"Hello!" John called from the other room, sounding happy as John ever was. Which was really just very happy. He'd bought a fold out card table for the gathering, considering they were still kind of missing a lot of furniture (most notably a table, or a coffee table), and was now hovering over it. He really hadn't been to any kind of party since he'd moved here -- and had never hosted one. He was clearly excited.
Also, whatever these crisps Gwen had bought were -- they were good. He just couldn't stop putting them in his mouth.
He glanced up when Tara wandered into the room, and even though he took note of her arm loads of stuff, he ignored it in favor of: "Try this crisps!"