preface:  i actually had all of these pix uploaded and ready to post via iphone while we were on the road last week.  i tried.  and tried.  and tried some more.  unfortunately, wordpress kept crashing the iphone’s browser so, no post.  hey, it wasn’t for lack of effort!  anyhow, without further ado, our fourth of july in pictures…

we walked to our favorite plaza to meet up with several friends for food, fun, and fireworks.

Tat showing off her new ‘stache

our full-moon view for the evening

hubby, faith, N, G, tat, o’neil, panda

hubby, faith, N, tat, o’neil, train, half of panda’s face

faith, N, G, tat

o’neil, train, panda, me

me and my boy

we did plenty of mudding in our jeep but this guy takes the cake

how?  just, how?

and the climax of the evening… a very respectable fireworks display.  we had great front row seats for the thirty minute show.  there were some powerlines in our view but they weren’t terribly distracting.  most importantly, cobalt’s fireworks scene mode is farooking awesome and i have some of the clearest fireworks pix that i have ever seen.  i heart my little cobalt!