Update anyone?

Hey there! Sorry for the delay in pictures, we've been very busy enjoying the end of fall and the beginning of winter! Everyone is doing great, Ben is pretty busy at work and also singing in the Christmas concert this week at church, it'll be nice when it's over so that Vanessa and I can actually see him! Vanessa is doing great, last week we moved her into her big girl room with her big girl bed! She's doing great in the bed, sleeps 12 hours at night and has not fallen out yet! She stays in the bed until 7am and then comes charging out into the house to see us, it's awesome! She likes to talk quite a bit, the only problem is that Ben and I have no idea what she is saying, it's a mix between Japanese and some kind of Indian dialect, anyways it's entertaining! I'm doing great going into my 24th week, I told you in an earlier blog that taking pictures of my belly isn't the most natural thing for me to do, but maybe over the Christmas week some one will take a picture and then I'll post it! Enjoy the following shots of our last few weeks...

The weekend after Thanksgiving the whole Schuchard clan, and a few others, headed for the mountains for the annual Christmas tree cutting...

We set up a little base camp with a fire, hot chocolate, cinnamon rolls...then we head up to find the perfect tree...


'Little Marshmallow' didn't know what to think at first...


We found two awesome trees and strapped them on the Xterra...(along with a few others)


Getting everyone's trees loaded...


Ben's pretty proud of the fact that we put 4 trees on our car...


Then we went back to Brent and Sarah's house for a relaxing evening, Ben read some books to Vanessa and Ceinwen...


Ok, going back a few more weeks, here we are finishing up the canning season with our apples...


Vanessa's job was to hand the apples to Ben...


She was quite the quality inspector as well...


Then we went outside to help Poppa rake the leaves, and play in them...


She liked them after a while...