
Wow, Cory, you do have a fertile brain for dream images. Or a very good recall rate, too.
I love dream analysis and really enjoy reading through this site. Even though I am a bit rusty, I will try to give you some ideas till Sweetsunray and others come along.
Home is the place where one usually feels more comfy. It is either your real home, your dear ones and, in my case, it is often my own body -it's where we really live all our lives-. In this case, home seems to reflect more of a comfy mood, a place to be happy and protected. Since you say Ryan hasn't met your children yet, maybe you are hoping things will turn out this easy when he does.
The most curious thing in the dream is how the mood never changes even when the thumping begins. Are you maybe getting warning signals of some kind but you are too comfy to heed them till the threat bursts through your walls/defenses?
Not just any threat, either, but a Great White Shark -probably starring in some recent film, too

-. Films have taught us all that the white shark is the keenest, meanest, most specialized killing machine alive, with a really old, unremorseful little brain.
Suddenly the house was under water, and you were surprised to have a shark hanging from your wall. Being under water is usually associated with feeling flooded with emotions, while the shark shows little of those, just a killing instinct. Sometimes, when faced with sudden emotional outbursts, we surprise ourselves with the speed with which we may attack an opponent's jugular -metaphorically speaking-. You may be trying to 'kill' your wildest instincts in order to keep the peace and harmony at home and not threanten your relationship with your dearest ones by a sudden outburst, but suffocating them will keep them at the bottom of your conscious level waiting for a future release. And those around you may feel it, too.
Let's hope Sweetsunray can give us the puns in the dream, since her intuition is razor sharp like a shark's teeth when it comes to dreams
