You've Been Gnomed!

On June 26th, Amy (a friend at work) and I bought a wobble-head gnome and put it on the lawn of our good friend and co-worker Thomas. We had a fun idea to randomly find silly lawn ornaments and periodically place them in his flower garden near his front door. That didn't really work out as planned and time continued to pass us by. We were dying to know whether or not Thomas even noticed this silly little gnome.



Last Thursday, Amy and her hubby had dinner at Thomas' house and assisted him in some home repairs. All evening Amy kept thinking about this gnome outside in the yard and what we had done. She had the giggles all evening and was doing her best to stay mum about it. At the end of the evening as her and Jesse headed out to leave she "noticed" it while they were exiting the house. She commented on his gnome and he began to tell her the story of how the gnome just appeared one day. It was all she could do to not just bust out laughing and make him suspicious.

Amy and I decided we should dress the gnome up for Halloween. So over our lunch break on Halloween we went to his house and dressed it up. I think we laughed the entire time we were there. We had a few photo ops with Mr Gnome and headed back to work.



This morning Thomas and I started talking about Halloween night and our activities. He told me the story about the gnome and that someone had dressed it up for Halloween. I kept it together long enough to finish the conversation then grabbed Amy and headed to the hall. We just couldn't keep it in any longer. We decided to let him in on our secret and I sent him an email that read "You've been Gnomed" and attached our pictures.

Thomas - Thank you for being such a good sport and we hope Mr Gnome brings you years of enjoyment. We had heaps of fun playing this prank on you. =)