Making the Best of a Difficult Situation

Our air conditioner decided to crap out. At the hottest part of the year. And we have to replace our heat pump completely to get it working. And the furnace. Because the furnace is so old it won't communicate with a new heat pump. So, needless to say, it has been very hot in our house. It has been upwards of a hundred degrees in Nampa for the last week and is expected to be right around a hundred all week. The main level of our house has been anywhere from 80-90 degrees. That. Is. Way. Too. Hot. So we have been shopping around to try and find a good deal to get our system replaced. But in the meantime we are trying to find fun things to do to stay cool. Ameilya has been taking her naps and sleeping at night in our basement, which stays around 10 degrees cooler than her room, which is the hottest room in the house. She is doing just fine with that which I am so glad about, Mommies need baby nap times just about as much as baby does. We have been doing our errands in the afternoon, so that we can be in a cool store and not in our hot house. And we have been swimming. Almost every day. Which is super fun since Ameilya loves the water :-) We don't have a pool but we have been blowing up our raft which we used to use to float the Boise River and filling it with water. What a nice way to cool down! It has been so fun, Ameilya just loves playing with toys in the water and splashing around, she is truly a water baby ;) I think that since we have well water that the water is super cold, like 55 degrees cold. Ameilya likes it though, once she gets used to it. It is so hot in our house that it it quite refreshing to have such cold water.
Here are some pics from Ameilya swimming in the raft a couple nights ago.