Life of the Lorenzens

Austin & I celebrated our 9th Anniversary with dinner out at Applebee's.  Emily, on the other hand, started planning a "party...

Lincoln is sporting some of his favorite pj's in this month's picture.  He has made more developmental strides this month.  For t...

We hadn't participated in many of the summer reading program activities at the library so far this summer other than filling out our boo...

We left the state park on Friday morning and headed to Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo .  I hadn't been to this zoo since I was in high sch...

Thursday was our service day.  In order to make the group trip fun for everyone, families take turns helping with childcare and prepping and...

Wednesday was a "free" day with no scheduled activities or meals besides breakfast.  We took a (short) family bike ride and checke...

This year we took our first ever family vacation (or "trip" as we more accurately call it) to a destination other than visiting gr...

We had a fun family day on the 4th of July.  I started early with a 5:30am bike ride with a good friend.  I logged my fastest and farthest ...

Amongst the screeching and bickering over trains (the Emily engine in particular) and Lincoln Logs, rubber ducks and feet in faces, there ar...