Wow, that fixed it immediately. Thanks a million, ancapantilie. Was trying to figure that out for a while.
I was able to fix the third category showing up as a different color as well by changing the 6n+2 in the code to 6n+3
I was able to remove it by going into my header.php and removing this line:
<?php do_action( ‘hestia_do_header’ ); ?>