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Engaged and re-signed, Chris Brown focuses on finding full-time role with Capitals

The Texas suburb of Flower Mound earned its name from an actual hill of bluebonnets, pansies and foxgloves, 650 feet above sea level and adjacent to the local grocery store, and when the sun sets behind the blooms, you can see the Dallas skyline glowing in the distance. It was here, six weeks ago in early June, that Chris Brown brought his girlfriend, arranged for a photographer to shoot pictures in secret, pulled out the special blanket he had made and asked her to marry him.

“I had to do something,” he said.