SRRA Reining Clinic

On Saturday the Snake River Reining Alliance held a clinic featuring Nathan and Joe Sutherland from American Falls, Idaho. There was a great turnout with 20 riders and a number of just spectators. It was an all day event with a delicious lunch sponsored by the IRCHA Board of Directors. Thank you to all of those who came out and supported the club. We had a great time and are really looking forward to show season.

Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show

We have just returned and are recouping from the big Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show in Arizona. It is one of our favorite shows because it always guarantees great weather, clients and tons of fun. This year was particularly wonderful on the weather front usually in the mid 70's. I think I could do mid 70's everyday of my life. We took down 5 horses total and the results are:

Nicole Kent and Nobles Top Gun
Champion Reined Cow Horse Limited ATR
Top Ten Arabian Reining AAOTR 18-44

Nathan Kent and Nobles Top Gun
Top Ten Arabian Reining Horse Open

Nathan Kent and Hazel De Boise
Purebred Futurity Finalist, 9th

Nathan Kent and Noble Troubadour

Nathan Kent and Mary Gangster


Holly Brown making her Scottsdale debut on her horse Noble Troubadour

Holly sporting the new Nathan Kent Performance Horses jacket

The Nathan Kent Performance Horses stall front. The only thing this picture is missing is all of our ribbons and prizes.

This horse holds such a special part in our lives. He works hard and was enjoying a little R&R.

I also had the opportunity to show and sell Chromer while down there. I showed him in the HA Sport Horse In Hand ATR Geldings. It was our first time ever really doing that and he won the class and ended up tied for Champion. But however they do the tie breaker we ended up Reserve. And Congratulations to Kathryn Cook of Hudson, WI on your purchase of my very special big boy. I know you are going to love him to death and do very well with him.

Thank you to everyone who makes these shows possible. It was an awesome time and a great way to kick off the start of show season. We can't wait to see what the rest of the year brings.

The Truth

I found this little nugget on another blog. It struck a seriously funny cord with me because I think it's sooo true. Please Enjoy!

Feeling Craft-y

My friend Holly and I had a nice little arts and crafts night. We took some ideas of super cute things we found on pinterest and made fun Christmas decorations. This is the candy cane vase that I made. It just needs some roses to complete it.


I never thought I could be crafty.

I live in a crazy house

I am not sure if Archie thinks he is helping or not but he tries hard.

HI - larious

I don't know why I love this but I totally do!

What We've Been Up To

As usual it's been quite a while since my last post and I thought I would catch people up, just in case we don't actually talk, in which case if we do you know what we've been up to.

On August 19th Nathan's sister got married in the Idaho Falls Temple to Skylar Stewart. So we have a new member of the family.




Also, I went back to school in August for my Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at George Fox University. I really love the program, although the work is pretty heavy I forgot how much I love learning and especially being able to apply everything. It's a great program and I will finish it in October 2013. That sounds like a really long way away.

I've been showing Top Gun in our local NRHA and SRRA shows. I won year end award for the Green Rookie and was fourth in the Rookie. They won't hold the banquet until January but it was my goal and I am pretty happy about it.

In October Nathan, myself and his dad went to Tulsa, Oklahoma for Arabian U.S. Nationals again. Nathan showed Top Gun in the Open Reining and had an amazing second go with a score of 216 to make it to the open finals. It was a really awesome run.

My dad came to visit us earlier this month for a couple days. We had lots of fun just hanging out and went to a hockey game. I don't care about hockey but any live sporting event is really fun.

Well.... there ya go, that brings us to where we are now.