I danced around the house with them, and at weddings and such, but never at a dance just for them and me.

So I thought it sounded like fun when I heard about Marysville’s 10th annual Father-Daughter dance.

It was.

I took my 30-year-old daughter Stacey Chapman, as my other daughter, Angie Loushin, lives out of town. Stacey’s husband, Danny, was planning to take my 2-year-old granddaughter Izzy, but he got called to work, so my wife, Debbie, went instead.

We all had fun dressing up and getting ready, but as usual it took longer than expected. So we grabbed a quick dinner at a local Teriyaki place. Another dad and daughter were there. He had gone to the dance before and told us to go early, so we left soon after they did.

Once we arrived there was a long line to get in.

I talked to one dad, Brandon Peterson, who was attending with his four daughters: Samantha, 10; Amy, 8; Hallie 6; and Brooklyn, 3.

He said his wife, Amber, got everybody ready for the dance.

“It was a little crazy,” he said. “It’s a special thing, once a year.”

Peterson said Amber was amazing braiding all of the girls’ hair like a Disney princess in just about 10 minutes each. He said Amber follows the videos on cutegirlshairstyles.com.

While it was the second time at the dance for the older girls, it was Brooklyn’s first time.

“It’s an experiment how long she will last,” dad said.

While he spent the night dancing away with the four girls, Peterson said Amber was just hanging out with herself, which is a “rare thing.”

His wife, then would hang out with the girls the next day while he watched Seattle play New England in the Super Bowl.

“It’s a good tradeoff,” he said.

Once we got to the front of the line, we all had our pictures taken. Izzy’s smile was adorable; she loves to show off her cuteness for cameras.

Right behind us was Richard Weller and his daughter Teaghan. Like us, it was their first time at the dance.

“I’m just looking forward to a fun night with my daughter,” Weller said, while Teaghan said she was looking forward to the “cookies” the most.

Once inside the auditorium at Cedarcrest Middle School, punch and cookies were available to give nourishment to tired dancers.

The dance floor was packed most of the night. The goal of the DJs was to keep everyone dancing for as much of the 1 1/2 hour event as possible. They played music ranging from new Taylor Swift songs to classic Bee Gees tunes.

I spent most of the time dancing with Izzy and chasing her around watching her dance with others. She’s not shy. When she got tired she would raise her arms up to slow dance with me, but would soon regain her bundle of energy and want down again.

The DJs had us play games to make sure everyone was participating. One pitted the dads against the girls with each trying to dance in the era of their counterpart. Another taught everyone a “disco” line dance in “John Tra-vol-ta” style to “Stayin’ Alive.” Some of the girls didn’t get the “pick the star out of the sky and put it in your pocket” move.

Other favorites to dance to were: the “Chicken Dance,” “Shout,” “Old Time Rock and Roll,” and a remix of “Too Legit to Quit” and “Gangnam Style.”

While I was new to the dance, Jeremy and Marina King have attended all 10 years. They were honored as two of only a few to have done that.

Marina, 15, felt pretty special to go, since she has three sisters. An older one had attended in the past, but the other two are quite a bit younger, ages 4 and 2. King has eight kids in all, and said it would have been “difficult” to bring his other daughters.

“It’s a nice night for us to have father-daughter time with dinner beforehand,” King said. “It’s our date night.”