We were thrilled to have Brayden fly home for Thanksgiving break. He made it in time to go to Emmitts wrestling tournament and had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends. Daniel and Lucas came to hang out with him and they went long boarding. Not too much time had passed before we got a phone call from Daniel that Brayden was pretty hurt. Apparently they had been using a rope attached to a car to pull themselves along the street on the longboard... of course going way too fast. Well Brayden had biffed it and when he got home his thumb was clearly in rough shape so I took him to the ER. They bandaged him up and gave him a brace and said he would be okay in a few weeks. He had scraped up his leg pretty good too- it ended up infected but that was really the lesser of his issues. The next day was Thanksgiving and he was complaining a lot about how his thumb moved in unnatural ways so we paid a visit to our good friend Scott Sorenson who is an orthopedic surgeon and he took a look at the x rays and told us that we needed to get him in for surgery as soon as possible to fix his broken displaced thumb. So a couple days later Brayden had surgery on this thumb and his plans to return to BYU to finish his semester had to change. We now had Brayden with us for two whole months. We were happy about that but not happy about the injury. It was painful and a bummer and expensive and really put a damper on Braydens snowboard plans. He had bought himself a season pass and was itching to spend as much time on the slopes as possible. He very much regrets the decision to longboard behind a car and will hopefully never do that again. It was admittedly a dumb decision. Thus when Emmitt went back to school after Thanksgiving break he wrote about Braydens injury and entitled his story "My Dumb Brother Brayden"
