School Begins and Summer Ends

We have had a wonderful and fun summer with one terrifying experience. Which kind of made the rest of the summer a bit less fun but I worked through my paranoya eventually and we did some pretty fun things. It was crazy what happened really. I'll tell you about it first so I can end on a happy note. It happened on July 7th I think. We just got back from the Oquirre Mt temple open house. We were going to have a showing for our house so we quickly cleaned the house and went for icecream. We decided to go to the park across the street from our house on Scott Ave while we waited. It was about 4:00pm. I was tired and did not want to go to the hot playground so I told the kids to stay close by in the shade, and not go to the playground. The park was empty except a large moterhome parked in half of the only shaded spot so when I drove up I went past the moterhome to the small patch of remaining shade. As I was getting Miri out of her car seat on the passenger side of the van I overheard a conversation the lady in the moterhome was having on her cellphone. Some strange things were said so I decided to grab my purse as was doing so when very clearly I heard the lady on the cellphone say "It looks like we have a hit, there's a lady with her four kids but you'll have to hurry fast."
I realized the danger of my situation and acted as quickly as possible. I pushed miri back into the car shut the door yell to the other kids in my angry serious voice to come here now!! The rest is pretty blurry but the kids were in the car I backed out and speed out of the driveway praying again and again that we would get out of there safe. I had forgotten my cell phone and the potential buyers where still at the house so I drove to my mother in law's house about 10 min away. She drove in her driveway right in front of me. I told her what had happened and asked to borrow her phone. I called the police. When the police got to the park of course they were gone.
Do you feel like your reading one of those annoying chain E-mails that you wonder if it's fact or fiction? I wonder if people think I'm a little off of my rocker when I tell them but I keep telling anyone who hasn't heard. Many of my associates and friends are parents and what seemed like a safe place to be could have turned really bad.
So this experience put a damper on our summer but we still did fun things. I stuck to being around where there were lots of people and helpers. No more solo trips to the park and no more going places if the kids were not in there listening moods. Some of the fun things we did are as follows: We had 2 family reunions, went to the park a few times, went to San Francisco, Fat Cats, the Movie theater, the ward camp out, hikes almost every week and more that I can't remember right now.
It was a fun summer but the kids are glad to be back in school. The kids are really liking their teachers and mom is enjoying the little bit of time to bond with Miri and do all the other stuff that gets put off during the summer months.