So a friend of ours from Area 10 Church earned a starring role in Richmond Ballet's version of the Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker".
Dandeelyon was starstruck as she watched Laurie Lou twirl across the stage at the Richmond Landmark Theater. Truly an amazing performance!! Perfect daddy daughter date ended with hot chocolate at the Jefferson Hotel with great friends from our small group.
On the way down, we did Charleston SC, Savannah Ga, Jacksonville Fla and Orlando. All awesome cities...
Savannah Georgia
Downtown Jacksonville
Charleston South Carolina
Dandeelyon and Daddy took off to a whirlwind East Coast Road Trip with a 4 day pit stop in Orlando to visit Magic Kingdom, Typhoon Lagoon, Universal Island of Adventure, and Animal Kingdom.
Dandeelyon and her namesake!
Dandeeyon's Intense Avengers Face!!
Oh yes. That's Captain America all right.
Typhoon Lagoon has the best wave pool ever. The Tsunami comes crashing down about every 90 seconds and it NEVER GETS OLD! This thing takes out everyone in its path!
We had 2 great nights with the Florida Polareks -- Jay, Joanna, Kenzi and Kesley. Those girls are so darn cute I could squeeze them til their little heads popped off!
Dinner Margaritaville!
Almost Bedtime.... but not quite.
On the way back we did a 3 day stop with Matt, Lisa Lliam and Gavin in HOTLanta. Great to catch up with the Dierdorff Family!!
Movie time at the Dierdorffs.
We also dropped in for a southern layover in Charlotte NC with some amazing dinner and conversation with the Heyman Family (Thanks JR!!) JR's mom was all about spoiling Dandeelyon. JR -- you need to get married and have kids SOON!!
Then we stopped in and hung out with the NC Fam Vestals and Cooks (better known as Grammy Sue, Paw Paw Lee, Maw Maw Bert, Aunt Molly and Ava & Sawyer, and Uncle Jeremo!
Our church has taken on a goal to flip the statistics for who waits for foster care in Virginia. Right now, there are far greater children than parents willing to foster or adopt. We want to change that so that there are far greater parents waiting to adopt than children. It's called the change who waits campaign.
Dandeelyon played the foster child in this video which will air on ABC and NBC affiliates . I am so proud of her it makes me want to pop!
I am one proud daddy this weekend. Dandeelyon has trusted in her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and wanted to publicly express it. She understands the amazing and life changing "Grace" which was given to her.
I was cleaning the house and found a notebook with some writings from Dandeelyon. Turns out she has a little club of friends at her school. Here are the rules:
