garden gnomes, i am a FAN!

my husband had a birthday very recently. being the sweet and wonderful wife that i am, we celebrated by going out to dinner on his birthday eve, having a family dinner on his actual birthday, and a date night on the day after. i figure, if you are going to celebrate why limit yourself to one day only. . .in fact if you can have a week-long celebration, i highly recommend going that route!

i am a big fan of presents. not so much receiving them (don't misunderstand me here, it's great to do so but that's not for this entry) but the actual shopping for them. the process of figuring out the perfect gift is something i really enjoy.

with it being football season and as i am part of a football-loving family, i decided to shop for football themed gifts. my husband's college team is UVA and his pro team is the REDSKINS.

so i found him a UVA fleece blanket for those cozy saturday game days. this seemed a safe bet as if thrown accross the room (we are talking about UVA here. . .) it has minimum potential for catastrophe.

with a little help (insert shout out here to LP/AP and TBatt) i also produced a UVA flag for our house. it remains in the bag as my husband refuses to fly it until they win so hopefully soon???

anyway, the best (BY FAR, i think) gift i found is a REDSKINS garden gnome! that's right. it's 18 inches of bearded gnome holding a staff in one hand and a football in the other. it's got the redsins cheif on it's pointy little hat and it just rocks! it is also wearing gold shoes and burgandy overalls. it currently resides upon our mantel in the company of hogskin (our redskins build-a-bear who is actually a monkey), all of our redskins and uva hats and various other peices of football memorabilia/collectables that will remain on the mantel until the end of football season.

so, now i need a name for our redskins garden gnome. . .any suggestions?!