Fun Family Fourth - the people!

What would a fun, family holiday be without the family? That's the most important part! We are blessed to be able to live fairly close to much of our immediate and extended families. Most of our families on both sides live within a 3 hour drive of us. How we got so lucky I'll never know ... especially when I grew up in an entirely different country!

Here are some of this year's attendees ....

Our daughter Joy.
Aunt Debbie and Hope

Joy, cousin Thomas, Hope and cousin Jonathon

All 5 cousins eating homemade red, white and blue pops {more on that later}

Cousin Jonathon

PopPop and GiGi

Aunt Debbie and Uncle Rick

My in laws - Dan and Robin

My lovely Mom and I

My wonderful sis in law and I

Cousin Thomas {or I guess to me he's a nephew}

Hope

Joy {love this shot of her!}

Cousin Andrew

Uncle Danny with Jonathon in the pool

Family is truly a treasure to us. We are blessed beyond words to have been raised in the families we have. We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate a holiday than to be surrounded by our families.