A Christ Centered Easter

I never have felt like I excelled at Easter. It is a tough holiday because there aren't a lot of traditions that center around the Savior. We have always given our Easter baskets on Saturday and done the Easter egg hunts that day, but I always end up feeling like Sunday falls a little flat. We have watched The Lamb of God every year, which I love, but it still doesn't seem to be enough for such a wonderful holiday. Okay so you get my frustration right?

Last year I saw this book floating around the blogosphere. It is a book that goes through each day of the last week of the Savior's life and give you crafts, games, stories and activities to help your children understand it all.
Sunday night was Palm Sunday (Palmer's name comes from the people who were waving palm leaves to welcome the Savior). We learned about what that meant and the boys got to act it out. I made some very ROUGH looking palm leaves (okay so they don't really look like palm leaves, but they worked). My friend Trish came over for dinner (and actually BROUGHT the dinner. She is awesome!) Trish was kind enough to model the palm leaves :)
Lincoln got to play Jesus and Josh was lucky enough to play the donkey :) I pretty sure he was thrilled about it.
It was fun for the boys and they learned a lot. In this picture you can't see it, but they are waving their palm leaves.
The next day I heard the boys saying they wanted to play the "palm leaf game" and they were arguing who was going to get to be Jesus.  
We have been doing the nightly activities in the book and have learned a lot and have been focusing on Jesus more than we ever have before. I am confident this is going to be the best Easter we have ever had!