Family Get Together

Cheryl was an EXTREME horse lover through and through. Probably since before she could even walk, she had a deep respect and love for horses! From barrel racing as a teen to boarding them as an adult, you could find her grooming her horses and hanging out in the barn or organizing her horse tack! Almost every inch of her house was covered in and decorated with something horse related! You could always find old westerns on her tv, chosen over any other program even though she had seen every one, 100 times. The smell of horse manure or cow pastures when driving past a farm was like driving past a field of flowers for her! 

Cheryl would often tell people;

  -"When God was handing out senses of direction, I was back in line a 2nd time for sense of humor!". 

Her favorite gift from me was when I was around 11 years old, and I had gotten her fake dog poop! She got my dad, my grandpa, a friend and her husband. She had so much fun but always ended up pleading with the person she was pranking, to not flush it or throw it away! She would be telling them "Stop! That's my poop! Give it back!". The confused looks she would get as she tried to explain as she was wiping away tears from cracking up so hard!

She had misplaced or lost it years ago. When I found an almost identical one and brought it to her in the hospital, she lit up and couldn't wait to try and get the nurses with it. 

She had convinced her friend that her and I were witches and ate children. When her friend looked at me like "Really?" I said " Yeah! It's true!" The look on her face suddenly became more scared and she started crying, saying "No! Not my friend!" I broke and was like "Ok. Ok. We were kidding!" But she was in such disbelief, she didn't even hear me, and my mom wouldn't miss a beat! She just kept the conversation like nothing. "Well you can't get too upset, not until you have tried it! Besides, they are kids nobody wants!" Her friend would have still been convinced if I didn't calm her down and get my mom to finally disappointingly admit "FINE! We don't really eat kids!"

Even during her last stay in the hospital, she had convinced nurses in the hospital that a gag gift that I had brought to her, of a 2nd place bikini contest trophy from 2017, she had really won herself back in 2017. She would then ask the nurse defensively "What? You don't think that I won 2nd place? You should have seen me back then!" Just to see the panicked the look on their face was priceless! 

Once on a trip to Bodega Bay, when I was a kid, while riding in the back of my grandpas truck, my brother and cousin caught fuzzy caterpillars and were showing them to my mom and I and she said let me see as my cousin put it in her hand, she pops it in her mouth and looks him dead in the eye as she chewed and swallowed it. Now looking back I can realize how over exaggerated it was as she PRETENDED to eat this fuzzy wuzzy, and not ACTUALLY EAT this fuzzy wuzzy! As we all started freaking out, she spit it back out into her hand, with an also over exaggerated THUMP! Fully in tact, inching its way along her hand, just as confused as we were as she started spitting out fuzzy worm germs in disgust, but cracking up laughing the whole time! 

She would convince friends that after being stranded at the north town winco, she had ridden home in a shopping cart. She said she had gained enough speed going downhill at the start to coast the rest of the way. She said how scared she was closing her eyes as she sped through intersections.