[speaker001:] all right well I've been to a couple we've uh we just had one recently for my mom's birthday that all the kids got together
[speaker002:] all right uh-huh where was that
[speaker001:] in in Wyoming Sundance
[speaker002:] where in Wyoming oh I've been through Wyoming but and uh I uh when uh on our way to Montana so that's a bit sure is pretty country up there
[speaker001:] yeah and we just kind of we kept uh kind of uh it was a surprise birthday party for her was what it was
[speaker002:] wow how old was she
[speaker001:] sixty five
[speaker002:] oh I bet she just uh was pleased
[speaker001:] oh yeah she she didn't know what was going on or anything
[speaker002:] oh that's great
[speaker001:] but my dad had a knew uh what was going on but she didn't and several people in town knew what was going on but they never did tell her so
[speaker002:] uh that's uh that's that's quite a feat to be able to do that
[speaker001:] oh yeah because we figured somebody'd probably tell her sooner or later
[speaker002:] relatively small community it uh it would be pretty easy
[speaker001:] yeah it
[speaker002:] so how many folks were up there
[speaker001:] well we just had uh just immediate family just uh the kids and uh
[speaker002:] grandkids
[speaker001:] yeah my well what it was was just huh let's see it was uh just my sisters me and my mom and dad and then uh our kids'
[speaker002:] oh neat
[speaker001:] so uh it was pretty good
[speaker002:] well I bet did you take a lot of pictures
[speaker001:] yeah we even had some video taken so yeah
[speaker002:] got all the big eyes and surprises huh
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] we had a surprise party uh for uh for my mom once and uh she they're in they're in Lubbock
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh she has uh oh about eight or nine grandkids and we hid them all through a friend's house
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh she walked in the room and all of a sudden these grandkids started popping up out of furniture and behind doors and she just uh was speechless for about fifteen or twenty minutes
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] really caught her off guard it's it's really fun to have a have a have uh that sort of uh surprise to family members
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah do you have a lot of family in Fort Worth
[speaker001:] oh no it's it's me and my wife and son
[speaker002:] oh how uh are you where's your wife from
[speaker001:] she's from San Antonio
[speaker002:] uh that uh that's quite uh quite a spread to get uh everybody together it's hard now and days actually
[speaker001:] oh yeah well we go to you know we go to San Antonio a lot to be with them during like Thanksgiving or Christmas so
[speaker002:] unless
[speaker001:] that's kind of our family reunions with them
[speaker002:] now we uh we have our uh our side of the family really is pretty spread out so we we're we have to uh have a reunion maybe every other year
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] we all uh uh gather uh uh at a place just north of Austin which is fairly convenient for everybody we've got folks from El Paso to Waco to Houston to Dallas so that uh uh trying to trying to make it uh make everybody work a little bit I guess that's the deal that way no one feels like they're being
[speaker001:] yeah make everybody feel like well you're not at just one person's house so you don't really have to you kind of all stay in in motels and stuff
[speaker002:] taken advantage of  yeah one of the uh one one of the rules is that if you're not at the reunion you have to plan the next one
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's a pretty
[speaker002:] so that's that's worked out that that that that brought a lot of people
[speaker001:] yeah I never thought of that that'd probably work
[speaker002:] well that uh it it uh it's been successful so far and you know we after the reunion it's uh it's so funny because you'd say well uh we ought to do this twice a year we had so much fun and it it it's too bad you can't
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] you know used to be I guess with uh family reunions where they just sort of came in from the surrounding towns uh uh it was a lot easier but now and days we've got people scattered all over the country and it's that's really tough
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] to get folks together it's not they don't want to but
[speaker001:] yeah yeah it's that's the problem with us I'm down here and and then I have a sister in New York City
[speaker002:] ooh
[speaker001:] and then the rest of my sisters live right around Sundance
[speaker002:] what brought you uh down from Wyoming
[speaker001:] uh I'm in the service
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] I'm in the Air Force so that kind of
[speaker002:] how we uh we used to live in Fort Worth actually and we lived over by Carswell and I just love watching those planes come by
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] it's it's it's really pretty
[speaker001:] well I just before I came here I was stationed in Lubbock
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] yeah I was there for four years and then I got down here