'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'

'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)

“No it's not. It's a big hot!” At 2 years old. After being warned that the car seat was a little hot.

'Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.'

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.