Banks was a lil monkey for Halloween.  (Quite fitting seeming how he eats at least 1-2 bananas a day.  Atta' boy!)

Banks and Daddy (aka Napolean Dynamite) at our old ward's Trunk or Treat.

Our new Chaise!

I threw a baby shower for one of my friends.  This is the dessert table.  

 

Mini cheesecake, sugar cookies, cupcakes, and texas sheet cake (someone else brought this).  Everything was homemade of course.

 Banks 's latest and greatest trick: unzipping his jammies.  If this isnt a proud face, I dont know what is!

Our neighbor is putting in his sprinklers.  Banks insisted on helping.....

Just enjoying some nice weather.  I try and let Banks play outside at least 45 minutes a day.

 

Napolean Dynamite and Deb at a friend's Halloween Party.  Good times!

 Oct 26th I ran the Provo Halloween Half Marathon.  It started up at Deer Creek and we ran down Provo Canyon.  This was my second half marathon (I ran this same race Oct 2011).  I had been training pretty hard (well, for me anyway!) for this race.  I was pretty excited for it because I knew I had trained a lot more than 2 years ago.  I finished with a time of 1 hour and 41 minutes.  An average pace of 7:45 minute mile.  WHICH....for me....was EPIC!  I never run that fast ha ha!  I got 38th place out of 1,028 women that ran!!  :)

 2 years ago when I ran this race I finished with a time of 1 hour 54 minutes.  So I shaved off 13 minutes.

Huge thank you to Jeff for all the support of watching Banks to allow me to train!  And thank to Jana and John who let me borrow their fancy Garmin watch for the race.  (Who is that nice to send a watch all the way in the mail for one race!!?)

 Banks LOVE LOVE LOVES to use the garden hose.  This is him after he got himself all wet but INSISTED on finishing the job ... gotta love this kid.

Some cookies n cream cupcakes for Danny's birthday.  I got a request for my first paid cupcake gig.  A friend of mine asked me to make 3-4 dozen for her daughter's baptism.  YAY!!!!  I'm so excited!!!