[speaker001:] oh do you have very many family reunions that one you have over to Bear Lake is the grandfather of all of them isn't it
[speaker002:] um oh yeah now that one's a fun one that that is fun I know that sometimes I've the one that's been hard for me is the one that the Skidmores used to do at Christmas time
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and I I think its just because it was I seem to always be bad weather and I'm just going over the
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know the yeah its just right after Christmas that one was kind of hard I think that was a hard time but
[speaker001:] mountains uh-huh oh they don't have that anymore
[speaker002:] well they haven't since his grandmother died and I don't know if you know they they just continued it kind of while
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] she was still alive and and uh just nobody's done anything about it since she passed away but I don't know I mean it was always nice but it was just kind of a hard time I think
[speaker001:] uh-huh do you have any other reunions
[speaker002:] yeah um yeah my my side of the family usually has let's see I went to one at that was at my um actually it was in Layton and it was up my father's grandfather's house where his mother had been raised a little bit of the time they've they've still got this old home in their family and
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and that uh uh it was really a fun one that was nice to get to know a lot of the people though that we don't know and we just had a big
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um they had big grill that they cooked chicken and what'd they have chicken and I guess ribs and then they just did they had a little program and they made a quilt and gave it away
[speaker001:] hum they didn't auction it or anything
[speaker002:] um well they they um I think they drew names is what they did
[speaker001:] oh oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] people well no they did auction it well people bought a ticket that's how they did it and then the person with the winning ticket got it and things like that and that was kind of a fun one yeah
[speaker001:] oh with the one up to the up to Bear Lake do you uh do anything like genealogy or or anything like that
[speaker002:] no we just goof off just play yeah
[speaker001:] oh uh my family goes up to uh Cub River up to Willow Flat
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh
[speaker001:] for three days every year I mean it's there's not as much to do up as there is up at Bear Lake but we just go and camp out and wade in the river and
[speaker002:] now now is that the same time of year
[speaker001:] no that's the fourth of July one that we go down to the cabin
[speaker002:] no okay because I it's is that kind of a family reunion too yeah yeah
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh yeah but but that's but the one that we go up to Bear Lake with my family is the more more people come it's my father's and mother's children that go to that one
[speaker002:] oh I see oh and
[speaker001:] so but and then we have a great big Johnson one about every other year that we make that we make a quilt and sell it
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then we'll we'll sell chances on it and then that pays for all of the mailing and everything that's concerned with it yeah it does it works out really good
[speaker002:] yeah oh that's nice nice yeah we have they've organized a um like a family I don't know just some family organization on my dad's side and we do we pay dues
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] I think this year we just paid like ten dollars and and then they sent have started sending out a news letter on people and and um you know somebody's gone to a lot of work and they've they're doing a real good job and
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and so oh yeah I'm not good at things like that so
[speaker001:] just wait till it falls in your lap huh neither am I but it's really important I think to keep those connections
[speaker002:] it is it is and I know there's been a lot of years we haven't gone and then when we do go it doesn't seem like we know anybody and so I think it is good to keep going and
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] and keep those family ties up
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well I I don't know we've the Waites had a reunion too but that that fell every other every other year but that fell through because people just wouldn't take charge and do it
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] so and maybe there's a time to let go too
[speaker002:] yeah but that's that is kind of sad when uh nobody does want to do it yeah
[speaker001:] I don't know I uh-huh but then people get involved in other things and involved in others you know but I think it's really important to keep the your generation and the earlier generation together
[speaker002:] oh it is it is oh well and and so you just you have the two on
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] either side but you didn't have the one this year is this the first year you didn't have it on your husband's side
[speaker001:] uh-huh we had a we had the the the one the small one and then for his too we have a great big Christmas party every year
[speaker002:] oh I see oh
[speaker001:] and and then the the summer one fourth of around the fourth of July
[speaker002:] huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] but the the I don't know they those are are just his immediate family
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] they're not extended it's not extended
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] is that say we have to quit
[speaker002:] I don't know I've never heard that one before
[speaker001:] neither have I
[speaker002:] you you say how many calls have you made