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Last night with my christmas bonus at hand the Cohen Clan headed to the Milford Mall to start the task of christmas shopping. If I had to grade our first night out shopping I'd give us a D, for didn't get nothing done. Wasn't all our fault tho, we ran into person after person that we knew. first of all i've got to say that i got the best parking spot ever last night, one that would rival the spot that George got at the hospital on Seinfeld. The car was about 50 feet from the door of Dick's Sporting Goods on the top of the garage, so we went in thru Dick's and headed straight for the food court because Devin needed a change and it was 6pm and you can't shop on an empty stomach, so Dev got changed and i got some of my favorite mall food...the over sauced, over fried, so crispy you could break a tooth...mall chinese food. Heather and Alyssa opted for Johnny Rockets, so as we were finishing eating, Heidi came walking into the food court, then I looked to my right and saw my friend Anthony and his wife and kid (who attaches herself to Alyssa btw) so dinner went a little bit longer, then walking down the hall we ran into the people who live on the first floor (laurie and amanda). okay so all this is over now, oh until we run into Anthony and family again by the Disney store, and Alyssa and Kylie go shopping together in the store (we were attempting to get to Target) so after a few mins we're back on our mission to Target. This went not so well either...Alyssa seems to have lost her listening skills, altho i did get her to sit nicely in a carriage most of the time, and we drew a blank as to what to get anybody as we went up and down the aisles. so we picked out a few things (and i mean few)
and after about an hour or so Devin was due to eat again anyway, so we sat in Starbucks and fed him while Alyssa entertained an old man who was just enthralled with her and giving her a 'kids say' type interview. And Alyssa who is properly trained about the current state of the nation wasted no time in reciting her anti-Bush propaganda which I instilled in her (pat on my back). Did you know that George Bush hates kids and wants to make Christmas illegal? hehehe. so that's it for now, today we're going out without the kids to get the rest of the shopping done.

i'm getting pretty lazy here i know, well here's two pearl jam songs to keep you entertained until i write original material again

the first one is an acoustic kinda nice ditty called "Oceans"



the 2nd is maybe the greatest video ever the song is 'do the evolution' and it's about how we're destroying the world, the video is animated and shows our destruction past, present and future

i know i've been slacking off lately and not updating my blog but we've been awfully tired around here lately, almost forgot what it's like to have a newborn in the house, luckily for us Alyssa has been a very good big sister and helps out with what she can and isn't any more of an annoyance than she usually is altho she's usually pretty good, just when she's tired she can get kinda hyper and her listening skills go out the window. so i didn't get a picture of the tree yet but here's one i found from a few months ago when we took Alyssa to see The Simpsons movie

so yesterday we took the ride up to Meriden to get our tree for 2007, there's just something about cutting down your own tree that's so much better than pulling a fake one out of a box, i don't even like getting the pre-cut fresh ones, i like to do it myself. we also got a tree for my parents, they wanted a small one so alyssa took care of picking that one heres a few pics of her dragging and loading it i'll put up a pic of our tree decorated later