[speaker001:] ever had a family reunion
[speaker002:] yes we have several
[speaker001:] um do you do extended families or
[speaker002:] we do extended families have you do you have you participated in a family reunion
[speaker001:] yeah yes um in the last couple of years I've the last one we had was in September and um I helped plan it so and it was here in Dallas so um
[speaker002:] um I I know that when we've had ours they set a date and they have them every um year and it's mostly on my mom's side of the family that does it but um
[speaker001:] but um uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] they send out invitations and it's the very same weekend of every year and it's in July and they always bring um family history information and they have the Saturday is all tied um involved in people getting together um going over there's all these tables set up and they've got all this family history that you can get
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] information on different people and their childhood and pictures and put together your own history of your family and your ancestors and that's really fun and then on Sunday they um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] they have a big dinner and everyone's supposed to bring something and it's more of just a time to just chat and get you know reacquainted with your cousins and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and things like that that's the very big extended one that's over two hundred people that go to that
[speaker001:] oh wow yeah that we've done um
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] we went to one that was my husband's grandfather and his brothers and sisters and then their families so we that was kind of nice I don't know that they had done one um in a long long time and so it was real nice to get to to know other people than his just aunts and uncles
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and so that was really fun and um we did that in Florida but there were still only maybe oh seventy or eighty people there but they did they did a lot of um we had we had several get togethers like Saturday was or Friday night we started with dinner Saturday we had lunch together and took like family pictures and went over family history and then um that night we had some free time in there and then that night was um oh it was more it was a it was a nice dinner and then they had you went around the room and said who you were and maybe something about yourself and you know how you related in the family and stuff and that was kind of nice because we'd been talking to these people all day long and then it was okay now where do you fit in in the in the line and stuff and who's who's are you kind of thing
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] but um
[speaker002:] I know on more of a smaller scale my husband's mother and father have boughten a condominium that's in a ski resort in Utah
[speaker001:] um-hum um
[speaker002:] and um they have it a certain week each year that's set aside for the whole family to come home
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] in July and um everybody tries to go there and stay it's two or three big condominiums that all hook together and so everybody tries to go up and stay and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] um all be together on his in his immediate family but there were seven children and by the time you get their spouses and their children all there
[speaker001:] yeah there're six in my family and I don't I don't think of them as family reunions so much but either either Thanksgiving or Christmas where for sure everyone is there and and uh so that's you know by the time you get the kids and all that there's there's a good number of us there and um
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] but we usually just eat and and play games and you know chitchat but um we had a my grandmother's side of of the family we had a get together last year and that was really fun because uh uh as cousins we stay real close together and um so but we did things like um went to the tea we went and had tea at the um oh one of the hotels downtown in downtown Dallas and then
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] Friday night if if you wanted to go you could go to the Mesquite Rodeo and then Saturday it was we had a big family picnic and we had T-shirts that you know said family reunion and had gave the year and um wore those to the picnic and we had some stuff for the kids and there was a it was there was a wading pool there that if the kids wanted to go swimming they could do that and if the guys wanted to go golf they could do that and stuff and then Saturday night was our big big dinner and and we had it catered and it for most of the part it was catered and it was really nice to be able to send we sent out stuff this is this is what's available to do and it it you know the big family dinner is going to be Saturday night you need to make a reservation and pay us ahead of time because the year before we had done it and uh had had problems getting
[speaker002:] the money yeah
[speaker001:] you know the the yeah I mean it's like pass the hat around and it didn't I don't think they broke even at all and uh which is I mean I can't imagine feeding two hundred like
[speaker002:] right