Sunday Bike Race, G-ma Melvene and Rick, and Despicable Me "Oh, Yeh"

It was a beautiful Fall Cyclocross race at Woodland Park on Sunday. The colorful leaves were all on the ground, tons of bikers of all ages, and a huge turn out for the kids race. Cousin Jackson came and did his first Cyclocross race and had a blast! After his race was D's.  She was super excited to beat some boys. AND even more stoked to have a big cheer section that included Auntie Beans, Mom, Dad, Bridget and baby Poppy, and G-ma Melvene and her new husband, Rick!

It was all smiles until the line up then it was pure concentration!  Pappa Matt was leading the kids race which Dylan loved.  She was out to win!

Afterwards we had a nice visit with G-ma Melvene and Rick who came back to the house.  There was tea, books, pumpkin cake, Hello Kitty's and paper dolls, AND even Donald Duck (Rick totally won D over with his impersonation - which he will now be doing every time she sees him!).

Later that afternoon Dylan and I headed up to our friends Akemi and Yumi's house for a little viewing of Despicable Me and a full on super yummy bagel bar - 'Oh Yeh!' (to quote Vector for those of you who have seen the movie - it's D's new favorite line).

Thanks to all who came to support and cheer our little racer on!  It was an action packed day for sure.  D's eye were shut before her head hit the pillow!

Fall Bike Race - More Photo's Just In

Okay so I know I already posted pictures from Dylan's Fall bike race but I just got these pictures from Matt and they are pretty awesome so I thought I'd re-post so you can all enjoy them. These are from Dylan's race at Woodlawn Park Zoo.



Getting warmed up. It was a beautiful fall day and D loved riding through all the leaves.


Thumbs up and ready to race.


Taking in her competition.

And they are off.

"Wahooooo".


Mom running along side .

Crash! And quickly back up, no time for tears.


Game face - funny this is the same face Matt has during his races.

And the finish line! She crossed it AND then the tears came as she cried "I want to go again". And she did - that's our girl.

A Quick Visit With Gma Montana

A few weeks back Gma Montana took a road trip out with a few girlfriends. She was needing a little fix with her Grandkiddos. Oh boy the excitement was in the air for sure, Dylan could not wait for her 'special alone time' with Gma. It was a very busy couple of days, we barely left the house.

Do to the fact that we are in the mist of our basement remodel, our guest suite was out of commission but that wasn't going to slow Gma down from visiting. Matt and I gave Linda our bed and we slept on Dylan's floor, which we didn't mention to d when she went to sleep. Sometime during the night I hear a "mom" and then a lot of laughing as she figured out that her family was all crashed out on her floor. She quickly climbed down to our level and then proceeded to start chatting away. We then rolled her over towards Maggie so that she'd forget about us and chat Maggie's ear off. At some point everyone fell back asleep and we awoke to find Dylan and Maggie all cuddled up together.

After Matt left for work us girls got busy making gingerbread men & squirrel cookies. You could touch, smell, and feel the love in the kitchen that day. Here's the gals having tons of fun. Gma brought Dylan a very sweet little apron that D now insists on wearing every time we start cooking. Linda is probably not too happy with me posting pictures of her in her robe but the two of them were so so so sweet together that morning and I honestly can't tell you who had more fun.




Day two we finally made it out of the house to get some fresh air. It was a beautiful fall day!


Destination: Bakery Nouvous. "My favor spot mom" says Dylan, she just loves the macaroons.


Way too short of a visit with Gma!!!!

Fall Girl

Here's some great fun fall photos from a walk we took the other day.  Someone had a great time playing in the creek!