Sadie Hawkins Dance

The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li'l Abner comic strip character, Sadie Hawkins. In the comic, November 13 was Sadie Hawkins Day, where the unmarried women of Dogpatch got to chase the bachelors and marry the ones they caught. The even was first introduced in 1937. In the U.S., this concept was popularized by establishing dance events to which the woman invited a man of her choosing, instead of demurely waiting for a man to ask her. The first known such even was held on November 9, 1938. Within a year hundreds of similar events followed suit, and the tradition become a permanent fixture in some regional American cultures. A couple of weeks ago we had a late night knock at the door. (Krystal knew it was coming) but not David. When he opened the door there were cookies, streamers and the message below.

It said, I would be tickled pink if you would go with me to Sadie Hawkins?

Rachel was waiting in the car across the street to see David's reaction.

He looked at it (sort of like he did his drums on his birthday) and didn't show much expression. The car speed off and then the phone call. It came into Krystal's phone but said he would take the call, answered and said, YES immediately. So there went my clever ideas on how to answer.

The main reason I think that he didn't want me involved is because I had the camera and started snapping pictures. He said....MOM do you have to document everything? OF COURSE! As you can tell in the first picture he wasn't real excited about me taking the picture on the night of the dance. But he didn't protest too much. Think he was afraid I would really embarrass him. A few kids from our ward got together and made pizza, went to the dance then went to Sonic. From what I hear they all had a great time. They all looked pretty cute too!