Adam and Heather Hayes

Well I've spent most of my week working on our new shed/garage. Stuart has been a great help with all of the siding (and putting up with me to boot.) It has been coming along very well. Here are some pictures.

I know we didn't get many in-between pictures of the slab or the rest of the framing... they finished the framing in a day (or that is the excuse I'm going to use.)

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. 

It's been a busy few weeks for us! Erith started kindergarten after getting a cute new haircut by Aunt Jaleesa!

She feels very grown up and smart now that she rides the bus and has homework.

Tric had to wait till last week to start her second year of preschool at a lady in our ward's house. She loves it. She was very bored while Erith was gone to kindergarten so now she feels grown up for a couple hours three days a week. I send them to this preschool purely for social reasons. I've taught them everything they learn at this preschool before they start pretty much (colors, ABC's, numbers, a simple curriculum). But they love it and the teacher makes them a nice scrapbook each year packed with pictures so it's worth it to me for just that!

Poor Viola doesn't know what to do in such a quiet house while they're gone. She usually falls asleep! It make me feel kind of boring!

My girls have been very patient with a busy set of parents. We finished the shed and filled it with all our stuff with help from the whole family. Grandpa Stuart Purser has been coming over a lot to help us with our projects.We framed in the garage door hole when we put it on the shed and now we are wiring and soon to be insulating our old garage/new office. It is such a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it. Our poor kids waited in a shopping cart for 2 1/2 hours while we picked out lights for the new office. Then there wasn't enough room in the trunk for them so they held them on their laps! It made me remember hating to go to home improvement stores with my parents because I knew the ride home would be an uncomfortable one. (My dad didn't get a truck till after I was married so I usually had 2X4's pressed up against my cheek in the mini van! Good times!)

Anyway, besides getting the office done Adam has to have 3 websites done for a land developer before the Parade of Homes which is... Thursday. Plus all the millions of others that wish they could be done that soon! It's been a juggle we aren't used to doing but we can do it! I just hope we find some good interns once the big office is done because, I am a lousy website assistant! I get tired and cramped quite fast! Yes Adam, I do appreciate you!

Well, Adam just told me in a frenzied voice that there is a skunk in the old garage/office, so I'm off to try to get it out! Wish me luck!

Well I figured I'd give an update of the progress of the new office.

We have made some marked progress. The sheetrock is up and the tape is on. All of the electrical is run. All of the Cat 5 cable is run. We are going to do the second coat of mud here in a few days.

Here are a few pictures of where we are at (and one from before... but it is actually a "somewhat before" pictures because it is from after when the garage door was framed in and the overhead storage space had been torn down.)

Well, we are moving forward on the new office again. Sheila and Bethany (Heather's mom and sister) came over and did a bunch of texturing, FarrDell (my dad) came over and boxed in our windows, and Heather and I got sore shoulders and backs from painting the ceiling and walls with white primer.

The ceilings took a couple of coats because the old brown sheetrock kept bleeding through. Don't let the pictures fool you into thinking that Heather is the only one doing the painting... I just happen to be the only one that takes pictures, so I'm not in them (and I have the sore back to prove it).

I finally couldn't wait any longer and had to pull out some of the blue paint that will cover the majority of the walls, so here is a sneak peak of the new color.

Stay tuned for new updated (hopefully colorful) pictures.

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!

Hi friends and family! Welcome to our blog! We realized how convenient it is to put pictures, videos, and pertinent information on the web so we can show and explain things (Our road trip this summer inspired it) without bringing laptops, cds, dvds, scrapbooks and etc. along with us everywhere.

For those of you who don't see us often, I will quickly bring you up to speed on who and where we are.

Adam is running his own business from our home, AH Digital FX Studios . He does web design and hosting. The wonderful thing about that is he can work from anywhere, even Ririe Idaho. He was in charge of his 10 year high school reunion last Saturday, it was a blast. (That also gives you a clue on how old he is!) He is the BYU Idaho 7th Stake Clerk, that takes up a lot of Sunday morning time but he loves it and he can make it back for 1:00 church with me so I really don't mind it either! He is enjoying swinging a bat this summer whether it's softball, baseball, wiffleball he's in the middle of it. Our business is doing well. In fact we are about to close in our 1 car garage and make it the office so there is an outdoor access and more room. In order to do that we needed a shed/shop to store all the stuff in the garage now, so we are looking at the foundation in the backyard and hoping it will be mostly done next week.

I (Heather) am in the middle of yard and garden work. Picking and canning green beans, finding new ways to convince my family to eat zucchini, watering my 1 acre yard by hose and sprinkler, keeping Baby Vi out of every cupboard, and primary presidency stuff. It's an exciting, but busy time of year. I LOVE harvest season. All the hard work in the garden is paying off. Getting Erith and Tricity ready for kindergarten and preschool is fun. The summer has been so busy, I'm excited to get a break once school starts!

Erith is 5 years old, she will turn 6 in December . She played T-Ball this summer and had a playdate with her best friend once a week. She LOVES to learn just like her Dad. She is excited to start kindergarten Aug 20th where Adam's aunt will be her teacher. She has been learning to read words one at a time when we have family scripture study. She's up to 30 and can sound out as many or more.

Tricity is 4 and very smiley. She went to a private preschool last school year twice a week and will get to go 3 times a week this year! She loves to play with her big sister Erith. They are inseparable and imaginative. Yesterday they were making people out of clay and using story books for their tents. (Propping them on their covers /\ I liked it!) She can read about 10 words.

Viola is 1 and walking (ahhh!) She is still a bit stiff legged but it's cute. She has a lot to say but we can't understand most of it. Her favorite word is Dad, yeah she's a Daddy's girl. She has a lot of personality coming through now that she's walking. She's quite the trouble maker. We can't leave anything on the floor or 3 foot from it.

I plan on updating this blog about once a week I will detail our trip we just took next probably. We will continue to add pictures to the photo gallery and I will e-mail when the updates are posted or extra good!