Bringing Up Bates"I Love you to Piz-zas!"
- Katie, Gil, and Kelly arrive at the Clark home in Berlin, New Jersey, to celebrate Travis’ 19th birthday. They go out for ice cream at Sundaes because Travis knows that Katie loves ice cream.
- Gil takes the opportunity to boast about Travis. “He treats me…and the whole family with respect,” says Gil. “And listen, there’s a lot of people in our family that are not easy to get along with, and you even treat them nice. I’m going to give you an A+ on character.”
- Later, the extended Clark family comes over for dinner and cookie cake. Would Katie want to live in New Jersey if she marries Travis? “I’m happy to live anywhere,” she says “We’ll have to wait and see. But New Jersey would be fine. I like the people there. Person.”
- In Blackwood, New Jersey, the Clarks and Bates go ax throwing. Travis, who grew up playing sports, scores most of the points for his team, but Katie adds a few to bring their total up to 14. Travis’ parents, Mike and Carla, score 33. Gil and Kelly reach 20 points, and 11 of those are scored by Kelly.
- Travis and Katie and their parents go out to a nice restaurant. Katie and Travis sit down at a private table, where Travis has displayed a sign that reads, ‘I think you are SENSE-ational.’ He gives Katie five gifts that correspond with the five senses. The “sight” gift is a photo collage on canvas. The “taste” gift is a fresh-baked pizza. The “smell” gift is perfume.
- The “sound” gift is a framed paper with the words to a song called “Dreams Come Alive” that Travis wrote about Katie. He pulls out his guitar and plays it. “Cause you’re perfect and precious and my whole world, an angel in my eyes, my dream girl.”
- “I can’t believe you wrote me a song,” says Katie. “This is the sweetest thing in the whole world.”
- The final gift is a necklace. Katie starts to cry. “I wanted to ask you if you would be my girlfriend?” asks Travis. The parents are thrilled when she says yes.
- “This has been the best night of my life,” says Katie, who is proud to call Travis her official boyfriend. “It is so nice actually having a name on it.”
- “There’s something just really special watching your siblings find their person,” says older sister Michael, beaming.
- In Tennessee, Erin, Whitney, and Carlin and their husbands are trying to find a new space for the boutique. They have already outgrown the small warehouse on Zach and Whitney’s property and are considering opening a storefront in Rocky Top.