Eric

Eric Hornibrook is his name. Yes, that is, indeed, his real name. I laughed too. I laughed REALLY hard, you know I did.
Anywho, Eric is one of my friends in the ward, and he asked me to go with him to a dinner night at our bishop's house.
This is us on the way there!

After a fabulous home cooked meal, we headed back to my apartment to play games. We chose 'Cranium'. It was Eric and myself, the yellow team, against Breezy and Sean (her date for the same dinner and our friend), the green team!

The game begins. Breezy and Sean got all the luck their first two turns, going on the fast track and landing on the first purple brain, all before Eric and I were able to move more than once- we got stuck on the slow track, and missed a few questions. After this rough start however, Eric and I put our game faces on and started to take the lead with a club cranium humdinger- I hummed "Brick House", and after a few repeats and some awesome dance moves he was able to guess the tune before our enemies did. It was a tight race the rest of the match, with the lead constantly shifting. It was IN"TENSE. Suddenly, at the third purple brain, the one before the big brain (you cranium players know what I'm talking about), Sean and Breezy pulled ahead! Like way ahead! How did that happen??? I don't like losing. I was determined not to lose. With some providential club craniums, Eric and I joined Breezy and Sean in the big brain. It was late, nearing curfew, team yellow's turn (my team). So we decided that the first team to get their question right would win, only the opposite team got to look at the next card in each box and decide which one to throw at us. Team green chose wrong. Way wrong. They went for the red, the datahead. Typically the hardest, especially the ones where you simply have to know the answer. This is, of course, is the card they gave us. The question: "What was the first National Park in the United States?" Breezy didn't finish the question before I jumped up and screamed "YELLOWSTONE!!!! Thank you Teddy Roosevelt and History 221 last semester!!! We win! WE WIN! I LO0VVVE WINNING!!!" Eric, I'm sure, thought I was insane. (He hasn't seen my family, he has no idea) After I finished jumping around, I sit back in my chair, and with a little too much oomph, leaned back in my chair, arms held high, and repeated "I love winnnnnnn...ahhhh!!!", suddenly my legs kicking furiously ABOVE my head, in the AIR! And then CRASH, BOOM, BANG. I'm sprawled on the floor, tangled with my chair, in hysterics. Laughing so hard. The ones where there's silence for about 30 seconds until you gasp for a breath and resume the silent laugh. Everyone is laughing. In shock that they really just saw something like that happen. Eric, the nice boy he is, tried to help me up, but Breezy, between guffaws, says, "just leave her. she's laughing. too hard. she can't. move. yet." This is true. And after a few more minutes of the best abs workout you'll never get out of sit-ups, crunches, or planks, I was able to stand, upright my chair, and sit back down. Sean and Eric left soon after. But not before we got on a short "moulin rouge" kick and sang the infamous "Elephant Love Song"....during which, Eric stood up and dramatically pranced around the apartment while singing "We can be heroes! Forever and ever!"....another set of laughter ensued. After this, Sean and Eric did in fact, get out of our apartment. WHAT A NIGHT!!! I know I already acted this scene out for those of in attendance at the Stolworthy din din Sunday, but I wanted to let everyone else have a good laugh. :)
And, because this post is titled "Eric", here is Eric playing the drums at our ward talent show the following night. He is SO COOL!...Sorry if you can't really hear what he's saying........