Fish and Chips Story — The Story of Us

Jason and I were struggling with not giving into Easter bunnies and candy galore, but still having a spring basket and explaining the true meaning of the holiday. So how do you do that? With a salt mountain and stick figures of course. Jason found a post talking about a book from John and Noel Piper called Treasuring God in Our Traditions. It speaks of how to keep God in everything we do. The post explained how to make a flour and salt mountain (like how you used to make salt maps for science projects as a kid) a cross out of sticks and stick people out of pipe cleaner. You make the mountain on Thursday. On Friday before Easter you walk Jesus up the mountain with the cross and hang Him on the cross and “bury” Him in the mountain. Saturday you check and see the guards are still there and the stone is still in front of the tomb. Then, Sunday before Alora woke up we moved away the stone and “hid” Jesus so that the tomb was empty. When she woke up she came to see the mountain and she searched to find Jesus and saw that the guards were “stunned” and the Mary’s were there to take care of Him. It was amazing to hear Alora say “Jesus Lives, He’s Alive!” At that moment you know the point got across.

So here’s a quick preview of our Easter in pictures:

“the Jesus Mountain”, her Easter shower head (yes it’s the one thing she wanted!), dyeing easter eggs, and last but not least eating the chocolate Easter bunnies and savoring every moment, right before we got dolled up for church!