Fun with Friends

We recently had the fun of some dance friends coming to visit.  We are very glad they did!!!!

Brooke, Brielle, and Caitlyn are all ballerinas.

We took some head shots of the girls, then some just for fun :).

This picture is so funny, I love it!

Timo is adorable and never lacks for attention when Kelsey or Keegan is around!

 Keegan, Katie, David, (and Kelsey) played a lot of tag, hide and seek, and relay races.

Here they are making stickers in Keegan's room.  It cracks me up how Keegan's shirt blends in with the wall.

 LOVE this - Keegan has a dry erase wall sticker in her room.  On it, she had her weekly schedule and David added this note.

While Caitlyn, Brooke, and Brie attended a ballet class, the moms and younger kids found a great park!

We hadn't gotten to see these guys in a while and were so glad we got to!

Keegan and Kelsey (and Caitlyn) backstage at Carnival :)

Both Kelsey and Keegan enjoy little children, and they are good with them, too )!  At Carnival, they had a lot of fun playing with Carlie, the youngest member of the cast.

 Here, playing "Ring Around the Rosie"

 Here playing a game where the players freeze in a pose when "it" says so.  It was pretty amusing to watch :).

 More of the poses game

Kelsey and Carlie making scenes with Barbie cards

 Less thrilling to me... they also did a lot of this

Here she is again

 One of my very favorite pictures from the whole show -

Miss Marilyn, who directs the shows, is awesome.  So is her husband Mr. Wess, who this time was a puppeteer.  They just celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary, btw :).  All three girls adore both of them.  Here is Keegan with Mr. Wess. 

 And one of Caitlyn, who didn't do too many amusing things backstage (except stretch in awful positions.)  Mostly she sat, knitting, watching the show (on the downstairs screen,) or reading.

So, now you know what it was like backstage :).  And sadly (or happily, depending on your perspective,) this is the next to last Carnival post!!!!!

More Carnival

More Carnival -  it'll make you sorry if you missed it!  ;)

We had "Hattie the Hottie :), the incredible fire eater

Then there were aerial silk dancers... 

 adorable children....

 and a bearded lady!  What more could you ask for?

Oh!  You would ask for a snake and absolutely adorable miniature horse/unicorn?  We had those, too :).

 The kids on the steps for the finale.  Boy, those two in the Nutcracker and Carnival shirts are especially precious ;).

 Just cute!  Keegan hold a Carlie-pumpkin!

The many faces of Keegan

"Beautiful Candy"
aka the kids' song :)

See?  I hate to say "I told you so, "  but I told you you'd be sorry you missed it!

Nutcracker

Keegan and Caitlyn recently had the opportunity to participate in a school performance of The Nutcracker.  After the teacher resolved a potential costume disaster for Keegan (THANK YOU), it was a ton of fun.

Caitlyn, in the center, as a snowflake.

 In the pictures, all of Caitlyn's costumes look exactly the same, but in reality, they are different.  This is still snow, though :). 

 Here is Caitlyn in the flute dance - bum bu bu bu bu bu bu da da la DA

Keegan got to be in the Chinese dance!  In the regular performance, she will be a mouse, but this day she got the opportunity to play a different role. It was really neat - the boy squatting in front tossed the umbrella over his shoulder and Keegan caught it!

 At the end of the dance, the two smaller girls made "wheels" with their umbrellas and they all drove off stage :)

 The Waltz of the Flowers with Clara and the Nutcracker watching.

Carnival has opened!

So, we are in the middle of the Carnival run and having lots of fun!  And here are some pictures to share the fun :).

Caitlyn and Kelsey

Caitlyn's costume has been changed significantly, since this picture was taken, but I like it, anyway :).

Kelsey visits with the very cute Roscoe.  If you look behind her, you can easily determine that she is backstage!

Roscoe performing one of his tricks on stage.

Caitlyn backstage wih Katie, another dancer

More of the costume room backstage

Some miscellaneous snippets -

Forrest the boa

Josh, the musical assistant, seeing Forrest for the first time - haha

 Angie and Walter practicing the ballet --->

<---- Gonzo the falcoln

 Walter and Max show their muscles ------>

<------ Junebug

Lili and Marco strike a pose --->

<---- Rosalie questions the children about Marco's whereabouts

Warming up backstage

Caitlyn in her dance

 "Whistles to blow as I dance down the street" in 'Beautiful Candy"

Waitling backstage

Keegan and Kelsey hanging out backstage