I feel like I have been attending the Butler Reunion for almost all my life. I guess there is no perfect attendance award because all that attended the Reunion this Sunday are living proof life goes on well after the first Butler reunion was organized so other than Jackie no one else could have made them all!!!! I am guessing the reason the reunion was started was to share part of one day out of 365 with relatives you don't see that often and even if you are thinking "thank goodness" it is part of history that you make each time you attend. Today a few stories came out which I never heard before and some good laughs as well. Who knew Phyllis has a piece of a 1920 something fruit cake from her mother's wedding cake??? She said her mother asked her to see how long you can pass it along. I guess as a third generation Butler descendant that is how I feel about the reunion and I would like to believe that I would continue to make the reunion even if I didn't host it. I know Grandma (Emma Butler Traynor) will rehash stories and ask me 1000 times how many came and it was so nice to see so and so. I think Stacy says it best when she says that once it is gone it is gone and you miss it. She said even if it is the same story and spending time with relatives she would give anything to have her Grandmother back by her side attending. I am so glad you all could make it and here is to many more times like today in the future.
