It's hot!

Well today is the 9th straight day of 90+ temps,and the heat index has been 100-105 (can anyone say heat wave) and my poor 30+ year old air conditioner had just about had it:( It's been about 85 degrees in the house, that makes for some grumpy folks! We have called everyone in the phone book to come and give us a estimate for a new one but we the heat the way it is they are all booked up. So we are not moving to much and literally trying to stay cool.

This is causing us to plan on more home renovations, like insulating the attic and buying new ceiling fans and putting in a attic ladder all good things i guess.

I will have to post about what we have been up to so far this summer. Poor hubs on his last vacation was glad to get back to work i think, we really worked hard on his vacation. We remodeled my scrapbook room,(very needed because of the ice storm my room was flooded) we put in new kitchen counters. And then we cleaned out the attic to have a massive rummage sale last Saturday to which the proceeds go to buy a new stove....YAY! So it looks like we are going to have productive year:)

Another good note we started our summer bible study, we are doing "Walking by faith, Lessons I learned in the dark" by Jennifer Rothschild its been a great study so far and you realize that the day to day stuff we deal with is really small in the grand scheme of things. If you would like to check out her website its here.

Well thought i would exit with this video I found on youtube. I love Tenth Avenue North and I love this song because it speaks so much of our relationship with Christ, we are His Beloved.



Blessings
Lisa

NSD

Well today was National Scrapbooking Day and I didn't scrapbook one thing. I did get to make a couple things....I made this cover for my wishblade!


In my old age I am being to like to sew. Who knew I had it in me :) I made this without a pattern and without very much sewing experience.It was quite a feat I thought, me being the "by the book person that I am. I also made a drawstring bag to match to put my cords and things that go with the wishblade in, got a neat tutorial from here.




The name of her blog is "Happy Things", I thought that was neat since mine is "Happy Thoughts" :)

Also been working on graduation items this week for our homeschool co-op, making diploma's for 8th grade and Kindergarten and then I made these





for our highschool graduates. Took me about 6 hours to make these, I think I need to scrapbook a little bit more often, I am out of practice :( I also the older I get don't like deadlines!

Going to miss our graduates this year especially Junior, he is really a neat kid and has a neat family we love them very much! Hopefully he will come back and visit us. Now all I need to do is finish three slideshows. I do one for each of the grads with pictures from their childhood and then one for our homeschool co-op of all the events and things we have had all year long.

Well pray that I get all that done this week and I won't get to stressed out with it all.

I leave you with song. Its by a former American Idol alumni Ace Young, not really a "christian song" but you be the judge.

I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down.
Psalms 31:5 (The Message)

Blessings all!
Lisa