Bring the pain

Well I am six weeks into motherhood, so far it has been more than I ever expected it to be.

I have loved every minute of it, the cuddling, feedings, the sweet smiles, and even diaper changes.

Then a couple days ago it started........

The most horrible pain!! 

I was expecting the pain of labor and delivery, and the pain of recovering from pushing a human out of my body.

No one ever prepared me for the pain of MASTITIS!!

It is like fiery swords

 being sucked out of my boob every time I feed my sweet girl.

Which is all the day, it sometimes feels.

I now have an antibiotic to get rid of it, and my hot pad is my favorite thing right now.

To all women lactating or not watch out it can get ya, and it's a .......

There are no words bad enough!!

And then there were THREE

I have been wanting to post for such a long time, SO much has happened since last March. We did nothing in the backyard like I had planned. Thankfully the Lord had other plans for the Gomez family. As most of you know our sweet family of two has now become three. Zuri Mae Gomez was born Nov. 15, 2012 6lbs 7oz 19 inches tall. She is perfect in every way, and such a fighter. It is very strange to go through a whole pregnancy, when for the last Four and a half years I  have not liked anything to do with babies, because I knew I had issues and was almost positive I would never be able to get pregnant. (there will be more on that later if anyone is interested) 

This has been the most amazing and scary year of my life. I am forever thankful for Eldon and his faith, without it things would be extremely different. Zuri is such a fighter, all I can say is the Lord watched over us and she was seriously ment to be here. She had a lot stacked against her. 

My little girl is 6 weeks old today, I can't even believe she has been with us for so long. She is such a good baby, she is a great sleeper through the night, and an amazing eater, and such a great pooper. We have already servived our first cold. I can not believe such BIG man boogers could come out of something so small.

She went to church for the first time, met Santa and went out to meet Great Grandma Bowen. We had our first Christmas together! It was awesome full of Family.
It has been such an amazing journey so far, full of miricales, blessings, hard scary things, and more joy than I could ever imagine. We are so excited for everything to come.

Big Plans in the Works

As most of you know we have been in our home for almost 2 years now!! Time really flies, when you are busy (Ha ha ha)

We have already done one HUGE project to our home. We (Eldon really) put in the most AMAZING salon for me to work in. I just love him so much, he did everything and we found out that he really can be handy with tools and fixing things. If you haven't checked out the salon, you need to!! it is absolutely perfect!!

This spring we will be undertaking another Large project. Our back yard is HUGE!! we have used some of the space for a garden (love love love) but the rest is just hanging there. There are no tree's, no shrubs and well nothing really. So we are starting from scratch, we are going to transform the back yard into a usable space we can hang out in all Spring, Summer, and Fall.

El is not to excited for this project...............But I know he will love it when it is done. I am so excited to have a fun usable space to share with friends and family and let our babies play, without getting muddy!!

Pictures will be coming soon :)

The Holidays

Life is amazing!! We are defiantly a very blessed family, Heavenly Father has his eye on the Gomez family. We had a great holiday season, we spent a lot of time with family, and just had a great time. Thanksgiving was with the Gomez family, we had it at our house and we had a blast. The food was amazing, and we just played all he day long. El went and played football with some old high school buds, we had more pie than people almost, and played just dance until it was time to get El to work. It was just SO good.

Christmas eve is the big Holiday for the Guatemalians, so we spent half the day with momma Gomez and the other with Papa Gomez, there is always amazing tamale's to eat with tummy warming punche. It was yumm-O. It was fun to see the whole family and watch the kids open their gifts.

Christmas day was with the Bowen's, man do we know how to be loud. But it was great! We start out with breakfast, then the kids open gifts .... Then we just stay all the day long eating, playing and having fun.

Bringing in 2012 was the first year in my life I remember not going to a party. We went and were going to play games with my family and just ended up falling asleep on the couch all night long........WAY LAME!!

We are looking forward to great things and some good changes in this new year, we are both working on being healthier, one week in and we are both down just over 4 pounds a piece. We are both hoping to make some career changes, and we are planning on taking a real vacation, a cruise (woot, woot) we have some great goals set and are looking forward to the changes we are making!! As always we hope and pray for all of you.

Much love, The Gomez Family