Adam and Heather Hayes

Before, notice how old and shag blue it is.

During, it's amazing how much dirt gets between the carpet and the pad AND between the pad and the floor.

The old pad was white and the new pad is blue/green.

This was Adam's first time laying carpet. We ripped out the old and laid the new in about 4 hours!  Not bad! (Thanks to the help of Grandpa Purser)

After, I love new carpet!  It was not too hard, but it was a simple 12x13 squarish room.  (I know, easy for me to say since Adam did most of the work!)  We're pretty proud of the end result!

Our advice would be: 1. Don't lay carpet on a 100 degree day in a room with no air conditioner!  2. Remnants cost less and are great for bedrooms!  3. Rent a knee-kicker/ stretcher thing!

Do you ever feel like your life is too boring for anyone else to be interested in it? That would be me most of the time! Thus the big pauses in new entries. We do have a very blue office though so I think that's worth saying! The lights are hung. The accent wall is antiqued. We will have heat and carpet by the end of the year. Just in time for our ultra sound the first week of January! We'll have Adam's office out of our fourth bedroom and I'm sure the ultra sound will reveal we're having... a

girl.

This pregnancy has been just like my first three so I really don't think I should get my hopes up.

If by chance it is a boy, we'll have to start re-decorating that room because boy, does it need help. Adam's office chair has worn a hole in the carpet and the wallpaper is peeling off like crazy.

But since we are paying off a new SUV and all the stuff to finish the new office and Christmas... We might have to wait on big expensive renovations... Oh well, life is good!

Well, a lot has happened since we last wrote so we are playing catch up.

We had a lot to do to get the new office ready for carpet which included cleaning everything out of the office... (which was a much larger task than it originally seemed.) Then I had the opportunity to lay my first tile which was a daunting task. You can see the heater we used to keep the grout warm so it would dry.

Finally we got the carpet laid. There were some ups and downs during the installation (we'll just say that I had a bad day and the carpet layers beating the tar out of my sheetrock didn't help.)

The kids loved the new carpet and posed while we were taking the pictures. You can see some of the remnant pieces on the sides of some of the pictures.

Then we took an entire day to move all the cubicles and office equipment into the new office with the help of Stuart, Grandpa Quinn, and Josh. The pictures show that we are still getting things organized where they should go.

I officially worked a couple of days out there... but we don't have the propane heater attached yet. We are waiting for the inspector to come and approve the install. So, it was a couple of very cold days in the office. I've been working inside for a bit while we wait for the inspection so I don't freeze to death.

Otherwise, everything is done and looking great. Thank you to everyone who helped make the new office possible. 

Well, it has begun, no turning back now!

We salvaged some tile and a bunch of the old stuff for Adam's parents' addition.

Then everything got ripped out, sheetrock around the tub, carpet, the top layer of floor, toilet, vanity, cabinets, and in a quick timely manner I must say!

Bye, bye carpet! (You can kind of see Vi's haircut above)

Bye, bye blue porcelain. 

Our remodelers are quick and thorough.  We are very pleased with how it's going.

Well, this is as ugly as it gets so, all the pictures from here on will just get prettier!

Where have I been the past few months?  Well, this is Idaho, and it is winter, so believe it or not, I've been cooped up in the house.  Reading books, watching old movies, and for the past couple weeks exercising! 

I have a goal to lose at least 30 pounds this year. I've joined a group of ladies in my ward who walk 3 miles every morning (5 days a week, M-F) and lift weights immediately after on Tuesday and Thursday (our whole stake is invited to that).  I hope going from nothing to this will be a big improvement.  It has already helped my mood a ton.  January always makes me so stir-crazy.  I'm usually broke after Christmas, thus I don't leave the house much.  I feel like everyday is the same, and there is nothing to look forward to, and I just get down and sad/grouchy.  So I am LOVING the happier mind-set exercise gives me, and I'm sure my family is too. 

We are going to do a complete overhaul on our upstairs bathroom when we get our tax return back.  (Since we incorporated in 2008 we had to pay 90% of Adam and Heather Hayes' AHFX 2007 earned income AND AH Digital FX Studios Inc., so this years return should be a good one) 

Our bathroom is straight out of the 70's from baby blue sink, toilet, and tub to the blue plaid carpet. Yeah, gross, I know. So all new everything, even cabinetry.  Yes, the carpet is going, it will be replaced with: most likely tile.  Post on the comment section the likes and dislikes of all your flooring and counter tops.  We are leaning towards tile floors and granite counter tops.  (Is tile to hard and cold on your feet and does granite show too many splatters and fingerprints?)  We will do before and after pictures of it.

We'll be adding more toys to our swingset, and hopefully... laying some cement for a basketball/volleyball court. It should be a fun, busy year! 

• A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
• B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
• C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. 10 Years ago (1997/1998)
1. I had just finished working at the auto parts warehouse
2. I went into the MTC on Jan 31st, 1997 (my amazing new years party consisted of going to bed at either 9:30 or 10:30 (can't remember)
3. I was back in my on and off again relationship with McKenzie Adamson.
4. I took my first airplane ride. After 15 hours on the plane the novelty wore off.
5. Spent most of 1998 living on two islands off the coast of Korea.
2. 5 things on my to-do list today:
1. Clean up after our New Year's Eve Party with Daniel and Darcy Lundquist
2. Finish the box that the heater in my office sits on andand carpet it so it blends with the office.
3. Clean the new office
4. Finish some odds and ends on websites that I'm working on
5. Relax and try to catch some football
3. 5 snacks I enjoy:
1. My wife's chocolate chip cookie dough (and the cookies too)
2. Reeces Peanut Butter Cups
   
3. White Chocolate anything
4. Cinnamon Bears
5. Ice Cream
4. 5 things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Build my parents a new house
2. Build a new High School for Ririe with two really nice gyms
3. Visit Korea with my family
4. Spend a lot more time reading and studying things I'm interested in learning about (art, painting, wood working, volleyball, etc)
5. Spend lots of time having fun with my family
5. 3 of my bad habits:
1. Taking on too many projects
2. Messy (just look at my desk compared to the rest of the house)
3. I get bored with the same old same old so finishing big projects becomes tedious
6. 5 places I have lived:
1. Ririe, ID
2. Kojedo, South Korea
3. Youngdo, South Korea
4. Milyang, South Korea
5. Idaho Falls, Idaho
7. 5 jobs I have had:
1. Lawn Mower
2. Truck Driver (small auto parts truck, not big rigs)
3. Professor's Assistant
4. Webmaster
5. Business Owner
8. 5 things people don't know about me:
1. (Excluding my parents) I attribute a lot of what I've become today to my high school coach, Coach Gardner
2. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from BYU-Idaho with a 4.0 GPA
3. I coach one of the club volleyball teams for Ririe
4. I took piano lessons for 5+ years when I was young and can still play a little (I have 7-10 songs that I can play quite well, but I can't sit down and sight read a song)
5. I still get together with my high school buddies once a month
9. People I tag:
1. I'll list them when I get a list together... (I have to run...)
   

At the beginning of December was Adam's 29th birthday. We went shopping for carpet that day, very glamorous. This is what we look like first thing in the morning.

Good old 29, the last coveted age! You're getting old Adam!

Well the other day the bottom step of our front deck broke. It has been threatening to break for the past...umm..... 4 years, so I knew this day was coming. Heather and I have a bad habit of not being able to "just fix things". We normally say something like this:

1. You know, while we are at it, we should replace all of the stairs,
   
2. and if we are going to replace all of the stairs, why don't we extend the stairs to be the full length of the deck,
   
3. and since the new stairs are going to need stained, why don't we sand and stain the whole deck while we are at it.

So our simple fix a bottom step turns into quite a large project. However, we are always happy with the results, it just takes longer than a quick fix (just look at our bathroom project to see a similar pattern of just tearing out the carpet to a complete master bathroom makeover.

I just finished sanding the whole deck today and we'll probably be doing the stain tomorrow. The above picture was taken when we finished installing the new stairs but before any sanding began.

We've also done some modifications to our blog. Hopefully pictures from now on should be expandable (horizontal pictures that is) by hovering over them and clicking if a magnifying glass comes up. Let me know if you have any problems with the new feature. :)

Adam didn't tell me to clean before he took the pictures so, I swear I woulda.  

As you can see we have a very old styled bathroom, early 70's carpet, blue porcelain everything, super blah cabinetry and vanity. 

Actually, as you can see, HALF of the toilet is blue and half is white, classy.

There's also the ripped off piece of Formica in this corner. We painted it white to match better before we moved in.  We will post some "During" and "After" pictures in the next couple weeks.  Gorgeous bathroom, here we come!

I know you've all been waiting months for me to finally post this, so here it is.

As you can see, we are no longer assaulted by 1972 when we walk through the bathroom doorway.  The toilet is all one color and NO CARPET!

This may not look very different, but the medicine cabinet and mirror are tons bigger now.  The cabinetry has no holes or broken runners.  The sink is not baby blue and the vanity top is all one big piece, easier to clean and less caulking. I used to have 2 drawers, now I have six.  I don't have anything in the bottom 2, it's wonderful!

The cabinetry is new and beautiful.  I have several more shelves now to keep me organized.  The tile is beautiful and not near as cold as I thought it would be.

Goodbye blue porcelain, hello jetted tub and cultured marble.  I really like taking baths and showers now.  We got a bent shower curtain bar and it is amazing how much more elbow room there is.  The cultured marble is pretty, sturdy, and very easy to clean and I would recommend it to all who like how pretty tile is but don't have the patience to clean the grout.

Well I think the nesting instinct has kicked in. I want things ready for the baby. My c-section is scheduled for April 23rd, so I can at least say I'm having the baby next month! I just started ripping the not-so-cute wallpaper off in the old office one day and then, I caught the bug and wouldn't leave it alone until it was done.

I have learned that the old owners of this house always have an ugly secret under any wallpaper I've ripped off. The basement family room had one wall that the wallpaper was glued directly onto the Sheetrock. Luckily it wasn't that severe a case in this room. But still, the walls were VERY ugly underneath. Holes galore, rips to the Sheetrock, mold, and more. They tried to get off an ugly floral wallpaper and beat up the wallls doing it, then gave up and left a little on, then covered it all with the brown wallpaper. I don't have a picture of the before sadly.

But lucky you get to see how glamorous I look when I work! The picture part of the wallpaper comes off in no time. But the glued on under part takes a lot of wallpaper stripper and scraping.

I painted the room light green, I know I'm pregnant, but painting the family room red when I was pregnant with Vi doesn't seem to have ruined her.

The carpet is yet to come but I'm glad to have the walls looking healthy again. I re-textured them a little because of all the holes and rips. I'm quite pleased with the outcome. It was fun working with my girls. They really liked ripping wallpaper and painting.