Troy & Gabriella (48) Kids Hannah & Adrian (46) Kids James & Elly (39) kids

Portland-24 Journey- 31 Dylan- 23

Rylan-22 Joel- 22 Elisabet- 7

Jet- 20 Joy- 19 Addison- 5

Brooklynn- 18 ½ Americus- 3

Jackson- 18 ½ Adelaide- 3

Bliss- 16

Katie & Caleb (35) Kids Olivia & Justin (29) kids Portland & Kevin (24) kids

Makayla (Kayla) – 13 Landon- 4 months Jayden- 2 weeks

Makenzie (Kenzie) – 13

Madden- 10

Megan- 7 Journey & Nathan (31) kids

Marlena- 4 Arabelle- 5

Matthew- unborn Kieffer- 2

Mason- unborn Roland- 1

Fourth of July 2040

It was not only the celebration of America's independence but it also happened to be a Montez family reunion. The Montez kids talked to each other on the phone frequently but since they each have their own family and work they rarely got to visit each other. They all thought it would be a great idea to spend the fourth of July with their family like they used to.

That morning Gabriella woke up to her husband watching her sleep; usually it was the other way around. She smiled widely and gave him a quick kiss before she said, "Good Morning."

"Morning beautiful," he replied pulling her closer to him and giving her a kiss making sure that it was going to be much longer then the one she had given him a few seconds before. When they finally pulled back because of much need air Troy teased, "Who would have ever thought that after twenty five years I would still get that tingle when you kiss me."

"Just because I'm old doesn't mean I've lost my touch," she whispered into his ear, making sure that her lips lightly brushed up against his neck as she pulled away and got out of bed. Troy groaned when he watched her climb out of bed and search around the floor for her underwear and pants that were thrown the night before.

"Come on we have to get up and ready, I have to start making potato and macaroni salad for today. And you have to get up and go to the store like I asked you to do last night but no someone had to get all worked up and sidetrack us," Gabriella said before opening the door and leaving her husband laying in their bed.

Over the past couple years Gabriella learned to love the silence that now engrossed her house but there was always a part of her that wished that her kids were still little and running around the house. She no longer had to wake up early to make sure her kids were up and ready for school or help them with pouring their milk on their cereal; now all she had to do was make sure her sixteen year old is not doing anything stupid; it's a totally different experience. She never really grasped the idea that her kids would ever grow up and leave or have babies of their own; the day Jayden was born, her first grandbaby, it finally sunk in that she did her job in raising her kids; they'll still be her babies that would never change but now she would have to look at them like adults and let them make their own important decisions.

As Gabriella walked down the hallway she could hear the faint sound of music coming from Bliss' room, she stuck her head in right quick to make sure that she was getting ready. Gabriella smiled when she saw her youngest child sitting in front of her easel drawing away; Gabriella always thought that she looked the most like Troy, out of all of their kids Bliss has always been the exactly the same as her father, well besides the dark brown hair.

"Hey Picasso, did you actually sleep last night," Gabriella asked.

Bliss turned around and Gabriella smiled when she saw that he daughter had her usual paint accidently smeared on her face, "Yes I did thank you. Granted I did wake up at like four," she answered.

Gabriella just shook her head in disproval, "Okay crazy lady, just try to stay awake today. Hey will you go to the store for me and get some hot dog buns and eggs; I asked your father but we both know that he'll forget."

Bliss nodded her head, "Yeah no problem I'll go in a little bit," she answered putting down her brush, "Oh and mom Auntie Katie called and wanted to know if daddy still has that old tripod, you know the one that he bought when he said he was going to take up photography, and I said I think we do; I thought I saw it in the garage the other day but I couldn't remember so I kinda volunteered him to look for it, for her."

Gabriella smiled remembering the phase that Bliss was talking about, "That's okay, it'll give him something to do," she said before walking towards the stairs.

The second Gabriella reached the kitchen she turned on the IPod sound system Troy had put in the kitchen for her. And she began preparing everything for their party.

A few hours later Troy and Gabriella's house filled up with all of the Montez family and even Troy's parents came to join the party. Gabriella was happy; her house was filled with noise again. They all were outside eating their hamburgers and hamburgers watching the kids play in the pool. Gabriella walked over to the porch swing and sat next to her little sister, Katie, "Hey cutie," she said.

Katie turned to look at her big sister and gave her a big hug before she turned to her husband, "Hey babe can you get me another hot dog please, I'm starving."

Caleb looked at her like she was crazy, "Oh my god that's like the third one."

"Come on Caleb you should be used to this by now, Katie's cravings is nothing new," Gabriella teased.

The young man rolled his eyes and grabbed his wife's plate and walked in the direction of Troy at the grill.

"So little sister, are you trying to beat me," Gabriella teased rubbing her sister's big baby bump.

Katie picked up on what her sister meant and laughed, "Well I wasn't really trying to but when Matthew and Mason come I will have officially beat you," she played along.

"Yeah well maybe I can convince Olivia to take you on," Gabriella said looking over at her sister who was swimming in the pool with her baby boy.

"Ugh I have to admit that I am officially done," Katie said.

Before Gabriella could say anything back she heard Portland rushing over to her holding Jayden in her arms; and when she got closer she could tell that the baby boy was crying and so was Portland, "Please help me, he won't stop; Kevin can't even get him to stop," she cried handing him over to her mom, "I haven't slept for two weeks I think I'm losing my mind. Please can you watch him for like twenty minutes I just need to go take a nap."

Gabriella took her grandson from her daughter and pushed her towards the house, "Go, go, you and Kevin go take a nap in my room. Don't worry I have him."

Portland eyes went from frantic to grateful as she thanked her mom and ran into the house.

It made Gabriella feel really good when her kids would ask her advice or ask for her help; it just made her feel useful. She sat back down on the swing next to her sister and looked down at the new born baby boy; she watched as his eyes slowly close and his breath even out.

"How does it feel to be a grandma," Katie asked as she softly rubbed the dark hair on top of her great nephew's head.

"Weird," Gabriella admitted, "I mean it's only weird because my little sisters have babies the same age as my grandson; it makes me really realize that I am way older then you guys and also I look back to when we just moved here and I never thought that I would find someone that I liked let alone I loved and that I would marry that person and have babies with that person. But other than that I love it and Troy especially loves it too, he can't wait until he can come out here and play one on one with him."

"Oh yeah I can totally see that," Katie responded, "And I know for sure that your house will never empty with all those grandkids you'll have running around. Since I know that you hate all the quiet, you always have."

Gabriella nodded her head, "Yeah I don't know, I just always thought that if you have a bunch of people in your house making lots of noise means that you are very loved; hence my six children and my loud mouth of a husband."

"You call me a loud mouth," Troy said walking over to them handing Gabriella a can of coke.

"Oh don't worry Troy I didn't mean in it in a bad way," Gabriella defended scooting over so he could sit down next to her then gave him a quick peck.

"Uhuh riiiiggggghhhhttt," he said wrapping his arm around his wife.

The three, well four of them sat and watched their family talking and having fun and just enjoying spending time with everyone. It was great to see that after all the crap that they had gone through over all their life they found each other and created a loving giant family that will always be together no matter what. What could they ever ask for.

SO WHAT DID YOU THINK? I WAS THINKING THAT AFTER THIS I WOULD JUST DO RANDOM BITS OF THEIR LIFE, LIKE ONESHOTS.

HANNAH