Adam and Heather Hayes

New waterproof sheetrock, tile and jetted tub!

Tape and Santa Fe texture.  Our remodel specialist suggested these little gray speckled squares in the corners of the tile.  I'm so glad he did, I love it!

Painting the ceiling white in the middle of the night.

Painting the walls gray, at 4:00 AM, we have to have everything ready for the marble by Tuesday morning, so we do what we gotta do.

There's nothing more satisfying to me than painting a white wall with color.  Painting something white a little whiter, like the ceiling, is tedious.  But white walls to Pewter... I could go all night!  (and I did)

I like the contrast of the walls, trim, and the two tiles.  They are putting in cabinets and grout today,  White and gray marble tomorrow, and I guess a white toilet and white trim.  I'm so excited to see it coming together!

Don't worry all you anti-dark paint people, it won't look like a concrete room for long!

While we were painting our props, we set Vi at the counter with poster paints.

One day was not enough, so she painted the next day too.

She went through that whole set of poster paints in 2 days! It's good for kids to get messy and be creative, and poster paint wipes right off the counter!

Tric actually used some of the poster paints making a big mural too.  As you'll see in the next post, they get the solid painting from me and the intricate fancy painting from their dad.

Well, I finally got the ultrasound that everyone has been asking me about. January 2nd at 9:00 A.M. we found out that we are having a...

Baby's Profile

GIRL! So I guess Viola will have a playmate close to her age like the older girls are to each other. We ARE excited and it really makes things convenient for me, because I definitely have girl stuff! Adam says we are just specializing.

Baby's Face, mouth is open, cute little chin to the right

I'm still tempted to paint the old office a light green... I could stick up pink and purple decor to make it a girl room if I have to, right?

Otherwise the ultrasound said I was right on, the baby isn't big which happens a lot with diabetic mothers. I must say these 4 girl pregnancies I've had have been quite easy so I shouldn't complain at all. These first 24 weeks have been great and we'll hope for a healthy baby at 39 weeks!

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.

I talked to my mom last night (Saturday) for quite a while about how things are going. We are going to see them after church and it makes me sad beacause it may be the last time for quite a while.

Landon's white blood cell count is going to be checked twice a week by a home health nurse. If his count gets too low he won't be able to see any outside person especially ones who are sick at all. We seem to have a cold that passes amongst the 5 of us lately.

My mom has hand sanitizer at the door and masks for anyone remotely sick and we have a couple days till the white blood cell count is going to take a huge drop, so we're going to make the best of this visit tonight!

I just thought this information ought to be mentioned so you family understand why they can't have visitors or go out in big crowds too often for the next year and believe me it will be hardest on me and my girls! I'm sitting here wondering if I should take Tric and Vi with their runny noses tonight but I guess it's better today than in 2 days.

Erith and Tric are making get well soon cards for Landon as I write, bless their loving hearts.

Adam just walked in from his BYU Idaho 7th stake clerk stuff and he says he's speaking in stake conference in 2 weeks and this is their last stake conference to speak before they get released. (I think I'm just about ready to be honest. It's kind of an unappreciated calling because your home ward just thinks your inactive!)

Our new office is coming along. All the Sheetrock is up and most of the screw holes are mudded so we just have to per fa tape, sand and paint. Oh, and figure out how to stop the bottom of the door from leaking when it rains. Our house and now new office faces South and it takes a huge weather beating.

Anyway, we are doing just fine. Vi is an amazing trouble/mess maker and I am learning to be patient when I find toothbrushes in the toilet and the entire contents of a garbage can on my living room floor. I'll miss these days when she's a teenager supposedly so bring it on Vi!

The girls have been really looking forward to this day, and the family night before Easter is finally here! The day we paint Easter Eggs (or dye them I should say!)

Vi had a fun first time dying eggs. There was a colorful puddle in front of her, and she cracked one. She tried to eat it with most of the shell still on, yummy.

As you can see I am eight months pregnant and looking forward to April 23rd. That is the day of my scheduled c-section. I also have a new haircut, compliments of my sister Jaleesa! Yes, I chopped it, and highlighted it, and I love it!

If you would like to see more Easter Egg pictures check out our image gallery! (Button at the top of the site.)

We have had a fun time getting the elder's quorum ready for our ward's Lip Sync. 

We've been making props out of cardboard and paint. 

The song they did was "Along came Jones". 

It is an old, funny, damsel in distress from the evil villain, melodramatic song. 

Adam was the narrator who watches the story unfold on his TV.  So we had a TV, a buzz saw, dynamite, a train, and train tracks. If anyone could use any of this stuff for a skit or achievement days, or something let us know within the month, we'd rather give it away than throw it away!

One thing down and another to go. 

We have a previously to Adam being put in Elder's Quorum party on Friday too. 

Adam's first volleyball tournament is Saturday.  Today is our only free night in like, three weeks. Where did my quiet life go?  I'm handling it very well though.  I'm a pretty high stressing person, and I have not freaked out near as much as I was expecting! Yea me!

This is the volleyball sweatshirt design Adam made this year.  Much cooler than last year's.  There are more pictures  in our image gallery under kids 2009.  They are listed in alphabetical order so the painting pictures are all over the place. :)

I figured it is my turn to give everyone an update.

I made my goal of losing 30 lbs. I got back down to 175 which is about the weight I was when I graduated. I haven't been below 180 since before I got married, so I was very surprised to make the goal. I've been hovering around 175.5 and 177 for the past couple of weeks, so I didn't just "bounce" up after losing it either.

I rode my first horse last Friday. We went up to Daniel's house and I got my first ever chance to ride a horse. It was ok. They told me that trotting isn't the most enjoyable and that I should go gallup, but I'm not sure that I enjoyed that any more than trotting, but that could have just been because of how far down the stirrups were. (I have short legs and Daniel has really long legs.) All-in-all it was pretty fun. Darcy threatened that we should go for a trail ride. So we'll see how/when that happens.

T-ball. Heather finished her season (I'll let her tell you about that more herself.) But from my position as designated 3rd base coach, I thought her team did excellent. Heather was soooooo patient with the kids.

Erith and Tric were on her team and they did amazing. Tricity hit two home runs this season (which is pretty hard to do in T-ball.)

Erith keeps getting taller and her long legs kept her ahead of most anyone (even when I thought for sure that she would get out, she always beat them to the base... even if the ball was hit directly at the base she was running to.)

Overall Heather's team had a winning season and I am very proud of her and the girls. 

I've started painting again. I haven't painted in a lot of years, and I've never done oil painting. I did water color when I was in high school, but I haven't done anything since then. I convinced a very nice lady in my ward to teach me how to oil paint. I've been planning this for a while and had asked for oil painting equipment last year for Christmas, so I had most everything I needed to get going. I've completed two paintings so far, one an abstract picture based off of a Paul Klee painting that I really like. The second is a still life of a couple of bottles. I think I'm getting better and I'm really enjoying painting again. I had forgotten how much fun it can be.

Well there is my update. I'll get the pictures out here as soon as I can for people to see. Please let me know what you all think.

Well, here comes another quick update for posterity sake on what I've been up to. 

Work has been going well and I'm scrambling to keep up. It feels like I just run and run. I just signed up with the new family search and I'm loving it. It is my escape now to search for people. We did a quick trial run and got 3 families ready for the temple and then Heather and I did a whirlwind day of everything for one family from baptisms all the way through to sealings. It was really fun to go through for people that I had gotten from family search and turned in. These next ones will be even cooler because I'll have done the research and finding myself.

I also helped out a buddy of mine that needed another player for his city league softball team. I went to 7 games and we won 5 of the 7. It was a lot of fun. We did a couple of games a week, so it seemed like a lot in a short amount of time. I got to play 1st base the whole time which brought back great memories from childhood.

I fixed the deck, (see the other post for in the middle picture). It seems to be holding up well and we'll see what happens after a year has gone by how they hold up.The stain seems to be working so that is great compared to our first attempt at protecting the deck (the paint wore off within weeks in some spots last time)

I also did a number of days over at another friend's house helping them move some trees (little trees from 1 1/2 feet to 7 feet tall. I'm guessing I helped out with 1500ish trees of the 7500+ they moved. It was fun even though I got sore fingers and a couple of blisters out of it. 

Erith and Tricity helped me the other day go get potatoes and deliver them to a bunch of people. One of the farmer's daughters in our stake did a young women's project and gave away a bunch of potatoes. All you had to do was show up, pick them up, and haul them off. Erith and Tric had fun picking potatoes with a little bit of dirt clod throwing (mostly at me).

All in all it has been a crazy summer and I think we've accomplished a bunch.

I am continuing to paint so I will continue to post paintings as I finish them. This was a very fun piece to do. It has more of a "classic old oil painting" look to it.

The original painting was done by William Bradford and is called "Fishing Boats on the Bay of Fundy". This one had more small detail and it took a white to figure out how to get the waves to look like actual waves.

I was going to take my painting stuff up to the Quinn reunion (Heather will post on that later), but we filled the car to popping as it was without my painting stuff. The reunion was a blast and now we are in the heat of things with Jaleesa getting married tomorrow.

We were surprised to wake up to a snow covered yard yesterday. It was finally showing more grass than snow! We were also surprised to hear they closed school one day before spring break! (Some roads were closed.) So snow day #7 meant a longer spring break for us!

The girls were pretty excited about it. They made a snowman on the front deck of all places. You'd think it would be easier to leave it on the ground. They've been very into art projects as well.

Erith wanted to make a castle to show at show and tell. She took out the Popsicle sticks and glue and went to town. The longer we had it, the more embellished it became, paint, pom poms, stickers. Of course we couldn't leave Viola out of the fun!