Welcome to the U.S.A!

So, as crazy as I am, I decided to make Derick and Ethan dress up like crazy people and surprise Bryce and Family when we went to see them at the airport! We decided to dress up in flags and red, white and blue to welcome them back to the good ole U.S.A and to welcome our newest citizen Natalie- who by the way is the cutest, most darling girl! She is a little shy at first, but once she realizes that you really aren't a crazy person, you are just dressed up like one.. She starts to like you!

It was so good to see you guys and sorry for embarrassing you Bryce, next time I will have to think of something else to embarrass you by..... I have the crazy Hayes gene, what can I say?

natalie hayes has left the country

at 7:55 pm manila time, natalie lorraine olson hayes cleared philippine customs. When she lands in los angeles, she will be the newest american citizen. Look out world...

WHAM! BAM! KAPOWEE!

Somewhere in the far reaches of space, is a bizarre little place called Winchester, KY. In the land of Winchester, there are strange creatures called hillbillies, and sometimes these hillbillies beat each other to a pulp as a means of recreation. Maybe National Geographic will come to Winchester to do a piece on the strange practices of the hillbillies, such as eating squirrel, opossum and feasting on fried frog legs. As I was making my way through the Northern section of Winchester, 2 hillbillies jumped out of a minivan and pummeled a young man right before my eyes. They hit him in the back, and then punched him in the nose. The poor guy fell to the ground and they continued to kick and punch him, the poor guy was a mess, I honked and honked my horn in hopes they'd stop, but they kept right on kicking. So, I got on my cell phone and called 911, it took them almost 30 minutes to get there. After the hillbillies left, I had to hold a towel to his head, it was split right open, and his nose was definitely broken. His hand was in tatters, I felt so bad for him, and I was just sick that someone would do such a thing! I never thought I'd see the day I watched someone get pummeled, but then I never thought I'd see the day of flying trampolines either.

my shweet family.

So Niesja I am proud of you for going back to church. you are the best and we are all here for you.

Julie I wish I could have seen you tell that lady to get out of your house, I bet it was funny to watch even though the situation sucked.

Bryce, cant wait for you all to get here I really want to meet my niece. I told Alyse that you were going to leave the country with your middle finger in the air because of all the grief this adoption has caused. she told me to be nice (let me know what you do...)

Justin, the proud pappa is also the best nieghbor to have around (a mile counts as a nieghbor). always there for any thing we could think of to use him for.

I love you all. thanks for the birthday wishes.

chance

p.s. I love mom and dad too. (to many things to say)

Okay- I just have to brag a little but....

Olivia just spelled her name! She loves to have me write her name over and over again with crayons. It is one of her favorite things to do. Laura doesn't really care so much, but Olivia is definitely more academic than Laura. Ivy is a good mixture of the twins.

IT JUST PLAIN SUCKS!!!

The morning began just like any other, I'm on Spring Break, so I was taking this opportunity to sleep in. It was raining outside, and there was a severe weather alert out for the county--no alarm, no getting out of bed for me! The wind started picking up, and it started hailing, slowly but surely things were getting worse outside. Austin was sitting downstairs when a loud gush rumbled the whole house, and he just happened to look out the window and see our tree parallel to the ground, and our trampoline lift up off the ground, nearly 40 feet, and soar over the top of our neighbor's house. What do you do when your trampoline disappears over the top of your house? Well, I didn't know what to do either, it's not exactly something you plan for. We were worried that perhaps someone may have gotten hurt, we waited until things calmed down a bit, hopped in the car, put the kids downstairs to be safe just in case, and headed out to track down that blasted trampoline!

We found it all right, lying in the street in pieces, as well as the car that it hit, let me rephrase, SUV that it hit (that makes it even better). The SUV had been a graduation present to the high school girl that was standing outside looking more than just a little ticked off. It was still pouring rain, and I was in my lovely and most stylish polka-dot pajamas. We ran home to change and came right back to clean up the trampoline. We were all soaked to the bone! While we were off disposing of the trampoline, Ali and Taylon are at home scared half out of their wits because the wind is still howling and the rain is still pouring, a perfect setting for the wicked witch to return home--the mother of the owner of the now smashed SUV. The high school girl was outside sweeping up glass in the rain when the mother returned home, and she was more than a little bit peeved that we weren't there helping (duh! we were getting rid of the trampoline!) She was at my door the second we walked in--still soaking wet, and let us have it! She demanded that we take care of it immediately, and said that it was our fault, and that we had to go get her daughter a rental car. I was taken aback! This was so strange, we were trying to be so helpful and nice, we wanted to help and get it taken care of, it was a freak of nature, an act of God, we certainly didn't throw the trampoline over the fence at their car!

Finally, I told her to get out of my house, and she did so, slamming the door behind her. Of course, I called dad bawling like the big baby that I am, and he called her and let her have it just for me. (He even said naughty words in my behalf--you go dad!)

Well, after a long day of dealing with adjusters and insurance dudes, it was determined that it was no ones fault, the insurance companies said they would take care of the cost of repairing the car, and we don't have to pay anything thank heaven! She has still threatened to sue us for her lost wages and other silly expenses. All I have to say, is take a chill pill lady! We are not dishonest, heartless people, we would never leave them without helping to take care of the problem. Oh well! At least no one was hurt, I would feel terrible if someone got crushed or killed!

We will never own another trampoline in my life! Never!

Thanks dad for taking care of your little girl! A girl always needs her daddy!

Thanks Austin for having a cool head and staying calm in the midst of a crisis!

Thanks for being such a great family! I love you guys!

Thank you for being here

Hi guys,

Today has been really hard for me, I went to church yesterday with Ethan and no Derick... It's hard to have everyone want to know all about you when your husband isn't there. They also called in our records and me and Ethan were just there with no Derick. It was a little heart breaking. I don't tell Derick these things because it hurts him but I sure wish he was sharing this part of life with me.

Then today I started to get all the phone calls from all of my tenants yelling at me because they received rent increases over the weekend. Some are patient, some yell and others are just vulgar and rude so I have had to put out multiple fires today while feeling sad too.

I guess I'm not depressed I'm just a little sad because I feel alone sometimes but I know I'm doing the right thing. I logged on to the family website and I felt so much better to know that all of you are there. It makes it seem like you aren't so far away and that we are a lot closer.

Thanks for doing this website with me, it makes me feel happy!

Love you guys,

Niesja