Wow it's been a while since I've posted! Life has been to say the least CrAzY!! 

We welcomed Jack Robert to our family April 29th and things haven't slowed down one bit since.

I have been working on getting my life/home/family more organized and have come across some great resources and I will be sharing that with you all soon! But for now enjoy this photo of our sweet little guy.

HaPpY BiRtHdAy!!

This week was Freddy's, JoLee's my brother's and my Grams birthdays!!Freddy turned 1!!

Here he is in the hat & jacket I made him... poor little guy was sick on his birthday.

Since their birthdays are next to each other this shared birthday cake was the first of many to come!!

JoLee turned 10!!!

She is such a big girl now and so much help to me, I can't believe he's 10 already.
Here she is right after her dedication when she was just a few months old... boy how time flies!! And here she is in her "Birthday Outfit" I make one for her each year... she helped me pick out the material and she said "mom adds the magic"... lol she so funny!!
But boy-oh-boy has her style changed!!

And some slippers for my gram, this is a great pattern and they work up fast. You can find the pattern here.

Thanks so much for reading!!

This is how we...

keep things separate with NO fighting.
Whenever we have to buy things in 3's (or 4's now) we have always bought in "colors" that way there's no fighting about who's-who's! It's always
orange= BJ
pink= JoLee
red= Max
and we have decided that
green=Fred-FredOrange, pink, red & green balls so there's no fighting!

Backpacks, so no one grabs the wrong one on busy mornings.


Colored towels saves on laundry, they know which one's theirs and they can use them 2 or 3 times before they need washed.

If we are going somewhere crowded I always make sure the have their "color" on in case they get separated.

Sometimes we have to substitute and use blue. I hope this tip was helpful, as always thanks for reading.

Happy Birthday WV!

Yesterday we celebrated West Virginia's 148th Birthday.
The kids had a blast checking out all the booths set up from local business and the free goodies they offered.

I had a booth set up and sold lots of my scrubbies.
The half cotton half scrubby ones were popular.
My friend Marilyn from L&M Farms was there too, she and Freddy had fun dancing to the live music. Sorry, I forgot to get a pic of that!!
But you can find her at the Clarksburg Farmers Market, she always had beautiful fresh produce and eggs from the prettiest chickens around, tell her Cody sent ya!!


I took my friend Marie with me too and everyone loved her cute little kitty toys!!

**Oh, and Max was interviewed for the paper. It was printed on the front page of the Exponent Telegram. The writer misspelled our last name (Cosber) but he was quoted as saying "I am here to see all the beautiful stuff and to celebrate WV's birthday" -so cute!!

Another Birthday Here

Today is BJ's (our first born) birthday and the vow of homemade gifts is a difficult task when the recipient is a 12 year old boy!! Girls are so easy when it comes to "homemade". However BJ did like his baby brothers afghan and mentioned that he would like one. So along with some birthday cash, what? money is "homemade" too, I am working on this afghan for him, made with his favorite colors.














I spent hours looking for just the right pattern and then, of course, modified it. So far I'm happy with it but I'm not even a quarter of the done with it... I showed it to him today and he liked it!! Sorry about the poor quality of the pic, no sun= crappy pics, and it's a dreary rainy day!!!

Time Flies By...

Max is getting the hang of this big brother thing and decided it was time Freddy learn something very important...

how to play the DSI!

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Freddy and I had fun last week making bagels with our friend Tracy and her sweet little girl, Maddy. I have been helping Tracy learn how to make homemade bread and she is doing great!!!

I have more pics of this fun time but blogger is being difficult. But here's a link to the bagel recipe I use.
http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/09/bronx-worthy-bagels/

Cabela's

"Are these animals real Mom?"

Last Saturday we drove Wheeling and spent the afternoon at Cabela's. The kids loves seeing the "animals".

SO BIG!!

Freddy is growing like crazy and now that he is learning to get good sleep he is even happier than usual.

HATS!!

JoLee's hat finally finished, it didn't take me long to make she was just last on the list. Sorry about the grumpy baby, he just wouldn't smile for us. As you can see he's still wearing his camo hat.

This was a happy accident. I was fallowing a pattern for a mans hat and halfway through it just didn't look manly so I made a few changes and added the flower- voila, a pretty hat for me!! I have been meaning to get around to making myself one but you know how it is... BTW, Brian hates the flower which I put it on an alligator clip so it can be removed.

This is my new favorite crochet hat pattern and it was free!! You can download it here. I have made 7 of these so far, 3 boys size, 1 teen size, and 3 mens size. I have one more to make, for my brother. The only thing I did to change to size was use a different size hook. They work up quickly and easily. They are also a lot of fun to make, if they weren't I would have gotten bored. Both Grandpas liked them so much they each requested one... should be in the mail today!!

Christmas

Homemade toys, Daddy made this beautiful wood rattle and Mommy made the Teddy.

Christmas morning... even though the camera says it's Christmas Eve. Can you tell the kids were tired of us taking their picture??

Freddy's first present... lights & sounds only Grammy can get away with!!

This Week

Freddy's Teddy!!
I am so proud of this crocheted Teddy and can't wait for Freddy to carry him around.

Dishcloths done!!! I had 12 dishcloths to make for some orders and they are finally done. Now I have to finish those 18 scrubbies...

Freddy loves to hang off our arm which as you can imagined makes our arms tired. So Daddy hung the Johnny Jumper yesterday and Freddy LOVED it!! He's too little to touch the floor so he just "hung out". Too cute!!

This is a cute child's apron I made for a customer out of a men's shirt my Dad gave me. I used the collar for the neck band. This is a great way to reuse an unused shirt. I made an adult one to match.

Toothless!!

All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth!! -Max

The Tooth Fairy is going broke this year with all the lost teeth in this house.

Busy, Busy, Busy!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at the Cosper home and we haven't even opened the Christmas boxes yet. For us with Christmas comes the sounds of the sewing machine and power tools and this year I have added the quiet task of crocheting. Crocheting is something I can do while spending countless hours rocking, nursing and cuddling baby Freddy. Grandma Hawk would be so proud!

Okay so I know I haven't been posting much but all 4 kids got sick landing Little Freddy in the hospital for 5 days. All is well now but as you can see we have been super busy making gifts for our friends and family as well as all the holiday orders we have to fill for our customers. We have always given homemade gifts but this year we be giving only homemade gifts to everyone on our list, with the exception for a few things for our kiddos.

Here's some things we've been busy working on this fall/winter, for more check out our web site, it's under construction but there are lots of pictures there.


Little Freddy's feet will stay warm... once these Buccaneer Booties fit him that is.


I really wanted to make this hat for Max for his birthday but the first one was too small the second was too big :( so I gave up. But they are super cute!!


I found the best Etsy shop with the BEST crochet patterns... these are for my niece, can't wait to make some for myself!! To all my crocheting friends check out her shop!




Here is one of the head wraps I made... one of the most difficult things I have crocheted!! I tore out more stitches than I put in... but I would not give up. The second one was much easier.


Brian has made some gorgeous cutting board made with local wood from a very interesting man in Weston, WV. Check out our web site here for more of these, they make great gifts and we still have some and are still taking Christmas orders.



I have been working on lots of pajamas here's the matching night gowns for JoLee & her baby.