It only took me a year and a half to update this blog!

2 months til baby

What a difference 3 months makes. The top photo was taken in August at 4 months pregnant and the lower photo just a few days ago at 7 months.

Homemade Chalkboard

We painted a huge 4x8 foot plywood board that we had laying around our garage with chalkboard paint the other day. It was a fun project and we love having a huge chalkboard! It is totally messy but Mannix loves to draw. Pictured above is a self portrait with the letter A on the side.

Fernandez Halloween Carnival 2009

We made our own Halloween carnival this year since I was too paranoid about H1N1 while I'm pregnant to go to our ward party. It turned out so fun though! The three of us worked on getting the party ready all day long. We were all completely exhaused by the end of the day! We made all of our games from scratch including a bean bag toss, ring toss, duck pond, fishing pond, and skeeball. We had corndogs and fries for dinner and made fall shaped sugar cookies to decorate for dessert. It was about as authentic a carnival as you could get at home! It was probably more up to Mannix's speed than the ward party too since he didn't have to compete with the big kids.

Bean Bag Toss

Decorating cookies

We did go trick-or-treating this year though despite my pregnancy induced neurosis over H1N1. I recycled the costume I made last Halloween since it still fit and Manni is totally into Woody the cowboy from ToyStory. But we forgot to take a picture so I am including the photos from last Halloween to showcase my costume making skills! The great news is that I got the H1N1 vaccine so I'm a normal person again, except I'm still pregnant. . . What will I choose next to obsess over?