Barbeque, Berries and Bonding

This is ridiculous how behind I am on blogging, but here's another attempt to catch up:

•In May, yes two months ago, we had a Memorial Day Cook-Out with our Sunday school class at the Wellums' home. There was lots of good food, not to mention Hillbilly Horseshoe, Cornhole, badminton and bubbles for the kids.

•A couple weeks later, we went with the Sosebees to Joe Huber Farm to pick some strawberries. Ryan and I had never picked anything out there, and I was so excited about fresh strawberries. My goodness they smelled so good! We then ate some good ole' Southern home cooked food--fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, the works.

We froze some of the strawberries when we got home and have almost finished all of them. We ate them plain, over ice cream and even made some absolutely delicious strawberry shortcake. The strawberry shortcake was so good that I think it now sits toward the top of both of our favorite desserts list.

•Our Sunday school class had a girls' night at our house a few weeks ago. It was wedding-themed so everyone brought their wedding albums to look through. We played fun little wedding games and ate some typical wedding food--cake, chocolate covered strawberries, after dinner mints, nuts and some punch.

Kristi gave a devotional emphasizing the importance of not letting our guards down in our marriage. Unfortunately, we know several Christian couples who have gotten a divorce, and it's such a good reminder that it can happen to anyone. We need to daily choose to love our spouse as Christ loved the church, and we have to seek to make God the center of our marriage.

Anyway, it was a great night hanging out with some beautiful godly women.