Back Home again in Indiana.....
No, I'm not moving home or anything like that, but this weekend I will be making a pilgramage back to the motherland. It seems like these trips are becoming fewer and fewer as I get older and that seems like a shame. Heck I remember the first summer I spent up here in Detroit, where I went home every single weekend for three months straight. Ok, so that might have been a little excessive. Its also amazed me as I've gotten older the greater sense of appreciation I've obtained for my parents, sisters, and many other relatives. You begin to view these people much differently when you don't interact with them on a continual basis and truly begin to appreciate them for who they are. Thought I'd attach a recent pic of the family from this past Christmas, minus Camille, who was living in Columbia, MO at the time with her husband Jeremy. They've since moved back to the South Bend area. Anyway it will be nice to catch up with many friends and the family. 
May is turning out to be a pretty interesting month. I've got two weddings on the calender. One as a guest, and one as a participant (not as the groom of course). Jeremy Beadner is getting married. Those of you from college will remember this name fondly (hopefully). And don't worry, Beadner hasn't changed one bit since college. Still looking to make a buck off of any kind of scheme. A certain Mr. Tim Fenton is also getting married in York, PA Memorial Day weekend, and he has asked me to share in his joy, by standing in his party. For those of you who don't know Tim, he was my college roommate for 3 years. We were blindly set up as roommates freshmen year, and to this day have mantained a great friendship. The tall 6-8 skinny kid with the short 5-10 fat kid. The perfect combo (see picture below). This also brings up the fact that I'm now pretty much the only person left out of all of my church, high school, and college group yet to get married. Thats like 30 people. That means that I'm in the 3.33 percentile of people who aren't married who have been good friends with Ben Carpenter. Sorry to throw that in there, but I'm taking a statistics class right now. At least I can still count on most of my Detroit friends for several more years of irresponsible, wild, and reckless fun.
Toodles!
May is turning out to be a pretty interesting month. I've got two weddings on the calender. One as a guest, and one as a participant (not as the groom of course). Jeremy Beadner is getting married. Those of you from college will remember this name fondly (hopefully). And don't worry, Beadner hasn't changed one bit since college. Still looking to make a buck off of any kind of scheme. A certain Mr. Tim Fenton is also getting married in York, PA Memorial Day weekend, and he has asked me to share in his joy, by standing in his party. For those of you who don't know Tim, he was my college roommate for 3 years. We were blindly set up as roommates freshmen year, and to this day have mantained a great friendship. The tall 6-8 skinny kid with the short 5-10 fat kid. The perfect combo (see picture below). This also brings up the fact that I'm now pretty much the only person left out of all of my church, high school, and college group yet to get married. Thats like 30 people. That means that I'm in the 3.33 percentile of people who aren't married who have been good friends with Ben Carpenter. Sorry to throw that in there, but I'm taking a statistics class right now. At least I can still count on most of my Detroit friends for several more years of irresponsible, wild, and reckless fun.
Toodles!
