Ok. So it all started when we came home from vacation and found this little guy in our yard.

We found out Kevin’s mom had got it and his family put it in our yard. There’s some history here to the lawn gnome. Kevin and gnomes go way back to high school, but I can’t officially tell the story because he was never caught. Let’s just say there were a lot of gnomes, one yard, and Police had to have original owners reclaim them. (And it happened more than once.) This is why the gnome was so funny. But what do you do with a creepy little man? You put it in someone else’s yard! So we left this little guy in our neighbors yard. Well Greg found it in the morning when he left for work and told Sariah they “Got gnomed!” If it is such a thing. She couldn’t figure out what he was talking about till she walked outside. They pretty much figured it was us. This little guy had a nice home in their yard for the past few months until last night when he decided disturb the peace in our backyard.

Well Sariah called asking where I was, and I reminded her I was still in Fernley making jam. She asked where Kevin was, and I told her he was on his way home but would probably be about 45 minutes. I thought she needed something since she had family in town. Maybe she ran out of sugar or something. But NO! I just gave her all the information she needed. So I got home, we went to bed. This morning we were in no hurry to get up because we had no baby. Well I let Nikki out about 10 to go to the bathroom and yelled for Kevin. I kinda scared him. This is what was in the backyard.

If you notice there is a tree (if you can call a trunk with a bush on top a tree) roots and all, tied to our back fence. The gnome is in the grass. I’m a little embarrassed because this shows what slackers we are and how long our grass is. To give you an idea the little guy is probably over a foot tall. We were laughing so hard. It at least motivated Kevin to cut the grass.

Apparently while they were tying the tree up my brother opened the back door to let our dog out. He happened to be at our house and totally caught them. Well they scared him first. All he saw was a guy in our backyard with a tree. Until they called his name and he realized who it was. Then he got in on it. TRAITOR!

So this little guy now sits in our front yard again. Don’t worry, one day he will take up residency across the street again.