Horrible at keeping secrets

I'm so sorry my dear blogging friends that I was MIA once again. So much has happened in this last month and well I'm horrible at keeping secrets so in order for me to not share something that shouldn't be shared yet I made myself take a small break from blogging! Like I said I'm a horrible keeper of big secrets so chances are that half of you already know my secret, and for those of you that do and have kept it for me I must say thank you so much! Anyway I'm sure you are just dying to hear my secret aren't you??? Well first lets give you a little update about whats been going on in the Marra household this past month.

I got a job!!! Yay for working at an elementary school! I just love it, I have been hired on as a second grade teachers aid I'm pretty much shared between two teachers and classrooms and do whatever it is they need done to help their classrooms run a little more smoothly. While in the interview I was informed that this is only a one year position and at the end of the school year I will no longer be employed by that school. Which honestly works out great for me because Shawn and I have been trying to plan a trip back to England next fall for an other cousins wedding, yay for weddings!

Shawn has been just as busy as ever with his job. Which is good because it helps to pay the bills. And over the last few weeks he has done this with the garage!

His very own special man cave! As you can see there is still more work to be done. We think that one of the previous tenants in this house used the garage either as a bedroom or kids play room. it used to be painted purple  and there were glowing stars all over the ceiling! All of the cool yellow slat board and hangers that attach to it Shawn got for $0 and hung himself with the help of his brother. He even got a free workbench and shelving. I'm not going to complain about that!

We still have Shawn's brother and our nephew living with us. Though we are not sure how much longer that situation will be since we will have a new permanent resident in our house in June! We are very excited about this new resident, though to be honest I'm not sure either one of us really comprehends how much this new addition to our household is going to rock our world! But like I said we are soooo excited for this new addition since we've been struggling to get it here for the past two and a half years. Ok so if you haven't guessed it yet, WE'RE PREGNANT! 

Gah that's my big secret I've been trying to keep. We've known since the 16th well technically I knew on the 15th but took three more tests before I was convinced enough to tell Shawn. It is really hard to keep that kind of news from people though since it has taken us so long to get to this point! I'm six weeks along (which makes 34 more weeks sound like an eternity) and we have our first appointment/Ultrasound in two weeks. Everyone keeps telling me that we are having a boy and a girl. Shawn is already convinced that we will be having all girls and that is all there is to it, end of discussion. Honestly for me I will just be happy with whatever it is that the Lord choses to bless us with. Though I think I would have a bit of a heart attack if I found out that we are having more than one baby. Twins do run every generation in my mom's family so I guess there is a slight chance of it. But for right now I'm very content thinking that its just one little pumpkin seed in there. So there you have it my little secret is out. What do you think? Crazy no?

*little update*
I wrote this at the beginning on the week and decided to wait until the end of the week to post and then things happened. I actually went in to the doctor friday because I was super scared we were having a miscarriage. I can't even describe the feelings and thoughts that were going through my head at the time. I was so crushed and freaked out before even going in. They had to take my blood pressure and heart rate twice and even the second time my heart rate was at 127! Thats pretty high for just sitting in a doctors office for approximately an hour before hand. My mom came with me which was really nice because yeah I was freaking out. The midwife did an exam and ultrasound and I got to see what will be the baby. (thats right only one *sigh of relief) Right now it just looks like a little blob thing on the screen lol She did say that my due date is actually going to be two weeks later at the moment but that it can change back by our next ultrasound which is still set for two weeks from now. Hopefully we'll see progression and everything will be fine by then!