“He looked at me and I don’t even know what to make of that.” Amy and Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s romance is one story fans can’t get enough of. A chance meeting through a home project turned into a lifelong partnership. It’s one tale fans can’t get enough of. And pretty soon, the couple’s young children completed the family. Now, as the Earnhardts continue the parenthood journey, there’s one moment with their daughter Isla. It’s one that will become a family story for the ages.
The Earnhardts were at the beach for their annual family celebration, filled with sandcastles, sparklers, and their now iconic golf cart parade. But the true fireworks? They came from the moment that wasn’t planned at all, when little Isla found herself at the center of a pint-sized summer romance and, eventually, an adorably tear-filled meltdown that had both her parents in stitches.
The day started with Amy and Isla leading the charge in the neighborhood golf cart parade, dressed in red, white, and blue with waves and cheers all around. Dale Jr. was headed to Chicago for the race but kept up via FaceTime, smiling at each update from Amy.
In a candid moment on ‘Bless Your Hardt,’ Amy shared how Isla spotted a familiar boy at the pool party. Amy painted the scene. Isla and another little boy, whom she had played with before at those parties, jumped side-by-side, diving off the pool edge together like a built-in duo. “They were smitten with each other the first time they met, and this time they were like extra stuck to each other. Not in a super obvious way, but they were following each other around—equally. Not like he’s chasing her—she was wanting to be close to him too. Just playing in the pool.” Amy said, capturing the tender simplicity of a first crush. “And then at one point, I see that they’re jumping off the pool edge together over and over and over again, like a little team. Then they get out and he goes, ‘Hey, let’s hold hands and jump.’ And she looks at him and goes, ‘No thanks.” And then they jump together anyway.”
Later, after Amy mentioned the moment to Ila, the pride turned to tears. As Amy FaceTimed Dale Jr. and teased her daughter, Isla wasn’t having any of it. “That’s when the meltdown hit: ‘No, I don’t!’ Isla hid under a blanket, emotional and frustrated. And as Amy tried to comfort her and tell her that it was completely normal, I couldn’t shake the feeling of and yelled out, ‘It’s NOT OK!’”
Moments like these have become the biggest part of Dale’s life ever since he retired back in 2017. Once, talking about a father-daughter dance, Dale went the extra mile, took his daughter to Pie in the Sky Pizza, a favorite spot he frequented early on in his life, before heading off to her school. That’s when the father-daughter duo shared an adorable dance, as Dale revealed. “The slow dances are when the dads get out there when they play a slow song. I held her for one, she stood on my feet for a couple of verses.”
And Amy wasn’t holding back either. She wanted it to be an incredible moment for Isla, going all out for the ‘Princess’ theme. “She looked so pretty. That’s one of my favorite things about being a girl mom, is getting to dress them up. Especially dressing them up for real events. It’s fun to make her feel special.”
As the Earnhardts cherish this moment, let’s take a look at another memory they relish.
Amy Earnhardt recalls the first time she blurted out, I love you, to Dale Jr.
Long before they were husband and wife, Dale Junior and Amy Reinmann’s story started in a way that almost reads like a scene from a movie. The two met in 2009, when Junior hired Amy, an interior designer, to work on his home in Mooresville, North Carolina. What began as a professional project soon grew into something more personal. As the house took shape, so did the bond, one built not on racing or fame but on quiet moments and shared laughter.
Fast forward a few years into their relationship, and the two found themselves navigating the awkward yet sweet milestone that every couple eventually reaches: saying I love you for the first time. On a recent episode of Bless Your Hardt, Junior and Amy reminisced about the moment with their usual candid charm.
“I think I said it first,” Amy recalls casually, only to be met with Junior’s immediate, playful rebuttal, “B——- I’m sure I did.” The couple laughed as they tried to piece together the memory, admitting that while the details are fuzzy, the emotion was real. Amy admitted that it “ just flew out of (her) mouth,” not exactly planned, not rehearsed, just honest. Junior chimed in with a very vivid analogy, saying, “She was like an uncorked bottle of champagne that had been shaken up, and she was—it just escaped out. She was holding it in for all this time and finally, like, could not stop it from flying out of her mouth.” That moment, he said, had clearly been building for a while.
While Amy worried in the back of her mind, “Oh no, what did I just do?”, Junior assured her that he had already been feeling the same. He admitted he had been hesitant to say it first in case it scared her off. He said, “I was probably sitting there going, ‘Man, I really love this girl.’ I want to tell her I love her, but I don’t want to not get that.” And the rest is history. It’s a story that feels refreshingly real: two people from very different worlds in love catch them off guard. And then, in that spontaneous, bubbly moment, the future Mr. and Mrs. Earnhardt found something genuine.
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