Rob and I went to the Oklahoma Blood Institute this morning to give blood… it was time and when you have a rare blood type like I do (AB+), the institute watches your profile and knows when your eligible.  The phone calls started yesterday!  

It wasn’t a whole lot of fun this time…I have very rolly veins.  The first girl stabbed me and missed…she tried to move the needle around to catch the vein, but caused me such horrible pain!  I have a pretty large pain tolerance, but that was more than I could bear…I nearly shed a tear!  A second lady came in, stuck the needle in my other arm causing very little pain and we were rolling! Rob had to be stuck in both arms, too!  That poor girl…it just wasn’t her day!

I was done within just a few minutes.  I went and sat down to eat my cookies and drink my juice when the world started going black!  I’ve never passed out before!  The folks were quick to jump in action to rescue me…fortunately, I didn’t go completely out!  How embarrassing!

We were so glad to get out of there!

After all that drama, we went to Garden Ridge.  My good friend Stacey said they had a rather large selection of outdoor cushions and she wasn’t kidding!

It was almost overwhelming…this picture only shows one aisle!  There were at least 6 more just like it!

I was able to narrow them down to these three…

Rob really liked the one below because he felt the colors were a little more muted…

I really liked this one because the colors were so pretty and natural and the flowers were so beautiful…

The last one is so vibrant and fun!

We did make a decision…which one do you think we chose?

Until next time…

Happy Blogging!