It has always been a joke around our home that Independence Day is the day that Shannon lost his freedom. It was 20 years ago, on July 4th, that Shannon and I were married. We were both in our Marine Corps dress blues and had fireworks at the reception. In reality, it is the day that God joined us together, knowing far more than we did at that point what He had in store for us. Twenty years later we are both Christians, have 5 wonderful children and are preparing to move into what will likely be the biggest adventure of our lives.
We plan to spend the day with extended family as they join us in celebrating not just Independence Day, but our anniversary and my sister's 29th birthday(on the 5th). It will be a fun time with the annual water fight between my dad, my sis, her boyfriend and all of the kids. There will be brats and burgers on the grill for lunch and sloppy joes for supper. Along with a couple of cakes, some ice cream, watermelon and s'mores we will eat well. The company will be great too and the boat will be put to use with tubers and knee boarders behind.
Happy Independence Day everyone and thanks for celebrating with us!
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2 comments:
You have many things to celebrate. Congratulations on the 20 years together.
Barb
Happy anniversary!
We are hopefully going to make it to see some fireworks tonight. These will be Sam's first, and Trinity LOVES fireworks. Morgan is here visiting, and we are feeling a tad icky and Trinity is a bit more than a tad mean and jealous today. So who knows if we'll have the energy to go anywhere tonight.
Hope you had a great day!
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