They Built An Airplane.

Mike was out of town last week ... when he came home he surprised Griffin with an airplane kit they could put together after dinner.


There were many pieces to put together ...


As they were putting the kit together I looked over and noticed Griffin had a milk-stache. He was so excited to put the airplane together that he forgot to wipe his mouth before starting. This is one of my favorite pictures, ever!


Does he look like a happy boy? Daddy is home AND he has a new airplane.

All is right in his world.

Boys & Their Bikes.

As you may know we live waaaaay out in the country. We have no paved roads in our community, they are gravel and even our drive-way is gravel. That makes it hard for bike riding.

We've tried giving Griffin a little bike riding time on our road, however he will pedal twice and hit a rock. It makes for alot of frustration and not a real fun time.

So, we decided to pack up the bicycle and meet friends at our local park. The boys can ride their bicycles on the basketball courts.


Patrick, Griffin and Matthew pedaling away ... having a great time!


Patrick, Darius and Griffin taking a little break from bike riding.


I just love this picture of Griffin. There's just something about he and his shadow with the hill in the background. The lone biker. Gosh I love this boy!

Happy Day ...

Fassolakia ~ Green Beans & Tomatos

Saturday night on the menu was an oven baked pork tenderloin and sweet potatos. I knew I was going to make some sort of green beans but really wasn't sure how I wanted to cook them.


I walked out to our little garden to see what was ready and there were three tomatos and a green bell pepper ready to pick ...


mmmmmmm ... I wonder ... what can I make with green beans, tomatos and green beans?

I decided to sign online and google a recipe using those ingredients and I came upon a recipe called Fassolakia. It's a greek green bean casserole with tomatos.

So I made it ...


And it was delicious! It was the perfect addition to the pork tenderloin and sweet potatos.

I cut the recipe in half because I only had one bag of frozen green beans ... oh how I wish I had had enough to make the full recipe.

Here's the recipe from about.com if you are interested ...

Fassolakia ~ Green Bean Casserole With Tomato

Ingredients:

- 2 pounds fresh or frozen green beans
- 2 cups of tomatos, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1 green pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 small bunch of parsley (I didn't use this)
- 2-3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup of water
- salt
- fresh ground pepper

Preparation:

Wash the beans, cut off the tips and remove the stringy piece of fiber along the seam. Rinse he beans.

In a soup pot, saute the onions in a little bit of olive oil until they turn translucent. Stire in the garlic and saute a few minutes more. Add all the remaining ingredients and the water. Stir well, reduce heat and simmer covered for 45 to 50 minutes or until the beans are tender. Add more water if needed during cooking.

They are wonderfully delicious.

Let me know if you try them.

Missy Made It! On Facebook ...

I'm so excited ...

I have created a Facebook page for Missy Made It! on Facebook.

It's going to be a fun way to keep in contact with my friends and customers. They call it a "fan" page ... that just makes me giggle ... it's a friends page to me!

I will be announcing new items, discounts and freebies right there on my Missy Made It! Facebook page.

If you are interested in joining all you have to do is click on the little link on the right side of my blog. It's right underneath my profile.

I would love it if you would join.

So ... about my blog colors ... I just wasn't feeling the purple. I'm not a purply kind of girl. I know so many of you love purple ... but it just wasn't me. I like the louder, brighter colors. Do you think the colors I've chosen this time around are more "me"?

I'll be back on Monday ...

Little Swimmer ...

We had a great time a the pool yesterday.

The weather was perfect ... overcast and a little cooler than it's been.

Griffin had a good time playing with some friends and I had a nice time talking to some other mommies.


He is such a natural in the water. He loves to swim.

His favorite thing these days is when I throw things under the water for him and he goes to retrieve them.

My baby is growing up. Really, no longer a baby. He's a boy. A full of life, sweet, kind, funny, active boy.

I'm so lucky.

Hey There. Its Me. Missy.

I've been a pretty inconsistant blogger lately. I'm going to do better ... I promise.

This week we've had some fun with friends.

Monday we met our neighbors/good friends Melinda and Grayson at Kangaroo Jac's. The boys had such a good time bouncing around and playing the games. I didn't take one picture. I was too busy catching up with Melinda and just enjoying our time together.

Tuesday we met our friends Kristen, Patrick and Matthew at the Children's Museum. When the boys get there, they have their own ideas of what they want to do, so we didn't "see" them very much. But it was so nice to be there together.


Here we have Griffin, Matthew and Patrick as we are leaving. Griffin was so tired. He fell asleep on the way home and took a 3 hour nap. Of course that meant he didn't go to sleep until 10:00 pm that night.

Wednesday we stayed home. Griffin wanted to play Playdoh and tractors as soon as he woke up. From there I gave him two huge bowls of water and he played with his boats. A bit of outside play ... watching some favorite shows ... we had a nice relaxing day at home.

Today we are going swimming ... that should be fun as usual. We will pack a lunch and enjoying the sunshine for a few hours today.

The summer is quickly closing in on us. Griffin starts back to school on September 8th so we are making the most of our days with some fun activities.

Enjoy your Thursday!

I dunno ....

Do you like the purple?

Yes?
No?

Weekly Scrappin Contest Blog ...

This is for all my scrapbooking friends ...

I've just discovered a new blog called Weekly Scrappin Contest Blog.

Each week she will be giving away something scrapbooking related.

This week it's Team Stickers ... they are really cute and who doesn't have some sort of sports related pictures to scrap?

Show your support and visit Candi's brand new Weekly Scrappin Contest Blog today!

Frienship Award.

I am so honored to receive this wonderful award from my friend Wendy. I met Wendy online several years ago and our friendship has flourished and grown through our blogs.




So I pass this award onto the following friends ...

Bonnie
Cecile
Andi
Sue
Jen

Here are the rules for this award:

- To pick up the Circle of Friends Award cut and paste the award logo & use it on your own blog


- Nominate 5 other bloggers you feel have become part of your circle of friends. To make it a little easier, I chose not to re-choose the person that sent it to me, nor any of the people she listed in her circle of friends.

- Link to your nominees within your blog post.

- Include these instructions on how to pick up the award in your blog post.

- Link back to the person who gave you the award in your blog post, to show your appreciation.

- Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award.

John Deere Mom Give-A-Way!

The amazing John Deere Mom has another wonderful give-a-way going on over at her blog ...

She has THREE back-packs to give-a-way.

Griffin would LOVE to go back-to-school with one of these on his back.


She has one black one ...


And two green ones.

Stop by John Deere Mom to register to win today!

Sparklers!

Since we were in Washington, DC for the Fourth of July we were unable to burn our traditional sparklers.

Griffin reminded us we still had them, so the other night we went outside to light them up!


Growing up we always lit sparklers on the Fourth of July ... a fun tradition we will carry on with Griffin.


Look how happy it makes him!

Happy Friday ...

Happy Birthday Mike!

Happy Birthday to my sweet husband Mike!


We love you very much!

Missy & Griffin

Fun At The Park.

We met up with a group of our friends at the park yesterday and had a great time.

Let's see ... there was Carol, Hannah, Zachary, Sarah,& Sam ... Keisha & Darius ... Kristen and Matthew.


As we Mommies were watching the boys play on this particular part of the playground we were reminiscing about how our boys could barely touch the swinging bars when we all first started coming to the park.


Griffin, Sam, Sarah and Zachary


And our whole gang (except Matthew I took the picture after he left) having a great time!

We are blessed to have such good friends ...

Water Colors.

Griffin received a very special surprise package in the mail from Grandma ...


When he saw the package he asked me if it was Daddy's birthday present (Mike's birthday is Thursday). I told him no, it was for him and it was from Grandma. He was sooooo happy!

Included in the package was a Cars movie (because Gma knew his was getting worn), crayons, markers and water color paints.


He loves to paint, so of course he wanted to paint right away.

I have to say ... I love water color paints. They are so much easier than those little paints that come in the cups ... easier to paint with ... and easier to clean up.


Our little artist at work. Check out his eyelashes ... what I wouldn't do for those myself.


This is his artistic creation ... a rainbow.

I asked him if he wanted to send it to Grandma and he said no, he wanted to hang it on his art wall.

So Grandma ... I am framing it for you here on my blog ... you can print it out and hang it in your office.

Thank you for such a wonderful, colorful gift.

Monday, Monday.

We had a nice weekend ... we pretty much stayed at home except for running a few errands in town.

It was a rainy, drizzly Sunday ... so I took a little time to create some new things and I've listed them in MY EBAY STORE.


This is one of my newest creations ... I have to say ... it's one of my newest favorites!

I have this item and several more listed in MY EBAY STORE and I'm offering FREE SHIPPING on them!



This is a little sampling of some of my newest items.

Happy Monday!

Look ... Free Shipping!

I'm in a creative mood and I just finished listing some cute, handmade paper piecings to MY EBAY STORE


This is one of the little cuties that I just listed.

Not only can you "Buy It Now" ... I am also offering FREE SHIPPING!

Won't you stop by MY EBAY STORE by clicking HERE to see this cute and these ...



I'm offering FREE SHIPPING on these items too!

Of course if you choose to purchase one of my FREE SHIPPING items AND other things your ENTIRE order will ship for free!!

Happy Scrapbooking ...