She's celebrating the recent birth of her 100th great-grandchild on her 89th birthday on Sunday.
Grace Ziemer, matriarch of her family, had 13 children with husband Ernest. Ziemer has 54 grandchildren who have so far given her 100 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Daphne Connolly, Ziemer's 100th great-grandchild, was born May 31.
"I told my husband before I was married that I wanted 12 children and he agreed," Grace said with a smile. "I won't tell you what he said."
The couple, married for 65 years before Ernest passed away almost five years ago, managed to produce a baker's dozen.
Those children are Judy, 69, Lucy 67, Muriel, who passed away 10 years ago at 55, Darlene, 64, John 63, Jim, 62, Valerie, 60, Peter, 59, Matt, 58, Albert, 56, Tim, 55, Bernie, 53, and Coralie, 52.
There were 13 children born in 16 years.
"The first four were girls so I had a lot of help with the rest of them," Grace said.
The inspiration behind the large brood is as simple as it gets.
"I love babies and I haven't stopped loving them yet," Grace said.
Out of the 100 great-grandchildren three have died, so the picture boards that will be on display during Grace's birthday celebration will see 97 shiny little happy faces.
Today they range in age from three months to 25 years old.
The Ziemer family moved from Regina, Sask., to Vancouver Island when Grace was expecting baby number 10 and settled in Prince George in 1971.
They bought acreage just outside of town and subdivided the property.
At one time the whole family built their houses and lived in the area, middle child Valerie said.
"It was Ziemerville," she laughed.
"We had populated the little Shady Valley school and we kept them in business. One of the neighbour ladies down the road said 'those darn Ziemers read in the Bible where God said go forth and multiply and fill the Earth and they thought they had to do it all by themselves.' We really like that joke."
