You'll Always Be My Little Girl

Bryan and Isabella went to their first Daddy Daughter dance in April! This is an event put on each year by the Grand Forks Park Board. While we've toyed with Isabella going before, we decided to wait until she was a bit older, so this was the year!

I told Isabella about the event a few days in advance and to say the excitement level was through the roof would be an understatement:) She would tell everyone she encountered that she was going to the Daddy Daughter dance...she was SO EXCITED (imagine that:). She started going through her various princess dresses and ended up choosing her flower girl dress from Matt and Mandi's wedding last summer for the event! She even helped Daddy pick out the tie he would wear for the dance! And she prayed the night before, "And let Daddy's hair look just beautiful for the Daddy Daughter dance":)

I helped Isabella get ready and sent her and Bryan off for their date. What I find really neat about this whole experience is that we had so many different friends who were at this event as well. I surround myself with some really great Mom friends, but behind every one of those moms is a fantastic highly involved father...what an important thing for our daughters to see as they grow up and to model when they finally get to the age where they will choose their own prince charmings. It makes me feel good inside knowing the girls are surrounded by such wonderful men who take an active role in the lives of their daughters.

So...did Bryan and Isabella dance the night away? No:) Isabella and a million other screaming, excited little girls danced the night away while the Dads hung out on the sidelines:) Bryan managed to convince Isabella to dance with him once:) But as our good friend, Lance Knudson put it, "If my daughter needs me, I'm right there"...and isn't that the truth? Let the girls laugh and jump and spin around together, but all they had to do was look to the side and there were their fathers.

Enjoy the photos, I think they're pretty precious:)

Getting pretty:)

Isabella and her Prince Charming:)Making sure Daddy is styling for the dance:)Shaking her groove thing with her buddy, Bella KnudsonThe girls dance, the dads take pictures:)