have you ever done this
yes i have
what did you do
unfortunately
unfortunately uh oh this will be interesting
it yeah it it's it's really hard to please everybody
and it it takes a lot of planning a lot more
a lot more effort you know you have to decided what you're going to do
have you ever done one
well
actually i'd i sort of do this uh anytime my family comes to town
uh-huh
i mean we have a very immediate family it's not really extended
um-hum
uh i was an only child my mother is an only child so we don't have
like tons and tons of relatives
so it's really my parents and i have five children three are married and they have little kids
um-hum
and so you know it's basically us
and so when every body comes it is very hectic
and i guess that's as close to what we have as a reunion and we do this at Christmas
and we just did this last week
and so um it's hard to get
everyone to be able to come at the same time
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that's the hard part is was my son was missing last week because
he's a teacher and he had things he had to do and he couldn't just leave but
uh it's really hard to get everyone together
but we don't have lots of
aunts and uncles and things like that
to consider
yeah our um uh the ones i was involved in was with my wife's family
and it's very extended
there are aunts and great-aunts and cousins and cousin's children
yeah that would be so much harder
and there's
oh over the last fourteen years depending on where we went and what we did there's anywhere from
and thirty or forty to
fifty sixty and sometimes
more than that you know during different phases of what we're trying to do
uh
so how often do you try to all get together
um they try every year
oh no are you all from the same place pretty much or
we're kind of in the same area most everybody is from uh Idaho and Utah
uh-huh
and there are some from
there well there's a couple back east and they travel they've come a few times there's some from California
uh-huh
and i think there's some from Washington
where do you have these things i mean how long do they
usually we've been having them in Idaho
that's where
it's at someone's house or i mean
um no we've had them out in uh kind of wilderness uh areas before we go camping
so you go camping do you i see well that's kind of good
and we've had them at resorts uh you know smaller resort places uh
uh-huh
you know kind of like camp ground things
but that way no one has all the work i mean once it's planned
nobody has to worry about fixing food for everybody and that kind of thing right
well we we do uh
we we have some traditional things and the first night's usually like a potluck
everybody just brings whatever they want and
uh-huh
and we have those kind of foods and and then usually the first morning breakfast is just that each body does their own
and then have games all day
so there is a lot of planning though for things like that i guess anyway huh
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yeah there there is we we do uh
uh you know we have we have quite a few we have a sing along one of the uncles plays the guitar and sings and then everybody puts on a talent show each family's supposed to
that's so neat though that's great
do talent show things and we have an an auction everybody brings in made goods or things that they do and we have an auction and then that goes into the family fund
oh
and who has the family fund
and well they elect officers every year
you're kidding i have never heard of this
uh they have uh
yeah they have a they have a a president usually they try to elect the family
and inside that family there'll be the president and or the chairman or whatever and then each person has an assignment to
to you know carry out one part of the thing like one one one person will have
um the games and one will have the food and one will have
the auction and one'll have the program
oh boy that's a big job for one family
whatever it is
so it well well when i'm talking family it's it's like my mother-in-law my mother-in-law's children so that'd my wife and her her sisters and brothers
uh-huh i see so it's separated really yeah
right
so it's um it uh you know it's extended it's extended family what it is is my mother my mother-in-law and her sisters and brothers
right
and their
oh i don't know there's twelve of them or fourteen of them or something like that
not all of them are living still but there's probably eight or nine that still are
hum
and then all of their kids and their kid's kids and
yeah i see
so it's
