Cami found the blog! Hi, Cami! I have to say, I never considered the fact that significant others would have access to to my kids entire lives. But…I guess it’s a good way to vet them? ha ah. I went to Utah for Hawaii Friendsgiving and got to spend a whole fun day with Cami and Josh. Josh and I both had our hearts set on a beautiful fall hike, but mother nature had different plans. It poured rain all day long. I heard it was the most rain in 24 hrs in 100 years. We decided to get tacos and drive the Alpine loop instead. And we encountered SNOW. We still had a great drive, made better by the fact that I took some kind of wrong turn coming out of Cascade Springs and instead of ending up in AF Canyon, we ended up in Midway. Oops. The better part was now we could get milkshakes at Grannys! Delicious, as always. We wanted to hit up General Conference, but we didn’t have tickets. We heard it was pretty easy to get standby tickets on Sat evening. Off to the conference center we went! Still with the rain. We were directed to the Tabernacle and given a ticket. Then, just a few min before the session started, they walked us over to the upper balcony in the Conference Center. It was really neat to be there. I haven’t done that since I was about Josh’s age! I think my favorite talk from the session was by Elder Kearon about Christ and new beginnings. “you. He hasn’t set a limit on your second chances. You press on. You keep striving. You seek help from those around you. And you trust in the new beginning that is there for you every time you turn back to your Father in sincerity of heart. Leave deliberate sinning, casual repeats, and prideful rebellion behind you, where they belong. You don’t have to be who you’ve been before. Embrace your fresh start, your second or third or fourth—or hundredth—chance, offered to you through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.”
Cami and Josh are adorable and it was so fun to get to know her and spend time with Josh.
Hawaii Friendsgiving and Favorite Things Party! One of my favorite days of the year. Everyone gives the best gifts, and I love spending time with these amazing ladies. This year Rachel hosted at her mom’s house in Draper. And since it’s not really Thanksgiving time yet, she made us delicious wild salmon they caught on one of their Alaska trips. So yummy. I spent the night at Steph’s, and as usual, it just wasn’t enough time!Banks vs Perez in a rainy pickleball matchFriday night lights! As Mr. Fruits likes to say…”It’s Bandtober!”Dash was looking adorable in the car but I couldn’t get him to stop squinting is one eye. Longmont Halloween Parade. Blake just wanted something that would keep him warm, and then it ended up being soooo hot. We got our annual Cheba Hut after. Birthday celebration with the Besties! We went to Cherry Creek Grill and shopping at Park Meadows. Loved celebrating all of us.Josh took the Frontrunner up to visit Adam in Farmington. Amy sent me this picture and said, “I thought they had gone thrifting. But no….This is just what they were wearing.” It made me laugh. Love these two. Mave’s birthday celebration. I surprised her and checked her out for lunch. We went to Freddies and then to Hobby Lobby where we got this fun Unicorn that you can airbrush. Rusty in Houston for Afrotech. He had a great trip which included fixing a malware issue on his Uber Driver’s phone, and sneaking into the conference hotel lazy river that was in the shape of Texas.HOLY WAR!! Josh and a friend didn’t get tickets, but after much pleading, they convinced one of the ticket takers to let them take the place of a few students who were leaving. They were soooo excited and it was so fun to have BYU storm the field after a big WIN.Coal Creek Kids and BYU soccerWe are going to buy Alan and Sharon’s house! After our whole nightmare with the Will after Alan died, this feels really healing. We’re going to rent it out for several years, and then hopefully there will be more Banks family memories to be made in this beautiful place. (and….grubs ate half the grass this summer. Ugg)
This month was unusually hot. Oct is usually my favorite weather of the year, so I feel kind of cheated. But, it did make for some great football games, band concerts, and cross country meets!
Halloween weekend began as it always does, at the Longmont Parade. It was a beautiful morning and all the costumes were so clever. Then the moment we’ve been waiting for…..presenting the cast of HERCULES! Every year just keeps getting better. I wish Halloween was always on a weekend! It was on Monday this year, and…
Casa Bonita! We had to go see if it lived up to its newly renovated hype. We did have a pretty darn fun time. THE wedding. The one we’ve all been talking about for an entire year. It did not disappoint. Kari was an exquisite mother of the groom, Kaleb and Madysen had the sweetest…
Another month is in the books! Rusty and the Teachers had Anne McDowell teach them how to create food art. Blake earned his 100 miles! He has been working so hard this year. General Conference. Every year we try to pick a service project to do in honor of Jim’s birthday. This year Halle researched on…
Fun in the last big snow of the season. I went out walking in the freezing cold just to escape the house for a little while. It was really beautiful with all the trees weighed down with snow. We had a very special conference where we got to do the Hosanna Shout to commemorate 200…
