Jim Parker's Official Parker Family Website

The Official Parker Family website was started in 1999 by Jim Parker. It was originally a small website with a webcam that overlooked our street in Bethesda. Over the years, it evolved into a site with a few pictures and then it was migrated into a blog format with pictures and video.Please visit Jim Parker's Official Parker Family Website http://www.jimparker.org frequently as this site is updated frequently. Updated Parker family news including videos and pictures.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

great pic if my baby sis! ;)

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Courtney and Kelly with the Easter Bunny

Courtney's 1st dance class! :)

Kelly Parker's 4th Birthday

Kelly had a great 4th birthday. Here are some pictures from her Birthday party at school. Click here to see more pictures

Friday, April 16, 2010

Kelly Parker's 4th birthday

This is the outfit that that Kelly wore for her birthday

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

kelly's 1st dance class! yeaaaa!

Friday, April 09, 2010

2010 Orioles Opening Day

Matt,Dave, Jim, and Tim had a great time at the game despite the opening day loss.

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Pictures from Assateague

Proof that Jim and Renee actually exercised!

Pictures from Assateague

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Courtney, Kelly, and the Easter Bunny

Courtney and Kelly were able to have their picture taken with the Easter Bunny before his big day. Kelly has overcome her fear of sitting with him but there is still a fairly large gap between the two of them in the picture.

Friday, April 02, 2010

Kelly

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Courtney Parker 7th Birthday party photos

Courtney had a great time with her friends at the bowling alley today. Check out the photos from her birthday party. Thanks to everyone that came to make this a special day for her. Click here to see the rest of the photos.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Video of Renee and Elizabeth on the Today Show this week

Renee and Elizabeth were on the Today Show this week. Click below to see the video.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Courtney Parker 2010 Cloverly Elementary Concert pictures

Click here for a few pictures of Courtney's Concert.

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Car runs into a gas main on rt 29

This happened on Friday in front of my building at work. This video was taken just as the firemen arrived. I'm not sure if anyone was hurt or who's car it was.

Cloverly Elementary Chorus Concert

Here is a video from Courtney's concert on Thursday. The 1st and 2nd grade music class sang several weather related songs for the audience. Click here to see more videos.

Jim Parker

Friday, February 26, 2010

Car fire

This is what a 10 minute long car fire will do. This happened today at work. Luckily, nobody was hurt.

Update: No this wasn't our car.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Kelly ice skating for the 1st time

Kelly ice skating for the 1st time. She liked hanging out in the penalty box more than ice skating.

Courtney ice skating

Courtney watched figure skating on the Olympics last night and wanted to go ice skating today. She loves it!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

2010 Valentine's Day at the Parker House

Valentine's cupcakes! yummmmm

The Parker girls making cupcakes on Valentine's Day

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Mom & dad Cannon celebrating their baby turning 21 ;)

mom & dad celebrating thier baby turning 21 ;)

Elizabeth Cannon 21st birthday

i had sooo much fun with liz on her b-day

Elizabeth's 1st (legal) drink

Elizabeth on her 21st birthday :)

Jackson Wolcott eating

little man Jackson

Claire feeding Jackson

Courtney, Elizabeth,Grammy & Abigail

my little angel

Abigail and Courtney-great cousins :)

Kelly making bread with Grammy

Monday, February 08, 2010

More blizzard pictures

First the good news:

The plow came today and we are no longer stuck in the house.

Now the bad news:

10 to 20 inches more expected tuesday night

Click here for more pictures of the Parker girls playing in the snow.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Queen of the snow castle

Courtney is Queen of the mountain. This picture was taken the day after the 2010 blizzard in front of the Parker house. We had over 30" of snow and there is more forecasted for this week!!!!

click here to see more pictures from the blizzard

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Claudia's birthday party

The kids had a great time at Claudia's birthday party. Here are a few pictures from Chuck E Cheese. Kelly was so scared of Chuck E Cheese that she started screaming at the top of her lungs in the playground tubes when she saw him.
click here to see more pictures

Monday, January 04, 2010

Courtney's "Teach a lesson " project

Courtney has been working hard on her "teach a lesson" project for the last month. She will be teaching her class how to wrap a present tomorrow. Here is a video of her practicing her demonstration.

1/17/2010- Update: Courtney received a 4 (A) on her project.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Parker Family Christmas 2009

The Parker Family had a great Christmas this year. Thanks to everyone for the awesome gifts. Here are some pictures of the kids opening their presents. click here

2009 Christmas Pageant 2

Here is another video of the "Angels" in the Christmas Pageant.

2009 Christmas Pageant

Here is a video of Courtney, Kelly, and Abigail in the Christmas pageant.

Christmas Eve water main break

Here are some pictures from the water main break that we had on our street on Christmas Eve. Many thanks to the water company for getting our water service back up so quickly. click here for more pictures

sledding video

Here is a sledding video of Renee and Kelly in the blizzard we had in December 2009.

Pictures from the blizzard of 2009

The kids had a blast playing in the 20 inches of snow that we received in December. click on the following link to see more pictures. click here.

Sunday, December 06, 2009

Courtney and Renee sledding

We went sledding this afternoon just before most of the snow melted. Click the video below to see it.
Jim Parker

Saturday, December 05, 2009

First snow of the 2009/2010 winter

Courtney and Kelly made this big snowman all by themselves and they are very proud of it. Click here to see more pictures from our first snow of the 2009/2010 winter.

Jim Parker

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Disney's Hollywood Studios

Courtney was our navigator at Hollywood Studios. Here is a picture of her looking for The Star Wars Jedi Camp on the map.
Click here for more pictures from our visit to Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Jim Parker

Disney's Hollywood Studios Star Wars Jedi training

Here is a short video from the Star Wars Jedi Training camp. Unfortunately, the video isn't very good because Kelly was so scared of Darth Vader that she was pulling my arm off trying to run away from him.

Jim Parker

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Disney's Hollywood Studios High School Musical 3

Here is a video from Disney's Hollywood Studios High School Musical 3 performance. Courtney was picked to dance in the performance but was too scared to perform in front of so many people. Oh well. Maybe next time.

Jim Parker

Disney's Hollywood Studios Army Men

Courtney and Renee were picked to be in the Disney's Hollywood Studios Army Men performance. This is a long video but it is worth watching. Thanks to Kodak for the new Zi8 HD video camera.

Jim Parker

Magic Kingdom

This picture was taken at Mickey Mouse's Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom. The girls had a great time.
Click here to see more pictures from our trip to Disney's Magic Kingdom

Jim Parker