I apologize for my lack of blogging. Hopefully when Grayson gets here my life will be a little more interesting and I'll have more things to share.

Chad and I had a great Christmas and New Year. We traveled to North Myrtle Beach to see his family for a few days and stopped in Clinton for a few days on our way home. It was nice to finally have another girl at my house this year since my brother is newly married. And Andrew is dating someone--so we were very excited about that (although we haven't met her yet)!
We were so ready to get back home and have some time to get things done around the house before heading back to work. The laundry room is almost finished and I need to post pics of that. It's going to be so much better than it was--and we'll even have a utility sink so that I can wash Grayson's cloth diapers that I am going to bravely try!!!


We gave each other a new washer and dryer for Christmas--which I am absolutely loving!!! One day hopefully we'll be able to give each other normal gifts for Christmas--and not gifts for the house!! I'll post some pics soon.


I've been trying to get Grayson's nursery organized. I made some pictures with Grayson's initials--they turned out pretty cute.

This is a picture of his dresser (which will be his changing table for a while). Chad did a great job refinishing it for me. I finally got curtains up over Christmas! It's starting to come together. He'll be here in 10 weeks--so hard to believe!!
The funniest thing happened last night (at least to us)--we were sitting on the couch and Chad noticed that my belly suddenly took on a different shape--one side was alot higher than the other--it was really weird. Then we could feel a butt sticking up on one side and head on the other side--2 hard knots!! Then, I started to feel a steady movement--Grayson had the hiccups!! That's the first time I had felt that and it was so neat!! He hiccupped for a while until I sneezed a few times and I guess it scared him!! So cute!!

So, here we are. My belly is really getting bigger now. I've been feeling (and seeing!) lots of kicking and moving around. I love feeling that throughout the day!!!

We traveled for Thanksgiving--to the beach and then to Clinton. I don't know what we're going to do when the baby gets here because there was not much room to spare in the jeep. It probably doesn't help that Dakota takes up the whole back seat!!!

We have a name!!! It is possible that the name could still change, but for now we're set!!

GRAYSON PAUL HAYES

Gray and Paul are both family names so we came up with Grayson. It's a name we've always liked and it's not too common.

I haven't done too much in the nursery lately. Here is a picture of Grayson's crib and bedding.

My next task is to get the closet organized.

Chad is working hard on the laundry room to get it finished. I'll post pics when he's done.

Mountain Weekend

This past weekend I got to get away with a precious lady from my church. The men from our church had a retreat this weekend so we went without our husbands to a beautiful cabin in the mountains. Her 2 children came along and they each got to bring a friend. So, Kay and I had the whole weekend just to sit around and chat. It was wonderful!!! She is an amazing woman with so much wisdom that the Lord, by His grace, has given her.
We shared scripture and talked about everything under the sun! It was so refreshing! The Lord has been so faithful to me and Chad to bring this family into our lives to disciple us. Chad has been discipled by her husband for about 2 years now. We are so thankful for them!!!
Chad also learned so much over the weekend at the retreat. It was so rewarding to come back together and share all the things that we both had learned.

This weekend my parents are coming into town. Chad and my dad plan on finishing the laundry room. I'm sure me and my mom will enjoy spending some time shopping!! We also plan on working in the nursery a little. Maybe I'll have some pictures to share soon!

It's A Boy!!!

So I think most of you who read this blog already knew that Chad and I were expecting. We found out yesterday that it's a boy!!! We feel so humbled and so incredibly blessed to know that God has allowed us to experience the growth and movement of a healthy baby!!

We have a lot to do to prepare for the little one. We haven't completely decided on a name yet , so we'll keep you posted.
Now that we know it's a boy, we can get started working in the nursery --very exciting!
Chad has been busy lately working on the outside of our house. We've been refinishing and painting our front door and back door and we will put new shutters up soon.

I think that was the last picture we'll see of the baby before he's born in March, so we'll keep you up to date on the preparations for Baby Hayes!

Congrats William and Bonnie!!!

This past weekend we were in Fort Mill to marry off my little brother. It was the sweetest wedding-- they were so happy to be getting married!! William actually found someone who likes to hunt and fish. They went to the Outer Banks for their honeymoon-with 2 fishing poles!! They are so much alike!!!

I'm so happy to finally have a "sister"! We had so much fun visiting with family and friends.

More Pics:

http://picasaweb.google.com/molliehayes/WilliamSWedding#

Finally..an update!

So I know that I have gone all summer with no updates. But...we just haven't had alot going on. We just stayed home all summer and did some things around the house. I keep forgetting to take pictures of the progress in our sunroom. I'll have to do that soon.

This past weekend Chad's grandmother passed away so we headed to Greenville. Despite the circumstances, it was a great time with family! Little Noah is growing up so fast--already 4 months!

I didn't take any pictures the whole time until we were leaving. So here we are--saying goodbye.

Oh well, as I said, not much going on here.

School has started back for me and it's going very well. We have 20 in our class--which I will not complain about!! Chad is staying very busy with work and has even picked up a few side design jobs for some friends.

We should have some more interesting updates coming up soon--my little brother gets married in a few weeks!!! We'll keep you posted.....

Peachtree Road Race 2008!!

We spent our July 4th running the Peachtree. We absolutely loved it and will definately try to make it a July 4th tradition!!

Here's our whole group--we all met at 6:00 am and carpooled to the race to meet up with the 55,000 other runners.

I finished in 1 hr. 12 min. and Chad finished in 1 hr. 8 min.

Not really good time, but considering that it was our first time and we didn't really train--I think we did pretty good. Chad actually did not train at all.

I had so much fun running the race that I am actually considering a half-marathon next year. I think it would be a great accomplishment!! We'll see....