Daddy Daughter Dance

Saturday was a very special day. It was the Daddy Daughter Dance! This was the first year the kids school offered this dance. The day the paper came home to sign up for it, I asked Maddi if she wanted to go to the dance. She immediately answered "yes!", like of course mom. I asked if her friends were going and she said she didn't care, she wanted to go with Daddy. I love that even though she's in fifth grade, she was so excited to spend a special night with her Daddy. Here's the pretty girl all ready for her special night.

Daddy with his daughters. I love that Emalyn gets in every picture these days. If she sees the camera come out, she's posing for a picture. So fun!

Daddy and Daughter, ready to dance the night away!

Kisses!

Brett and me with our girls. Cade was sleeping over at his friend Jack's house for the night.

The great thing was that Grammy had just arrived in town that morning, so she got to see her son take his daughter to the dance. We tried to get pictures outside, but they weren't good and everyone was too cold for more pictures so we came inside.

Cade was at a sleepover, Brett and Maddi went to the dance, so Emma, Grammy and I went to dinner together. We went to Chili's and had a great time together.

The funny thing is that Brett asked Maddi where she wanted to go for dinner and she said "what do you want?" in true Maddi fashion. She is so selfless and wants to make everyone else happy, forget what she wants. She said maybe she'd like Panda Express. We told her they could go there, but they were dressed nice and a sit down place might be better so she chose Olive Garden. Apparently everyone else in Oswego was at Olive Garden at 5:00 on Saturday and there was a 40 minute wait, so they ate at Panda Express! There was another dad with his daughters all dressed up there too. They had really good fortunes in their cookies and enjoyed their dinner together.

They had a great time and spent most of the night dancing together, but Maddi did take some time to hang out with some friends too. Brett sent this picture to me of her and Emily at the dance. I am so thankful that Brett is such a good father and that Maddi adores him. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall watching all the fathers and daughters dancing together.