On Thanksgiving I got a text from my good friend saying what a double happy day it must be for me since it was my birthday and Thanksgiving on the same day! I responded that it was a triple happy day because it was my birthday, Thanksgiving and we were going to Disneyland!
Road Trip!
30 years old, triple happy yet slightly intimated by the age!
Because we were on the road on Thanksgiving I made reservation at a restaurant for our Thanksgiving dinner...yes that is Paul scrapping away his sweet potatoes, not a fan.
We are so thankful for our family, our friends, our feast, and festivities to follow!
We took a short bus ride into Disneyland each morning and afternoon. Nora was always so excited to ride the bus, almost as excited as she was about Disneyland itself! Go figure!
The Happiest Place on Earth!
We spent a fair amount of time meeting our favorite Disney characters, who we now consider to be our friends!
One splurge we treated Nora to was a lunch with the princesses. It was fantastic! For us, the food was good and for Nora, seeing all the princesses, in one place, was magical!
Mesmerized by It's a Small World.
Energized by the new Toy Story ride!
Imprisoned with Uncle Ethan and Aunt Jessica, Nora would be a happy inmate if these two could be with her all the time!
Blast Off!
Sleeping Beauty
Disney's President...
and his bride!
Nora was so happy to meet Jesse from Toy Story that the only thing she could remember to tell her was that she had her on her panties!
Rapunzel
I had gotten in line early to see Rapunzel so we were only #4 in line but when she actually showed up the line time to meet her was over 1 hour and 45 minutes! Amazing!
Chatting up her age with Cinderella!
Amazed to be spending time with Snow White!
Tiana (from Princess & the Frog)
And last but certainly not least, Tinker Bell!
These characters are amazing!
They have such patience and kindness with all these kids and yet they still made Nora feel special, like she was the only little girl they were going to see all day.
I think they all get an extra dose of pixie dust to make them all so sweet!
Thank you family for a special birthday, thank you for spending Thanksgiving away from home, thank you for all the wonderful memories made in the Happiest Place on Earth!
Cookie decorating with cherished friends!
A precious date night!
A traditional dinner long treasured!
A meeting with old friends and new!
A performance so sweet!
Cheers! A celebration of love!
This year we had to go to a tree lot to get our tree. Luckily they were packed pretty close together so we told Nora it was the forest and to make her way through to find the best tree. Trying to make lemonade out of lemons!
The angel takes her position.
Ready for Christmas, bring on the festivities! 
I dug the hole and Nora placed the bulb. Amazingly enough this activity kept her attention through all 36 bulbs!
She "dug" a few holes too.
The bulb would go in, we would whisper a few encouraging words to it, cover it up and say "see you in the springtime", Nora would say "see you in the sprinkletime" (which I thought was adorable and a good description of what springtime really is)! 
Road Trip! 
30 years old, triple happy yet slightly intimated by the age!
Because we were on the road on Thanksgiving I made reservation at a restaurant for our Thanksgiving dinner...yes that is Paul scrapping away his sweet potatoes, not a fan.
We took a short bus ride into Disneyland each morning and afternoon. Nora was always so excited to ride the bus, almost as excited as she was about Disneyland itself! Go figure!
The Happiest Place on Earth!
We spent a fair amount of time meeting our favorite Disney characters, who we now consider to be our friends!
One splurge we treated Nora to was a lunch with the princesses. It was fantastic! For us, the food was good and for Nora, seeing all the princesses, in one place, was magical!
Mesmerized by It's a Small World.
Energized by the new Toy Story ride!
Imprisoned with Uncle Ethan and Aunt Jessica, Nora would be a happy inmate if these two could be with her all the time!
Blast Off!
Sleeping Beauty
Disney's President...
and his bride!
Nora was so happy to meet Jesse from Toy Story that the only thing she could remember to tell her was that she had her on her panties! 
Rapunzel
Chatting up her age with Cinderella!
Amazed to be spending time with Snow White!
Tiana (from Princess & the Frog)
And last but certainly not least, Tinker Bell! 
Meeting with the judge. He stood right next to them the entire time, it made it much more personal than sitting up there on his throne.
We got them official Hinkle t-shirts!
Welcome to the family!
