Oldroyd Family Life and Times of an Oldroyd

Well, Parker did well last night after the getting him the medicine. He slept well and didn’t have any more boils in the morning nor any more throughout the day. He had some phantom scratching (or just dry skin) tonight, but it didn’t get him out of doing his homework (he tried).
Regardless, he is doing better and is back to his normal flippy self.

Kris and I were able to go out on Friday night. Tanner volunteered to babysit for us and off we went. Kris had a restaurant.com $25 gift certificate that she bought on-line for $3. We thought we were going to get a decent deal. Unfortunately when we got to the BBQ restaurant it looked like it had been closed down for a couple of months. You could barely make out the name on door if you squinted and looked just right.
With a hankerin’ for BBQ we drove over to a place called Q4U. We had never been there before and thought that we’d be a bit adventurous. As we were being seated by our stoned waitress we walked past a full on kalua pig. They had put oranges and cherry tomatos for its eyes and had it laying on a bed of lettuce. It was a bit of a shocker. We made it to our table in the back next to the emergency exit and got our menus. They had a menu item named “BBQ Shake” subtitled as “A cup-o-fun”. It was a 16 ounce cup with mashed potatoes at the bottom, followed by some pulled pork, topped with a generous helping of coleslaw. Yummmm. Welcome to Kearns!
Given the pig, the stoner, the sticky table (forgot to mention that), the emergency exit seats, and the cup-o-fun were enough to convince us that ordering would be unwise so we got up and politely left before ordering.
This is why we are hesitant to try new things, we don’t do so well. Usually it is me that makes the horrible decisions around foods and activities, but this time it was all on Kris. She is usually pretty spot on, but on this day she crashed and burned.
Leaving the BBQ far behind us we ended up at “Smash Burger” and it was pretty decent. After the burger we went over to the show “Eat, Pray, Love”. It was slow and we got bored, leaving before the movie was finished. We are so ADD.
Overall – Kris and I had a great time. I love her so much and was glad that we were able to get away for an evening. Life is good.
Namaste!

Here are a few more pictures from the outing. Lexi did a great job of coordinating this for the family. We had some bad wind for a couple of minutes, but otherwise the weather was beautiful and the colors amazing.
The food turned out really well and the kids loved the ghost stories from Dad. He included the “infrared mountain lion”, “I found it”, and “I’m coming” It was all good.

Lexi wanted to do tinfoil dinners up the canyon today after conference. It was a bit of work but it was worth it. Dad came up and told the kids ghost stories. We had a nice time.

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Sunday paper explosion.

Tanner and his new hat. Used a straw for inflation purposes.

Morning light shadows

I started a new set of exercises. It involved a number of lunges. My legs and butt really hurt now. I couldn’t finish the whole “plan”. I need more workout time I suppose.
I thought that I was doing pretty well with my exercises but evidently I was somewhat mistaken.
Life is good!

On another note, Holly sent me an email saying that she made it to the school in Switzerland all safe and sound. She isn’t dead in a ditch or anything. Glad she made it and hope that she does well.

Update: 9/29 8:45PM – My lower body is still really sore. If I stay in one spot I am fine, but the active use of my legs and behind is to be avoided at all costs. Curse you exercise routine!