ENGAGED!

Can you believe it friends!?!?!? Alan asked me to marry him!!! I was home this past weekend for R0bby and Christal's baby shower and on Friday night I was going to dinner with my family for my birthday. They said they wanted to go to Pepe's in Valpo which I thought was odd since there is one down the street from my house but I go with the flow :-) When I got out of the car Alan's family was pulling up...I was so confused and said, "um, there's the Bowmans..." My Mom said, "Surprise that's why we came here!" Ok...made more sense. And just a little past history, that is where Alan and I officially met, had our first kiss...lots of history :-) Anyway, I was reading my menu and happened to look up and there he was!!! He flew home to surprise me and said it was for my birthday. We ate dinner and afterwards Alan said he wanted to make a toast. He congratulated Robby on the baby, his sister on her new teaching job, then said he wanted to ask my Dad's permission to keep going (at this point I broke out in hives.) He recited the opening lyrics to Me and You by Kenny Chesney (I always say that is our song haha) and said super sweet things and how I'm his best friend and that is where our life started and the next thing I knew he was standing me up and dropping to a knee!! It was perfect and I am one lucky gal haha. Anyway, that's the big news for us! I need to say thanks to my Mom and Amy for keeping it secret and helping him with the plans! And also to all of our friends and family who made it SUCH a great weekend for us, we love you all!! Now we are going to start planning a wedding for next fall. Here are some pics from that night.

This does it no justice haha! It's really so pretty and sparkly!

Ok just wanted to share the good news :-) Hope you all have a super week!