Our 2012 Easter Garden

I promised you photos of this year's Easter Garden, so here they are, if you're not tired of this idea yet. I hear many people have been pinning the idea, not just from my blog, but of course from so many others too. I think it may have originated from Ann Voskamp, but perhaps she got the idea elsewhere.

Well truly, the idea was God's; ya know, when He planned on sending His son into the world to pay for our sin? That thing. His idea. 

This year, I wondered if my kids would be less excited than they were to create an Easter Garden last year. But I had my answer when my daughter said, "What if we got lots of pots and planted like a hundred Easter Gardens? And what if we did one in that pot, and that one (pointing all around my garden)..." Yes. They were still really excited. 

Each of us had a job.

Rock placer. 

Watering can guy.

The person who handles spiky things (me).

(Wasn't this lovely red flowering succulent so very perfect for an Easter Garden? It is like a crown of thorns with the most delicate red blooms emerging. It had to go right next to our tomb.)

Path makers.

Any chance to make a very important story come a bit more alive to a child is worth the time and effort involved. Friday night, we'll light candles on the path and place our Lego Jesus in the tomb wrapped in a bit of white cloth.



We will move our stone over the opening. Lego guards will stand watch, and we will wait solemnly for Sunday.

After celebrating thirty-six Easters in my life, I'm still excited.

{And not just because I love marshmallow bunnies.}