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Daddy Daughter Dance - 2018



This past weekend was my absolute, hands-down, favorite night of the year:  The annual Daddy-Daughter Dance at St. Mary's of Gostyn in Downers Grove.  This year....if you couldn't tell from the photos,  the theme was a Luau.  Loved that.  No suit.  Just a Hawaiian shirt and the girls were able to get all doll'd up in their most colorful flower dress, too!

Here we are out on the front porch:


We went out to a nice dinner with some friends (see the photo of the girls and their two classmates - well...Ellie's classmates!) out after dinner right before we headed to the dance. 


I love being able to spend the evening with two of my favorite girls all alone, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to do it with other Dads.  With Eloise being in 3rd grade, in some schools, they start to taper off in terms of older girls attending the dance with their Dads.  The good news is that at SMG, they have plenty of eighth graders there!  So, that means I have at least five more of these with Eloise.  Man-o-Man..time *has* to slow down!  C'mon!

I've covered these nights before. 

I don't seem to have posted about it last year.

But, here's the photos of the Daddy-Daughter Dance in the fall of 2016. 
We also went to one in the Spring of 2016, too. 
Here's photos of the Daddy-Daughter Dance in 2014 where I took *just* Eloise.
And here's the first time we went in 2013.  Just Eloise and I.  Before SD was even born!

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