Something WAS in the air!

We didn't make it for fireworks. All the children are not feeling well, fighting a cough as of yesterday for Teagan and Caden and stuffyness for Riordan since last week. So we said we'd stay home and watch the fireworks.
We watched both Boston and New York, and then it was time for local at 9. Just as the ones for Tempe Town Lake began, lightning began at our house. It was it's own show as if it was trying to show off. Soon after the lightning started then the fireworks at Tumbleweed, we can see it from our window, began. We were so thankful we weren't out and about. You could see smoke coming up from the ground near the house where it was striking! Not good because it's so dry here, desert and all and lack of rain.
Well not for long! No sooner did we shut down the t.v., close the blinds, and close our eyes, then we heard this INTENSE action outside of the house. The wind was whipping around!! The news said a monsoon was coming, we already had flooding in N. Arizona that day, but we didn't believe them because EVERY time they said we were going to get rain, we didn't even get a drop.
We got rain. We GOT A MONSOON! It was so great to hear the rain pounding on the house!! Totally reminescent of thunderstorms, yep we had that too ;-), back home in Georgia.
Caden and I woke up to the gentle sound of rain tapping the window this morning, so we went downstairs on the patio and watched it. He was sooooooo excited to see rain, as was I!!, and he looked up at me and said, " Mommy can I play in it?!"
"Absolutely!!!!", I said.
He was too cute to watch him run around in the veryyyyyyy cold rain and he had so much fun. It's still just a slight drizzle, but the sun will come because it's supposed to be 104 today. The little things, LIKE RAIN, don't mean a lot, they mean EVERYTHING!