July 6, 2025

We Are The Hansons 4th of July

We Are The Hansons 4th of July

Join "We Are The Hansons" as we celebrate the spirit of Independence Day! In this special episode, we reflect on what freedom, family, and fireworks mean to us. From backyard BBQs and patriotic traditions to laughter with our grandkids and waving flags, it's all about honoring the red, white, and blue. Tune in for heartfelt moments, family fun, and a reminder of what makes America special.

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Hey everybody, and welcome back to we are the Hansens.

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Today we are going to talk to you about our

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family traditions for the fourth of July and how we

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celebrate our fourth of July with all the crazy chaos

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of the Hansens.

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Yeah, it's always chaotic on the fourth of July every time,

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no matter what we do. But it's one of our

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most favorite holidays, wouldn't you.

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Say absolutely, I love the fourth of July.

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Yeah, And we have a mix of things that we've done,

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like family traditions. We have many like usually we have

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a cornhole tournament on fourth of July.

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Cornhole tournament, we do volleyball. It's just fun.

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Yeah, squirt guns, yep, frisbees, the dogs are out there.

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Chaos fun smiles, laughter. But we've got some tips for you, okay,

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like in their tips that sometimes we don't even follow

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ourselves even though we try to follow ourselves. Would like this,

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How many four Fourth of Julys have we had where

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we plan out this big spread? Okay, we're talking. Maybe

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it's stakes, maybe it's burgers, maybe it's hot dogs, whatever

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it is. Do we ever have it all together where

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we have everything that we need for food?

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No, absolutely not.

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No, it's uh. I want to say that you were

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in charge of it most of the time.

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Yeah, we all decide as a family what we're gonna

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make for that day.

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Right, and usually it's not extravagant because there's so many people.

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You got to keep it, you know, like you're gonna

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spend money on it no matter what. But we try to. Okay,

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there's gonna be deals on hot dogs, or if we

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get him early enough, there's going to be Fourth of

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July rib deals and throw it on you know, the

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Weber or something like that.

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This year, we got a great deal, so we decided

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to do pulled pork sandwiches and bacon wrapped Brussels sprouts.

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Yeah. We got two pork shoulders, twenty two pounds and

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we got it for thirty two bucks.

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Yeah, that was a good deal. Fed the whole family,

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it did, and we have a ton left.

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We do we do. I don't know why because it

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tasted so good, but you kind of got a break.

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It was me that I had to do that.

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I did the Brussels sprouts, guys. I mean he worked

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the smoker for the meat.

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Yeah, it was a long smoke too. It was three

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o'clock in the afternoon and we put it on it

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midnight before. So there's some prep that you have to have,

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you know, so you don't make sure that you don't

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drop the ball. But no matter what you do, with

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a large family, you're gonna get forget something.

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Yeah, I mean, we forgot a couple of things. So

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he sauce.

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Tip number one, be creative, very creative if you don't

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want to be running back to the store two or

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three times. Get creative. And you know, I've got ketchup,

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I've got brown sugar, I've got some cayenne pepper, I've

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got all these different things. And you could make a

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sauce if you've forgot a sauce. Yes, or you can

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do like I do and just get a paper out

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and write every single thing down, put it in your pocket,

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and then get it when you're at the store. But

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that's not how you do it.

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You don't always do it that way, but that is

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that is the way it should be done. But but

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what things get chaotic?

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Oh for sure for sure. So and then drinks, And

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the thing is, drinks get very very expensive with a

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large family, and you know, SODA's just not good for kids.

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So there's a lot of options out there right now

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for like healthy kool Aid.

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Yeah, we do a lot of bottled water with the

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little mixed straws.

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Then there's actual like different kool aids now that you

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can add you know, sativa in instead of sugar. Or

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it mixes well with real cane sugar, not the enriched stuff,

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so we try to be healthy with that. Or or

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here's my personal favorite, because I have I'm diabetic, my

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mother made me a lemonade with real lemons and sativa,

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yeah or sativa or however that's said, and water and

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it was phenomenal. It was great. I like that, especially

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on Fourth of July and with the kids, the kids

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get so busy playing. Tip number two, keep the children hydrated.

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Yeah, lemonade is a hydration drink.

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Yeah, well anything with water is going to be good.

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But you got to make sure that those kids stay

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because they'll just forget to eat, they'll forget to drink,

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they'll forget to do anything, and then at the end

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of the day, oh I'm sick. I got a headache,

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you know.

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Yeah, And if if you knew our kids, they sweat

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a lot and they come in and their faces beat

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red and they look like they are cherries. I'm just

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running around with their friends.

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And I mean, you know when you get together on

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the fourth of July. Have we ever had a Fourth

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of July that there wasn't like an oops moment? No,

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like we've dropped a half of a watermelon after we've

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cut it.

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Oh, yeah, that's happened a couple of times. Actually.

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Yeah. The kids will get into certain things that they're

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not supposed to beforehand.

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Yes, And we tried a new fruit, well new to us.

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It's almost like a mix between a honeydew and a cantalope.

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It's called a lemon drop.

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Yeah, but it tastes like lemon, or it's got a

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lemon flavor to us.

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Yes, it is so good.

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So yeah, well it doesn't taste much like like, you know,

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what are the ones that you like so much?

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Welp or musk melon?

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Musk melon. The reason they call it musk melon is

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because it smells musky. No, yes, very musky. And this

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lemon drop was very clean, pleasant, beautifully beautifully tasting. And

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we got that hive for a buck ninety nine.

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Yeah, and it was gone in no time.

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You're probably wondering why I revert everything back to dollars

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and cents. And it's literally because when you have a

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big family, it's always on your mind, like I've got

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to have this money to pay the bills, So I'm

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going to do this. It's cost effectively as possible. So

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in my mind, when these lemon drop candilopes pop in

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my head, I see dollar ninety nine? Is that? Is

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that the way you.

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See it now? I just see good fruit?

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Yeah, you see good fruit. Or when I see the

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pork shoulder that you know we shred it up and stuff.

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I see thirty two ninety.

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Nine, Well, that definitely comes to my mind when I meet.

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That's lower costing.

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So tip, you know, try to always get this in

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your mind so you're never overextending, because it's so easy,

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especially if you and your wife have a shared bank

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account and you both have cards, and you stop and

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get fireworks for the kids, and she stops and gets

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fireworks for the kids, and you're like, oh, man, I

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spent fifty you spent eighty. Wow, and we had budgeted

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like sixty, right, I mean.

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That happens, Yeah, that does happen.

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So it's good. There goes my diabetic monitor again. See,

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I think we should take this thing off my arm. No,

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why not?

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Because you need that. I mean that must have type

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of thing. He doesn't like wearing it, but he definitely

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needs it, especially when we're out in the about, you know,

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just to make sure that he's staying under a certain thing,

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even though he never gets under that.

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Yeah, basically, drink water and hope you don't die. That's

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pretty much the way that it is. So, you know,

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we don't really have a lot of family tensions, but

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I do know that there's a lot of families that

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they get a lot of drinking involved on Fourth of July. Yes,

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and there can be fights and stuff. I mean we're

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not like, no, you can't drink to the kids obviously

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that are old enough to have a beer if they

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want to. But I think there's a set of expectations

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that goes a long ways. So tip number three, when

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you're all with your family and you want to have

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a good time, set expectations for your whole family, and

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that avoids a lot of the arguments, a lot of

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the you know fights. I've seen it. Our neighbors across

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the street literally had a fight. So it's just one

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of those things. That we take for granted, but some families,

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maybe you need to set expectation.

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Our kids also know their limits.

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Well, yeah, that's expectations, limitations, you know what you can

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can't do. Just set them and forget them and hopefully

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your family will abide by them and it will always

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be fun for them. Yeah, you know, there's always going

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to be little funny disagreements or you know, things like that,

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or you know this is the way you do that,

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you know, like smoking and grilling and stuff like that.

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Yes, yeah, making me hungry already.

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So some of these things you can navigate a little

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bit to help stress all of you parents out there.

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Know when you have little kids and you have fireworks,

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you have one of two kids out there, there's no

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like middle of the road like yeah, you either have

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kids that are afraid of them, yep, or you have

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kids that literally want to ride the rocket up before

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it explodes in the sky. Yeah, and we have both, right, So,

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I mean you want to keep the kids away. They

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need to be. There's got to be a boundary, there,

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a healthy spot where little kids you can't cross this mark,

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so you know, you don't get your fingers blown off

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and things like that.

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Yeah, and if it were up to our granddaughter, she

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would have been right there lighting the firework even though

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she's not even too yet.

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Yeah, she absolutely loves them. And I'm glad to see that.

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But there's a safety thing in here. And if you're

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stressed out, it's probably because he didn't take the proper

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precautions to not be stressed out, to eliminate that.

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Yeah, and then we got you remember.

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The piece, right, the piece, Yeah, the piece. Proper planning

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prevents piss poor performance. Well, it happens, and the fourth

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of July two say that for sure? Can you say

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that no proper planning prevents piss poor performance? No, yes,

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it is what it is. But setting that up and

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kind of having like, you know what, you don't have

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to be like Stalin, but you do kind of have

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to set up this. Okay, this is where we're gonna

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light the fireworks off. This is where the this age

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group of kids needs to be back. You know, safety

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needs to be in place. We should probably have a

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bucket of water. Things like that we think about. I

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think because we've been doing this kind of thing for

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so long, we've always got band aids.

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Yep, And we did have one mishap. Our boys had

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lit a firework while the container tipped over and it

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just started shooting fireworks. But we were all in a

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safe area, so none of us got hit with it, right.

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I mean, And that stuff happens. So you got to

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plan for anything happening, you know, and then just count

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your lucky stars that you were you had a little

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bit of preventive maintenance. Yeah, when it comes to the

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family stuff, we look.

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At other people, like our neighbors when they were shooting fireworks,

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and we're like, man, that's dangerous to us. It was

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dangerous to them. They just had no idea what was

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going to happen. They were just shooting fireworks at each other.

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Yes, and so here's another thing. Tip. What are we

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on four or five? Now? Whatever Hansen tip number you

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say it? Well, you know, I don't know what it is.

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But if you're going somewhere, be there at least an

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hour early or more or more. We went down to

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Branson to watch the Branson landing fireworks and what were

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we two hours early?

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Yep.

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And every parking lot for three miles unless you wanted

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to pay fifty bucks to park your vehicle there. Yeah,

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every single one of them was filled up.

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Yep. And then we tried to find like a parking

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lot close and that was definitely not the answer because

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everybody was parking, even in gas station parking lots.

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Yeah, it was. It was a mess. So we ended

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up parking like three miles away. And the little girls

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could see enough to say ooh ah, and we're like, yeah,

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and we're probably hearing the sound a half hour after

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we see the firework.

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they weren't extravagant, but they could see them.

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doing more stuff. We went through the whole COVID thing

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and everybody was like the crowds were small things like that.

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starting to come out and enjoy themselves. So get places early,

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very early. Yeah, earlier than you would think. I know.

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to drive in the traffic afterwards. I don't really want

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to do it and have to go out there sit

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in the hot sun. You know, my wife's gonna get orangery.

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what they're supposed to do. We're gonna have to chase

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them around, keep them out of the traffic and stuff

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like that. But it's worth it, guys, it's worth it.

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I mean, yes, your wife, it's going to be oranery.

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Hot blacktop three hundred degrees rolling off the blacktop. You

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know what a pan right on the blacktop. No, obviously

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I'm making fun of her, but yes, see, just a

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little bit of proper planning, and sometimes you just can't

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and a half, two hours early, and it was already

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filled up. There was zero parking spots. And then we've

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got a big family, which means multiple cars, which means

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you have to find multiple places to park close to

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one another unless you're gonna get out and go sit somewhere.

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us fifteen to twenty minutes to pull into one parking

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lot to see if there was any place to park.

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I was driving, so it wasn't too hard on you, no, right,

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your first time kid with you, it's okay to have

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some ear protection or keep them close to you because

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you don't want them to become afraid of something. You

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want them to be able to enjoy this experience. So

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it's like a twofold thing. They see the other kids

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out there having fun. That's a big one. But also,

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you know, sometimes they're really really loud. Yeah, and it's

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okay to have ear protection for that.

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the fireworks. She loved them, and she's four months old.

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was in awe. She absolutely loved it.

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So another thing that we've done in the past. We

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didn't do it this year, but a lot of years

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we'll go to the fourth of July parade.

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do it this year, but next year I hope to

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do it.

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Yeah, it's fun. You know, maybe this year you can

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a k through twelve float and get in the parade.

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Oh, that'd be great because amazing.

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Yeah, our kids, they go to online school, why don't

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you tell them about it?

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It's an online virtual school that our kids attend, and

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they're amazing.

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You know what's cool about them is you get into

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public schools and you have thirty thirty two kids per class,

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and your kid really doesn't get a lot of specialized

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attention if they need it in you know, maybe maybe

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it's one part of the curriculum they're having a problem with.

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When it's K twelve, they have teachers there that hey,

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we're going to work one on one with your child

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and get this fixed. I absolutely love that our kids

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go there. They're the sponsor of today's program K through

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twelve and I can't recommend them enough for what they've

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done for all of our kids.

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Yes, they are absolutely wonderful, very understanding, and they listen.

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They listen, and what they teach is actually the things

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that you need to know without the fluff. Yeah, wouldn't

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you say that?

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I would definitely.

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So, you know, checking out, well, what is the url

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that they can go check that out on? It is

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see I put her on the spot.

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Oh yeah, you did.

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I did?

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They did.

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No, you know, I wanted to pull this up because

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what's cool is through K twelve you end up meeting

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other kids. And we didn't have any idea that any

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other kids that were going to K twelve or even biased. Well,

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during that process we found out, hey there's these other kids.

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Well you know, guess who came over on fourth of

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July A couple of the families that had other K

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twelve kids. And your kids get friends and socializing and

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K twelve dot com forward slash Hanson it's K twelve

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dot com forward slash hands and go check them out.

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Look into it for our needs and our family. They

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have been wonderful. Yes, And it's like I said, you

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know what, you meet families, you meet kids, they come

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over on fourth of July, things like that.

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So that is how we do the Hansen family. Fourth

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of July, wild, loud, full of fireworks, Yeah, food, family

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and a mess.

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Yeah, well it's always going to be a mess. But

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one thing that I think everybody needs to understand is

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part of the beauty in a large family is the

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beautiful chaos that happens on things like that. And like

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you're going to you know, your family's there, your kids

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are there, they're telling you about their lives, you're actually

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watching them grow up. You're watching them do cool things.

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You're watching how they interact with everybody, and at the

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end of the day, usually mom and dad are stuck

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with cleaning up a lot of the mess. The kids

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kind of help get get back together. But family is

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a beautiful chaos and you need to learn to love it.

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Yes, and making them memories is always the best.

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