Fourth of July

The 4th of July is the funnest day of the year for my family. We have gotten together at my sisters house for over 30 years. We started out playing volleyball when we were younger but now as we have gotten older our children are now the ones playing. My brother-in-law always makes the same oysters on the half shell over the barbecue pit and also cooks chicken and salmon. Everyone brings some kind of a side dish and or a dessert. While the kids light off the small fireworks out in the cow pasture for what seems hours, we eat and eat and eat till 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. There seems to be someone new or someone we haven't seen in years. I totally look forward to it all year long.