Wow what a weekend! Michael took Friday off and had Monday off as a holiday. Friday we were greeted with a package from Baltimore; C3 Athletes Serving Athletes gear. We headed up to Olympia to visit with friends, Derik & Michelle, and to race the first "double" cross weekend. But before being on the road North it was off to Sauvies Island and the pumpkin patch. The weather was perfect and it wasn't very crowded being that it was a Friday. Gilbert was as cute as ever and loved riding in the wagon with Michael pulling it. We managed to get enough pumpkins and still leave room for Gilbert in the wagon for the ride back to the farm.
But Gilbert was still stepping out on his own part of the way.
While at the farm we saw and heard roosters, Michael grunted back and forth with the biggest pig I ever seen, and we ate carmel covered apples with the thickest layer of carmel ever...gotta' love it
After being at the pumpkin patch for the morning we headed up to Olympia for two nights. On Saturday we raced in Washington at the Oregon vs. Washington cyclocross race. We both had pretty good results with two eighth place finishes a peace. Well there were only ten in my category, but this year I am racing as a Cat 1/2. At the WA. State event was really deep with talent; I was at the start line with a pro to my left and right and thinking in my head,"Um, how did I get here?" So not bad for an almost rookie! 
Sunday morning we heading back into Oregon for our second race at Rainier High School. The venue was beautiful but the start was directly up hill and the finish was a really big hill that you had to climb on every lap. Ouch! I had a pretty bad start, but managed to fight my way up to a seventh place finish which put me into sixth place for the series. Michael had to start at the back of his pack of almost 60 racers since this was his first race of the series. He was doing really well and almost in the top 20 when he lost a rear spoke! A "quick" wheel change and he was back on. He passed many riders in his last laps but just enough to get back to where he was before the mechanical. Hopefully we have our mechanicals out of the way. But considering this was our first in nine races, we can't complain.
Monday we were in Portland and had a great family day with a little breakfast at the J&M Cafe, shopping at Anthropology & Icebreaker, and then some chillin out at the house. Very relaxing....for now. We still have many races ahead of us and are signed up for Cyclocross Nationals in Bend this December for our end of the season. But between now and then there will be a lot of rain, mud, racing, parking lot diaper changes, warm-ups, cool downs, packing, unpacking, and simply good times!
Here is a link to our series if anyone wants to check it out. www.crosscrusade.com
Oh and Gilbert is now breaking into sentences. His first one is "I want to drive the car." He says it almost every time we get in the car. Here is a picture of him in our friend's truck. It is going to be a long fourteen years.
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