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:

                                     

Aiden's birthday

Whoops - haven't updated this in a while!!  My bad :)  Playing catch up, beginning with Aiden's birthday!  First we went up to Gramma Nancy's a couple of weeks before his actual birthday.  We went to a place called "Nutin' But Fun" and it really was fun!  There were lots of bouncys, some arcade games, rides, and an awesome inflated lazer tag area - it was one giant inflated tunnel system, Matt got in there with all the kids and it was SO FUNNY!

Maura on the bouncys

Playing air hockey with Daddy

Gramma Nancy got a Minecraft cake

With cousin Theo

Before the lazer tag began!

Then, on his actual birthday, we went to the Entertainment Center on post for play and bowling. Unfortunately, a couple things happened, so not many people could make it - first, it was a Wednesday night, and second, there was a tornado watch right before we left!  We braved the downpour, and two boys from his class were able to be there, so it may have been small but they had a good time anyway!

Table setup

Yes, another Minecraft cake :)

Outside the party room

Opening presents

So excited!

The kid in orange is Noah, and he and his mom led the most raucous singing of "Happy Birthday" I've ever heard! (The other kid is Nathan, the two boys who braved the weather!)

Bowling time

Corn Maze fun!

We took the kids up to Beth's Mom's house the weekend before Halloween and we went to a local corn maze!  The kids had so much fun, they navigated through the maze then bounced on a really cool bouncer, and of course Maura had to get her face painted!  The farm used to be a working dairy farm, and one of the workers showed us how they use machinery to milk the cows.  We also saw a pig race, fed some goats, and got mini pumpkins to take home!

Got the GoPro ready to go in the maze!

Ready to go!

Cousins!

Getting her rainbow painted

Done!

The cool bouncer!

Whee!

Cow demonstration - showing how they curl their tongues to eat food!

Feeding the goats