Oldroyd Family Life and Times of an Oldroyd

We did lose Parker today. He left the house at about 10:30 to go play with a friend. He didn’t come home for lunch as he usually would and so Kris started looking around for him and checking with his friends. About an hour later we had most of the neighborhood looking for Parker and his bike. I came home from work and scoured the neighborhood on bike as well.
Kris had called the hospitals and the police. We had two officers out, searching our house and the neighborhood. Kris and the the kids had knocked on all the doors of Parker’s friends and all but a couple were home but had not seen Parker. Kiki went up to one house and asked if Parker was there and the guy in the garage said no…
Well, it turned out that Parker was at their house AND that his bike was in the garage. For some reason the person either lied to Kiki or Kiki heard his comments incorrectly. Anyway – after 4 hours of looking for him, Parker rides home as if nothing is wrong.
We are glad to have him back home, but frustrated in the lack of ability to communicate – not just in regards to Parker, but the same goes with all our kids.
I ran back to the office but didn’t need to. My meeting with the CFO was cancelled again. I was a bit ticked because of having to drive back and forth to work, but all is well.

Life is good.

To celebrate Mom’s life and to have some family fun we went up to Mare’s family ranch near Vernal. We spent 3 days and 2 nights doing ranch-type activities. We had some rain, but mostly a lot of fun. We rode the horses, shot guns, swam in cold water (well some of us did), hiked, spelunked (for bats), ate, slept, and basically had some down time. We even got stuck in the mud, but at least we weren’t dead in a ditch.

We missed Holly, but she was in our thoughts and prayers. Hope she was having fun too.

The kids finished up YTU on Friday. Their performances were fun and they all did a great job. This is a guitar that Kiki made. It actually sounds pretty good.