WE ARE ENGAGED!

So the Friday evening that we arrived in Pittsburgh to see Nicole and Mike, we all decided to go to the Andy Warhol Museum because I had been talking it up so much and telling Jim how much I like that museum and how I wanted to go in their vintage 1960 photo booth. We ended up getting there at 8:30 pm (they closed at 10pm) and looking around at their Darth Vader helmet installation (which was really cool).

So it gets to be about 9:45-15 minutes till the museum closes and we still hadn't gone to the photo booth. Jim was asking "do you wanna go now? Do you wanna go now????" So we headed down to the booth. Jim and I hopped in first and started taking pictures. Right after the second photo, Jim says "look over here" and I look down at his hand and he is holding the MOST beautiful ring I have ever seen! Then he said "will you marry me Kate????" and I said "Really?" and I screamed really really loud and then said "YES!". I was screaming so loud that all 7 floors of the museum heard me and wondered what was going on. The staff came running and Nicole and Mike told them what happened. I was shaking and crying and Jim said that he called my dad and asked for permission to marry me (my dad said, "good luck, it is her decision.") and I couldn't believe that Jim called him because my dad has always intimidated my boyfriends in the past. We took another strip of photos that was more posed once I calmed down, and the whole way out of the museum people were congratulating us. What a perfect story that we have about the day we got engaged!

I am so in love!