The week of August 18-25, 2009 marked our 4th Nieuwhof Family Reunion. It all started in 1998, when Marten's parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary and we booked cottages in Fundy together. Five years later, we went to Irwin Lake, NS. In 2006, we went to Upper Clements, NS and this year we went to NB to the Village Gedaique Chalets (near Shediac).We visited the Flower Pot Rocks, 4 trails in the Kouchibouguac National Park, Moncton's Water Park, and Tree Go.
We celebrated with potlucks, a birthday party, shopping, campfires, fireworks, icecream social, boating, church, video/slide shows, family sweatshirts/t-shirts and scrapbooks.
The cousins had fun biking, canoing, kayaking, and peddle boating, playing at the playground and just being together. SO did the adults. The late night campfires were a special social time for us.
We had 25 family members attend. We really missed having the whole family there. Dianna, Jordan and Macaiah were absent. She delivered a beautiful baby girl, Elliyah Jade, on Aug. 27th. Congratulations guys! Mary's husband, Isaac, was in a doctorate internship in Texas and couldn't make it. And Pete was on his way to Dort College in the states. They were missed very much.
