What have I been up to?

Well Elise is growing at least tall (if not big) and strong and Ryan has passed with flying colors all of his CPA exams. But what have I been doing when I'm not changing diapers or begging Elise to eat?
Well, I like to
                facebook (my latest time consumer is bejeweled blitz, and I'm not very good at it),
                exercise (ok I don't like doing it but at least my ward friends and I can do it together),
                research (I like researching family stuff, like what milestones Elise will be hitting soon and what other families are up to that I want to do to, and how to be a better mom and wife),
                read (I'm loving audio books right now, they are hard for Elise to ruin),
                NETFLIX (nuff said),
                and I'm still uber crafty although I find it hard to scrapbook anymore cuz Elise is way too interested in what I'm doing to leave me alone long enough. I've sewn a few things like a new carseat cover for Elise. I'm soo proud of it. I didn't have a pattern to use so I made it up as I went a long and it still looks pretty descent.
My latest project is this...

 It's an advent calendar that teaches about Christ through a time line of what he's done. I got the idea from a lady teaching a class called "Teaching your Kids the Gospel." So, each day we take out a card and read the backs. It took quite a while to find all the pictures and find all the paragraphs to put on the backs. Mostly they are from lds.org 's gospel art kit. But some of the pictures I wanted didn't have a a summary so I wrote my own summaries of the scriptures that related to the picture.

This is the Premortal Christ card and on the back it talks about how Jesus offered to come to this workd and pay for our sins.



This is the back to a picture of Jesus holding a lamb.

I made a set for my sister too and she showed her friends and they wanted them too. So I thought I would offer what I have to anyone who wanted to make their own. I have a pdf file of the backs that I printed on white cardstock. Then I printed the pictures at a photo center and glued them on the front. Then I pouch laminated them (that was long story and I still owe Heather a personal apology) and cut them out. The cards end up being 4.5" x 6.5". Trish told me I should market them but to be honest nothing about this is my own. I got the pictures online, I got the summaries from lds.org and the scriptures and the idea came from someone in my stake.