100 miles later...

Brent had his 100 mile bike race yesterday and was riding for 8 1/2 hours. Crazy kid. I still can't believe he did it, but now he has the sore muscles, a pretty killer farmer tan, and of course the t-shirt to prove it. Kennedy and I drove an hour away to see him cross the finish line. We are proud of him and are REALLY grateful to all the friends and family who donated to support him. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!

Our friends Orie and Rebecca who did the race too.

Tour de Cure

This Saturday Brent is riding in a 100 mile bike ride to help cure diabetes. I know what you are thinking, a typo right....nope - I meant to write 100 miles. I think he's totally crazy, but am pretty impressed that he's going to do it. He tried to get me to ride with him, but we all know where that conversation went. Lets just say a lot of laughing was involved :) He decided to do this ride after having an old neighbor move out and he gave brent this old bike. One of our favorite things is fixing up old things, so that has been a big project lately trying to get this bike in decent condition. One of the requirements of being able to ride in this race is you have to get your friends and family to donate some money to help cure diabetes. Brent is at 64% in reaching his goal, so if you would like to donate a little money to help him out we would sure appreciate it. Don't break the bank or anything, but even a little would help out a lot. If you would like to donate to help cure diabetes go to...

http://main.diabetes.org/goto/brent.noorda

Thanks so much!

Kennedy putting on Brents biking shoes....Someone wants to be just like daddy!!!

Garage Sale

So in preparing to move back out of Iowa and back to Utah, we decided to have a garage sale a couple of weekends ago. People out here in Iowa are crazy about garage sales. In the summer there are signs for them EVERYWHERE and they usually run Thursday - Saturday all day. It was a lot more work than you would think getting ready for it, but it was VERY worth it. We made quite a bit of money, which was such a blessing for us to help with the moving expenses. We still have no clue how we were able to get so much money and what we sold to do it, but I guess that's how some blessings come. The first day things were going so well, we went back through our house trying to find anything else we didn't want. It was kind of addicting, I'll be honest. A couple of friends brought over some of their stuff too, so it was quite the operation!

A Little Summer Fun

We have been LOVING the summer SO much this year. We are so excited that it is finally warm and sunny that we haven't been doing much else, but playing (and especially not updating the blog - as you can tell). Here are some random pics of the fun we've had :)

One of our favorite summer activities - bon fires!

Daddy doing a little babysitting...

Kennedy's First Sucker...she's addicted!

Can't forget pool parties!

A couple of garage sale finds. Kennedy LOVES them!

And then there's the park. Kennedy cannot get enough, especially when her little buddies are along.