Vacation Part 2 - Extended Family

While our time in Michigan was short, we packed in a lot of family. My grandma's and other relatives wanted to see us and meet Joash.

Four generations: Grandma O. , my mom, me, and Joash.

Four generations: Grandma VB., my dad, me and Joash.

Grandma VB and all of her great grand children. As you can tell, Joash is quite out numbered at the moment. There are a lot of girls in the VerBeek family. There are seven grandchildren and five our girls. The same is true on the Overweg side. There are twenty-three grand children and only six are boys. But of the twelve great-grand children are dead even, six and six.

Anyway, those four girls just sat and watched Joash for a long time. They thought a baby was pretty cool, for a while at least. I think Joash also thought the girls were pretty cool because he like watching them play as well.

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