Oh Boy, oh boy, Oh Boy!

We ate a wonderful "utsler rendition of a Caprese Salad" today! Tomato, celery, onion, cottage cheese, salt, pepper, and.....our own beautiful basil! It was soooo good. We kept the basil in the kitchen window and it is huge.
All of the plants are doing very well and we just planted some blueberries, strawberries, rhubarb, bee balm, pumpkins, squash, pineapple sage, and pineapple mint. Put alot in the 2 tiered planter that Kyle built.
Sat in the hot tub both today and yesterday.
hmmmm....Alaska summers can be gorgeous!

Facebook

I am now on Facebook, much to my girls' disgust! I haven't even mentioned it to Ryan yet! Ha! Love seeing friends and family on it! Love love love to communicate!

Happy Birthday Daddy & Auntie Carole!

Hope you 2 wonderful people had a great day! So happy you are part of my life! Love ya both!

Alaska Botanical Garden

Sunset Last Night!


What is this enchanting piece of fluff?

Forget-me-nots!

More Faery Fluff!

Botanical Buddies! Fun morning in the garden!

Karen said they were peonies....and she was right!

Michigan is Wonderful!

Trinity Episcopal Church on Mackinac Island. Where Mike and I were married almost 24 years ago!


Momma and I on the ferry to the island.



Creek off of West Parkway.


Lovely Lilacs were everywhere and I inhaled them every chance I got!


Chip, chip, chipper! Mom feeds 2 of these cuties!
Had a great time and that time went by sooo fast!

Happy to Meet You!

Went to a memorial in Wenatchee, WA for Mike's dad. There I met his 4 step siblings and some of their families. Wonderful to finally put a whole lot of faces with a whole lot of names!

Kathy, Mike, Jim, Carol, and Debbie

Kathy, Karl and Carol, Jim and Anita, Debbie, Mike and Me!

Wenatchee was a great little city and is the Apple Capital! Whoo-hoo!

Colour

A lot is going on over at shimelle's!

This is where Mike and I experienced some color over the weekend...Croc shop in Seattle airport!

MY FAVORITE COLOR IS MAGENTA! (rose, raspberry,dark pink)

Exercise your BRAIN!

Cute little quiz from Sara!

Rules: IT'S HARDER THAN IT LOOKS! USE THE 1ST LETTER OF YOUR NAME TO ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. THEY HAVE TO BE REAL PLACES, NAMES, THINGS.NOTHING MADE UP!

Have Fun!!

1. What is your name? Cheri
2. A 4 Letter Word care
3. A Boys Name: Charles
4. A Girls name: Carole
5. An Occupation: chimney sweep
6. A Color: cerulean
7. Something you wear: cap
8 A Beverage: cherry coke
9. A Food: chocolate cake
1 0. Something found in the bathroom canister for cotton balls
11. A place Cheboygan duh?!?!
12. A Reason for being late: clock stopped
13. Something you shout Catch !

Could you do it? "C" was actually pretty easy!