For the third straight year, we decided to celebrate Independence Day with Lucy and her family. Caroline brought the July 4th hat which was worn by Jane
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Lucy
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Ben
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Michael
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Caroline
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Ben, again
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and David
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She also brought this hat for Suzanne
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who do a mad hatter act
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and then a madder hatter
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or was she being Bartholomew Cubbins and working towards 500 hats?
The ingredients came out
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for gin and tonics and then Jane
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and Lucy and Jane posed with hat
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without hat
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then embracing
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then back-to-back
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and side by side
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in what will someday be their modeling
portfolios.
We fired up the grill
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and cleaned the grate
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until we got to a good temperature
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and so unpacked the food
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and put it on the grill
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while Michael
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and Benjamin
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tossed a ball, Jane and Lucy chilled
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on the deck and after another round of photos
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the food was done on the grill
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and ready for transportation
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into the house where the food looked
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quite good -- this was Michael's plate
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After dinner, Lucy showed us how she could turn beer
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into milk
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and we all thanked Thomas Jefferson for the holiday.