A Weekend Full of Celebrating!!!

On Thursday, February 25th, Nathanael turned 16!

On Friday, February 26th, the HS had a Valentine's Banquet.
Yes, I know this isn't really close to Valentine's Day, but the weekend closest to that fell on our Carnaval Break. So, it was planned for the Friday it would work best.

The High School had a great time enjoying yummy food...

...making fun memories...

...and playing fabulous games!
Stack those people up in the Stack Game!

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On Saturday, February 27th, Nathanael hosted a birthday bash at home.

About 16 HSers (& a couple JHers) came to help him celebrate his new year of life.
We had a yummy meal and then an exciting...

...Photo Scavenger Hunt!!!
With two teams, we got some very cool pictures.
Here are just a few of the 25 each team had to get.

Spelling "NATE"

Two great ways to do that.

Jumping by the Mosaic

In the Globe

Shaking hands with the Director

With 16 of something
Plenty of flip-flops laying around that day...what a great choice!

In a Pin Wheel

All in one bathroom stall

Crazy faces with an elementary teacher

Bible Story imitation ~ Daniel in the Lion's Den

With a wild creature

In "Jail"

Under one umbrella

Bench pressing with fans!!
GO, Lizzy!!!

In a Goal...

Upside-down

Imitating a Winter Olympic Sport
Bobsledding
(Got enough people in your bobsled?? Quite obviously we didn't watch a lot of the Winter Olympics here. Not a huge viewing crowd in here in Brasil.)

In a Bridge

There were many unique & fun photos from an afternoon of fun!
Fun times!
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After the photo fun, we sang to Nathanael (it was about the 50th time he'd been sung to over the course of the past couple days)...

...and then had DESSERT!!!

Cake & Ice Cream for everyone!!

The kids then hung around playing Wii for the next several hours.
A great time was had by all!