Life of the Lorenzens

We chose Chicago as the destination for our family trip this summer.  Austin travels to Chicago quite a bit for work, so he's somewhat f...

The Waverly Public Library held an upcycle fair this summer and asked for display donations from the community.  I helped Emily put a disp...

Emily has spent a LOT of time this month working in her store in the basement called 21st Century Inventions .  Her main product has been...

For the fourth straight year, Austin ran the Sturgis Falls half marathon.  The route was again changed due to flooding.  It was also quite...

My cousin, Jory Boote, is a 6th grader from Binford, North Dakota.  He qualified in two events for the National Junior High Rodeo Finals tha...

I had been wanting to take the kids to story time at the Cedar Valley Arboretum for a long time.  We arrived too late for the actual story,...

Lincoln has been begging to chase fireflies, so we went out after bath time tonight.  He was a master bug catcher--even with just his bare h...

I had a pretty great birthday this year.  It started with a pedicure in the morning.  While I was gone, the kids decorated.  Then I got t...

Lincoln was very excited to participate in T-ball this year.  We chose to do the program at Wartburg rather than the Shell Rock league Emily...