Halloween '16

Trick or treat time once again!  A cute little Alice in Wonderland and a scary zombie doctor this year.

BRAINSSSS.....

Sweet Stay Puft!

Candy strut

Maura and her BFF Paige (who was a unicorn)

Maura's inaugural soccer season

Maura's first soccer season has begun!  She's having fun, and even has a friend from her kindergarten class on the team!  There's about 13 kids total, but she's gotten to play in every game so far - even had a chance to be goalie!  Here's some pics:

They provided the jerseys, I bought her shorts, shoes, and shin guards, and the socks are Aiden's old baseball ones!

I ironed the letters on her jersey

She's telling the goalie to kick it to her!

Thumbs up for soccer friends!  (Her kindergarten friend is #9)

Their poor coach - he's the only one, and half the time he's trying to keep the kids from horsing around too much!

Serious determination

Goalie!

Maura's Star Student ceremony

Maura was chosen by her teachers as the Star Student of the month for March!  Her school chooses students from each class each month to be the "star students".  She had to receive a ribbon and a certificate from the Principal and she was so nervous, it was adorable.  But she did great and Aiden even got to come to watch!

Waiting for the ceremony to begin

"Teaching"

Getting her ribbon pinned on

Cheese!  The lady in the back is the Principal, Dr. Mallory.

On the stairs 

Group photo

Proud big brother

Maura's 5th birthday

We had Maura's 5th birthday party at a local gymnastics place and she had a BLAST!  I invited her whole Pre-K class and about half of them came.

Balance beam

Flying Theo!

Happy Birthday!

Aww, someone brought a Creeper present :)

Christmas 2016

The kids and I went up to Gramma Nancy's for Christmas, since Matt had deployed a couple weeks before.  It was a hectic morning filled with present opening and packing and driving, then a fun-filled afternoon of cousins and more presents!

Opening presents at home

I can still see the top of your head, Uncle Will!

Tree and presents before the mayhem

Koob, Maura, Linley and Alice (Kelly's daughters)

Creeper Aiden and Theo

In her most favorite robe

Sea World/Disney 2nd trip!

We decided to use the other two days of our 4 day Disney tickets and go down there once more before Matt had to deploy.  We went the weekend before Aiden's birthday.  The kids had so much fun, as usual, and this time Maura wore her Cinderella dress one day to meet the princesses!

Thumbs up for fishes :)

Maura has fishy eyes!

Perfect shirt :)

"Hello, I am a sea lion, and this is my sea lion pose."

In the stands for the sea lion show (not quite close enough to get splashed, though!)

Testing out the hotel pool (it was pretty small, but we were the only ones out!)

Tiki Birds!

A good princess always needs a pose in front of her castle

We'd never noticed Rapunzel's tower before!  We stopped for an ice cream break and Matt happened to look up and spotted it!

Disney was all decorated for Christmas

Ferry ride back

Arr, mateys!

Second day at the Magic Kingdom.  Waiting for brother and Daddy to ride Space Mountain,

Giant spinning globe in water!

I took this while up in the Swiss Family Robinson's Tree House - I looove the look, I didn't fix it at all!

Riding Aladdin's magic carpets

Ice cream face!

Scene on the Jungle Cruise ride

One last ride on the magic carpets

Hysterical laughter every time we got "spit" on by the camel

Watching the show right before we left

Pirate mask on his hat :)

Maura meets Cinderella and Rapunzel: