Rain in the Desert!

There is nothing better than an Arizona thunder storm! It's like a miracle when it rains here. The air feels so nice and smells so clean. It happens so rarely that it is a treat!


It was a little cloudy when we got up and got the kids ready for the day, but by the time Dallin was ready to come home from school it was POURING with lightening and thunder! He was a little scared on the walk home from school, but once we got home both boys wanted to play in the gutters! Why not? It happens so rarely that it's a treat! The water is also pretty warm (compared to other parts of the world) and they can stand to play in it for quite a while.



Garrett loved the thunder! We had a small thunder storm early in the morning and he would wait for it to thunder, then he would go outside and call and call and call as if he could call it back. Funny, it took me a while to figure out what he was saying...he would say "thunder (sunda)" and it sounded like "Santa". It took me a while to figure out he was calling the thunder. After he would yell, he would wait and when it would thunder he would smile as if it were all his doing.


It always surprises me how deep the water can get in our streets-it covers the road completely and fills up past the sidewalk, but a couple of hours after the rain it was almost completely gone! This mornig was still damp, but no huge puddles or gutters full of water.


I tried to get them to sit down in the water, but they were a little too scared to do that...funny, they were completely soaked, but didn't want to sit down and get "wet"!


I've been trying to enjoy the day as much as possible-I know our nice weather days are numbered and I'm already dreading the heat! Yesterday was a GREAT rain day!