5 WAYS TO CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY
Festivals are planned and resuming and parades are scheduled. Fireworks displays are happening! What are your plans? Our country’s freedoms are exceptional here in the USA! Take a minute this holiday and give thanks to our Lord and Savior for the family that you were born into, for the amazing country you live in, and for the life you are so blessed to be living! We ALL need to take a minute an realize these truths!
Yes, our country will always have issues that need to be worked out, but overall there is no better place on this earth to live our best life. If you think the grass is greener elsewhere, I encourage you to leave our exceptional land of freedoms and live there to find out. Report back! I’d find it very interesting to hear what you discovered! Otherwise…just rest assured in the blessings you have before you and be encouraged daily in God’s word!
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
~Ronald Reagan
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Independence Day Parade July 4, 2019
What are your families traditions for celebrating Independence Day? Where do you travel? What does your celebration weekend look like? Travel to your favorite festival location to celebrate may not be an option, so celebrate in your backyard!
Whatever your holiday looks like this year, take a minute and enjoy your freedoms! Enjoy a small town parade or an over the water fireworks show or a BIG CITY FESTIVAL, but recognize that you are blessed!
Join with family and friends to focus on our suggestions of 5 ways to celebrate the 4th of July in style this year! July 4th is on a Monday this year! THAT means a long weekend! Happy 4th everyone! CELEBRATE!
STAYCATION
If travel is not in the plan this year then enjoy your backyard or the local lake to cool down!
This 4th of July is an excellent opportunity to bond with family! Find a quiet place to rock a baby, or have a soda on the dock with your Dad to discuss the meaning of life! Enjoy the slow down of life and relax! Get together near home with your small group and recharge your life batteries!
Find activities near home to engage your small group and remember to celebrate our freedoms provided to us through the sacrifices of so many others that have gone before us or are currently serving us actively in the military. Do not take your freedoms for granted!
FAMILY GATHERING
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RIP Grandpa Gordon our hearts ache…we miss you daily.
Get together with family! The 4th of July is a great excuse to re-connect with loved ones that we don’t get to spend a lot of time with daily. ENJOY a great family picnic! Try to find shade and stay outside in the cool breeze, if possible! Have a potluck! Take every opportunity to celebrate your family and togetherness!
Time is fleeting! Don’t isolate yourself away from social support and remember to reconnect with loved ones every chance you get! If family is not an option for you, don’t hesitate to take a plate of cookies to a neighbor and wish them a happy 4th of July! We all need each other and a sense of community! Share time with each other and re-connect!
LAKE FUN
If you have a local body of water, go play! Watersports are a refreshing way to cool off from the heat of summer and it provides entertainment galore for a family! Waterskiing, tubing, knee-boarding, wake surfing or just going for a boat ride are great ways to spend time together as a family.
FIREWORKS
Our family tradition is to shoot fireworks off from a barge (old pontoon boat) tethered out in front of the dock on an area inland lake. Others on the lake like to float out in their boats to watch the firework display! The men have a great time planning the firework show, organizing the wicks, etc. They are very careful and it is all computer driven to keep everyone away from the explosions as they are triggered. It is their highlight of the 4th and how we celebrate.
I love sparklers! I grew up enjoying them and watching my father set off fireworks. How does your family celebrate Independence day? Will you be enjoying some fireworks from your home?
PICNIC
We love a picnic outdoors! Family is the core to our existence! Enjoy your time with those that mean the most to you! Whether a sandwich by the pool while traveling, in the backyard enjoying a BBQ, or at an organized function with loved ones! ENJOY the moments that we are given to share in each other’s lives!
Embrace each moment that presents itself to you to truly enjoy this 4th of July! Celebrate Independence Day! Remember what you are celebrating!
No day is more significant to the U.S.A. than the Fourth of July, in which we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.” May God bless our nation today and every day!
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Barbara
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74 Comments
Beth Shields
Fun suggestions for the 4th and really any time. The water play looks like a riot. Well, all of it looks fun and the reminders help me to just make it work somehow. Thanks for your post.
Erica
I always love your posts, and you are spot on with this one! We can still celebrate and be together, it might be a bit different but our hearts can still be full and we can still find fun! Thank you!
Barbara Robinson
Thank Erica for your words of encouragement! I really appreciate that you enjoy my efforts at blogging! It really does mean a lot!
Ramae Hamrin
I can’t help admiring that amazing patio by the lake. Wow! So glad you had fun 😊. I had my kids over for the 4th but we all wore masks and stayed well over 6 ft apart. There is no room for error with a compromised immune system. Hoping next year it’s a little more relaxed!
Alexis
Looks like soo much fun! i can’t wait until I have a cottage one day! Thanks for all of the summer ideas!
Kay
The lake seems like so much fun!! My little one turned a year old this summer and got to watch the fireworks show for the first time this year!
Carey
These are such great ideas! We love spending time with family and watching fireworks.
Douglas Jasper
I think that is awesome that your celebration was very family focused.
Kristin
We moved across country to live near family, and for the first time in a long time enjoyed a celebration with extended family members for the 4th. It was definitely a holiday to remember this year!
jen
I love sparklers too!!! it was so different celebrating this year but still had a great time!
Tricia Snow
Great suggestions and everyone looks like they are enjoying their family time!
Debbie
Looks like a wonderful day with family and friends celebrating!! 🇺🇸
Holly
Great ways to celebrate! We stayed home and had some sparklers and ground fireworks! I hope you had a great day!
Lisa Manderino
This looks like a perfect way to spend the 4th of July. We usually participate in our cities festivities but they didn’t happen this year so we made the best of our situation, got out of the house spent some time together and made our traditional American Flag Cake.
Bonnie
Even though we are not American, we celebrate July 4th by watching the movie Independence Day…we’ve done this for a few years now and the kids love it.
heather J jandrue
Great ways to celebrate the 4th. We had a quiet forth with our best friends and family. It was nice.
Kate
I’m from Canada, so our celebration was a few days before yours. It was really different this year – no big gatherings or town fireworks. But we still found ways to have fun. Thanks for the ideas.
Sabrina DeWalt
Great ideas for having fun while maintaining social distancing.
Leeandra
These all are like great ideas! I love watching fire works!
Rachel
Thanks for sharing! Looks like you had a blast! I would love a staycation or lake adventure 🙂
Sara
We took a short road trip this year and enjoyed watching fireworks in a new place.
Danielle Ardizzone
Even though we stuck to home this year, it was a great holiday! Love these suggestions!
Tiffany
We connected! We distanced! Some of us even pre-tested that week to reassure others. Masks when needed inside. Just a few changes to help keep us all safe!
Emily Ackerman
We had a great 4th this year. It was different than all the other years, but lighting fireworks at my parents house with the kids was a blast!
Misty
Your 4th of July looks way more fun than ours!!!
Chelsea
Wow! Looks fun! Even our fireworks show got cancelled this year. But we made do with just those who live under this roof. Had a fire in the fire pit out back and a BBQ. It’s definitely been a different year, but looks like you found some great ways to celebrate!
Suzan | It's My Sustainable Life
Lovely ways to celebrate & create memories! We enjoyed friends by a fire & was entertained by all the firework displays created by neighbors.
Sandi
I miss our 4th of July celebrations. Maybe next year.
Alexis Farmer
Any of these would be a blast! Love your pictures
Barbara Robinson
Thanks!
Sarah
The water looks like so much fun! Love the family together time. Happy 4th – although it looks a bit different this year!
Amanda
Great family-centered and country-centered ideas to celebrate this special holiday! Love the photos.
Kendra
I loved this post so much! It’s great seeing how you celebrate! We had such a great time this year with family together for a BBQ and fireworks at my brother’s house!
Barbara Robinson
Thanks! Love a BBQ with family! Sounds great!
Alice
I celebrated on the 5th of July with my son. He shot off some fireworks at his Dad’s house and I was invited to come watch. Great posts!
Angela
We so missed having our 4th of July usual – no parades or fireworks here in California. And we are all still sheltering in place…
Eva Keller
We didn’t have any plans this year, but the day before my husband reached out to his friends to see if anyone was doing anything and we ended up going to his friends house to swim and have dinner. It was nice to get out and do something. We both used to work for Disney, so I think this was the first 4th of July we haven’t worked in years.
Barbara Robinson
Glad you were able to celebrate! Spending time with friends and a pool sounds great!
Jane
Great ideas about July 4 celebration! We had staycation due to the current situation but we watched the firework from our balcony.
Beth
Your celebration of July 4 looks so fun. The guys on the inner tubes look like they are having a blast. I like your enthusiasm, and desire to inspire others with your site! Thanks, Beth
Barbara Robinson
Thanks Beth! I try to soak up every moment with my family! Very quickly it’s back to college and when school starts our home feels more lonesome!
Tricia Snow
I would love to know where this lake is? It looks amazing and I am all about lake vacations since I live on the beach.
Barbara Robinson
This is Walloon Lake in Northern Lower Peninsula Michigan. It is a secret SH! We selfishly like to keep it to ourselves as it is so pristine!
melissa
We spent our 4th on a lake, as well – it’s the definitely the best place to be! Sparklers are a big hit with us, too; the kiddos love them and I try and snag a few from them, as well. Happy 4th!
Barbara Robinson
Happy 4th! LOVE the lake!
Leslie
Love your fireworks photos!! Great way to celebrate the 4th of July!
Pam
Great ideas! Our town still did a fireworks display but had a variety of places to watch it from. We were able to park downtown and watch from inside our Jeep (no top). The perfect way to enjoy the show without coming into contact with anyone else.
Barbara Robinson
That’s a great idea! See…we just need to positively adjust and life can safely continue! 🙂
kmf
Positive growth mindset on how to celebrate when life may not be packaged as expected
Leigh
The lake and watersports look like so much fun! And I bet the fireworks were beautiful over the water too!!
Barbara Robinson
That’s our “normal!” When you haven’t really experienced it the other way around, I guess we don’t know of doing it differently!
Karen
Love all these great ways to celebrate the 4th of July! We’re doing the staycation option this year but always love any opportunity to celebrate on the lake.
Alexandra
Last year we spend it in San Diego and it was so much fun. This year we had a pool day in our backyard.
Leeanne
What a fun day. Most of the fireworks were canceled by us but we drove around and were able to see some people shooting them off so we got our fix. I agree, spending time with family is great.
Shirley
I love staycations, especially right now. It looks like everyone had a grand time and made wonderful family memories.
Cindy Mailhot
This looks like a lot of fun.
Barbara Robinson
We work hard…and play hard! 🙂
Cindy Mailhot
It looks like such a good time! I had the house to myself as everyone was working…that was great too!.
Jordan
These are great ideas not only for the 4th, but all summer! And I love your fireworks pictures.
Cindy Moore
These are fun ways to celebrate! We were very boring this year. We simply stayed home and stayed in, although we did enjoy the neighborhood fireworks for a bit that evening. Honestly, after a very busy week, it was wonderful to have some down time on the 4th!
Barbara Robinson
I feel like that too sometimes! Holidays can be hectic where you need a vacation from your vacation! 🙂
Annette
I love the summer get togethers and 4th of July festivities!!! It looks like your celebration did not disappoint!! We had some rain here, but it was certainly needed. We also had a rather quiet celebration due the the health pandemic. Hopefully next year will be more “normal”.
Tiffany Smith
I can’t wait for the 4th this year! Hoping to be out at a campsite somewhere!!!
Nelis
There is nothing like going to the lake and watching fireworks! Great post!
Mina
I always love how 4th of July is celebrated in the US in a very happy way, while in Poland May 3rd or November 11th are usually not that fine, especiall November 11th – probably the most traumatic family meetings ever.
Alicia
We’re celebrating Independence Day in a few different ways over the next few days… family time, a day excursion, and a staycation. The weather might not allow much much outdoor time here. Storms are in the forecast, unfortunately!
Stacey Billingsley
We’re kind of keeping things low-key this year since my husband had to work all weekend and the holiday. We may go to the city fireworks on the 4th, but my husband has to be up the next morning for work on Tuesday, too. Then he’ll have a break, so maybe we’ll just do something fun when he is off. He’ll have a small stretch after the holiday. Such is life in the medical field!
Suzan
These 5 ways to celebrate Independence Day are definitely some that we will be enjoying this year. Family, food, and fun!
Missy
Happy 4th of July! We enjoy celebrating Independence Day with family and fireworks.
Trisha
Since ‘m from Michigan as well, a lot of these things are a “must-do” during the 4th of July weekend. My son’s favorite thing to do is watch a parade. He’s a big fan of the old cars. Thank you for such a great list!
simplyjolayne
Looks as though you will have a fun day surrounded by family and fun! Happy 4th of July.
Julianne
Such fun suggestions and those pics all look like a blast! I live in Canada so we have Canada Day instead. It’s tomorrow and I haven’t figured out what we are going to do yet, but now I’m thinking a picnic might be fun. Thanks for the inspiration!
Danika
All of these suggestions are awesome! While I’m not American myself, Canada Day is tomorrow, so I may have to take you up on one or two of these ideas just a little earlier! 😊
Lisa, Casey, Barrett Dog
Your posts are so fun and full of adventure! These 5 ways to celebrate Independence Day are fabulous! Family time is so important.