No Better Way to Spend the Day

On the fourth day of Christmas, we had 40 Johnson bodies in the house for a whiz-bang get-together that ended with nearly every last one of those 40 getting the flu four or five days later. I have this handful of snapshots to show for the day, which was a wonderful time of catching up with people I love and of whom I see too little.

The twinnies and Susannah drawing. Teenagers all, they look startlingly lovely and grown here. How does this happen? It catches me by surprise every time.

I love these two pictures because
1. Rundy's expression as he looks down on Tadhg is pretty wonderful,

 and 2.
because I took these pictures mere moments apart and, suddenly, three little bodies appeared from nowhere.

Thomas gives a stirring rendition of...something stirring. (I don't remember.)

THIS IS WHERE THE GLAMOROUS SNAPSHOT OF YOU BELONGS, CANDIDA.   :)


Instead, here's one of a bunch of lovebirds.

And girls gaming.

And, to top it off, a tired Tadhg-Boy by the tree, car in hand.