Gibeau Orange Julep and Good Mail.

We started our day early as Craig had to be at Budget Rental at 8:30 a.m. to help someone in our ward move. The last time he put together a move in our ward it took about six hours or more. This time he had 12 people come and it took less than two! Yeah! The girls and I were home for the morning watching TV and relaxing. About 11:00, Craig called to say that he was finished and we drove to pick him up. I have chronic nausea that has plagued me for about six years now. I've had my gallbladder removed, but honestly, it often feels like it hasn't. On my drive to pick him up I began to feel overly nauseous outside of what I'm used to. We pick him up and drive to a really cool place called Gibeau Orange Julep. Check out the giant orange!

I took this picture with my camera phone, it's a little unclear but you get the picture. Check out these two links: Orange Julep and a clearer photo. It is so good and it's great to see the place so crowded. During the winter, there was maybe two or three cars in the parking lot at one time - today, there must have been 20 or more!

After drinking about half of my drink, we arrived at Canadian Tire, a kind of hard ware/home store. We were looking for a bike pump to fix our bike tires and my jogging stroller. I had been holding myself together, trying to get past my overwhelming "sick" feeling when the girls needed to go the bathroom. After surviving the rush to the bathroom and the unappealing smell, we found Craig looking in the pump section. And I lost it. I started to cry, in Canadian Tire, I had had enough of feeling so nauseous that I couldn't enjoy our day. We purchased our things and we were headed to grocery store, I knew that I wouldn't be able to handle the girls, the shopping, so again, I burst into tears and have him take me home while they get the groceries. I was out all day with this and am just now coming out of it.

I am so grateful that Craig was home and I was able to sleep it off for about 2 hours. The girls kept coming to me and giving me kisses saying "Sweetie Pie, How do you feel?" So sweet! I am just grateful to have this feeling behind me and hope it doesn't come back - ever again. I don't think I can handle another day of nausea like this one. Here's some good mail that cheered me up this week:

Barb sent me some tickets that I haven't been able to take a picture of yet - I'll try to get that done this week and show you what a great treat it was to receive them.

This is Susan! She graduated today from James Madison University. Craig's known her since his mission when she was seven or eight years old. I met her when she was just coming into Young Women's. We are so proud of her accomplishment! She is the cutie on the left and this is a picture she sent of her announcement with her and her friends.

Thank you Kristi for the too awesome ribbon and the slap stix caramel. I've been dying to try it but wanted to wait until I could post it. Thank you so much! I'm going to have to use those stamps for something - they are so cute.

Thank you card from Jill!