Marie's 17th Birthday

September 20, 2013 marked Marie's 17th birthday! We were so excited that we got to celebrate with her! After some of our first conversations with her we found out that she had never been to Disneyland or Disneyworld. This sparked an idea to take her to Disneyland for the first time on her birthday! We have family passes and go at least a few times a month so we decided to buy her a season pass so she gets to join in on the Disney fun! Here are a few pictures from her birthday!

On every birthday we make the boys sit on the island to take their picture with their birthday balloons and cake... Marie is now part of our family so we made her do the same...with some coaxing of course! 

In California Adventure

This is in cars land which is found in California Adventure

Noah in front of Stanley

Marie, Casey and Gabe in front of "It's a small world".  We were able to find the Norwegian word "Takk" on a postcard on the ride which made Marie pretty happy!

Marie with Merida from Brave

Gabe and Merida

 Marie when we first walked in! We tried to keep Gabe out of the picture, but he loves his big sister Marie! :-)

 Just to embarrass the teenager with us Casey jumped up to show his dancing skills!  They actually picked my goofy husband...go figure!

 The Disneyland Marching band.

 Daddy and the boys at the hotel pool

 Marie and I on the "tower of terror"... I was so scared but as you can see Marie looks pretty as ever...

 Before getting on tower of terror

 Marie, Casey and our friend Megan on the rollercoaster

 Marie and I on space mountain...another rollercoaster

Marie and Noah trying to beat Zurg the evil emperor from Toy Story...lol...