
Garden Party 1 :: The Good Shepherd’s Pasture
This Easter season, my family is using The Garden of the Good Shepherd sticker calendar to count the 50 days of Easter.
Every night after dinner, my husband blesses us with Holy Water, we sing, place our lovely stickers on our calendar, pray with Scripture and add our own petitions, for a truly wonderful family prayer time.
And once per week, I am hosting a Garden Party focusing on that week’s theme for my family, thanks to the creative collaboration of Jessica at Shower of Roses and Charlotte at Waltzing Matilda.
Before I get to the party fare of our first Garden Party, The Good Shepherd’s Pasture, first I’d like to share a few additional items I added to our own Good Shepherd garden experience.

I found a green placemat at Kohl’s that, to me, looked like a grassy pasture. And I figure I can use it in a variety of ways in the future (for our home altar during Ordinary Time, underneath a vase of flowers, etc.).
And then, the cutest part of all, IMHO: these little lambs that I found in a candy store, of all places! There were exactly five in the store, which was the perfect number, as each represents one of my five children!
During our garden party, after I explained that each of these little lambs represents each of the five children in our family, my kindergirl noted that the two sheep on the actual statue represent me and my husband (since they are bigger in size). So, I guess we’re all accounted for in the Good Shepherd’s pasture! Cute, huh?!
The second item that I introduced to my family is this adorable book The Lord is my Shepherd. I picked it up a couple years ago at Wal-Mart, but there had not been a good opportunity to share it with the kids until now. With adorable illustrations, it tells Psalm 23 in a very sweet way. We read this book on Day Two of our sticker calendar.
Onto the menu … This week, I broke up the party menu into two separate times, for simplicity’s sake. Not that one couldn’t prepare the entire menu for one meal, but dividing it just worked better for my family this particular week.
So, one night this week, we had the Mini Shepherd Pies and Shepherd’s Crooks for dinner. The Shepherd Pies were a total hit with my children, so I will be adding this recipe into our menu rotation.




In the garden party menu, it was suggested to use lamb-shaped candy for decorations. I had a hard time finding the Lindt brand lambs or any other candy with lambs on them. Plenty of bunnies and chicks, but no lambs …
… until I went to that candy store that I mentioned above, and along with those little sheep, I found these cute white chocolate lamb-shaped lollipops! Yay!! I was so excited to find both of these items for our garden party in one shopping trip, just as I was about to give up completely on this part of the party … I only got one for each of my older girls, and they shared with the twins =)


Those adorable little lambs had (mysteriously) climbed up onto his lap, to be a bit closer to him.

To view more garden parties, visit Catholic Cuisine. (And it’s not too late to host your own garden party. All the details can be found there, too!)
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I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
~ John 10:14-15 ~
10 thoughts on “Garden Party 1 :: The Good Shepherd’s Pasture”
wow! You really went all out … it's looks fabulous. The sheep are soo very cute, too.
Those lollipops are almost too adorable to eat! I said almost!
Good for you! It looks like a delicious time was had by all 🙂 Beautiful!
Great job!
I love your statue.
Pax Christi – Lena
Beautiful statue!
And the placements fit the theme nicely.
Well done, it all looks so nice.
Beautiful! I love your statue! (But then I LOVE all the statues made by Joseph Studios!!)
The lamb candies you found are adorable, and it was so precious of your kiddos to move the little lambs closer to the Good Shepherd! How sweet!
What a great party! The ram cupcakes look great! I love the lamby lollies 🙂
Your party looks lovely and the statue with the little lambs in the lap is too precious.
I couldn't find any lamb candy either, but your lamb lollipops are very cute!
Thanks for sharing with us.
God bless!
what a wonderful good shepherd party you had at your house. so lovely. I love the beautiful statute and sheep. nice to meet you. (we are watching the good sheopherd parties from the sidelines this year as my daughter is a little young, but doing other activities to celebrate the Good Shepherd). blessings,
I also have that book…the watercolors are so beautiful.
You went all out for that party!
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