The Barber's Virginia Adventures: August 2016

Dallas Trip and Louisiana Wedding

AT&T Stadium (on the field)

Dallas Cowboys cheerleader locker room

Dallas Cowboy locker room

Rudy's-the best BBQ ever

Us in the party bus

The bride and groom

Louisiana sign at a rest stop

Dallas Police car


Reception tables Cathedral

At the end of April we flew to Dallas Texas for a wedding that was happening in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Dallas Lovefield airport was better to fly into. While in Dallas Texas we saw the Dallas LDS Temple, visited Rudy's BBQ which was delicious and saw and toured AT&T stadium. We were able to tour and walk on the field which was neat. That stadium is really big. We did a self guided tour which allowed us to walk into the locker room and press room. Jason found a groupon for a tour of Dallas via bus. So we went to our pick up spot and saw the Kennedy memorial. Our bus was running late and so we melted in the hot sun.

The bus picked us up and we saw the place were President Kennedy was shot. Part of the tour was at a home where he lived, as we were getting ready to leave the bus would not start. So,we had to wait for another bus to come get us. As we were waiting the Dallas police pulled up and asked us if we were alright. They were so kind and nice. While on this tour we meet this two sweet ladies who were here for a Girls trip and were fun to talk to. We waited for 20 minutes and a party bus pulled up. The rest of our tour was on a party bus which was fun.

The next day we drove to Shreveport, Louisiana for the wedding ceremony and the reception for our dear friends from Jason's graduate program in Middle Tennessee. These two have been good friends. Thank you for inviting us Lauralee and Matt. The wedding was gorgeous and the reception was amazing. There was amazing food- I got to try beef wellington, lobster mac and cheese and it was delicious. There was an open bar and we had Coke in wine glasses since they ran out of paper cups. It was a fun night full of dancing with glow in the dark tamborines, glasses and bracelets. We stayed in a hotel near by so we walked home once we got tired. We headed back to Dallas the next day and flew home but not after finding and In and out burger place. It is the closest one we have to us so we had to go.

Jason's 30th Birthday -April 2016

Birthday sign

Birthday table with gifts

Funfetti Birthday caeke


Hibachi for dinner

For Jason's 30th Birthday in April we went to Hibachi . It was so delicious. We had fun at our table. We also had funfetti birthday cake after. Jason's birthday always falls on General Conference weekend but we had fun. We went to a hockey game a few weeks prior to celebrate. And jeopardy was filming in Washington D.C so we got tickets for that. They filmed it in the DAR constitution hall. It was neat to be in that building and to see a few tapings of Jeopardy. Security was intense and the lines were long but we had fun. The actors that they filmed that day were funny.

Outside in line at the DAR Constitution Hall

Alex Trebek with contestants on the stage

ENT Doctor and Surgery

I kept getting sinus infections, one right after the other and it was no fun. I kept getting put on antibiotics week after week and was having side effects from them. I finally made an appointment with an ENT doctor in March. He was very friendly and made me feel comfortable. He had me go get a CT scan see if I was a good candidate for a balloon in office procedure. He stated I had what you call acute sinusitis.

I was so nervous for the CT scan and it only took five or so minutes and it was nothing to be worried about. Sometimes I work things up in my head. Sadly, I was not a great candidate for the balloon surgery so I had to go under anesthesia and have another surgery. I was little nervous since it was sinus surgery but I knew it would help out. On June 15, 2016 I had surgery. I was a little nervous but knew the doctor was a good one. This time my surgery was at Fair Oaks Hospital. The nurses were all kind and took good care of me. The first few days of healing sucked because I couldn't breathe well because of all packing and things. You weren't able to blow your nose but could use sprays and nose rinses. It was fun times.

The first follow up appointment was interesting because he used a mini vacuum to suck out all the dried out things in my nose. It tickled but I could finally breathe after that. It was amazing the difference of night and day. Luckily no sinus infections so far and I am doing better. After surgery I wanted Chick Fila for lunch because I was starving. That was a bad idea, I needed to work up to that. The meds they had me on made me sick so we had to get anti nausea meds as well. After day 2 I was able to hold food down and recover.

My hand wrapped up after being tested for allergies, the needle would not go into my vein in my arm for some reason so they pricked my vein in my hand. so painful

Puzzles I did while recovering.

Me in the car after surgery in the Chick Fila line, I think i scared people.

Snowmagedon 2016

I love snow but not sure if I love 30 inches of snow. We were prepping for the chance of a lot of snow (getting extra food, water, milk, etc). Being from Utah and getting snow I didn't worry to much but it was crazy. The snow began and we hunkered down at home. Many people were told to stay home from work and tele work. My daycare closed down because there was so much snow and our parking lot at work was not plowed yet. We spent the day digging our cars out of all the snow. It was so much snow the mounds we all made just kept getting higher and higher.

Because the snow storm happened it was the week of when the Utah Jazz were set to play the Washington Wizards in D.C. So they had to postpone the game due to all the snow and not many being able to attend. The game was rescheduled for a few weeks later and we went. I wore my Utah jazz jersey, sadly the Jazz lost but it was alot of fun.