It's CHRISTMAS at the Khoslas!

As some of you might remember, we didn't even put our Christmas tree up last year so this year we thought we'd better get it up early! So we invited my parents over for dinner and then they stayed to help!

Mom & I

Here's mom cleaning up the dishes! Gotta love that!

The little green tree

The little pink trees

Paul bought all the decorations for the tree while he was in Chicago - he did such a great job! I love them all!

And it begins!

And closer

Something wasn't quite working with some of the lights - but Paul got it all fixed up. You'll notice my dad relaxing - this is usually Paul's role when we're putting up my parents' tree, so my dad thought he'd take his place since roles were reversed.

The final touches

Our Tree!

This is our Nativity scene...we bought it last year and I love it!

SNOW!

I was so excited for our first big snow storm of the season!

Here's a picture fromour window

And here's a picture of the guys shoveling the walk ways and plowing the driveway. Gotta love living in a condo!

The Healthy Treat Bowl

I was looking at Michelle's blog and noticed she's finally made a healthy treat bowl. Thought I'd take a picture of mine and encourage you all to start one. There's so many options for your bowl - you'll see in ours we have Thinsations of a few varieties, Emergen-Cs, almonds, raisins, Crispy Delights.

GLOW IN THE DARK SHILOH

This past Wednesday was Glow in the Dark Shiloh so our cadre went all out! We bought black t-shirts, black hats, some glow in the dark string, band-aids, a lot of glow braclets/necklaces, and a lot of glow in the dark paint. The end result was awesome and we had a lot of fun getting everything ready. Here's a few pictures of us on Wednesday. I meant to take a picture of the pack of our shirts - they had our last names across the back but oh well! We're planning on a glow in the dark bowling/putting edge night so we can bring out the outfits again so I'll get one then!

Grocery Shopping...made easy!

Alanna and Nat decided they wanted to go grocery shopping with me after Starbucks last weekend and I was more than happy to have the company! It was a lot of fun! Alanna pushed the cart (didn't have much option because she still had her cast on and left her crutches in the car) and Nat surveyed the aisles with me. It's a lot easier to shop with a couple assistants! We left with an overflowing grocery cart but the girls agreed it was all stuff we needed!

Starbuck with the cadre...

We were supposed to go to the Parade of Lights last Saturday night, but with all the crazy rain we decided to go to Starbucks and relax instead. While we were there we came up with our idea for Glow in the Dark Shiloh - you'll see the result pictures in the post above!

Annie & Bre
Oh and Ash and Andrea joined us!...well actually I heard they were heading there so actually we joined them:) Check out Andrea's new hair cut - fantastic!

Beth, Britt & Nat

Alanna & I

The lovely Bre

Tribute to the family...

Paul was in Chicago a couple weeks ago to see Peter, Missi, Anita and Jeremy. I've included a few pics from his trip. Wish I could have been there!

Paul & Jeremy
Peter & Missi

At Whirly Ball - don't totally understand it but it involves bumper-cars and balls...

Jeremy & Anita

Cadre Trick or Treat

My cadre decided that we should join make the cadre after Halloween a dress up one, so the girls came in their finest! We enjoyed some yummy junk food and then headed out to see if we could get some left over treats!


Nicole & I (This was the day after the bowl-a-thon so I went with the same Accounting Geek idea)
Nicole & Britt

Nat

Beth & Emma Lee

Tori, Alanna & Annie

Everyone at the Yeadon's

This was our eventful elevator ride...someone ended up pushing the call button by accident so we got out of there quick!

Starbucks

I was clearing off my blackberry pictures and came across about 50 I had forgot about. A few weeks back the Zincks, Paul and I were at Starbucks and the MacLaughlins showed up and joined us. I finally convinced Ty to come sit with me once I bribed him with playing with my blackberry. You can tell he's Sean's kid because it wasn't long before he actually know what to do with the camera and that's when his photography career began...I've only included a few - there were so many!


Ty and I
Justin...there were a disportionate amount of pictures of Justin on the camera - Ty's definitely a big fan!
April

Sean

Britt - or as Ty calls her Bourney

Paul

The Accounting Geeks Go Bowling...

Every year Deloitte is a part of a great fundraiser for the Kidney Foundation - the Bowl-a-thon. It was a couple weeks ago, so we arrived in style...as Accounting Geeks. We were the only team to arrive in costume but we had a really great time and raised some money for this great cause.
The pictures below are from my blackberry because we had all forgot our cameras that day - but you'll get the idea.


The team

Yes, that's Paul's shirt I'm wearing...I was frantically looking for a "geeky" shirt that morning, and his closet seemed to have more to offer - lol. Of course, it looks anything by geeky when he wears it:)

I MADE THE LIST!!!

So...only 1 day after my most recent post, I was logging on to check the regular blogs...I always start with the Yukes, because Marni has links to the other blogs I like to check in on...and I was SHOCKED to see MY NAME ON THE LIST!!! I've been trying to make it on Marni's blog list for a while but she wouldn't add me until I started blogging more frequently...I never expected 1 more blog would do the trick! I've taken a picture to remember the moment!

It's not great quality because Paul has the camera, so I had to use my blackberry but I'm the 2nd name on the list.

Now let's see if I can keep this up! lol