Family, Family, Family!

WOW! We had a super fun Christmas dinner at my Uncle A's and Aunt A's house this past Friday. Last I counted there was 69 Barendregt's! 2 Stads and Uncle Tom were brave and joined in all the fun as well. That makes 72 people!!
We all fit in one HUGE house in Grande Prairie. :D The noise level was insane in there! You see, us Barendregts seem to like to talk very loud, then you get 69 of us in one house and noise levels are almost dangerous. ;-) If you looked around you could tell who the born Barendregts were, and who the married in one's were! lol, although if the married in one's had been in the family for more than 10yrs or so they seemed to be less overwhelmed! :-D My poor hubby was one of the overwhelmed ones. I was having a blast! I could have been there all week! The craziness didn't seem to phase Miriam and Dylan either. Mrs. Stad sr. and Oma were troopers!!!
A BIG HUGE THANK-YOU! To those that organized, cooked, cleaned and did all the running around etc!
Here are a few pictures I took during the evening.



Amidst all the craziness there was a little girl reading downstairs :-)


Playing on the drum set downstairs.


Dylan and Uncle Leighton going down the looooong stairs


Busy making the dinner (I love Auntie A's kitchen! It has two refrigerators!)


Chatting



A few people lounging in the living room.





I wasn't the only one with a camera!


Cooking more food in Oma's suite.






Kids getting hungry... The smell must have brought them all upstairs!


Goofy grins


Uncle H posing :-)



Supper!! It was amazing!


Catching up.


Presents!! The kids that didn't participate in the white elephant gift exchange received a present from their parents so they didn't feel left out :-)


What did Dylan get?


Taking out the presents for the white elephant gift exchange.


Notice my Dad texting on his phone :-P







Yup this must be a born Barendregt! She's sleeping away even though the noise was super loud! She must have been pretty comfy on Uncle B.


Aunt J telling us the rules.


Haha! Love C's face on this one!



I think this is when Leighton opened the bra... and then put it on :-P haha! Thankfully he didn't end up with it in the end!


Byron stole the toblerone from Auntie J


Little one all pooped out!


Miriam and Dylan all cozy in one of my cousins bed - they went to bed around midnight and promptly fell fast asleep, even though the older kids that were attempting to pull an all nighter were still awake and playing video games in the hallway.