Ding ding ding, time for my biannual blog post!

So, recently Richard has been playing basketball on Wednesday nights with the guys from church. It starts at nine. Nine PM people. Sometimes it even goes until midnight. Ya...
Soooo, what was there for me to do on Wednesday nights starting at 9 PM? Why, catch up on my HGTV of course. Most speficially Property Brothers and House Hunt International.  I love watching the different couples thought processes as they decide on the perfect home to buy (HHI) and all the stuff you can do to make an ugly home look beautiful (PB). Yes, I will admit it. I love watching Drew and Jonathan Scott helping the families find and create their perfect family home. Although I do have to say, Jonathan, that I don't get the highlights. I understand that twins like to look different, but I would think twice about letting a man with higher maintenance hair color than me install beams into my ceilings. Just sayin.

Julie Scissorhands Gets a New Home!

Well, I was trying to upload some other pictures but this is the only one that loaded for me so I'll make a quick entry about it.

Recently with the help of Jay, Julie's brother, we converted one of our bedrooms into a salon for Julie to do hair from home.  She still works at her salon but occasionally does hair for family and friends from home.  When the time comes for Julie to be a full time mommy, she'll be fully equipped to work from home to support my spending habits.  Here is the finished product.

Repentant Bloggers

Hello everybody.  This is Richard writing. In recent months we have been questioned, accused, and even chastised for being unfaithful bloggers. However we have experienced a softening of our hearts and have recommitted to be more faithful bloggers, or at least I have, we will see about Julie...  As you might notice I have reformatted the blog to be a little more readable, you no longer have to scroll 3 ft over to see the entire picture that is at the head of our blog, you can thank my high tech skills for that one, (you're welcome).  This is actually my first time ever entering a blog post, I promise I will improve with time and learn all the features that a blog has to offer, but for the time being I hope it will suffice to simply read what is happening in our lives.  We don't have any cute kids yet that do cute things for you to see, and we will try not to follow the same pattern as some out there to create a fake picture of what we would like everyone to believe our life to be to boost our self esteem, but we will try to pull the most relevant and most interesting parts of our lives and share it with you along with random thoughts and cool things we come across in our early marriage sojourn here in the Mesa bubble.  I'll try to get some pics up here soon and make a real post!

This last week or so...

We were able to go to the state fair with Jay and Brittany. We had a blast with them! I hadn't been to the fair for 3 years and I was determined not to miss it this year. My love for the state fair started back in junior high when our school choir would go and perform and then spend the rest of the day on the rides. Then, later on when I was in college, Scott and Jheri Glover used to take Tricia and I with them every year. I've been talking Richard's ear off about the fair for the last two months. Good man, he was smart enough to take me ;)

Fair highlights for Julie: indian fry bread, fast spinning rides, the exhibition hall, being with Richard

Fair higlights for Richard: making Julie very very happy

We all know those games are rigged. Yet we can't resist....

Mallory performed in Mesa High's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". She did such a good job, the whole cast was just incredible. I've never seen high schools kids exert so much energy and talent nonstop. They took state and now will be competing for nationals!

We've been working bit by bit on our house. Its so nice to finally have some wedding pictures up

And a little splash of color for the brown room :)

We bought this frame at IKEA, with the intentions of using it as a whiteboard. Richard worked on it for hours and while wiping off the glass it cracked in half. We should have known better, it was IKEA after all. So, until we get a new piece of glass cut, this is the final result. I love it!

Another great IKEA purchase. These shelves really add a lot and help free some of our cabinet space.

And we hit our 3 month anniversary on October 29th! Where does the time go???

Mini Tri and Will

This last weekend was a lot of fun. We had a date nite with my siblings and their spouses and my cousin, Josh, and his date Andrea joined us. Will, of course, joined us too and when he's around he's pretty much the star of the show. Its fun to watch his little personality emerge as he gets older. He's a crack up. He's all boy, except he seemed to be having a lot of fun playing with the necklaces, shoes, and Richard's hair ;) Sorry Will, only one hairstylist per family!

Our stake hosted a mini triathalon at Red Mountain Park and it turned out to be alot of fun, with a great turnout. Nothin like getting up early on a Saturday and getting your heart rate up! You could do the whole thing yourself, or you could split it up in 3 parts (thats what I like to hear). A girl from our ward swam, Richard biked, and I ran. The weather was great, and it was fun doing it with Ricardo. 10k here we come next!

Welcome!!

We are the Lorenzens and we live in Mesa. Married just 3 months and life is good.
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