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Daddy Daughter Dance - Fall 2016

By Jake Parrillo

I might be the luckiest guy in the world!  Why?   Because 2016 is the year that I get to go to TWO, yep...two Daddy Daughter dances.

Because of some scheduling quirks, the girls' schools moved their Daddy Daughter dance up to the fall.  Here's the post from earlier this Spring when we got all doll'd up and went to the rodeo-themed dance at Immanuel Lutheran School here in Elmhurst.

For history's sake, here's some photos of the very first one of these that we went to back in 2013.  Then, it was just Ellie and me.  And here's the Dance from 2014.

This year, we followed the same blueprint.  I bought both girls some special wrist corsages, we went out to a special dinner at Francesca's in Elmhurst, made a stop in the photo booth (see pic below), at a bunch of snacks and danced our hearts out all together out on the gym floor.

I know that the girls really love these nights, but I know I love and cherish them even more.  I'm so lucky that I get to spend the evening with these two special girls and I love being able to go out of our ordinary routine to make them feel special.  They're awfully special girls and I love being their Daddy.

Here's the three of us in the photo booth.  Top photo was supposed to be 'normal'.  Middle was 'crazy'.  And the bottom was a 'kiss' pic.


Before we left, we grabbed a few pictures on the front porch of the Marini house to mark the occasion.


SD clung close to me and we danced a lot and had a ball.


While Ellie broke away from us and spent some quality time with her 'crew' mixing it up, running around, just being a kid and laughing/smiling the whole time.  I was SOOOO excited to see her with this crew and being part of the group, I didn't mind that she didn't dance with me the whole night!



And we didn't miss the goodie bag section.  Trust me...SD knows how to bring home a good assortment of candies and cookies and treats!


I know these Daddy/Daughter Dance years are few, so I'm treasuring every one of them. Can't believe that I'm going to have to wait an entire year to get another one of these in!  I hope they'll look back on these posts when they're older and know how much they were loved and how much fun I had with them on these special, special nights.  



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