I went to yoga and then happy hour and didn't get home until after dark, so I still need to find a current bug picture if possible. I'll go find one tomorrow.
Lilly, that's definitely some type of garden spider. I did a little searching and I think it might be a banded garden spider (argiope trifasciata). It just looks like it has fewer stripes on the legs than the pictures of this type of spider, but there's always lots of variability in markings.https://bugguide.net/node/view/218319
Butts it is!