The Noehren's

Brian trained all spring for his first full marathon.  He would do super early long runs on Saturday mornings and we would meet him at various destinations around town - usually local donut shops around 8:30 at the end of his 15 or 20 miles.  We would chow down on donuts and then drive him home.  Worked great for his waistline, but not so much for mine!   He began to really love those long runs and looked forward to them.  He was making great time too.  However, when race day came along, the weather was abnormally hot.  It was a muggy 85 degrees out.  He had only trained in cold or chilly weather, and boy did it take its toll on him and all the runners on race day. It started in north Lexington at the Fasig Tipton horse auction/farm.  It is so beautiful.   Although we didn't see him start, we did find a great shady spot to camp out where we could see him at mile 11 and 22 and then rush to the end to see him finish.  ...

The end of the year came so quickly and was so jam packed with things to do.  It was super busy, but super fun.  We hosted a BioMotion Lab party to say farewell to some of the students who graduated.  It was also fun to meet the new people that have started in the lab.    Maddie got her undergrad degree and was accepted to PT school.  On a side note - 100% of all  undergrads that have worked in Brian's lab and have applied to Physical Therapy or Physician Assistant school have gotten accepted into their programs!  They are a smart, hard working group! We couldn't believe we had to say goodbye to Grant!  He's worked in Brian's lab for nearly 7 years, since he was in high school!  He is super talented and got accepted to a masters/Ph.D program in biomedical engineering. Paul has been Brian's Ph.D student for the last 4 years and he has been so wonderful!  He is a PT like Brian and they have done some neat research togethe...

The next morning the sun finally came out!  We checked out of our hotel and snorkeled some in Shark's Cove and saw more pretty fish.  As we were driving away from the North Shore we saw a beautiful rainbow.  The license plates are true!  So many rainbows.  Plus...Hawaii is the only place I've ever been where everyone has the same license plate.  I only saw 1 other plate and it was from Utah.  Crazy Mormons...taking their car all the way to Hawaii to BYU.   We drove all the way to the north western point of the island and checked it out.  Not too much going on except lots of homeless tent villages and some military stuff, but it was still beautiful. I must be missing pictures, but we then drove to the western side of the island and snorkeled at a beach all the way at the end of the highway.  We must have snorkeled for hours.  It was so fun.  Have I mentioned how much I love to snorkel?  Hahaha.  I love bein...