Ashton Gardens March 2017

In the spring, Thanksgiving Point Ashton Gardens has a tulip festival.  The grounds are beautiful but also crowded. We found a way around this mad house.  We always go a week before the actual tulip festival,  all the tulips that are going to be blossoming are up and the crowds are practically non existent giving us the gardens all to ourselves. (well almost) also the cost is included in our pass when its before the festival.  so win win win.  

we do miss out on the extra little games and concessions but its a small price to pay to be able to just enjoy the day.

Ellie's Friend Makayla was with us because she was visiting Ellie so they could take some pictures because that's what teenage girls do. We also ran into Amy and her kids.  In California there are the Desconso gardens which we would visit regularly.  This reminds me of those gardens.  I love coming here to just be.
The Light of the World garden is a desert garden filled with larger than life size statues of Christ during his lifetime.  With each one there is a scripture reference depicting what the statue inspiration is about.  we always have our children tell us the story that correlates with the sculpture and if they don't know we can read the scripture.  Then we ask questions about each one.  questions like "how do you think they felt about this?, or who was there when this was happening? what would you do in this situation?  It helps them to ponder a little more about the life of Christ. 

I love this statue of the Savior.  To me it looks as if his face it being warmed by the sunshine as he thanks His Father.