Chapter 7: The Family Gathering

  No, it's not that I'm writing a book, that's just what came to my mind when I thought of our family gathering. You all see, we have an audio book with one chapter on 'A Family Gathering'. In fact, we have so many audio books and have listened to them so many times, that, with almost any sentence that anybody says, we all can quote a part of an audio book that uses those same words. It actually frustrates Mama and Daddy at mealtimes. (Daddy says that they don't get frustrated, it's something else :) )
  Now, enough of audio books and mealtimes, and back to our family gathering. We all remembered those who were missing, Janice and Nacho and family in Mexico,(they're planning on coming back here on the 15th of this month), Joelyn and Rollin, (who live in Manitoba and are planning on coming soon), Frank and Elaine, (who live in Colorado), and our dear cousin Caleb who is in heaven.
  Of course, we Ungers had a good family gathering without them too. I'm sure we would have enjoyed it more with them but it doesn't always work out and we know that Caleb has it much better than we do.

Edgar is Jaden's  "Big Brother".  Jaden likes
Edgar and Edgar likes Jaden.

  We had all been to church in the morning and then we came to Grandma and Grandpa's. It was New Year's Sunday. We Ladies prepared lunch. (I count myself a lady now because I am the only older girl.) Then we all moved into the garage and had lunch. We had mashed potatoes (of course), cubed, bacon kissed, chicken cubes, corn, and yummy layered lettuce. Then we had fruited tapioca for middle course and our traditional, chocolate pudding, and whipped cream pie. It was very good.

  After dishes, we all sat around visiting, the men in the garage, and the ladies in the living room. We girls enjoyed holding our little cousin, Kazzia. The men had peanuts from Oasis, Mexico in the garage.  We did some singing. I always enjoy singing at family gatherings. The garage echoes a bit and so it's always a lot of fun. Afterwards, Grandpa handed out the chocolates.

Handing out the chocolates.

Two proud cousins, Bianca and Natalia.

More to come...

I love this picture of Grandpa giving Leandro the chocolates.

Here's our chocolate. Yes, they're good.

I know this picture isn't the clearest but I found it funny
someone is reading labels in the background.

  After faspa and sweeping the garage, we played some games. Among the Unger favourites are Blokus Trigon and Dutch Blitz. We were hoping to play some Blitz yet but then, Blokus was too much fun. I played the second game, but I didn't win. We have some professionals among us you know. : )
  There is always a lot of visiting, laughing, noise, and more noise at our gatherings. With just over 20 grandchildren this time, it wasn't quite as noisy as it's sometimes been, but, the noisier the merrier. Ezra, 2, got hurt quite badly. Grandma and Grandpa have a few tall bookshelves downstairs and somehow one of those bookshelves fell on top of him. Now he has a big bump on his head. We always remember our Christmas time family gatherings. They are the source of mealtime and bedtime discussions. Thank you Jesus for such a good family. Lo, the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly heritage.
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                                        Yesenia