Joann and Jack: Easter

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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Gosh, Was Just Last Sunday Easter Sunday?

Gosh, Was Just Last Sunday Easter Sunday?

Here's some photos of the Easter madness at the Shipleys.

Above: Jack Aidan spies his Easter basket/bucket!

This is a ball game I can play with Daddy.

Here's a book I can read and write in with Mommy.

The Easter Bunny knows my favorite candy: gummy bears and gummy worms!

Jeanine: I got book of essays about dogs written by lady dog owners.

Jennifer: I got a book of knitting patterns.

Grandpa, what did you get?

I got an Easter kiss from Grandma!

Monday, April 25, 2011

In Your Easter Bonnet

Jennifer and Jeanine

1982

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

My Bleeding Heart In Bloom For Easter

My Bleeding Heart In Bloom For Easter

Goosey Goose, do you want to step inside and help me dye eggs this morning?

Monday, April 5, 2010

Our Family Had A Great Easter Sunday

Our Family Had A Great Easter Sunday

High Today of 80 Degrees

Must Do Yard Work Than Write More Later

Everybody got an Easter basket including the animals Barney the black lab puppy and Merlin the cat that little Jack loves so much.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Happy Easter everyone! Here are more scenes of our favorite white bike display on Sudley Road in Manassas. Those bunnies are so cute. I got out of the car and walked up to the display to see how it was created.

There are up lights along the bike display so we will try to catch it after dark to see how it looks then. Sure would be fun to meet the owners of this display. I wonder if anyone has told them that they are on my blog and folks around the world are now enjoying their Easter Parade of bunnies and white bikes. I wonder why all the bikes are white. What would be the significance of that?

Here's a small bike for a small child, er I mean small bunny..

And here's a momma bunny with her big bike sporting a teeny tiny bike in the bike basket. Can't you just picture baby bunny riding in the basket. What a total hoot!

Closeup of the baby bunny bike in the bike basket.

Things like this are really creative.

Someone should write a little Easter Story about this bunny parade in Manassas. I think a book like this would be a big hit in kindergarten classes. Maybe I need to write it. Let's see. How shall I start this story. Well, of course, with once upon a time in the Commonwealth of Virginia...

Once upon a time in the Commonwealth of Virginia there were these bunnies living on Sudley Road in Manassas, Virginia. The littlest bunny was called Precious because she was so precious and cute. Her Momma was Patty Rabbit and she was married to that dapper male bunny named Peter Rabbit. This family belonged to the Sudley Road clan of Easter Bunnies who discovered that a parade of white bikes was just the thing for their Easter Parade and for an evening spring dance called the Bunny Hop. The only problem was that Precious didn't know how to do the Bunny Hop. Peter and Patty had been so busy riding those white bikes all around Manassas that they didn't take time to teach Precious how to do the Bunny Hop.

Well, that's the beginning. How should the middle and ending go? Anybody got some ideas? Help me write this bunny story by leaving a comment/suggestion here.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Skywatch Friday = White Bikes

Skywatch Friday = White Bikes of Manassas

In An Easter Parade

The other week I wrote about the homeowner who has a year around display of white bikes in his front yard. Well, Easter is here and the white bikes are now sporting Easter Bunnies. Some are Peters and have pink ties and some are Patties and have pink gauze dresses. They all are adorable. The pink saucer magnolia trees are real but the flowers on the ground are artificial. Take an upclose look below. Here are some Peter Rabbits.Here is a Patty Rabbit. Isn't she breathtaking!

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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Wooden White House Easter Eggs

These are our souvenir White House Easter Eggs from our visit to the egg roll in 1983. The two blue eggs are autographed by Melissa Belote and the gold egg by David Wingate. In 1983 I would have had trouble finding out who these people were. But in 2008 it is a different story. I did a web search and learned that Melissa Belote was a swimmer who won three gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. I was teaching in Frankfurt, Germany at the time and I remember the Munich massacre at those games very well. Some teachers at my school had planned to take leave to go down and watch some of their favorite athletes perform but were very frightened to do so after the shootings. From the web I learned that David Wingate was a basketball player for the Georgetown Hoyas in 1983 and that he went on to have a great career in the NBA.

So these are our signed Easter eggs from the 1983
White House Easter Egg Roll. I wonder how much these autographed sports figure eggs are worth today?

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Easter Monday Part 3

Yesterday, Easter Monday, they had the Annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Jack and I took our two girls twice in the '80's to the White House for the event. Back then it was not quite the hassle that it is today. Back then you just got up early and headed to the district, found a place to park your car and stood in line around the rod iron fence of the White House and you made it in to the event. Today they limit the number of visitors to 22,000 plus. And in order to claim one of those tickets today it means camping out near the White House grounds for up to 24 hours. I don't think I would have gone if it was such a hassle in the '80's.

These photos are of our 1983 trip to the White House Easter Egg Roll. Jeanine was three and Jennifer was seven. Jack and I invited Georgia Hernandez and her two daughters, Andrea and Lisa, to go with us. In the top photo you see Georgia and myself (in grey jacket) waiting in line with the girls while Jack is taking our picture. The next photo is of the grounds set up with tents, balloons, food, water and lots of kiddie displays and kiddie characters. The last photo is of a photo opt display for the event. Jeanine and Lisa are in the front row and Andrea and Jennifer are in the back row. Each girl got an official White House Easter Egg Roll Souvenir Coloring Book .

For each attraction you had to stand in line. Of course, the most exciting attraction was rolling the wooden Easter Egg on the White House lawn. And you got to keep the wooden egg that you rolled. All the wooden eggs are painted and signed by local sports figures, media folks, etc. Tomorrow I will show you our souvenir wooden eggs. In 1986 we did it again. Mainly because Jeanine told us that she couldn't remember going when she was three. So we took her and her sister again when they were six and ten respectively.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter Sunday Yoga Demo

Jeanine entertained her Dad by showing him some yoga poses on Sunday. I think she just wanted to get her jazzy flats from Nine West in the photo I was taking. Her yellow jazzy flats matched her belt and necklace.

Easter Monday in Washington D.C.

This is Easter Monday. I had a medical appointment in Alexandria, VA this morning so after the medical procedure was over we drove five miles down the road to have a nice lunch in Old Town Alexandria. Afterwards we drove north on the George Washington Memorial Parkway to Washington D.C. passing Ronald Reagan National Airport along the way. When we drove around the mall and the U.S. Capitol we found many spring blossoms and spring tourists

in town enjoying the nice weather. It is always fun to play tourist in D.C. and it is a great place to people watch. You will find lots of tour buses and people from all over the U.S. and the world doing the D.C. tourist thing. Right now the famous Japanese cherry trees around the tidal basin are beginning to bloom. We took a look but couldn't find a place to park at noon in order to snap a photo. I promise you that we will be back when the weather is warmer (in about a week) and the cherry blossoms are about to peak. I did snap from our moving car these photos: the U.S. Capitol building; tulips in bloom by the African Museum of the Smithsonian; a tall pear tree in bloom by a federal building and a big old saucer magnolia tree in bloom with yellow forsythia as a backdrop across from the Vietnam War Memorial.
Remember that you can click on each photo for a more detailed view.