THE HAYES FAMILY

TO SHUT DOWN OR NOT TO SHUT DOWN THAT IS THE QUESTION

2008-05-10T06:30:00.001-07:00

Hello Everyone! Okay so it is pretty obvious that I don't work this blog like I should. I think I have come to realize that I am not going to either. Here's the deal NO TIME! Yeah I could come home and get right back on the computer even though I have been stuck on one for 8 hours a day, but I choose not to. There is homework to get done, dinner to fix and shows to watch. I love my shows yall and might have more time in the summer when there is nothing on tv, but then again it will be summer and I'll be outside taking pictures. When I am on the computer I am editing pictures or studying photography. I haven't decided if I am going to just shut it down yet though. I am better at updating my photography blog because I just post the pictures and run. LOL! I always draw a blank when I try and blog too. I feel like I have nothing to say and if I do think of something it almost seems like a therapy session where I have poured out my feelings then regret what I have just told the world. I have a tendancy of "going off" when I am upset or overly excited then once I calm down I'm embarrassed by it. So there is my reservations about going into too much detail on here.

So with that said I will give you a little info about what is going on in my family. NOTHING! LOL! Well not much anyway. Jeff is still working at Bracken Paving, I'm still at the Trading Post. We have decided that we are going to have to move though. I'm pretty sad about it because we didn't want to move again until we found our house but it looks like if we stay here we will be spending over $10,000 in gas this year. It is beautiful out here in the country but not practical anymore. I wish I was one of the wealthy that this economy isn't affecting but I am not, it is really invading my lifestyle and I hate it. This may be wrong, but I have dedcided that I will vote for whomever is going to convience me that they are going to do something about the gas. It is like all the other issues don't even matter to me anymore. When I have to move because of gas NOTHING ELSE MATTERS TO ME! Okay I'm off my soap box for now.

Jacob is almost done with the second grade! He is totally hilarious! Jeff and I are jokesters so it isn't a surprise that we have raised one. Here is a joke he played on me. His dad had nothing do to with this but he was very proud of his son. I was cooking dinner one night and Jeff and Jacob are just hanging out. Apparently being the boys they are they were trying to grab a hold of one of their nose hairs and putt it out. Jacob couldn't get any of his, but Jeff plucked one out. Jeff said Jacob had this look in his eyes and asked if he could have it. Jeff put it in his hand and Jacob closed it and smiled. He ran into the kiktchen where I was cooking and said "Mom". I said "hang on a second okay", he waited patiently. Jeff is in the other room rolling because he can hear the whole thing unfolding. I turn around and said "what" Jacob opens up his hand and said do you see this? I said yes, he said do you know what it is? I pick it up TOTALLY thinking it was an eyelash, and say just that, "an eyelash" he laughs and says "no that is one of dad's nose hairs". I of course scream and wash my hands. I thought Jeff had come up with the whole thing but turned out to be just as proud of him as his dad. GOOD ONE!! He also is at a stage now where he is pouting all the time when he doesn't get his way. This is FUN!! I love having to be stern all the time always makes for a good time. (totally kidding) We went bowling last night with our friends Holly and Chris and their beauty Dru. I allowed him to bring 2friends, Jeff's nephew Dakota, and our neighbor Cody. Half way through bowling he is pouting so I asked what was wrong, you know what he said..there is nothing to do here. UMMM EXCUSE ME!!! Did I just pay $25 for bowling and there is nothing to do. Urrrr!!!! Somewhere along the way my child has become spoiled and it is time to nip it in the bud. He is getting ready to go to the beach with my parents which is good, he needs to spend sometime with his Grandad, he'll nip this attitude. Grandad has "the eyes" that always works wonders for bad behavior.

Okay so I have rambled enough. Here are some recent pictures I have taken. Some are of Jacob and Jeff fishing the others are from bowling.

SORRY IT'S BEEN SO LONG

2008-01-14T12:52:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone, I just got an email saying that I needed to update my blog. Sorry I really have not had time. Between Christmas, working full time, photography part time and being a wife and mother THERE IS NO TIME FOR BLOGGING! I need to post pictures but I can't today. Let's see what is going on, well Jeff is on lay off right now until Bracken opens back up the end of Feb. Jacob is doing well in school. He was off to a rough start at the beginning of the year (more of a behavior issue than anything) but is now focusing and doing well. So far so good on my business. I had the awesome opportunity to take pictures this weekend of some locals for a book that will be coming out written by JS Moore. For those of you who went to South that is Jason Moore. He already has written a book titled "Understanding Apples" and the next book that will have my pictures in it is called "Gathering Leaves". These are stories that are about his grandfather Judd Moore, and others that lived on Long Island in Kingsport before Eastman took it over. It is a mixture of stories. I just read Understanding Apples and can't get it off my mind. Not sure if it touched me so much because I know Jason or what. I'll let everyone know when the new book is out on the stands though. That is all I have for now guys. I'll try and do better.

UPDATED BLOG

2007-11-02T12:22:00.000-07:00

I finally updated my photography blog so go check it out!

WE FOUND A CHURCH

2007-11-01T13:31:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody. Just wanted to let everyone know (especially those who have prayed for us for years) that we have FINALLY found a church. We have struggled with this for a while for several reasons mostly because when we would go it was like shew I'm good for a while and it would be forever before we would go back. Well last week my friend Amanda Bracken's husband Alan (Jeff's boss) invited us to their church Christ Fellowship. We LOVE IT!! This is the first time in I don't know how long, probably since I was a teenager, that I was like hey I want to go back to church this week. Jeff is excited too. They have a great children's program as well. I will say though that Satan was not too happy with us going because he sure did try and wreck our week this week. Oh well, too bad, we're going back!! LOL! Anyway thanks for everyone who kept the faith and kept praying for our family. Oh and BTW I know I need to update my photography blog, I have some new stuff to show everyone so I think I'll go visit Arby's and use their wifi tonight and get some uploaded. (NO I DON'T HAVE THE INTERNET AT HOME, LIVE OUT IN THE COUNTRY)

MY NEW BLOG

2007-09-14T13:48:00.001-07:00

So I finally made a blog for just my business, so check it out! You have all seen these pictures before I'm sure but I'll be sure to put more on there as I do them. So from now on this blog will be about my family instead of all my pictures. Here is the update on what has been going on in my family. Let's see...Jeff finally got out of the pest control business. For those of you that don't know he worked for Barnes Exterminating for almost 3yrs putting up with the most insane boss EVER! He truely was a crazy man. He then went to work for another pest control company which turned out to just be shady (which is not surprising in the pest control world.) He also was suffering from migraines for a good 9 months but since he has been out of that business NO MORE MIGRAINES!! Praise the Lord! He is back to driving trucks but instead of doing the over the road trucking he is working for Bracken Paving. What a blessing this has been. Alan and Amanda Bracken are amazing people who really love the Lord. Every Monday they have a devotional type meeting!!!! It is really a special company and Jeff LOVES his job. Jacob is 7 now, and in the 2nd grade. He is in cub scouts now so hopefully he will like it. He has tried soccer and football and bless his heart he has mine and Jeff's blood running through him and really just doesn't care about sports. He is more into hunting, fishing, playing in the dirt or whatever he and his friend Cody do all day long. Just being boys playing on the farm I guess. I'll keep encouraging him to play sports but like I said sports are something not even watched in our household. I know most of you out there are like "what is wrong with them". Okay I have to go for now, sorry to just stop in mid sentence but gotta run!

BACKFIRE!!!

2007-09-07T13:46:00.000-07:00

Well I was struggling to come up with something new for Jacob's B-day cake. So I thought I'll do a picture cake, and make it funny by using a funny picture of him. I thought this would be hilarous and that I had raised my child to laugh at himself. I WAS WRONG! This totally backfired and he was really embarrassed. It cracks me UP!

THE WILDER FAMILY

2007-09-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

Here is a slideshow of the most recent photo shoot I did for Michelle, Bryan and Seth Wilder. There are a lot of pictures in this one. Seth is just one of the sweetest and prettiest babies EVER! He is such a happy boy! We had a really good time that day that were very easy to photograph I didn't have to direct them at all! I'm always amazed at how comfortable some people are in front of the camera. Myself, not so much, I'd rather be behind it.

JACOB AND CODY

2007-08-16T08:18:00.000-07:00

HEY ALL! SO I TOOK JACOB AND CODY FOR A PHOTO SHOOT THIS WEEKEND. IT WAS HOT TO SAY THE LEAST. WE STARTED OUT AT SENSABAUGH TUNNEL, AND THEN JUST STOPPED HERE AND THERE AS I SAW SPOTS TO TAKE PICTURES. BY THE END THE BOYS WERE ABOUT TO HAVE A HEAT STROKE SO I STOPPED AND TOOK THEM TO THE POOL. SOME OF THESE I EDITED OTHERS I HAVE NOT HAD TIME TO ADJUST ANYTHING ON THEM. HOPE YOU ENJOY! IF YOU CLICK ON THE PICTURE IT WILL TAKE YOU STRAIGHT INTO THE WEB ALBUM AND YOU CAN SEE THEM LARGER.

HORSES

2007-08-07T08:12:00.001-07:00

THIS WEEKEND I WENT OUTSIDE AND TOOK SOME PICTURES OF MY NEIGHBORS HORSES. IT IS VERY ODD THAT THIS WEEKEND IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE DONE THIS. HERE I HAD THESE BEAUTIFUL HORSES RIGHT NEXT DOOR AND IT ONLY OCCURED TO ME THIS WEEKEND TO TAKE THEIR PICTURE. I REALLY ENJOYED IT TOO. AT FIRST THEY RAN AWAY FROM ME WHEN THEY HEARD MY CAMERA AND WENT TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE FIELD. I QUIETLY FOLLOWED THEM SAT DOWN AND TOOK MY TIME SO I WOULDN'T SCARE THEM AWAY. AFTER ABOUT 20MIN THEY WALKED UP TO ME AND WERE JUST DYING FOR ME TO TAKE THEIR PICTURE. LOL!

HE AINT HEAVY HE'S MY BROTHER

2007-08-07T07:58:00.000-07:00

I TOOK SOME PICTURES THIS WEEKEND OF JACOB AND OUR NEIGHBOR CODY. JACOB CALLS HIM HIS BROTHER AND HE IS SERIOUS! THEY WERE SO CUTE JUMPING AROUND WHILE I TRIED TO GET THE PERFECT SHOT. NONE OF THESE PICTURES I HAVE EDITED WITH PHOTOSHOP YET I WASN'T SURE IF I SHOULD.

FAMILY TIME

2007-08-02T13:37:00.000-07:00

WE HAD A FAMILY GET TOGETHER A FEW WEEKENDS AGO WITH MY SISTERS AND THEIR FAMILY'S. I TOOK THIS PICTURE OF ELLIE, JACOB AND ABBY.

I'm handicapped

2007-07-25T08:32:00.000-07:00

Okay I know I suck at this blog stuff. The weirdest thing, it turns out I need to to my job while I am at work, darn it! I didn't get in trouble or anything, I just figured it was only the right thing to do. Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know why I haven't really been adding pictures. Yes I am still taking them, I am just handicapped right now. I can't get the internet at my house because of where I live, unless I want dialup, so there is no need for me to have a computer. I could go to my parents and do it but when it hits 5:00, I just want to go home. I have several pictures I want to post I promise I will do it soon. If I can handle it I might stay after work tonight just so I can put some on here. If they are not on here, you'll know I couldn't take it and had to just go on home.

PLAYING AROUND WITH MY CAMERA

2007-06-19T13:59:00.000-07:00

Well here are some pictures I have taken with my new camera trying to learn how to use this thing.

LUKE JAMESON NASH

2007-06-09T07:40:00.000-07:00

LUKE NASH HAS ARRIVED!!!

2007-06-07T10:44:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! Just want to put some pictures of Joanna's newest addition Luke Jameson Nash. Dad took these pictures quickly and they were taken right after his arrival. I'm going to get some better pictures tonight. I'll post them tomorrow.

THE BUSINESS

2007-06-05T07:22:00.000-07:00

IF YOUR NOT AWARE MY BEST FRIEND CATHY AND I ARE STARTED TAKING PICTURES AS A SIDE BUSINESS. WE BOTH DECIDED WE WANTED SOME "LIFESTYLE PHOTOS" OF OUR FAMILY BUT WHEN WE STARTED LOOKING FOR A PHOTOGRAPHER WE REALIZED QUICKLY THAT WE WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT. SO WE THOUGHT HEY LET'S TRY TO DO SOME OURSELVES. WE DID IT AND GOT AN EXCELLENT RESPONSE FROM OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. BEFORE WE KNEW IT PEOPLE WERE ASKING US TO TAKE THEIR FAMILY PICTURES. SO WE BOTH PURCHASED OUR EQUIPMENT AND ARE READY TO GO! OUR GOAL IS TO ALLOW EVERYONE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE GOOD QUALITY PICTURES WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK. WE WOULD RATHER KEEP OUR PRICES LOW ENOUGH THAT YOU WILL COME BACK YEAR AFTER YEAR INSTEAD OF ONLY BEING ABLE TO GET PROFESSIONAL LIFESTYLE PICTURES ONCE IN YOUR LIFE AND THE REST OF YOUR FAMILY PICTURES ARE TAKEN AT WELL YOU KNOW YOUR LOCAL "SAY CHEESE" STUDIOS. IT SEEMS THAT MOST PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE GEARING TOWARDS THE "RICH" WHICH LEAVES THE REST OF US STUCK GETTING THE BORING PICTURES OF OUR CHILDREN AS THEY GROW. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED CONTACT ME AND WE WILL SIT DOWN AND FIGURE OUT WHAT YOUR BUDGET ALLOWS AND CUSTOMIZE A PACKAGE TO FIT YOUR NEEDS. IF ANY OF THE SLIDESHOWS BELOW ARE JUST WHITE, JUST REFRESH YOUR SCREEN AND IT WILL COME UP.

2007-05-29T08:24:00.000-07:00

Here is a few that I took of David, Rene & Cam Sewell. I'll add more later, I was in a hurry.

JOANNA'S PICTURES

2007-05-23T23:07:00.000-07:00

Hello all! Okay so I took some pictures for my sister Joanna this time. You will notice a lot of the pictures twice but they haved different effects on them. I did that so she could decided which ones she wanted to print. Let me know what you guys think!

JOANNA

2007-05-23T23:01:00.001-07:00

MICAH

2007-05-21T13:44:00.000-07:00

THESE ARE OF MY SISTER LIZA AND HER BABY MICAH.

2007-05-21T13:43:00.001-07:00

DEWALD BABY

2007-04-20T07:22:00.000-07:00

As most of you know my best friend Cathy and I have been bit by the photography bug and are trying to learn as much as we can. Unfortunately we don't have the funds right now to purchase the kind of digital SLR camera we want so we are doing the best with what we have. We decided we wanted some practice so I asked my sister Liza if we could come and take some pictures for her. We had the pleasure of spending 5 hours, shooting pictures of her baby Micah. What a perfect little subject he was. He was as sweet as he could be, allowing us to pose him, give him a bath, feeding, etc. all the while flashes are going off (we had two cameras going the whole time) and not a peep from that little fella. So take a look at our work, this is just a few, we ended up with over 1,000 pictures (way too much). We created an slideshow with some music for her but I can't put it on this blog for some reason. Anyway here is a taste of what we did. Keep in mind we only have a point and shoot 5mp camera, so the quality is not going to be that of a pro. Hope you like!

2007-04-20T06:33:00.000-07:00

2007-03-08T13:40:00.000-08:00

This is my sister Liza and her baby Micah.

2007-03-06T07:32:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures that I took this weekend of Liza & Micah. I should have more coming soon.

2007-02-26T13:19:00.001-08:00

Greetings to all! We went to Knoxville this weekend to visit our best friends The Wise Family. Our purpose of this trip was to get some family photos. It didn't turn out as well as planned because the weather was not our friend that day, but we did the best we could in the short amount of time we had before we lost light. Once we were done we spent hours making them beautiful on photoshop. Don't forget to check to see if I have more pages at the bottom.

2007-02-26T12:56:00.000-08:00

2007-02-26T11:54:00.000-08:00

2007-02-26T11:27:00.000-08:00

Okay anyone who is reading this. Tell me if these look better on your end than the next set below.-thanks

2007-02-26T08:29:00.000-08:00

Hmmm, something went wrong on these, when I put them on here. I see squares in the pictures do you? What is going on??

2007-02-26T08:24:00.000-08:00

This is another group that looked great on her laptop and just horrible on my computer. Hope they look good to yall.

2007-02-26T08:14:00.000-08:00

These looked great, but now look dark, are they dark?

2007-02-26T07:51:00.000-08:00

PICTURES

2007-02-26T07:12:00.000-08:00