When Nathan was visiting his parents in Logan and Landen was out at a wrestling tournament. MaKelle went with some friends to a movie and I took Salem and Brooklyn to go see Paddington. It was a pretty cute movie for families. Salem loved it. If your looking for a clean fun family movie this one is pretty good! I did have one pet peeve. I can't believe that people can't clean up after themselves at a movie. How hard is it to take your garbage to the can. Lots of them just leave them and go. So not cool.

On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 Nathan and the older three kids headed off to Young Mens and Womens. While Brooklyn and I enjoyed our time home together. I just put Brooklyn down to bed when I got a phone call from Nathan telling me that I needed to go pick up Salem because he had dislocated his knee. My first thought was not a very good one why don't you just pop it back in and we'll go to the Dr in the morning so we don't have to pay for ER. Bad mom I know. First of all that is not what you do your suppose to leave it and get it x-rayed so they can see if you have any broken bones or problems. My second thought to myself was I just want to stay in my warm home and why couldn't Nathan just bring him home. Needless to say I bucked up and headed to the church. When I got to the church I thought they would bring him right out but no I waited and waited for him to come out, then the thought occurred to me that it is probably worse then their making it sound because they didn't want Salem to worry or over hear what they were saying and go into shock anymore then he already is.

Make shift splint so that he wouldn't be able to move his knee.

The Scouts got to practice their first aide skills to night for sure, or at least the leaders did.

Very scary thing to see him after they worked so hard to pop it back into place to see him lye there shaking. He was on crutches for a month and finally got to the physical therapist and they put him in a walking brace and not wearing the brace at all in less then two weeks. We did end up going to a specialist at Primary Children's Hospital and they are surprised that it has taken him 12+ years to dislocate his knee because where the knee cap sits is really shallow. Let's hope that we don't have  more in the future.

This year I decided to do something different for Valentines Day and wanted to start a new tradition or two. I printed out some I love you because... and gave them to everyone to write to someone else in our family for 14 days. It worked for about the first week and then it was forgotten about. Maybe we could try again next year. I also decided to buy books for the kids instead of candy. Well that went over well with MaKelle not so much the other three they don't like to read like she does. I'm not going to give up on that one, going to do that one again.
MaKelle got Divergent,

Landen The Maze Runner,

Salem The Polar Express,

and Brooklyn Ginger Pye.

Great new traditions that hopefully will help us learn to serve and love one another better.
Happy Valentines Day everyone.