Family Quote Book

In church we had a lesson about journaling or recording your history. One question during the lesson was about how each of us record our history. Comments were: a typical journal, scrapbook, printing emails between missionaries and their family members and putting them into a binder, videos, photo albums, gratitude journal, etc. I started to think about my family as a whole and I would say our history is mostly photo albums. My mom hadn't updated them for quite a few years and so my younger brother didn't even have pictures in the album. When she did update them, we all said, "Nate now exists!"

But there is something else my family does that is small but I think counts as a piece of our history and journaling; we have a family quote book. Whenever someone says something that makes us laugh or is "quote book worthy," we write it in the book. Sometimes at family get-togethers someone will pull out the book and read from the pages and we'll laugh all over again. Not only has it been fun to keep these fun moments captured but it is interesting how just a few words can recall an entire memory.

Here are some favorite quotes (where you didn't have to be there to get it) from the Family Quote Book:

"Shark Attack!... A shark waits for no one." -Nate while dunking me in the ocean while snorkeling

"How do you spell 'triad'?" - Me

"Shouldn't a grownup know how to a spell?" - Kira (niece, 8-years-old at the time)

"That's bologna." - Nate

"Horse bush!" - Mom

"There's a rule. Nobody dies on this trip!" - Megan

"Umm, dad? Is there anything we can do to help? - Me

"Someone could swear for me!" - Dad

"Shit!" - Me

"Nate shops at Express for men!" - Amber

"I have never shopped there!" - Nate

"Yes you have." - Amber

"Once!" - Nate

"Aunt MaryAnne read books growing up... I played teatherball." - Mom

"Bryce, you don't like eggs? But they have great proteins for you." -Amy

"Not me! Eggs kill my brain." - Bryce

"Honey, I love you, but you have been traded." -Bree

"Amy, remind me to tell you about the dream I had about you. It was so sad." -Nate

"Oh no, did I die?!" -Me

"No, worse! I died!" -Nate

"Would you be a sir and pass the juice?" - Nate