Prayer for Anne

Nearly a week ago a mother from our church and her three kids were in a serious car accident near our house. Kathryn (mother), Canon (oldest son), and Kate (youngest daughter) have been released from the hospital, but Anne (middle child) is still in the hospital in critical condition. It has been amazing to see how our church family has come together to pray and support their family! If you would like to follow their story, you can go here.

Josh and Taylor, church members and missionaries now in Bosnia, sent their love through song. I want them to play and sing at my funeral. :) Check their message out here.

Please pray.

Happy Easter

We celebrated Easter with the usual passel of Parkers at Hannah's this year.

Here are the usual suspects.

Why is no one surprised about this one?

The whole clan... the Parkers plus two friends and two dogs.

Friends Natalie and Bridget made our Easter even more special!

A Visit With the Mosers

One thing Nathan and I love is visitors. The only thing better, in my humble opinion, is TAYLOR visitors. We ate up every moment with the Moser family. Unfortunately, we didn't get a complete family picture on with the digital camera, but we got a Polaroid for the refrigerator. :)

Sunday morning we had a pancake breakfast, so we got a few pictures while Drew and Bekah traded off showers and kid duty.

Isa had her eyes closed for this one, but I thought it was so funny I had to post it anyway.

The one with her eyes open may be funnier yet.

Benjamin was like a third parent, making sure everyone had their needs met and was using the best manners. I've never heard "please" and "thank you" from little ones so much. Great job Drew and Bekah!

When it was Sam's turn to have his picture made, he yelled "CHEEEEEESE!" at the top of his lungs.

Thanks for the fun visit Mosers! Let's not wait five more years before seeing one another again.

Our Last Night in England

After our long day at all of the free museums we could race around, Nathan and I walked past Buckingham palace and took the tube to get dinner yet again at Whole Foods. As the British would say, it was scrummy!




Spinach, mandarin oranges, craisins, pecans, warm goat cheese, lemon vinaigrette dressing salad... heavenly!

And one more helping of gelato for two!

Nathan Loves Books

Anyone who knows Nathan knows that Nathan loves books. Here are some shots of him at the British museum and again at a rare and old books shop.






This little pamphlet is called a chapbook. It's a condensed version of a larger work for laypeople. John Flavel is the author of this one. He's the guy that Nathan wants to do a PhD on.

June's Party Pictures

If you're interested in a moment-by-moment photojournalistic journey of June's birthday party, head over to my cousin Robin's blog!

British Sign Language (BSL)

As we were leaving the British Museum, I noticed that the front desk was selling audio tours in different languages. They even had video tours in British Sign Language! Since the museum was almost closed, there wasn't really a line, so I asked the man working there if I might be able to look at the BSL video guide. It looked like a black iPod and had a touch screen with over 200 different descriptions of artifacts.

I find the best way to describe BSL is with an analogy. British English : American English :: British Sign Language : American Sign Language. The basics are the same, but sometimes it's hard to understand one another's "accents."

Cool, huh!

Appropriately enough, I should now wish my brother, Matthew, a happy birthday!