What's this?

The excitement I feel when the clouds roll in and dump buckets of water that form puddles in the lawn and create a river that flows in the streets always reminds me of the moment in the Nightmare Before Christmas when Jack discovers snow for the first time.

I know there are people that will laugh when they read this and think it's absurd to compare a 10 minute downpour to the excitement of snow. But I am a native San Diegan and besides the fact that I've only seen it snow once in my life, it only rains a handful of times a year here, and I think weather is awesome even though I never get to see it.

This is where the backyard slopes toward the concrete so it always floods here.

So, Thanksgiving morning I was distracted from all the house cleaning and prepping long enough to snap a few pictures of our precious rain. I think this is the first time Katie can remember it pouring so hard and she loved it. We opened the garage so she could see the rain and watch as the river in the street got bigger. In true SD fashion she had a tank top dress on with her blankie to stay warm. :)


Katie was so mad that we wouldn't let her run around in the driveway (with no shoes) and get drenched. John ended up holding her so she wouldn't run away. I wish the picture didn't cut off her feet so you could see that she didn't have shoes.



All this time Eric was inside coloring in some book and couldn't care less...maybe he's seen the rain a few dozen times and doesn't think it's cool anymore.

The best part was that the rain ended and the roads dried up enough before our family had to travel down to our house for dinner.