[speaker002:] hi Clarice um have you had a family reunion recently
[speaker001:] yes just this last summer we went back to Utah and we met it was my we usually go to my family reunion but this one was my husband's
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and they're usually quite similar I think
[speaker002:] are you both from Utah originally
[speaker001:] no he's from here
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh
[speaker001:] but um most of his people are from Oregon so we kind of met halfway
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and so this was one and they um planned it up in the mountains and got a cabin and and had you know things like that have to be planned like they had planned that
[speaker002:] oh how nice
[speaker001:] we went to the reunion in end of July June and first of July that part the fourth of July weekend but we had to plan everything like clear in December January to reserve that
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh sure sure now was this his entire family cousins aunts uncles things like that or his immediate family oh wow oh wow how many people were there
[speaker001:] um-hum no this was everybody oh I oh uh jeez I think over um three hundred were there it was quite a large
[speaker002:] wow wow
[speaker001:] it was a great big lodge and so we had plenty of room and everything and and some of them live in that area so it wasn't too hard for them to come in the day and leave but um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] that was a great big thing and we do that with his family about every five years a great big one and then like immediate family we do like uh we try to do one thing once a year
[speaker002:] oh that's wonderful oh now how many how many people are in his immediate family
[speaker001:] well he has eight brothers and sisters so that's big by itself
[speaker002:] oh wow wow it really is and you get together once a year wow uh
[speaker001:] yeah so we have a little shindig with them
[speaker002:] are they all here in the area or are they scattered
[speaker001:] uh they're close in a close proximity um uh let's see there are four of them who live here in Texas and his mom and dad
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so um the others live in close neighboring um states like Nevada Arizona I think like that and
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh oh wow that's wonderful that's wonderful
[speaker001:] yeah so it's been fun how about you
[speaker002:] well we don't really get together I I would love to and that's why I checked that I wanted to do that because I would love to plan a family reunion sometime um I have a sister in Colorado and uh a sister in upstate New York and a sister in Connecticut and here I am in Texas so we're kind of scattered right now
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and um my my cousins have a you know they put on a family reunion um once a year but it's always like the second week in September so it's the kids are already back in school
[speaker001:] um-hum that's hard
[speaker002:] and so and that's back in and that's in New York and there's no way I mean there's just no possible way and it's not really a weekend it's just like a day kind of thing because most of them are still you know um
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] my family moved to Connecticut the rest of the family stayed in New York and uh on Long Island and so they're all kind of local and close and so they just have a you know a day picnic
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh I've always thought it would be so neat even if it were just my immediate family to have like a weekend type thing
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] that would be so wonderful
[speaker001:] it really is fun and my mom's family does it once a year just like you said once a year um they have a a
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] a Wednesday through a a Saturday type thing you can come and go as you please type thing and they do that once a year I kind of missed it
[speaker002:] oh wow
[speaker001:] this year and felt bad but you can't go every year you just cannot do that um
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah and do they they have a hotel or where do you stay
[speaker001:] um basically they just stay with each other brothers or sisters there are enough in the area to to just kind of span yourself out um whoever's mom and dad it is you usually go and stay with them like I go stay with my mother and
[speaker002:] take everybody yeah
[speaker001:] my cousins they just go stay with their mom and dad you know kind of thing and so it's not hard
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] in in that respect because they all are pretty centralized in one Utah area so that's not hard but
[speaker002:] yeah yeah oh that sounds so wonderful isn't that nice
[speaker001:] the real planning that's the real key and they send out my mom's family now this is the first reunion with my husband's family I've really been involved with
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but my mom's family each brother and sister takes a turn one year and that's how they divide it up and then
[speaker002:] uh-huh from one brother and sister from each family
[speaker001:] uh she has ten in that family and each one of them take their turn and then the the parent whose turn it is the child whose
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh wow uh-huh
[speaker001:] turn it is her children help her like if it was my mother's turn all of us children would help her put it on kind of thing yeah and um the thing is that um
[speaker002:] um-hum oh I see uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh oh wow
[speaker001:] the the real part is there are two mailings that go out and the first one is to just kind of give a an approximate date and time so you can start getting