Father/Daughter Date night at CFA!

Each year, CFA hosts Daddy/Daughter date night! We love this because it combines two of Rhyans favorite things... CFA and time with her daddy! We reserved a spot for the 5:30 (i think) slot at a nearby chick fil a and Rhyan was SOOOOOO excited!

But.... yes, there is a but...

Jeff ended up having a ball game that ran late. Way late. In fact, it was a previously rained out game that was rescheduled to this day which completely irritated me. I'm SO supportive of Jeff coaching and all the hard work he does... GO ARCHER TIGERS!... but i like a schedule way in advance so i can make plans for our family around the busy baseball schedule. So i'm typically NOT a happy camper when things get rescheduled. Yes, i realize that its just a part of baseball. But i dont have to like EVERYTHING about it! ;-)

So Rhyan and Jeff MISSED their reservation. She totally did NOT understand, though! She just kept saying "i'm so excited for my date with my daddy"!. So we decided that when he got home, he could clean up and they would just head on up to CFA, hoping it would work out...

Rhyan spent a while deciding what to wear and this was her choice. Shes BIG into dressing herself and always wants to pick out everything... so sometimes things dont match exactly. But seeing as how I'm not crafty and we dont do crafts much around here, I figure that dressing herself is her little bit of creativity coming out, so we go with it :-) She also took a while deciding how she wanted her hair.

These next pics are pretty close, but some are cute of Rhyan and some of Mack... so i posted them all.

Hair do number 2...

Mack was NOT happy... his canines were coming in (hence the red cheeks) and he was a sad boy... :-(

Overexposed, but THIS was her final product with her hair. I liked it MUCH better :-)

Finally, at 6:30, Jeff got home and got all cleaned up (he cleans up NICE!). Rhyan was SO stinkin sweet and excited. She couldnt stop telling him "Daddy, you look so pretty! Do i look pretty daddy? I picked out my outfit for you, daddy! We're gonna have fun, Daddy!!". It about made me cry! SO sweet!

They ended up getting in at CFA but Jeff said since they didnt have a reservation (and i'm sure he DIDNT explain why/what had happened...) he didnt feel right about taking advantage of their professional photographer. BOO!!! That made me so sad! AND, they were offering limo rides and he passed up on that, too! Rhyan totally didnt care but i hope that as she gets older, he will kind of put himself out there to speak up for HER, even if he doesnt feel he deserves something! But he's always so polite to the point of missing out on stuff. A good/bad thing sometimes ;-)

But when they got home, she was ALL smiles about the sweet time she had with her Daddy!

I was telling Shlaine (my aunt who i grew up with who is more like a sister) about this and she reminded me that Daddy took HER on a date, once, too. That he dressed up and took her to some place that had a big fish(?) on the wall and asked to sit right under that fish as a special prize for her and that she was in HEAVEN. We shared the most perfect daddy, ever :-) It makes me smile to think that Jeff is following in his footsteps in being a GREAT Daddy! I was a blessed girl to have my Daddy, and i know that Rhyan will feel the same way as she looks back on sweet times like this!