unseasonably warm weather

with the unseasonably warm weather it is hard to imagine that Christmas in only one and a half months away... WHAT!, you may be thinking...is she crazy or what? It's not even Thanksgiving yet. Well, let me just say, I LOVE CHRISTMAS.


That really has nothing to do with this except for the fact that it truly is unseasonably warm here. Because of the warmth we have to take every chance and bask in the warm sun.
from the mouths of babes...N...'before I get out of the car I should thank God that it is so warm *bows head* 'thank you God that it is so warm, AMEN!' jumps out of van and is ready for action.
I had a great time with A, M, N, and C walking on a trail at one of the parks here in town. It is nice because I can let Jack off of his leash instead of trying to make him 'heel' beside me.
N is learning how to ride his bike without training wheels and since his dad wasn't there to do it...N claimed that I was the expert at it, not his mom, not his grandma, only Aunt Sarah. It was fun, but all that bending over, well we shall see if my back is sore tomorrow.

And C, well, he had a bike but didn't want to ride in it. all the same, we had a great time and all the exercise was great. C always says...'Say-raw..up please.' how can I resist such a cute little face...I CAN'T!

fun, fun, fun...we must do it again sometime...unseasonably warm weather permitting

vote yes for nonna's

so... I have lived in Branson nearly all my life and eric, well he has lived here alot shorter time comparatively, but that is NO EXCUSE!

Neither one of us has EVER really been to Springfield. Last night we went to the REAL Springfield for the first time EVER! We went with some friends from church, N and his girlfriend, L.

Every first friday of each month Downtown Springfield has what is called ARTWALK. New artists...or OLD artists with new exhibits hang up, open up, and speak up about their form of art...whether it is canvas, guitar, camara, or video- there were all different ARTISTS last night in the downtown square of Springfield.

We started the evening with a little ITALIAN. It's a local place called nonna's. YUMMY!! (nonna is italian for grandma). I know that when you hear what I ate you are going to be JEALOUS. Tortellini with red bell pepper sauce. It was DELICIOUS!

my vote is that we make nonna's a regular eating place...say, the first Friday of every month?!

And no evening is complete without a little coffee to get you through the rest of the night. We stopped at a rustic coffee shop called 'the coffee ethic'. Eric had his first taste of french press coffee. He may become a conoisseur of FINE coffee yet...

but in his words...'that cream soda is a whole lot better.'

We had a GREAT time and definitely plan on going back to the REAL Springfield again sometime very soon.

tis' the season to carve pumpkins

This pumpkin carving season was spent at M and R's house. They had bought a huge 106 lb pumpkin at the pumpkin patch and they wanted R to work his magic on it.

The long hard process began. One of the hardest parts was getting upstairs from the garage.

The other hard part was finding a knife sharp enough and big enough to cut the top off...

But they finally did it.





While N and J...

cut out the insides.





Next, the master artist began his final task...cutting out, shaving off, trimming up the pumpkin man...



He created a self portait.

The FINAL PRODUCT!

Everyone else had lots of fun too. N made his own pumpkin man... He did everything all by himself.

The proud creator showing off his handiwork.

And C... well, he got in on the activity too...

... he considered helping, but...

after finding the candy... he was conviced otherwise.

guesstures

As you can see by these pictures...the Pallozzis are pretty good Guessture players.

Can you guess what any of these are?

I hope you can because I can't remember what they are to be able to tell you. (i know two of them actually but can't remember the other)

Cheer Off

Sadly, when we got to GA we found out that J's game was cancelled. Crazy, right? Well we were really sad since we went down there to see her cheer.

We decided to make the most of it so J let me wear her practice cheerleading uniform and she wore her other uniform and we had a cheer off.

Since we obviously don't know the same cheers she would do one then I would do one.

It was a lot of fun and Eric and his mom had a good time watching us 'compete'.

boom boom didum dadum wotum choo

Here are a few pictures of our trip to the GA Aquarium.

Stay tuned to see pictures from Guesstures and our 'cheer off'!

what's that smell

These are the ingredients to my latest concoction...can anyone guess what I would be using this for.

Let me give you a few hints:

>It wasn't our supper
>It supposedly works as an odor eliminator
>It only partially works
>It takes the place of the supposed antidote, tomato juice


If you haven't guessed by now, I will tell you just what it is for...
Our lovely dog, Jack, who has a tendency to get everything that a dog could get, from parvo to fleas... got sprayed by a skunk two nights ago.
We have given him several baths and now he only smells sort of like skunk.
Thankfully he is an outside dog so the breeze can sweep all the nasty smell away...eventually!