This past Friday after our family returned to the US. The school celebrated Carnivale. Carnivale is the time before Lent starts. I believe it started because people were allowed to wear costumes in public there by avoiding paying debts owed. And somehow became a big festival celebrated in many countries. In Spain, near us the biggest celebration is in Sitges. We haven't made it there yet and I'm not sure we will as I've heard it isn't family friendly. Venice though, has a very popular celebration as well. Maybe next year...
So for this year, we settle for our school celebration. It looked very much like our Halloween celebration minus the big giant spider sprawling across the courtyard. There was cotton candy and a couple bounce houses...food, wine and games.
Here's some pictures of the kids enjoying themselves... Here's Andrea on one of the bounce things which was some sort of resistence pull thing.

Andrea has on the red hat and Joe is in front of her.

Saturday, Jess had some friends come over and the 4 of them choreographed a dance routine to Mamma Mia. It was adorable. And if I ever figure out how to upload a video longer than a few seconds to this blog I'll upload it for you. Andrea had a friend over as well to plan a song for the talent show. Sunday, we just relaxed and made sure the kids were caught up on homework. We played a couple of rounds of capture the flag. The red team was dominant the entire time...but we all had a good time. Even Rascal and Mischief got into the game.
This is the last week of play practice before the performances on Friday and Saturdays. I've got parent teacher conferences tomorrow. I'm not expecting anything bad.
That is basically it for now. We're really excited that Bev and Nicole will be here soon! And Easter is on it's way.
Miss you and love you all
Bren