Happy Fourth!

We started the day with grand plans to go shopping for our son's birthday, go out to dinner, and wrap it all up with a fireworks display accompanied by the philharmonic. This outting would include several other couples who were looking for somewhere last minute to enjoy the festivities too. By 5 p.m. it was storming with the significant chance that more would follow throughout the night. We sat around bemoaning our rotten luck that another holiday should be ruined by nature when it occurred to me that rain or no rain, we should just go and chance it. I'm so glad we did as we found dry seats 500 feet from the fireworks staging area. The evening cleared long enough for a sunset, and the show went on without a hitch.

As of this evening, I have a new-found respect for pyrotechnics experts after several misfires sent sparks within inches of us, not to mention what landed on those poor guys. Anyways, we actually laid on the ground staring straight up into the fireworks that went on for a full 45 minutes, us giggling everytime a loud boom set off a car alarm.

I'll forever remember laying on the grass between the kids, holding their hands, and wishing that moment would never end.