Steph's Reality Blend

Recently in Pine River, there's been a couple home-intrusion incidents. They are a very hot topic in the local news and an even hotter topic in that unofficial local news source: social media. The incident(s) involve a man who is described (in a nutshell) to be tall, of large berth, wearing black, angry, and from the sounds of it, entitled and confused. One house was targeted twice, and there have been other reports of the man wandering a few backyards and "creeping". So far, no one has been hurt or had anything stolen. The response(s) to this news has really gotten me pondering more (eternally) important issues in our world besides the occasional breaking and entering, and evil things man can do. The incident has been "shared" and/or commented on thousands of times. People are admitting to being "paranoid" and in general, there is just a lot of fear running rampant, even among(st) believers. "praying for your safety!" "make sure you...

That is, having insane blessings dumped on me/us! Today marks Randy's and my 7th anniversary. 7 is the perfect number, so I can conclude that we've arrived, right?? Ha! It's also a good day to log a few things that have been happening in the past month or so. That means I get to post cute pictures of a little man who turned 1! Andrew Joel is a somber kid most of the time, but when he gets wound up, he's quite the clown. He's our snuggliest kid, so I'm milking that. He'll snuggle with just about anyone if he's tired. He is, overall, a very content "baby" and the nursery workers usually love him because he is usually so content! (The girl with him in the tub is a relative of Randy's, from the reunion we attended this summer. We hung out with her a lot.)   I can't remember if I mentioned that Randy finished the Teamcycle that is now being rented out from the Lifehouse Coffee shop (below), but he did, and it is! He decidedly ...