Love Bug

Oh, the horror that little kids, all in innocence, can create! I had a super busy weekend, but I'll share one funny/devastating/interesting story with you all.

Saturday was a fish boil sponsored by the fire department that Brad is on (he's the assistant cheif, by the way). So, mom, me, Kayla and Heather went right at 4:00pm when serving started because we were going to Justin's tractor pull later on. So, we went through the line, got our food, and as soon as we sat down, Kayla was asking where Brad was and when she could see him. She just adores him.

So, we saw him over by the fire pit, all in his uniform and stuff, working. So Kayla waited until he was done doing what he was doing and then she ran over to talk to him (because I was eating, no less, and I didn't give up my food to go talk to him.) Anyway, I went over about 5 minutes later to rescue him from her endless banter.

I don't know how it came about, or what was said before, but all of the sudden, in the middle of his friends/fellow fire-fighters, Kayla says,

....Yeah, because Krista loves you.

Oh. My. Goodness. I about crapped my pants because 1) I haven't said I loved him to him yet, 2) We were in the middle of tons of people, 3) Guys generally freak out if someone says the word Love.

So, I just kept going hoping that he wouldn't say anything. And I thought it would just blow over. So we said good-bye and he said he'd call me the next day. So we left to go to our tractor pull.

But at the tractor pull, Justin broke down so he only pulled once, and we left after his class was done, and got home at 9:30. I had a phone call from Brad, just checking to see how Justin was doing, and he said to call him back and let him know. So I did and he said that I could come over and watch fireworks at the park because they started at 10:00pm, so I left to go there.

After all was done, he and I were going to go be alone for a while and as we were driving away in his truck he asked if he could ask me something, so I said sure.

"What have you been telling Kayla?" He asks! So I told him that I've never said that out loud, so she didn't hear it from me and that if I was going to say that to anyone, I would tell him first. I said I hoped that he wasn't freaked out, and he just said that that doesn't freak him out, he was just wondering if he needed to ask Jason to be a groomsman for real. (Because for the past week he's been trying to get his good friends Jason & Tammy to think that we're getting married in Vegas in February). I took his response as a good sign for when I do tell him that.

Kids. Gotta love them.