Our Story

The nOtsOnOrmAl fOrmAl started 15 years ago with just 32 in a small rented cabin.  Each year, we’ve grown in number and last year we nearly approached 800 total people in the venue.

The brief story is that our oldest girl went to her public middle school dance. She was so disappointed with how the kids acted (pushing each other into a tight circle, basically groping the girls and fooling around) and the music with it’s cursing and overly sexualized lyrics….in middle school.

She told us she’d like to get people together to dance so we said “sure – you get some friends and we’ll figure something out”. She came back and said she had 32 friends and we were stunned. Uh, ok…guess we really have to figure something out – LOL.

We rented a small cabin that didn’t have air and the parents brought some snacks.

We thought ‘this is a one and done good time’ and all the kids were asking “so when are we going to do this again”?!

We had no idea that almost 15 years later, we would still be doing this as annual event with almost 800 students coming out to last year!

Every year it continues to grow.