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sunshine and flip flops! we live in arizona!!

When I was a kid, my brother and I enjoyed the tradition of celebrating our birthdays together on the Fourth of July; his birthday is July 3 and mine is July 5. We had birthday cake, presents, and sparklers!

Our summer tradition is spending time out at the lake. Growing up it was my grandparents house and a couple of years ago it became my sisters house. Now I get to watch my kids develop the same tradition of living at the lake for the summer. Love it!!

Watermelon seed spitting contest! Sounds super silly and stupid, but it really is funny and "FUN" to see even adults trying to spit watermelon seeds pucker up their cheeks to spit the seeds as far as they can!

flamingo fridays everyone in the neighborhood takes turns holding a get together outside at their house and you don;t know where it is until the cheesy pink flamingos show up in their yard friday morning.

Every summer I take my son to Maine - it's just the two of us and we build the biggest sand castles - ride the trolleys and laugh until we can't breath!!

Fave summer tradition: spending most of our time in swim suits !

Our son's birthday is two weeks before our anniversary and we always go out as a family and do something fun separate from his party and our "date night". Hopefully our second baby will be born in the summer so we can continue to do this!

Favorite Summer Tradition: Every year, my family would rent a houseboat for one week on Lake Shasta in Northern California. We learned how to fish, how to ski, and how to make smores. We hiked, gathered berries, and made bonfires near the shore. Several years, we had a bear try and get onto the boat. It was the best tradition ever!

my favorite summer tradition is our family reunion + week in the mountains. I look forward to it all year!

discovering new places around the Island with our camper and canoe; road trips; sleeping under the moon and stars; I think that's the best summer tradition I'll ever cherish and always look forward to.

The kids like to burn all the old papers from that school year and start the summer!! :) Dawn H

Watching 4th of July fireworks from our backyard.

Sunday bbq's with the family...always a good time!

We love watermelon! I slice a watermelon, then we head outside to eat it. Usually we have a seedless watermelon, but if we have seeds, we just spit them out. The juice drips everywhere. If it is a really sweet watermelon, it just makes our day!

One of my favorite summer traditions is going on a road trip with my mom. We seem to leave behind the daily stresses and just enjoy hanging out together.

Swimming! Whether it be at the beach or the pool, we love to get in the water and cool off.

Favorite summer tradition is the BIG 4th of July party @ my Aunts house. Swimming, BBQ, yummy food, fireworks, water balloon fights, the red, white & blue decorations, celebrationg our FREEDOM & enjoying our family! I LOVE summer!

it's all about the fourth of july for my family.
we've been doing the same things for as long as i can remember.
breakfast in the park at 6am to see the hot air balloons take off, then watching the small and never changing fourth of july parade, walking around the park to the enjoy booths and fair stuff, go take a nap, enjoy the evening with a party with friends and family, then head to my old high school to sit on the football field and watch the fireworks. its the same every year, and i love it.

I think my favorite tradition is my family always getting together for July 4th. We have always gotten together, had a bbq and watched fireworks. This will be the first year in a long time that I will be able to spend it with them.