December 29, 2012 (Carrie to Brian)

It doesn't quite count as Charades if you're saying the words under your breath.

October 23, 2012 (Marcus)

Marcus:  Mom, I want a baby seal.

Carrie:  You want a baby seal?

Marcus: Mmhhmm.  Well, first I want a grown up seal, and then when he lays some eggs...do seals even lay eggs, Mom?

August 8, 2012 (Marcus)

Hey guys!  It goes youngest to mediumest to oldest.

July 13, 2012 (Brian)

Alyssa: I'm always afraid the bridge is going to collapse.

Brian: Mom is afraid of that, too.

Carrie: I'm afraid of that, because I have 4 kids in the back.

Brian: I know. You'd have to pick.

Carrie: Let's not have this conversation out loud.

Pause.

Brian: Are we having it silently now?

July 13, 2012 (Brian)

Ethan: I know how Dad is older than Mom!

Brian: I've always been older than Mom. She keeps trying to catch up to me, but I say, "Not to today!"

July 11, 2012 (Marcus)

(while playing a card game at the family reunion)

We have so much team! We have Grandma and Becca and me!

May, 2012 (Ethan)

We were all playing and wrestling, and Brian pretended to be dead.  Ethan noticed this and said, "Oh no! He's dead!  His heart stopped beeping!"