2 posts in 1 day!

I'm home from work recovering from the flu (it took over the whole family including Shea, Aaron and my sister the past week) so I might as well take advantage of the quiet house to myself and make up for serious lacking in the blogging world.  I apologize I am such a boring blogger to follow and only post about once every month or two if I'm lucky.

Some of you may want a house update...progress is flying now!  It felt like the foundation of the house took forever but once the framing started things & decisions started to cruise along!  This week they are taping the sheet rock and we will be able to get in to paint a couple of rooms already in a week and a half!  The builder is having the whole house painted for us in a color of our choice (revere pewter) but we can get in and paint more colors before all the trim goes up if we want. For now we're just going to do Shea's room and the den since I'm not ready to make more color decisions.  :)

Speaking of decisions...they are almost done!  Don't get me wrong, it was fun picking things out but at the same time it starts to get overwhelming and there are choices you really want to make but are way outside the budget so you need to find ways to make it work.  Pretty soon you find yourself just making quick decisions to be done with them and just hope it all works out and looks ok in the end.  It does help to know this is where we plan to be for a long time so details we didn't add now (like tile, backsplashes, more fun lights, etc.) can be changed and added later. Not to mention we will need grass, a sprinkler system (Aaron insists on that), landscaping and a patio so hopefully some of that can be somewhat started next spring (grass for sure at least!).  My wonderful dad who owns his own security system company, Night Owl Security, (just had to put in a plug for him) already wired the house for an alarm system so that can be easily added later at any time too.  Whew, can we win the lottery please?!

Here's a pic of the progress last week (the driveway has since been finished and the siding should be going up very soon):

The 2nd floor window on the far left along with the two smaller windows is Shea's room (her room is a fun unique shape) and the larger second floor window is the baby's room.  The far left window on the main floor is part of the family room and the larger window on the main floor is the den (Shea's playroom until the basement is finished in probably 20 years...haha).

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I know, I know, if you follow me on facebook you already know we are having a BOY!!!  We feel so blessed! I'm not good at keeping up with the blog but I still had to share our excitement over the news! We have actually known for weeks but kept it a secret until we could tell our family in person.  My dad actually didn't want to know but with our excitement to share and how much our world revolves around technology he was forced to give in. 

Aaron was a nervous wreck all day before the ultrasound and his OCD and superstitious nature kicked in where he was even doing things in 5's because that is his lucky number and he REALLY wanted a boy.  He said he would have been so happy either way as long as the baby is healthy but you could tell his true feelings by the relief on his face when the ultrasound tech said "it's a boy" (plus when Shea is in her prime mode of terrible two's he threatens if our next child is a boy we are done!).  Not gonna lie, our sweet adorable little 2 year old is a definite handful sometimes, I don't know how my great grandmother did it having 16, I repeat 16 children!

After finding out the news we shared the secret with my BFF Erika so we could have her take the fun picture above of the family revealing the news.  It turned out great, thanks again Erika!!  I am always going to owe you favors so please let me know how I can ever pay you back!