Of Rain and Rainbows

Well, it has been a REALLY rainy winter here.  Which is great, because we have had a pretty bad drought over the past few years.


Since Ethan's birthday, we have gotten 15.62 inches of rain in Marin!  That is a lot of water in 10 days!!  This past week, Ethan's school was closed two days due to flooding and power outages.

Needless to say the ground is saturated.  We are lucky that we have not had and flooding near our house, or trees fall on our property, but there have been many trees that have fallen down near us.

One thing that the rain has brought is rainbows.  I have never seen so many rainbows here as I have in the last two months.  The most beautiful one I caught while driving home--couldn't snap a pic, but it stretched across the sky behind the golden gate bridge.  Amazing.
Here are a few that I could snap:

Ethan is 8!

The birthday celebrations continued this week.  On Wednesday, Ethan turned 8.  I took the day off of work and got to volunteer in his classroom.  We hung out in the afternoon, while I cooked dinner.  His request-a bit more elaborate than in years past--homemade spaghetti and meatballs.  It was a pretty good meal.  Instead of cake this year, he requested ice cream sundaes.  Not just any old sundaes: oreo ice cream, with hot fudge, twix bars, whip cream, and sprinkles!  His big gift this year:  a telescope!

Then yesterday, we had his party.  It was a "parkour" party.  I had to look that up myself, but basically it is an obstacle course-type thing with lots of jumping and wall climbing.  It was perfect for 8 year old boys and they seemed to have a blast.

Meanwhile, I am astounded to have an 8 year old.  Time really flies.