we stayed home!!
We've NEVER done that before.
We hosted a BBQ, Brian smoked some ribs, everyone brought yummy food.
It was epic in it's simplicity.
We got our Old Navy t's on clearance this year. I think I got all 6 for 20.
I made hair pretties for everyone out of a bunch of different plaid shirts,
(originally I had planned on making t-shirt dresses for all the girl's with...but it didn't happen this year).
We started the day with some yummy patriotic pancakes!
I made some really fun stained glass star spangled jello jigglers
and
A red, white, and blue potato salad.
That night we played with boxes and boxes of poppers and sparklers...
then realized we had to clean up the streamers.
Next year we'll have to re-think that.
We were able to see a few different fire work shows from our street. Where we were celebrating, it was perfect.....all together a perfect day.
Our summer in Philadelphia and Washington DC changed who I am. I always felt patriotic, but that is the summer that I became a true patriot. Learning more about and seeing first hand where our country was born and what it cost to create, gave me a greater appreciation for the amazing freedom and protection we enjoy as Americans. I'm so impresses by our countries forefathers. By their religious conviction and their passion toward a God given rite to freedom for all.
Seeing the many monuments and museums dedicated to the wars our country has fought protecting freedom of others that have needed it made me passionate about my country. I feel so grateful to live in a land where my children and family are safe. We are safe from great horrors that still exist in the world today.
I am honored to live in a country where people are willing to sacrifice and fight and stand up for freedom.
In our politically charged world today, I feel a loss at the righteous honorable American leaders of past days. I know many exist still, but I believe that they are harder to find than those who push their own agenda's while the greater good gets pushed to the side.
I know that we as American's sometimes lack passion for our country. Would we feel differently if we'd experienced the horrors of West Africa that are currently happening today, or if we could see the great wars and desolation of past times? Our freedom is handed to us on a silver platter and I worry that, like the Israelite's, we will be too lazy to look up and save ourselves.
We know much, we have much...
we have been GIVEN much, and I believe it is our duty to be involved, to have a voice for all those who have sacrificed and now have no voice. We have the ability to make changes in our country. We've seen what happened in Germany and France during WW2 when people stopped speaking because they at first weren't looking closely enough and then because they were too afraid to speak up for their neighbors.
We have a much greater ability to express ourselves than they ever did,
and I pray that the righteous in our country will be courageous enough to have a voice.
First in their families, then in their neighborhoods, in their communities, their cities, states, our country, and finally the world. To preserve our countries hard fought freedom, and the beauty that is the American Dream.
Seeing the many monuments and museums dedicated to the wars our country has fought protecting freedom of others that have needed it made me passionate about my country. I feel so grateful to live in a land where my children and family are safe. We are safe from great horrors that still exist in the world today.
I am honored to live in a country where people are willing to sacrifice and fight and stand up for freedom.
In our politically charged world today, I feel a loss at the righteous honorable American leaders of past days. I know many exist still, but I believe that they are harder to find than those who push their own agenda's while the greater good gets pushed to the side.
I know that we as American's sometimes lack passion for our country. Would we feel differently if we'd experienced the horrors of West Africa that are currently happening today, or if we could see the great wars and desolation of past times? Our freedom is handed to us on a silver platter and I worry that, like the Israelite's, we will be too lazy to look up and save ourselves.
We know much, we have much...
we have been GIVEN much, and I believe it is our duty to be involved, to have a voice for all those who have sacrificed and now have no voice. We have the ability to make changes in our country. We've seen what happened in Germany and France during WW2 when people stopped speaking because they at first weren't looking closely enough and then because they were too afraid to speak up for their neighbors.
We have a much greater ability to express ourselves than they ever did,
and I pray that the righteous in our country will be courageous enough to have a voice.
First in their families, then in their neighborhoods, in their communities, their cities, states, our country, and finally the world. To preserve our countries hard fought freedom, and the beauty that is the American Dream.
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