Lost and Found

This week is South Ogden Days, they have the best activities and we always participate. We were SO residents for about 3 years and still feel apart of it.
Trent has run the 5k in the SO Days for the past few years and did it again this year. He keeps saying one year he's going to get me to do it, but one mile is enough for me. So I took the kids down to see Trent finish the race and let the kids play at the playground. The playground is right by the finish line so its perfect, your kids can play while you watch the racers. Of course I was always looking to make sure I could see them.
Well, Trent finally came through the finish line and we were all cheering him on. As he came back around he wanted to see the kids so I called for Hudson and he came on over to see him. Then Trent kept asking where Ruby was, I said, she's in the playground, she's wearing her bright turquoise shirt you can't miss her. So for about 5 minutes he looked for her on the playground and couldn't see her. I kept saying, she's there I just saw her. So we both started looking. We finally realized she wasn't on the playground. So we split up to look for her, a few minutes later we met up again at the playground and I was shocked when I saw him that he didn't' have her. So now 10 minutes have gone by. I was starting to realize that this wasn't a joke, that she really was lost. So I started going crazy, screaming her name, I finally found a neighbor and asked if they had seen her and they were kind enough to start looking. After 15 min had past and none of us had found her I panicked and grabbed a cop and told him. They made an announcement over the loud speaker describing what she was wearing, how old and what she looked like. It was so surreal to have that be announced, Ruby was really missing. I kept telling the cop that her shirt was bright and that you could see her from far away. I stood there for a minute not knowing what to do. I then snapped out of it and started heading in a direction I had not gone. By now its been over 20 min. As I was walking, I started to panic, hyperventilate, seriously it was horrible. I then started crying, I was a mess, how could she run off? She was right there? I checked on her over and over again? How could I be so stupid? I even remember as I was driving to the race thinking that both my kids had bright shirts on so I could easily pick them out of the crowd on the playground.
As I was walking and screaming her name I realized I hadn't said a prayer. So as I walking I was pleading with Heavenly Father to help me find her. I am serious, not even a minute later I heard my name being called, I turned around and started running, I couldn't see her yet but could hear my name. You have to know this place is a mad house during the 5k, hundreds or people everywhere. Then I saw her, she was in Jana's arms and bawling. I started crying so hard. I was so relieved. She was so upset and scared, she just held me forever and wouldn't let go. She was caring her shoe, so the only thing I can think of is that her shoe fell off so she came to find me to put it on and wandered off. I guess she was pretty far away over by a building but was headed back in our direction when they found her. I held her so tight. The sad thing was that Trent and Hudson were still trying to find her. They had no idea I had her. So I started to look for them. I eventually found them and she just held Trent so tight. She didn't want to be put down the rest of the night and just held my neck so tight. They then made an announcement again over the loud speaker that she was found and everyone started clapping and cheering, so of course I started bawling again. The cop came over to us to make sure we were all right and that she was alright. He then said, Oh I see what you mean about the bright turquoise shirt, you really could pick her out of a crowd.
I hope I never have to go through something like that again. It scares me still to think about it. She's a very independent child and she's tough to keep track of, I think I need to get a leash for that girl.