Wordless Wednesday

 

Cassie's room

 Last week I went to Andrew and Heathers house on my day off to help her work on Cassie's nursery.  It was mostly done when she was born, however, because she came 5 weeks early there were some finishing touches and organization to be done.  Miss Cassie has been a little fussy, and when she went to the Dr last week, they were told she had colic.  Needless to say, Heather and Andrew have been busy, and just a little tired, so I came to help.

This is the shiplap Bob put up on one wall of the nursery.

This is the crib that Andrew designed and that Bob and Andrew built.  They ordered a mattress for it, but when it came, it was longer than it was supposed to be and doesn't fit.  Now they are waiting for the slip to return it and the new one to come.  Cassie isn't sleeping in it yet anyway.  She's sleeping in Andrew and Heather's room, in the cradle that Bob made for our kids.

Heather loves things with sentimental value and this is one of them.  This old scale was the one my mom had for me and my siblings - many years ago.  It still works!

Here's one side of the room.  The rocker used to be Bob's moms, so it's another piece with sentimental value.

Here's the other side of the room.  They have some cute pics to put up on the wall, and then everything is ready when Cassie gets a little older and can sleep here.

Here's Cassie!  Looks are deceiving though.  She didn't stay peaceful like this for too long.
I enjoyed snuggling her a little while I was there too.

Brrrr!

 We have been blessed with an unusual winter so far.  Not much snow, no big storms, not too cold!

However - that has changed! Thursday it started snowing and has continued with just a few breaks.  It's also so cold!  Our high temp in the last few days has been 17, low temp on Sat night is expected to be 6 degrees and wind chill has been below 0.

Here's a few pics of what things are looking like in West Michigan.   
These were taken coming home from work on Thursday.  (back roads with no other cars around)

This was at work on Friday.  There is a road out there!

There was a short break in the snowfall when I came home from work on Friday.  I'm standing on my road.

This is a little further down my road.

A tree in our backyard on Saturday. 

This is our side yard on Saturday.  What looks like bushes on the mid left of this photo are actually tall arborvitaes which got so loaded with snow that they are laying down.  That's the top of them on the left side of the photo.

There's a lot of this going on!  When we were out Saturday we say several cars in the ditch and had one spin around right behind us and head toward the ditch as well.  We were glad to be safely home!

One more shot from our yard.  This is the drive to Bob's wood shop on Saturday.
I'm typing this on Saturday night.  We're supposed to get another 2-4 inches tonight, then Lake Effect snow all next week with the cold temps continuing. 
I'll be glad for it to be done, but there is something you hear people around here say frequently when talking about winter.  "You can't complain.  This is winter in Michigan after all!"