Blessings In Disguise

Well the date is set to find out the gender of our baby! July 15th! The day that Harry Potter comes out. We are so excited to finally know what are little munchkin is! :)
At the last Dr visit they did all the blood work and offered to do the down syndrome test. We obviously said that it wasn't necessary, that it wouldn't change anything about the pregnancy and how much we want and love this baby. They told us that they would look over my blood work and said that no news was good news. It's been almost a week and we haven't heard anything so that is always relieving.
Mike had to work on a big boiler project this weekend for his boss. I don't know if I have said this before, but the guy Mike works for owns a boiler company and Mike is sometimes asked to go on call to some boiler maintenance every now and then. When he goes on call he make $10/hr rather than the $6.75/hr mowing his lawn. But since it was the weekend he mad overtime on Saturday and on Sunday he made $20/hr. We figure that is how the employees get Sundays off, they charge a higher rate to the factory or whatever if they have to work/fix their boiler on a Sunday. Mike left at 7:30 am on Sunday morning and didn't get home until 2:30 am the following morning. The poor boy logged about 18 hours of work...on a Sunday. This last weekend was really hard for him. He felt like he didn't have anytime to unwind from the work week and relax, which he really didn't. But the good thing about it is that he basically worked enough on Sunday to cover our rent for July! Sometimes the Lord sees that we need help to get through. And when we are living righteously and doing all that we can do, He will bless us with what we need most. I have such a great testimony of this. Every since we have been married, not a bill has even gone unpaid, rent is always paid on time, and we have just enough to buy groceries every week. The Lord truly loves us and knows what we are going through and will bless us if we live like He asks us.

Baby Ticker, Mikeypoo and Graduation

So I added this little ticker thing that I found online so that you all can be updated on the baby whenever. Anyways, we got an appointment next week for all the blood work and tests that still need to be done.
We picked up our table and chairs last Saturday, pictures soon to follow. We got it all set up and took the old one to DI (sorry mom, it was nice...but we wanted a new one :))
Mike is getting really tired of work, it is so hard on him to have to go to work all day doing hard manual labor and come home and go to class and do homework. But he is doing good and being a good responsible husband/daddy. I am so grateful for all his hard work and all he does for us! He truly will be an awesome dad! I love him so much!
I applied for graduation today (for both of us for AS). Everything should be all set for July 22nd. man I am so excited to finish up school and to just be a mommy and not worry about school a while (if I ever decide to go back). So yeah...life is good and getting better.

Table and Chairs

So we had our second doctor visit last week. We got to hear the little one's heartbeat! it was such a tender moment in the exam room! It was hard to keep back the tears. We are so excited to be parents and take care of this little gift from our Heavenly Father. We didn't do any blood work this time seeing as the lab guy leaves the office at four and we had our appointment at 4:20 so Mike wouldn't have to get off work. So blood work nest visit! I am barely showing...though I do have to leave my pants unbuttoned some days. I am nearly 14 weeks and you can barely tell that there is a baby in there. I guess that I have such fast metabolism that I'm not gaining baby wait. But I have a feeling that will change in a few short weeks.
Well Mike's work is going good. It isn't much different from when he started except that he trained a neighborhood boy to mow the lawns, so he doesn't really do that much anymore.
School is going good as well. It is midterms already! I can't believe how fast time is flying by! My sewing class is starting to stress me out though. But other than that we are pretty good.

We did make a pretty awesome purchase this last Memorial Day weekend! We bought a dining room table and chairs! They were on sale and we really wanted a new one that was ours, not a hand-me-down. We had to order it but it was well within our budget and will be here in a couple weeks. This isn't exactly what it looks like, but this is pretty similar. It's a tall counter height table, four chairs, and a beautiful deep rich wood color! :)
Have a great day friends!