How we are doing :)

So here is an update of how I am doing and how Mike and his new job are doing.
I am doing pretty good. I have been extremely tired lately and though I haven't thrown up at all, have been feeling very nauseated especially in the morning, which makes it really hard on me to get up and ready and to school on time. but other than that the pregnancy has been pretty easy. I don't want to jinx myself so I'm knocking on wood as we speak... Anyways my clothes are starting to get a little bit tighter so that is exciting!
Mike's job. Where do I start? He works for this older gentleman who lives about 20 minutes away. He mows his lawn, fixes random machinery, digs holes and ditches, fixes boilers as of Friday, and so many other random handy man type things. He has blisters on his hands and is getting kinda tan from being outside all day. Mike likes the job because he's outside actually working and moving around (unlike at his previous job at the Western Wats call center). He got paid on Friday and discovered though that he is only making 6 dollars an hour!! He was told when he took the job that it would start at 7 and then he would get raises every so often. The thing with this is that he works his tail off everyday and only get 6 an hour. (Minimum wage in ID is $7.25 I believe) This was very disheartening for him. We also found out that he is being paid on a 1099 rather than W-2. We don't really know which is better and for what reasons... Anyways Mike plans on talking to him about his wage and try to figure all this craziness out. He is torn whether or not he should quit because he is being treated unfairly, or if it was just a mistake. Because this is our only source of income at the moment, I have been asking him what we would do if he quit, and he agrees that it is not the right thing to do. So I guess that our plan of attack is to keep our eyes and ears peeled about new jobs in town and talk to his employer about all the wage business...hopefully we get it all straightened out so that he won't have to look for another job.
School...well school for me is going pretty good. I'm taking 12 credits but I only needed one 3 credit class to be able to get my associates in July. So as far as work load, it's just a lot of fun sewing, graphic design, flower arranging type stuff along with my lecture art history class that I needed. But like I said before, I do have some troubles getting going in the morning because of the nausea so I sometimes miss a couple classes a week. Mike is also taking 12 credits and they are all night and online classes because he works all day. We have discovered how much we hate online classes this semester. They are really hard to keep up with when you are also going to other classes and working all the time. So I don't think that we will ever take anymore online classes ever! So school is a little challenging this semester with the pregnancy and Mike working all the time, but in July we will both have our Associates degrees and come January (hopefully) we will be moving to Provo and Mike will finish up his schooling there. So we know that everything that we are going through now will make the next couple of years a little easier (as far as school and baby).
We are doing well and will continue to update you on our baby and our lives as we keep plugging along.
Till next time!