Fun on the 4th

For the past few years we have gone to Oklahoma to visit friends over the 4th of July. Even though I am 8 months pregnant we still made the drive... we just had to add a few extra stops along the way! : )  I do have to say that traveling when you are very pregnant is not so much fun, but being with some special friends made it all worth it!

When I was 14 my family went on a mission trip to Poland. I never understood how important our liberty and freedom was until I saw how the Nazis and Communists had changed such a beautiful land and the people who lived there. To this day I get goose bumps when I hear The Star Spangled Banner or see the American flag raised high.

To those that serve our country and the families that support them, Thank you for continuing to protect our freedom!

Here are a few pictures from our Independence Day Celebration with a few of my favorite quotes on liberty.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. ~ JFK

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.  ~Author unknown