young&restless

there's something cute about the restlessness and curiosity of young children.
last weekend while having dinner with Tyler, his family, grandparents, and 4 young cousins i was asked a couple of the cutest questions...

Shelby[who i believe is 5]- "Hey Ashley..."
Me- "Yeah Shelby?"
Shelby'- "Uh... are you going to marry Tyyyyler!?" [in front of the whole family at the dinner table]
Me- "Well Shelby, if he behaves then yes, yes I will." [of course I turned and smiled at Tyler]
Mackenzie[who is 8]- "So you probably won't marry him then"
and our end of the table let out some laughs.

later on while everyone was off doing their own thing i was setting up a game of "Guess Who" for me and mackinzie and shelby came up and had yet another question for me...

Shelby- "Ashley, do you loooove Tyler?"
Me- "Of course I do."
Shelby- "Have you guys built a house yet?"
Me- "Haha no we haven't gotten that far yet."
Shelby- "Oh ok."

This isn't the first time she's asked me questions like this. My first visit back during winter I stayed at their house for my last week and I got asked many questions:
"Are you and Tyler married?"
"Are you gonna marry him??"
"Do you really love him?"
"Can you guys build your house next to ours?"
"Will you have kids?"

but what made me really smile was when they all three came into my room the night before I had to go back to iowa and said:

"Hey Ashley! We want you to marry Tyler. Then, then you can be our cousin-in-law! We like you a lot"
So I agreed with them that I would haha, and then said goodnights and gave hugs. And after they left Raeanne the youngest girl, maybe 3, came back in real quick and hugged me and said "I love you Ashley" it just put the biggest grin on my face.

They're just too cute!