[speaker001:] okay we have uh we have a family reunion every every summer and uh we different uh sides of the family take turns on planning it sending out the invitations and and then uh the activities that we have we kind of get together and have a luncheon or a lunch or a a cookout or barbecue or whatever and uh and get to know so all the cousins get to know each other and we really enjoy our our family uh get togethers and family reunions so to speak are you able to do that
[speaker002:] yes we have ours every three years and uh we have uh relatives in Mexico and Brownsville Texas and Pennsylvania Ohio um
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] West Virginia Virginia and Florida so we've got them everywhere New Jersey and that's why we only have one every three years so that everybody can get together and we uh have one from early morning it starts at eleven
[speaker001:] oh wow um-hum
[speaker002:] and it goes all day and we just had one a year and a half ago we have it every summer in a place called Bare Rocks
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] its a it was a a resort and it was catered and um I hadn't seen cousins that I hadn't seen for years and others that are new in the family from marriage or
[speaker001:] well that's really great and uh they're able to come from long distances like that we we have children in Ohio and uh Texas and Germany and Illinois and uh all over but uh they get to some of them but this is uh the ones that live in Utah and but it it's sure great uh those family reunions are really something but
[speaker002:] um-hum aren't they wonderful
[speaker001:] at uh
[speaker002:] uh it's a shame that people can't get together like that more often and and uh have a close family tie
[speaker001:] it really is because that that really helps and like say to get to know each other and the background and we uh we the one that we have every year uh we go up to uh go up into the canyon and camp out for uh over the weekend and uh it we
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] have a bonfire and uh sit around and in the evening and uh around the pine trees in the pine trees in the mountains and uh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] the atmosphere's just really nice and then the kids get to play with each other and it uh it's a super thing uh
[speaker002:] that sounds like fun we only have ours for that one day and uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] then we make plans who's going to have the next one where it's going to be and all that and the next one I believe is going to be in New Jersey next year
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so um do you have a large family
[speaker001:] uh we have uh there's probably about uh our own own family there is we had six children but we have uh my wife's side of the family is the one that we go up to uh Idaho up in the canyon and uh there's probably about uh forty people there and uh total and then we do have another get together at Christmas time on my side of the family and uh this last one we had eighty five people to that one
[speaker002:] uh-huh well that's good how many was in your family
[speaker001:] uh we have uh I had five uh four brothers and one sister and then on my wife's side of the family she had uh four sisters and uh a brother
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and so we're kind of from large families and then they're all married and all have their children and they come and uh so it's it's really quite a get together we've been doing this uh up in Idaho in the summer in the camp out for uh we're thirty nine years every summer we've done this and we do it the second week in July between the Fourth of July and the twenty fourth of July which is a holiday here in Utah
[speaker002:] um-hum what's the holiday
[speaker001:] it's uh when the pioneers came into Utah and settled uh Utah Brigham Young came in on the twenty fourth of July
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and when they came across they came from the east in the covered wagons and uh settled or started the settlement of Salt Lake City so
[speaker002:] is there a special uh type of festivities for that occasion too
[speaker001:] yeah uh they have uh we have uh a large parade in Salt Lake City it's probably the one of the biggest parades in the country it goes for about three or four hours
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] and uh of course uh it's a state holiday and so we uh we have ours between that and uh the week between those the fourth and twenty fourth and so every year we know