and the rains came tumbling down....

It's monsoon season here in Utah-yes I said monsoon. Seriously. The monsoons have been coming up from Arizona into our lovely, dry, deseret. I love this for many reasons: 1. I love the smell of rain 2. I love the sound of rain 3. I love the sound of thunder 4. I love green grass without turning on 2ndary water (those who have it know my complaints-it sometimes smells like Utah Lake) 5. I love a break from watering the flowers! All fab reasons to enjoy the summer rain. NOTE TO SELF: DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT leave the house with the windows wide open when skies are grey and cloudy. So I got our carpets cleaned yesterday (finally!) They look awesome! Our poor carpet cleaner burned his foot so he had to reschedule until yesterday-he's gonna be ok. Anyhow-the carpets were so dirty this time and he (Jim from White Glove) did a great job-no more stains. It looks like new carpet again, we're back to NO shoes on the carpet. So when he finished he said I could open some windows since it was quite hot outside and turn the ceiling fans on high and that would help the carpet dry faster. Great-or so I thought. Connor and I left for Nordstrom to get some Bare Escentuals (whole other post) and I was planning to be back in about 1 hr. As I came out of Nordies it was sprinkling. I didn't think too much about it until I was on I-15 and it was pouring! Then the realization came that I had 3 huge windows WIDE open! AHHH! Luckily the window above the leather love seat was not getting the rain in it. Peyton and Connor's window seals were sopping wet, along with their blinds! At least the blinds in their rooms are clean now. HA!

So after I got the windows closed Shane got home from work and it started raining even harder. It was so amazing! I have never seen rain so big and so much so fast. Our builders didn't do the greatest job grading our lots (grumble, grumble) so all of us have low spots. Our foundations are great-it's at the edge of our properties. In our backyard we have 4 of us that don't have fences (love it!). It's like one giant backyard. Our cute neighbors, Tyler and Amber have this great playset that is dug down into the ground with wooden edging and then filled with the shredded rubber. When the rains started, they playset started to fill up. It was like a waterfall over the wooden edging! I was pretty cool to watch. I wish I had a picture of the water running in. The news said the monsoon should be subsiding so we will be back to HOT, HOT, and HOTTER with no relief by next week. Goodbye rains-I'll miss you.