this year's relay is not kenna's first. her family fielded a team last year. >> seven laps equals a mile. i walked 10, my mom walked 10. >> reporter: kenna's mother, robin, had been diagnosed with preft cancer in 2009, but after a period of success, thanks to radiation, chemotherapy and surgery, the cancer had returned. robin would not live to see this year's relay. >> bake sale! bake sale! cookies, brownies, bake sale. >> reporter: beginning the day after her mother's death, kenna has thrown herself, all 50 pounds of it, into this year's event. kenna says team reeder kids has raised the most because they work the hardest. >> bake sale. >> reporter: and are the cutest. both were in evidence at a recent bake sale outside their neighborhood safeway. the more than $700 this event pulled in are on top of the more than $16,000 kenna's team has raised. >> i think she's amazing. i seriously am just amazed that at 7 years old she gets it and she knows how to drive towards a goal and she's making it happen. >> reporter: kenna, thoug