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Monday, December 18, 2006

Hayhoe Family Christmas




This past Friday night we drove to Kleinburg (just north of Toronto) for our Hayhoe Family Christmas party. Bruce took half a day off work so we could drive to Kleinburg Golf Club and arrive on time at 5:30pm.
This is my Mom's side of the family and we have become so large that we can no longer meet at people's home's. So this year Aunt Tommi planned a lovely evening for all of us. My Mom comes from a family with 6 siblings. So our Hayhoe family to say the least is very large. We filled 3/4 of the Kleinburg Golf Club. So you could call this side of the family a small wedding every time we get together, which is Christmas time and our Fall Gathering at Uncle Paul's and Aunt Dayle's in Cambridge. Here are a few pictures from the Christmas gathering (this does not do justice to the amount of people that were there). I can only place so many picutres on this BLOG page or people will start to get bored.
There is a picture above of my cousin Becky and her husband Brandon, My cousing Glen and his girlfriend Natalie. Another one of Allison singing along with her song sheet as we all sang some Christmas carols together. The BIG group picture is of my cousin Jennifer, Aunt Sandy, My cousin Andrew's wife Kim, my cousin Becky, Aunt Dayle, My cousin Kevin's wife Katie and my cousin's Jeff wife Jenny holding Kim's baby Reagan. Now maybe you understand a tiny bit of how large my family is. We had a wonderful time visiting with everyone (as best as we could with Luke and Allison, sorry for those of you we missed visiting with). The meal was lovely and Luke and Allison say thank you to Nathan Martin and Reagan Hayhoe for their great gifts.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That sounds fantastic! My parents have 6-9 kids in each of their families too. Makes for big gatherings, but at least there's always someone to talk to, right?!

December 19, 2006 2:02 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love family gatherings! My dad has 6 in his family too, though my mom has only 2 siblings and neither of them have children. Needless to say that Rhys is pretty special on that side.
Michael on the other hand has to be almost coerced into family gatherings as he grew up with two grandmas who came for weeks on end at Christmas and stressed his mom out. And that was all the relatives he had (except an aunt in Ontario that they never saw.)

December 20, 2006 4:10 PM

 

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