Photos bring back memories
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (341752)
Rockingham, Australia
May 12, 2023 5:43am CST
I’ve been going through some old photos and inevitably, they bring back many memories.
Vince has six siblings. One is/was a nun and the rest are mostly good Catholics. The five brothers have 7, 5, 4, 3, and 2 children. Their sister has one so that was a lot of littlies when we all got together. This mostly only happened on Boxing Day which was almost always stinking hot and a great excuse for a water fight.
The kids loved it and the adults didn’t mind joining in too. The photo (upper right) shows a brother, me at the back and a sister-in-law (SIL). The rest are cousins to each other and almost into adulthood.
Upper left shows Vince copping a bucketful of water from a SIL. Next to Vince is a niece’s Muslim husband from Luxor, Egypt. I don’t think he knew quite what had hit him when he witnessed his first water fight.
Lower left show two in-laws refusing to be put off by the incessant rain (on a different occasion).
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
12 May 23
That is a lot of children and a very big family for sure. Poor Vince, he did not escape the ice bucket challenge, I remember it was popular a few years ago. We are scanning old slides and also photos that we printed before the digital cameras and the smartphones.
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It's quite a slow process too. At least, I find it is.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16785)
• China
12 May 23
Photos bring back lots of fond memories of the past.Vince has an extended family.
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@DaddyEvil (137485)
• United States
12 May 23
I wondered if you were going to show any of the pictures as you sorted them. 
Thank you.
Telling about the water fights brings back memories of Pretty and I engaging in water balloon fights in our yard. Nobody took pictures. I was usually the one getting the water balloons broken on me. 
We had a lot of fun cleaning up the broken water balloons out of the yard before I could mow, too.
Thank you.
Telling about the water fights brings back memories of Pretty and I engaging in water balloon fights in our yard. Nobody took pictures. I was usually the one getting the water balloons broken on me. We had a lot of fun cleaning up the broken water balloons out of the yard before I could mow, too. 2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (137485)
• United States
12 May 23
@JudyEv I'm sure the adults looked forward to them almost as much.
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@wolfgirl569 (107920)
• Marion, Ohio
13 May 23
@JudyEv That's me. I have photos I should go through
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@Beestring (14675)
• Hong Kong
12 May 23
Precious photos and memories. Everyone looked happy.
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@allknowing (137571)
• India
13 May 23
Nice to have a big family specially when there are celebrations I used to have Xmas parties at our place in the good old days
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@allknowing (137571)
• India
13 May 23
@JudyEv Whether that could have been avoided and still there could be a larger group is what sets me thinking
This group is of my sis in law's (brother's
wife) family. They make an attempt to meet once a year
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@JudyEv (341752)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 May 23
@allknowing Wow, that's certainly a big group.
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@RebeccasFarm (90294)
• Arvada, Colorado
12 May 23
Wonderful photos thanks Judy. Glad you have these. Good memories.
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@Juliaacv (51480)
• Canada
12 May 23
It is nice that you are taking time to look back and recall such sweet memories.
They all look like alot of fun.
My family has nuns in it and we always celebrated Christmas on Boxing Day because the nuns were not able to leave the convent on Christmas Day. Of course many years ago, they could not leave at all, and we all had to gather, usually in a classroom at the school that they ran, for our visits.
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@LindaOHio (181320)
• United States
12 May 23
Such great pictures. Hours can go by when you open up a photo album and start looking at pictures!!!
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