What's been going on?!

So in the world of the Doman family I have good reasons why I had been slacking in my updates. It has been a busy month and it is even isn't half way through. I have been training for my next race in San Fran the weekend of the 21st. Me, my little sis. and two friends from up here are running the the Nike Women's Marathon we signed up back in the spring the the thing filled up on the first day. Must the the Tiffany's necklace they give you and the chocolate mile! I have been going out on the boat as much as possible. I have also started applying for jobs and hopefully will start working this fall to start paying for all our fun trips we have made over the last three weeks to the doctor and hospital.



It all started with Trent at church three weeks ago reaching for Pax and feeling like his back went out. He was just feeling worse so that night I called the doc and the doc called in all sorts of goodies to make the pain go away. Alas after two days of being so drugged up that Trent didn't even know what day it was we headed to the doctor on Tuesday only to have the poor man almost pass out in the waiting room because of the pain. I was talking with the nurse about the MRI when another man noticed Trent making a beeline from the chair to the floor. They took him back in a wheel chair and gave him a shot of an amazing drug called Toradal (I probably didn't spell it right but if you have had it you know what I am talking about) anyway didn't even phase the poor man.

We went and got the MRI and I walked upstairs while he was in the machine and ran into our doctor we joked about what an old man Trent was and how going and watching me work out at the gym did not consitute getting exercise. Then he said I thought there was something wrong with a disk in his lower back between the L5 and the S1 and he thought it was on a nerve and that was why he wanted the MRI. I walked back downstairs and they had called in a specialist to look at the MRI and of course they wouldn't tell me anything and said I would have to wait until my doctor talked to me. So the next day everything the doctor thought was confirmed and then some with poor little old man Trent's back. The disk was buldging and was causing some other problems. Trent has like everyone else degenerative disk disease except his has progressed further than it should have for someone his age. So the man was ordered to Physical Therapy 3-4 times a week. Thursday that same week was his first appointment and all went well.

Then the next morning came and Trent was up and hobbling around I was so proud when he started to pass out and then lost feeling in his arms and started getting sick. So back to the doctor we went. Everything checked out ok but they couldn't figure out what had happened or why except for his heart beating fast and being clammy. Two hours later Trent was feeling great and wanted me to take him to work, I was still scared out of my mind. I realized it was a losing battle trying to keep him out of the office and that it would only stress him out even more so I sat and baby sat him at work.

Since that day he has been doing great minus the whole back thing every so often bugging him which I think had something to do with him skipping his physical therapy. They called the house and he was busted! Needless to say he is back on track and going and sitting next to me with ice on his neck that he strained trying to show me up on the boat yesterday in wakeboarding. I can proudly say that I put the man to shame and I don't think he will try to compete against me again on the water.

So in a nutshell that is my excuse for the lack of blogging for a while and my goal is to keep this thing updated once a week and hopefully with happy news and fun pictures!

My cousin Ash has created a monster!

I promise that as soon as I get a third party over the age of 7 out on the boat I will post video or pictures of me wakeboarding. When my cousin Ashley and her friends were in town I took them wakeboarding one night and thanks to her friend Taylor's great instruction I was able to get up (but not for long) on my second try well I have had no problem getting up since and have become addicted! I can't believe how much fun it is. I am determined to jump the entire wake and get it on video before it gets to cold outside and if I am lucky even jump it toeside! Every night when poor Trent asks what we are doing I say going on the boat! We live only a mile from the boat launch, so it is not hard to get to. Hopefully in the next couple of week I will have some pictures of me out on the water.

Not for the faint!

Why you should never stick your fingers in the door!

You might want to skip the next pictures if you don't like the site of blood. Can't say I didn't warn you.

Little Max got his finger slammed in the door. Now we have had our fair share of fingers getting slammed in the door. Some have even been so bad as to have the nails fall off eventually. This one certainly took the cake for us. Mika and her friend were trying to keep the boys out her room and her friend shut the door, and when it didn't close the first time before Max could even realize what had happened pushed the door even harder and then the screams came. At first I told him to calm down. I told the girls to quickly get me the first aid box (BTW best thing I ever did, created a little mini first aid kit from a Hershey Tin that sits in the kitchen were everyone can get to it. Looks cute and it out where I need it.) Anyway, while they were doing that his little finger just kept on bleeding. I finally got him to the bathroom sink to rinse it off to see where he needed the band aid and the water revealed a nail coming off as well as the top of the finger under the nail. That is were my jurisdiction ended as mother nurse and the ER kicked in. After 3 hours in the ER Max had 15 stitches put on his little finger and one X-ray showing a fractured finger. Poor little man. He got his stitches out yesterday Courtesy of Aunt Shirlyn who was working in the hospital yesterday. It still looks really gross and he will have to wear the splint for another 2-3 weeks over his finger.

Yuck.

Max was so brave during the whole thing and after they numbed his finger thought it was really cool watching them stitch everything up. Mom was quite queasy and had to keep looking away.

The Willamette Falls Locks

After our quick escape we went to the locks about 2 miles from our house. This is a really cool place the kids really like to go there. On slow days the guys even let the kids push the buttons to open up the gates. One day we will take the kids through them it takes about 40 minutes each way so we haven't braved that one yet.

I knew there was something that made these falls unique and so I stole this from the site (the museum was already closed)

Opened January 1, 1873, the Willamette Falls Locks are the oldest continually operating multi-chambered locks in the United States.

The chocolate man

Paxton thoroughly enjoyed every bite of the chocolate animals that Uncle bought for the kids. He shoveled those things in his mouth so fast. After filling the kids with sugar that was our que to quickly exit the premises.

The Tool Man

Trent next enjoyed showing off his ever growning tool collection he has now managed to fill the entire shed with tools.

Home again

After the Japanese Gardens we went to China town and had a great meal and then swung by the house to visit with the kids but not before stopping by Moonstruck to enduldge in chocolate milkshakes and truffes. I do have a new favorite there and it is the Mayan. By far the best chocolate in the world. Moonstruck is this little chocolate shop in Portland and they have a store a few miles from my house very dangerous. Anyway they were asked a few years ago to create boxes for the gift bags at the Oscars and have been invited back every year since. That is my favorite time to go when they have their Oscar boxes for sale. Not cheap but worth every bite!

Japanese Gardens

Here we are at the Japanese Rose Gardens. The pictures do not do this just beautuful place justice. I had actually never been to the Japanese Garden so I was more then happy to take visitors there.

Rose Garden

My Uncle Joe and two of his friends came to Portland on business in July. The came early and I had the privledge of being their tour guide to the area. The first night they were in town we all went to Ringside a local steak house and had fun telling stories and catching up.

The next day the official Portland tour began. First we did an impromtu tour of the west hills which have beautiful views of Portland when I got lost on the way to the Rose Garden.

While at the Rose Garden we had a chance to stop and smell the beautiful roses and enjoy the views of the city.

It's been a while

I know that it has been a while since I have posted things have been crazy here since the last post, with visitors and a few hosptial and doctor visits tossed in. I did attempt to update the look of my page by adding a picture that I took on a recent visit to the Rose Garden when my Uncle Joe was in town. So I will post the pictures and update stories of what has been going on in order. Here goes nothing.