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Monday, July 4, 2011

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Happy 4th of July!!

Every year since I can remember the 4th of July has been celebrated with family, and hash has been a key element in that celebration.

When I was young, all of my dad's family (Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, etc.) would go to the farm where Grammie lived and we'd spend all day out there running around catching frogs, climbing trees, getting into to trouble of any shape or form. While we ran around like hooligans Papi would be sitting around a fire with a cast iron pot cooking hash. He would start the fire early in the morning and cook it slow and steady. We'd all sit down and enjoy the meal  (complete with Grammie's sweet tea :)), and then came the PARADE we had been waiting all year for!

Grammie had an old yellow racing convertible and all the grandchildren would pile in dressed in all of Grammie's fun parade STUFF, Grammie would put on her clown nose, we'd grab handfuls of candy and up and down the looong driveway we would go throwing candy to our parents.

See... we are big kids here. Way too old to enjoy this? Nah... Wish I had other pictures so you
could get the full effect! :)

This seems so silly, but this is a tradition we enjoyed waaay past our childhood... then again, we're all kids at heart. :)

THIS year Dad did the hash- he has carried on the tradition. And most of our family couldn't be at the 4th of July gathering (because of a surprise party for Grammie on the 5th ;)), so we invited some friends  to join us! We had a GREAT time...
Mom, Grandma and Carrie

Lee and Carli came by... you can NEVER grow out of fascination of sparklers!

Daniel was looking for the bean bags

This is his head on the other side of the corn hole board hole... (that was confusing) so cute!

Daniel was enjoying his hash!

Zhixin and Tingting... my running and swimming inspiration :)

Tingting and I dominated this game of corn hole...

Daniel had some advice to give our team.

Sweet Grammie joined us! I love this lady!

Carly was trying to SQUIRT out the firework!! ;)

Daniel's first experience holding a sparker. :) What fun memories to capture!!

Thankful for the freedom we enjoy in America and the sacrifice of SO MANY to give us that freedom. More importantly, thankful for the TRUE freedom we have in Jesus Christ.

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