HOLY SHIT! I SAID YES!

OMG!!!!  I'm ENGAGED!!!

Friday night was a pretty big night for Bart and I.  It started out with Happy Hour after work - we met up with a group of work friends and had so much fun laughing and enjoying drinks after a long week!

Jenn came back for a Happy Hour as well!  It was sooooo good to see her!  Jenn and I sat next to each other at work for about a year and became close friends instantly!  Jenn made me laugh every single day and we always dressed to impress each other - god I miss those days!!!

 

After we left Happy Hour around 9pm we headed to the city.  We were both starving, Bart wanted to stop at High Dive, one of our new favorite bars in the new hood.  In true Monica bratty fashion, I did not want to go to another bar and made this known!  My sweet Bart would normal give in to my consistent whining and go home but not tonight - tonight he said we were staying out for one more.  Little did I know, he's been carrying around a beautiful diamond ring for about 2 days and it was burning a hole in his pocket!

 

We sit down at a booth and I decide the couple at the booth next to us needs to be our friends - I started asking them how long they've been dating and took their picture and consistently bugged them for about a half hour.  (this part of the story will become extremely ironic the next night when we run into them at another bar... FATE). 

 

Bart notices High Dive has a photo booth.  My friends/family know that I'm consistently snapping photos and LOVE documenting life through photos - I love a good photo booth.  We instantly map out our plan... 1st picture is smile, 2nd picture is goofy, 3rd picture kissing picture (I know, gross!), 4th picture is sweet.  I sit on Bart's lap in the photo booth and have our photo shoot.  We check out the pics and they're pretty great.  However, Bart wants to take it again.  This made no sense to me at the time but apparently the ring was in his pocket and when I sat on his lap, there was no way for him to get it out.

 

The second photo shoot, I stick to the same plan.  As I'm cheesing for the camera, Bart has his pointer finger in front of me with the ring on it - did I notice?  NOPE!  I mean this is a serious photo shoot that will document a fun night.  Right before the 4th picture, Bart says "WILL YOU MARRY ME?"  I look at him and go "really?  are you serious?  are you sure?"  I didn't see the ring and I did not realize this was the big moment!  After about 30 seconds I notice the ring and he asks again.. YES!  OMG!  Here is the pic that documented my pure confusion of what was going on...



 

 

We go back to the table and tell our new friends what just happened.  The sweet girl, Erin, snapped these pics!  (PS.  I'm never wearing that pink Gap Boyfriend shirt again - it photographs terribly!)

 

 Thank god that I painted my nails a couple days earlier!!

 

 

 

Our waitress and everyone at the bar quickly notices what is going on and the shots start coming from random strangers.  2 things I learned about getting engaged in a bar... #1 EAT SOMETHING... I must remember this for the wedding day and #2 DON'T DRINK EVERY SHOT THAT PEOPLE BUY FOR YOU.  I spent the entire night and next day hugging the porcelain God... apparently engagements are hard on my liver!!

 

I'm so happy and I was sooooooooo surprised!  We had been talking about it and Bart was great at asking ring questions (thank god because it is AMAZING!!!  I couldn't have picked it out better myself - and I am one picky girl when it comes to jewelry!) but I had no clue it was coming so quickly!  We are hoping to get the venue I want (OK maybe I'm hoping) for November 2nd, 2013.  Cross your fingers... don't worry I will blog ALL ABOUT IT!!!