silly ben

here is the questionnaire about mark's and my going away party tomorrow night. please come! (isn't ben clever?!)

SHOULD I COME QUESTIONNAIRE: If you are having a hard time deciding if you want to come to this party take the questionnaire below.Add up your points next to the answer you selected and consult the table given at the bottom:
Do you know Mark Smith:
__ (1) Is this the guy that has a mullet?
__ (3) He did have a mullet, but now he has a rat tail.
__ (6) Yeah, he's a solid guy, the kind you wouldn't mind being in a fox hole with.
__ (9) I know about his secret obsession with RPG's
Do you know Megan Selman
__ (1) Does she always sit on the back bench at church.
__ (3) I secretly blog stalk her and post a comment occasionally.
__ (6) I know she is afraid of horses lying down and vellux blankets. Does this count as knowing her well?
__ (9) I have her blog set as the home page on my web browser and I comment on EVERY post she makes. (Creepy)
Do you like Mark:
__ (1) LIKE, is a strong word for how I feel.
__ (3) Eh, He's alright.
__ (6) He's a cool dude.
__ (9) I watch what he wears so I can match his fashion sense. To the shoe laces.
Do you like Meg: __ (1) Well, I don't know if like adequately sums up my feelings.
__ (3) I do enjoy a well placed"Your Mom" joke.
__ (6) She is as good of a friend as one can hope for.
__ (9) She made me laugh so hard once, I split my britches.
Will you miss Mark:
__ (1) Uh ... I doubt it.
__ (3) I have no idea how to set up an appointment with the Bishop now.
__ (6) I plan on setting up a support group of those who will miss him.
__ (9) I will need professional counseling for months to be able to let him go.
Will you miss Meg:
__ (1) All indications point to NO.
__ (3) Only on Tuesday.
__ (6) Meg leaving will be like forgetting a fond childhood memory.
__ (9) Losing Meg will be like loosing one of my own appendages! How will I go on!
Should I stay home and watch re-runs of The Office, or should I rock out with Meg and Mark one last time:
(6 - 15) What are their names again, .... do I even know these people?
(16 - 25) I don't think them leaving will adversely affect my life.
(26 - 35) I should go by to wish them good luck with their future endeavors.
(36 - 45) I will miss these two, like the desert misses the rain.
(45 - 54) If I miss this chance to party with them I will consider this one of the top 5 missed opportunities in my life. ?'s, You can contact me: Ben Smith

some things

on july1, 2006, i arrived in washington dc.
on july 1, 2007, mark and i had our first kiss. so sweet.
on july 1, 2008, we stuffed our wedding invitation envelopes
can't wait to see what happens july 1, 2009!!!

we had a shower shout hooray

well we had a boy girl shower this last weekend. this lovely lady above was the planner and decorator and executor along with her side kick katherine ( who apparently worked a little TOO hard wink, wink)
not so conventional but i have a lot of guy friends that i wanted to be there. so heck with tradition, boys were there. darci and katherine and patti did a beautiful job. all was lovely and beautiful and delicious. THANK YOU!!! here are some picts.
ooh la la

favors
i wanted you to see that this girl can decorate! so pretty
our friends. sniff, sniff. i don't like to think about leaving
and of course motorboat. i laughed too hard at the spitting noises!

hubba hubba

um this shouldn't surprise you but i got some engagement pictures taken the other day and i was showing them to my "friend" at work and apparently, i am " not that pretty in real life. "







ahem....i BEG to differ.....

amish delights

what? did you say i suck at blogging? whatever. my blog and i were in a fight because it is so lame but this shouldn't surprise you but we kissed and made up. mostly because i get so mad when people don't blog and so i am a hypocrite. get over it. a few weeks ago, we took a sojourn to amish country. for some reason, we left super early. i think out thoughts were that the if amish get up early, so should we. so we did. we hit the road at 7. am people. on a saturday. fun. we made mei li drive. it was a beautiful day and the fields and all were so green and loverly. it was a nice day to visit lancaster, intercourse, bird in hand, blue balls, paradise and other little towns. hey amish, nice names.


look at how that are baling that hay! holy hannah. that would not be easy. it was cool to see though.

this girl in the field was cute.
i am not very good at car pictures but i wish this one had worked out of these two little boys on the fence.
i love these scooters.
mei li and i loved the clothes hanging on the lines
horse, buggy, neck beard. check.

after lancaster county we went to hershey and to hershey park. dave has the pictures of that but i will blog them when i get them. there were some fun roller coasters and i was a wee bit scared at first which apparently makes me " no fun at amusement parks." oh well. anyway, here are the light poles in hershey. again a car shot so not my finest work but do you get the idea of the wrapped and unwrapped kiss? we went to chocolate world and learned that milton hershey was a cool guy. he did a lot of good for that town. i hope i can be like that one day except not that rich.

the hershey factory smoke stacks. it was true that the town smelled of chocolate. mmm.

and that was our saturday adventure. the end.