Pope Family Reunion 2010

Time again for the Pope Family Reunion. My family was in charge this year. Good times. We headed down on Friday after work. Anyone who knows me knows that I hate the drive to St. George. I was hoping for a smooth drive. NOT so! Just outside of Fillmore, my serpentine belt broke.
Thanks to Triple A, Lisa and I enjoyed a nice tow truck lift back into Fillmore. This delayed us a few hours. Good thing Mom and Dad were not too far ahead of us. So, we had to jump in with Mom and Dad. That was a good time.
No, we aren't squished at all. We had to take all the stuff in my car and put it in with Mom and Dad. Ok there is a reason we drive our own car on family vacations. :) Anyway, it's been a long time since we all drove together longer then 45 minutes, but we did make the best of it. We told Dad to drive fast. All I can say is there was a lot of laughing and a lot of comments flying around.

Let the family reunion begin.We always have a fishpond. Lisa is very excited for this. Good thing we had some help. Jack and Bryne were so great to help us with this.

This is the group filling up water balloons. (to be used later in a giant water fight)
And the effects of the water balloon. We did get a little wet. Thanks to Mary who started it.

And onto the raffle. This is how the reunion is funded. Everyone brings stuff and we all buy tickets. One of the highlights of the party.

And then comes the Talent show. We never participate, but this year we made an exception.
Helping Emily with her bandanna.













Emily, me and Lisa.

We did a skit in honor of Errol making it through the Air Force Academy.
We had a good time.


Listening to Uncle Wendel play is the highlight of the reunion. I can sit all night and listen to the music. We all sing along. It can go all night.



More to come....

Amy's 'new adventure party'

Amy's, last day was October 6th. She had been working at Lehi for the last 2 years. She went to California to work for a friend. (Offered more money--how can I compete! :) ) It has been so fun to work with her. It was so great to reconnect with her. Amy and I grew up together and then kind of drifted away. 2 years ago she interviewed for a position at the high school. I just happened to walk down to the office and saw her. I talked to her for a second, walked into the office and said I want her for my para-educator--who do I talk to.

Lisa and Amy

Me and Amy. (yes my hair blends into the wall)
Toni and Amy (these two were pretty much joined at the hip--I was joined at the other hip)
Oh it's been fun. Every morning when Amy would walk past my room, she would stop and we would have our morning chat. Lisa, whose room was next to mine, heard us singing many times. Songs from Glee and Britany Spears were some of our favorites. We also loved the word wall I had up. We tried to use as many words as we could in our conversations and the students would try to keep up. It was pretty funny. She always came to work with a smile on her face.
A lot has happened in the last 2 years. And we've been there for each other. I wish her luck in her future. I will totally miss her at work.

Some people, I don't know who, might wonder if we ever worked. Well, we did get stuff done eventually.
Some of my favorite pictures--through our many adventures.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end...to many more adventures.

Hiking

Lisa and I went hiking over Labor Day weekend. The weather was perfect. We hiked Silver Lake. I would like to hike it again--to see if it's prettier in the spring. Still we had a good time.
This was not it--This was the view from the parking lot. That should have been enough. These pictures crack me up. Lisa was swatting a huge fly. I laughed so hard--I thought I was going to choke on my sandwich.

You can actually see the fly on the left side of her hand. :)

Love the wind blown look I have going on. :)And here it is... I'm someone who when I hike, I want a Ta-Da!! at the end. Some kind of a reward. Umm, here was our reward. I like water falls at the end. Maybe next spring. Still we had a fun time.Had to show off the new hiking shoes I bought to do all this hiking in summer and I used them...once. Good for me. :)

Cupcakes

So my sister Lisa, bought this cupcake book

It's the best cupcake book ever. And then we all had to have one. It's written by Wendy Paul (I accidentally cut off her name. I have to give her credit) These were Cookies and Cream Dream

We have loved trying out new cupcakes and have yet to be disappointed.and these were Pumpkin Harvest with cream cheese frosting. Not your ordinary cupcakes!

First/Second day of school

First day of school. Yes, I do the first day of school pic. I really wasn't ready for this. (see my previous post and you will understand--I had been working on a great tan) But, all good things must come to an end and nothing lasts forever. So first day of school outfit.

And since we are on A/B day, I have a second/first day outfit. I actually have great kids this year. I love all my classes. I teach 2 English 12 classes, 1 reading, and 2 co-taught English 10 and1 co-taught Geometry. I think it will be good. However, I feel like I haven't been able to catch up. Maybe in May I'll feel caught up. :)
Go Pioneers!!

Ahhh, Summer. I miss you!

Ok so I am really missing my summer. Here is a little look back at what I did most of the summer.

First of all I had to buy my pool pass.I'm so impressed with all the punches I used. I buy a pass every summer, but this summer I really took advantage. I hit the pool about 2-3 times a week. (I took this pic with my phone, so it's a little blurry)
So relaxing. Why did it have to end?

Of course I had to earn a little bit of extra money. So I spent sometime hanging out at Alpine Credit Union. I don't call it work because I have to much fun with the peeps there.

And then I hit the gym--everyday. Love being a gym rat.
I miss the GTL. (Gym, tan, laundry)

Had a birthday, a few BBQs and enjoyed spending time with the family. (all of which have been blogged about :) )


Then school had to start. :(