Graduation!

I am finally posting pictures of my graduation! I graduated from BYU last August and I am now a fourth grade teacher at American Leadership Academy, a charter school in Spanish Fork. Just a side note, these are not our children, we're just wanna be parents :) Katie brought this cute little BYU outfit for Izzy all the way from Virginia just for my graduation.

The Johns-Rood Family Reunion!

Getting ready for the great AMAZING RACE! (My team won, by the way) 

This was my quilt patch. It won 1st place for my age group! 

We put together a quilt to donate to the Children's Hospital. Each of us colored a square and then we put them all together.  This is Jake's patch.

   

 Jake was the reserve grand champion for the pie eating contest.  

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    While all the adults had a genealogy lesson Jake and I led the kids on a butterfly hunt.

Dylan's Graduation

My brother Dylan graduated from high school last week and I just want to say I'm soooooo proud of him! This kid is such a stud! He's heading out to Utah State this fall and will be studying aviation.  I just hope he doesn't break too many hearts...

The Zoo!

                                                                                                                                             

We went to the zoo with Kelly and her kids this week. It was so fun! This giraffe, who was about 14 ft tall was eating grass on that embankment, and Jake decided to make a friend. If you've ever wondered what a giraffe's tongue feels like, well, according to Jake it feels just like a cow tongue. I think he makes a lot of these friends.

  

This lady saw Jake petting the giraffe, hurriedly snapped some pictures, and was nice enough to email them to us.

Jake was pretty impressed that he got the whole giraffe in this picture.

 

Elephants! 

This statue made noises when you sat on it. Here's Brent the mechanic trying to figure out how it works.

 

I would say the boys favorite part of the zoo may have been these statues they put out for kids to explore. The rhinoceros was particularly ideal for climbing!