbq.  It was really nice to get to visit with him.

When we were at the cemetery we were talking about visiting the graves on memorial day and I got to thinking how that had been a tradition all my life.  Mum would make several arrangements and pots of flowers from the garden and we would take them to the cemeteries.  Seems like we would always run into relatives at the grave sites and get to reminisce and get caught up on their lives.  We would walk around the cemetery to take some flowers to grandma and grampa Braeggers grave.  Now all  daddy's siblings are there except  Buzz and Ken.  Mum would always have an extra pot of flowers for brother Beard's grave.  He was the janitor at the elementary school and didn't have any family to put a flower on his grave.  Mum thought he should be remembered too.  

We would go over to the Logan cemetery too to take flowers to grandma and grampa Tibbitts, and Aunt Dyrene

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