The 4th of July is the most enjoyable day of the year for my family. It is one of the few holidays my family still celebrates together. We have gotten together at my sister's house for over 30 years. We started out playing volleyball when we were younger and had more energy but now as we have gotten older our children and our children's children are now the ones doing all of the playing. My brother-in-law, Craig, always makes the same yummy oysters on the half shell over the barbecue pit and he also cooks chicken and salmon. Everyone brings some kind of a side dish and or a dessert. I have a special cake that I make every year, its a flag cake with blueberries and strawberries on it for decoration. While the little kids are lighting off the small fireworks out in the cow pasture for what seems like hours, we eat and eat until we are so stuffed we can hardly move. Then just as it starts to get dark we send out the older kids, ones that aren't going to blow themselves up, to set off the big bang ones. We have in the past had a guy that actually caught himself on fire. There seems to be someone new or someone we haven't seen in years. I totally look forward to it all year long.
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