Look at this beautiful dark sky. We have had rain now for 3 days straight and it has been fabulous! We have prayed for it and at one point Ahliana and I were even doing a tribal dance in the living room - a rain dance so to speak. It looks like are prayers are starting to get answered...Thank you Lord! We needed it!
Although it has rained a couple of hours a day for the last three days our grounds are so thirsty that they are just drinking it in. So far it has been just enough to quench its thirst. The ground is literally drinking it in as soon as it hits.
After the rain let up to just a sprinkle, Ahliana got to slip her toes into her galoshes (gosh I love that word), wrap up in her rain coat and go outside and dance in the rain. At first we had a little trouble finding a safe puddle large enough to splash in ( like I said the ground just drank it in) so we splashed in every little puddle of water we could.
Little side note: These galoshes are very special. They were her cousin Tyler's when he was little. She has had them for about 1.5 years now and she has really wanted to play in them but they have been, and still are a little, too big. She loves Tyler so much and reminds me that they used to be his all the time. I love that they are special not only to me...but to her too.
Then daddy suggested she splash in the big muddy puddle around the trees/plants... game on! She really is a water bug... happy in any kind of water whether she is swimming in it, dancing in it, or bathing in it, just as long as she is in it.
The pictures below are from rain day two. We were already outside playing when the rain started to come down. I ran in the house to retrieve her raincoat and galoshes so Ahli could continue to dance and play in the rain. This time however, it was a little more then just sprinkles of rain... it was the hard down pour and she was L.O.V.I.N.G -it .. and I do mean loving it!!! If I wasn't taking pictures and worried about how I would get her in the house and dried and warm I would have been out there laughing with her...maybe.
Rain drops keep falling on my head ♫ ♪
We are very grateful for the rain that we have been getting and I hope that we continue to get more. I also hope that areas that are much in need of rain such as Bastrop and Austin start to see some soon as well. We have been hit hard this year and the fires that surround us are way to close for home. Farmers are needing to sell off cattle because there is no grass for them to graze and they are losing crops. It has just been really bad. I know that this little amount of rain that we have had is not going to take us out of danger we are still in the middle of the worst drought I have ever seen... but it is a start and we will take it. So again - Thank you Lord for answering our prayers- Amen!
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