Baby blanket still coming along

Here is the baby blanket. I have decided to take it slow on the blanket and enjoy my summer. But I do take it along in the car, or at dental visits. We have had a lot of dental visits. 

The weather has turned cooler, so we haven't been in the pool. Maybe I should go back to crocheting, then the weather would get hot again. 

I've been working on Sports Camp stuff. I ordered all the t shirts, ordered the iron in papers, as well as all the supplies for the coaches today the iron ons came in the mail, so I printed them off and it's all set for the ironing party next week. 

Blessings!

Fun summer days

It feels good to get stuff done! My sister and her husband, and Rick and I had central a/c put in our parents home. I am so glad we were able to do that. I wanted them comfortable. Today I put a part in their dishwasher so it will run. 

I put away my crocheting. The gal had her baby yesterday and I just don't want to spend all my time doing that. I will get it done eventually. I want to enjoy my summer. 

Today I vacuumed the pool and swam for a bit. Now I need to do some work on my computer. 

We went to Nelson's in Stillwater, and had a "child size" I've cream cone. Hubby and I have now decided to split a child sized cone!  

Baby blanket I am working on

Here is my latest project that I've been working on. I had the worst time finding the lilac color. Now I am trying to finish this before the gal has her baby. Lol 

Busy days, and computer issues

Well, summer is finally upon us!  We have been out in the pool, and getting ready for Sports Camp.  So, I've had a lot to do with getting posters, flyers, and website ready for the Sports Camp.  Whew!

We also had a wedding to go to in June.  Our niece got married, and they boys got all dressed up for it.

Today, I've had a very productive day, which is nice!!  I designed and printed off a bunch of labels for my hubby's tracts.  Then, I designed and printed off labels for inside the church Bibles, so that if people need a Bible, they can take it as a gift.

Here is a picture of the shirt I got my hubby.  He likes it, and he gets many comments on it.

My computer issues.  Where do I start??  I have a wonderful program, called Cook'n.  It is great!  It comes with a cookbook, and you can purchase extra add-on cookbooks.  Plus, you can put your own recipes in.  You can make a menu plan right from the program, and if you have certain ingredients, you can type those in, and find what you can make with those ingredients.  I had purchased some extra add-ons, plus, all my work of typing in the new recipes.  Lets just say, YEARS worth of work!!!  Well, there was a free upgrade, and I did the free upgrade.  Long story short, the new upgrade corrupted ALL my files.  Today, I finally reloaded the program and looked through my flash drive, hoping and praying I had a useable (and not too out-dated backup).  Well, I had backed it up last December!!!  That was very exciting to me, as I thought I was going to have to start from scratch.  So, a word to the wise--back up, back up, back up!!!!  I have reloaded everything (I contacted the company to send me the links of the extra cookbooks I had purchased), and backed it up.  My hubby is going to teach me how to use a drop box, so I will back up my files there, too.  My desire is to finish my cookbook, and get one printed of all my recipes.  You know how you have all these cookbooks, but only use a handful of recipes out of each cookbook, well, I was putting my favorite recipes into the program, and getting rid of the cookbook, to downsize.  Thought I lost everything when the files were corrupted, but now it's just a few month's work I lost.

We had a nice 4th of July, and had lots of wonderful, patriotic foods.

Like some of this yummy layered jello.

Or, some Red, White, and Blue Eggs?

                                                Or a flag cake??


Blessings!

Finally free and clear!!

Well the boys went in for their 6th strep test!  It was finally a negative!!!  The first negative in 3 1/2 months!!  Then, the doctor has to tell me that they will retest the culture in 48 hours, and that 1 in 20 will test positive the next time around.  Well, we made it through that one, so we are finally strep free in our house!  Praise the Lord!!

We are in a birthday month.  I celebrated mine first, then Matthew had his 10th birthday last week, and today is Dan's 17th birthday.  My hubby and my dad are in Nashville at a Word Search conference (they fly home at midnight tonight).  Dan took it easy on me, as we took my mom and the rest of the family to Denny's.  We had a lovely brunch there.  Then, we came home and opened gifts.  Later, we will have crock pot style gyros, and he will have Carmelita bars for his birthday cake.  Then, the young people will all go rollerskating.

We had a very busy, but enriching weekend.  We hosted the Ezra/Nehemiah conference at our church, with speakers Doug Small and Eric Barger.  Doug Small talked on prayer, and Eric Barger spoke on a lot of different topics - Islam and Crislam,   The Most Dangerous Cult, and why we can believe the Bible.  Very great sessions!!!  We had sessions Friday night, and all day Saturday, as well as Sunday morning and evening.  Then, we had to pack up the speakers books, and take Eric out to eat.  Got home around midnight.  Then, we had to get up early on Monday, to take Rick and Dad to the airport.  I'm rather tired!!

So, while the fellas are gone, Mom and I went to the beauty shop and got our hair done.  Shhh--it's a surprise for the guys!  I also went through Matthew's clothes, which is the job I hate to do.  It is emotionally taxing on me, I don't know why it is, but it just is.  I also planted my peony plant I bought, as well as the Lily of the Valley pips.  Hope they come up!!

Blessings!

Book Review: "Stress Test" by Richard Mabry

"Stress Test" by Richard Mabry is a medical mystery thriller book.  It starts out very fast paced, and is the author's best book, yet! I have read all of his books, and I hope he writes more!!  This is a stand alone book, so you won't need to read the other books to understand this one.

Dr. Matt Newman is a doctor, who is leaving private practice to pursue a less stressful job teaching academic medicine, but what he ends up with is a huge stress test.  Can he pass this stress test?

 He is just finishing up his late night in the ER, when he is kidnapped, and thrown in the trunk of his car, and driven to a warehouse district.  He is able to escape, but receives a head injury and lands in the ICU, with a murder charge to boot!  The police now believe he is a villain instead of a victim, and he has to prove his innocence.

He hires a red-headed lady lawyer to get him out of this mess.  But, who can he trust?  The police seem out to get him,  there is a dead woman found in the trunk of his car on top of his wallet, his girlfriend dumps him when she hears he is a person of interest in a murder investigation, there is someone following him, and more attempts on his life.  You have to read this book to get the answers to the question of - who wants him dead and why?

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So far, no more snow!

We have been delighting in the nice, warm weather!  Matthew got his bike out (I told him he had to wait till the snow was all melted)  and has been riding his bike daily.  He also wants to make a tree house.  I'm not to keen on his climbing trees at this point.  Even Sam got out his bike, and PEDALED up and down the street!!!!  Yippee!!!!  Why am I so happy about this??  Well, he normally just pushes his feet on the ground to make the bike go.

School is going on, and we only have 7 days left!  Then, I will begin planning for next school year.

Today I made bread.  Now, that may not seem like a big thing, but I haven't made home made bread in quite a while!  I used to make it at least once a week.  So, I made a pan of caramel rolls, 2 loaves of cinnamon bread, and 2 loaves of whole wheat bread (all out of 1 big recipe--just so you don't think I made 3 different batches)

I called the doctor's office today, to get it set up for the next Strep test.   Unless they call back and change it, it is set for 1 week from tomorrow (the boys are still on meds)  Here's hoping and praying this is over!!!

I'm looking for stuff for Sunday School.  We were doing "The Story", and it finished up, and the new curriculum doesn't start until June, so I have some weeks to fill.  So, I've been searching for things to do.

I got my hubby a new t-shirt--it was a total surprise to him.  We had seen one while we were on vacation, and we had hunted at t-shirt shops down in Branson, but never found one.  I found it online, and were they fast at shipping it!  I ordered it on Friday, and got it the following Monday!

Not much else for news.  We are getting ready for the Nehemiah/Ezra conference on May 17-19, with speakers Doug Small and Eric Barger.  Dan and I made a poster for the conference (someone else had said they would do it, and they must be a procrastinator, and poor hubby was not too happy it wasn't done, so he asked if we could help him out).   We got it done, and a bunch printed off, and started putting them up.

Blessings!