Independance Day

I don't know about you, by my 4th of July was awesome. First, my brother, dad, uncle, and cousin went on the firetruck in the Stow parade. Mom, Audrey, and I sat and watched. Wow, it was so hot out! After the parade, we all came back to our house to get ready for the picnic we were having at our house. Soon, everyone was there: Grandma Iris and Grandpa Jose, Uncle Vic and Jordan (they rode on the truck and were already at the house) Grandma Kay, Uncle Jeff, Uncle Don, and Aunt Linda. We set up camping chairs on the patio and a picnic table under the tree. While Dad was grillin' the goods, Philip and Jordan were inside playing video games (surprise, surprise), Audrey and I played football *tough grunt*, and the adults talked. Audrey had a little trouble catching the Nerf, and throwing it, but other than that, I think it is a fair bet to call her "Ray" lol. Anyways, soon the food was done. Wow, I think Mom may have went a little overboard with the cooking. We had burgers, hotdogs, potato salad, homemade salsa (her salsa is soo good!), pasta salad, chips, pop, lemonade, iced tea, fruit, along with the numerous condoments for our burgers and dogs, and Grandma Iris made Spanish rice. Then, since it was my Grandparents 13th wedding anniversary, my mom made Grandma and Grandpa a cake. It was good. It was a lemon cake with her homemade icing (Cool Whip mixed in with strawberry Jell-O mix). Of course, each slice had a little American Flag tooth pick to keep up with the Patriot theme of the afternoon. Well, everyone left around 7:00 and it was just the Hembree's hanging out, well, hanging out after we cleaned up, around the house. At 9:15 we went downtown to see the fireworks. Before they started, Philip was entertaining us by doing head-stands and rolling down the hill. Some kid threw a sparkler onto the deadly dry grass and caught it on fire. The fireworks we kind of hard to see because we were on a hill and a sidewalk tree blocked out half of the veiw. Even if we could see them, they still wouldn't have been as good as the Firestone Park fireworks we saw with the teens. But it was nice to be there with my family. We don't really do a lot of thing together, all there, anymore. The fireworks lasted about 20 minutes. Philip was asleep, but woke up after the big "ka-booms" of the Finale. I carried him on my back (and he's 9 and quite heavy) back to the car. Dad decided to take his "secret short cut" off some bridge. Sorry Dad, but it wasn't that secret. Traffic was pretty bad, but we got home around 10:20. Then we went to sleep. It was a very nice family gettogether, but I made sure to remember all the military solider, past and present, who have died fighting for the rights of the American people.

Remember what our Founding Fathers made our country based on: God. I thank Him that he has given us His grace to be a strong and powerful country. Without Him, we wouldn't even be in exsistance. Nothing in America happens that He does not want to happen. That should give us peace.
Thank you.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. --John Dickinson