[speaker002:] do you y'all do you get together with family reunions or
[speaker001:] yes we try to uh we have not in some years now and I think we are going to try to have one this summer
[speaker002:] oh that will be fun if you haven't done it in a while
[speaker001:] my aunt is planning it
[speaker002:] oh where is your family from
[speaker001:] uh Missouri
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] southwest part of Missouri
[speaker002:] so you are going to have to go there
[speaker001:] that will will be where it is uh if if she gets it planned I have been out of town so I do not know what she has been doing but uh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] they are all getting very very old all my aunts and uncles so we need to see them soon
[speaker002:] oh yeah my family is from Kentucky most of them is down there
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I have got an uncle in Louisiana and another sister here in Texas
[speaker001:] right do you all get together often or
[speaker002:] we did when I was growing up it was every summer we got together now my grandmother just passed away this last year so
[speaker001:] uh-huh right
[speaker002:] you know she was the
[speaker001:] I think as we get older it is difficult more difficult to uh when all my aunts and uncles are in their eighties now so it is uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I have to uh I will probably have to take charge and do it one of these uh one of these days
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh
[speaker002:] well it
[speaker001:] I still have elderly parents alive so uh it takes a lot of effort to either get everybody called or written and settle on a date you know that
[speaker002:] it sure does
[speaker001:] and if they are
[speaker002:] well we in Kentucky it wasn't hard because everybody lives so close together we just did it word by mouth you know by word of mouth
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] you know my uncle in Louisiana he is the only one that you know had to travel
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and now I have got a sister in Germany and
[speaker001:] oh my gosh
[speaker002:] we are just scattered all over the place so it is going to be hard this time but we have got a huge family
[speaker001:] yeah so the yeah and we need to have more and more of them I hope I think I hope that is not a lost art that people getting together as they do spread out all over the world
[speaker002:] yeah because it is so fun I mean
[speaker001:] yeah it is
[speaker002:] we my mother has got like thirteen brothers and sisters
[speaker001:] oh I see
[speaker002:] yeah she has got a huge family and every one of them have five or six kids and most of them you know have got kids
[speaker001:] uh-huh sure that makes a big crowd
[speaker002:] yeah it we just we had two baseball bleachers full of people and there are still about eight or six eight or ten people taking pictures
[speaker001:] yeah is that is that right
[speaker002:] yes and it was just the last time we had one it was so fun
[speaker001:] that is wonderful I hope
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well we need to have another one I hope my aunt is successful as uh later well it is probably not going to be done because I have not heard from them I it was supposed to be this June so I don't imagine there is anything coming this is hardly almost June
[speaker002:] yeah well I
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] we have always had ours in a park or something but it has away been the same park and there is nothing really special there only thing is it is big and it is open
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah that's we have it usually at this uh at this one park because there is a pavilion there in case it rains and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh you have to have it uh fairly early in the summer or it is too hot up there
[speaker002:] uh-huh in Missouri
[speaker001:] in Missouri yeah it is too muggy it is not it is just uh very humid and the old people cannot take it anymore
[speaker002:] well that was part of the problem with well that was part of the problem with the ones we have now the kids would sneak off and we were just being kids and we found what we thought was just an old water hole so we was going swimming
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and like I said we was just stupid kids we was like eight and ten years old
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and our parents came and caught us we had been playing in the sump it was part of the sewage cleaning system
[speaker001:] isn't that great
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] Kyle don't I have got a four year old
[speaker001:] yeah well that keeps you busy yeah
[speaker002:] yeah but if we could have gotten it by a lake or something I thought that would have been much better
[speaker001:] yeah it would have been something for the young people to to do but
[speaker002:] yeah well they there was uh I am sorry there was uh I remember now there was like uh a baby pool just about a foot deep
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] yes I remember my little brother riding a bicycle through it we were all kids anyway
[speaker001:] every family has all that going on I am sure so
[speaker002:] oh but I love it all the different foods because that yeah
[speaker001:] oh I do too that is the best part of it
[speaker002:] that's the yeah
[speaker001:] everybody bringing something for a potluck picnic and oh grand yeah
[speaker002:] so how long did you say it has been since you all had one
[speaker001:] I do not know I think it has been uh four three or four years or five even uh since they have had it tried to get everybody together they are just spread out so much and and we really need to uh no matter how what kind of crowd they get
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I hope
[speaker002:] well I have been married almost five so I guess it has been seven years since we have had one and since then we've lost
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] oh well just our grandmother that is surprising
[speaker001:] yeah well time flies so fast it may have been that that long since we have one it is hard to remember but I think it has been about four or five years
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so uh anyway I I hope both our families get to have one soon
[speaker002:] oh if I can ever get down to Kentucky it has been like four years since I have been home
[speaker001:] yeah it is difficult with little ones I know when we had had our
[speaker002:] yeah that is the reason that is the reason I don't I would get on a bus any day by myself but I won't do it with the babies
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] because uh I have got uh a four month old and a four year old
[speaker001:] sure oh Lord
[speaker002:] so I am just starting and I just quit too
[speaker001:] oh I am telling you that's uh
[speaker002:] uh I won't be adding any more to the family reunion
[speaker001:] no I hope it I know it takes a lot of effort right with with that with two little ones like that
[speaker002:] yeah they are good kids though
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so uh I am not too upset anyways I've enjoyed talking to you
[speaker001:] enjoyed talking to you good luck in everything
[speaker002:] all right all right you too bye-bye
[speaker001:] bye-bye