Valentines Day

It's our first Valentines Day at Eaglcrest and we wanted to make sure that we did it in typical Butler style.

I'm not sure which face is scarier, the Pikachu box or Parker.

Monster friendly mail box complete with many happy smiles.

Dang! This girl has the best kissy lips.... Boys, please keep away for a few more years. Thank you.

Lucifer!

Kate has been really enjoying primary lately and has matured quite a bit and will even go to class without being bribed. Whew. One day Kate asked me why Lucifer fought us in heaven. I tried to explain the whole plan and battle to her, but she still was very confused. After a few moments of thinking to myself of how to explain this to her a thought popped into my mind. I asked, "Kate, are you talking about Lucifer the cat?" She said YES and didn't understand why so many spirits would follow him.

Grandma Diane's Birthday

Happy Birthday Mom! The kids wanted to through Granny a tea party complete with dancing, good food and gifts. We love you Grandma!

Yummy fruit Grama!

Grace and Kate made the cupcakes. They were not only delicious, but good looking too!

Wing's Website Launch: DeafTV.com

Dear Family and Friends:

Just a note to announce the launch of my company's new website, DeafTV.com. I'm pretty excited about the launch and even more excited about what it will become as we continue to add new content and move towards our 2.0 version with even more features and a more Deaf-centric interface.

I'm telling you all of this for two reasons: First because I'm proud of our new baby! And, second, to invite you to take it out for a spin. There is some stuff there that is accessible to "disabled" people (i.e. nonsigners). We could use the traffic to help us with our advertising sales.

I recommend the short film "The Blue Box" to you as an example. (http://www.deaftv.com/the-blue-box)

This film was produced from writing to final edit in about three weeks. The guy who made it is a local guy, a friend of mine, who also happens to be a Deaf graduate of UVU. (He plays the cop.)

Again, I'd appreciate your checking it out—and by all means, click on an ad while you are there!

Wing W. Butler

CEO - DeafTV.com

Wing@DeafTV.com

My Romeo

Parker was chosen to play Romeo in his fifth grade classes version of Romeo and Juliet. He was picked because of his awesome memorizing skills and because no other boy would take the part. I know that makes Parker seem like the default Romeo, but he really did an awesome job! And he was the only boy who actually memorized all of the parts for tryouts. Mrs. Taylor said that he was the best Romeo she's ever had. He added humor, expression and romance to the part. What a STUD!

The girls all wanted to be Juliet, so they rotated with each performance. Parker worked with a total of three different Juliet's. Can you blame the girls?

Even with the hordes of attention from the older girls, Parker's heart never faltered far from his true love... Emily Jane.

Elastics

Every Thursday morning we head over to the rec center for a little bit o' elastics.... or gymnastics! Kate just adores her gymnastics class and does a different routine each week. She's worked on the parallel bars, balance beam, rings, pummel horse and floor. She is a very proud girl and loves to show us her tricks at home. Kate pays attention and minds her teachers very well. And last, but not least. Kate is the cutest little bug in her class! 

THEIR PLAYIN' BASKETBALL!

YES!!! The parents of Parker and Grace are finally able to LIVE THEIR LIVES THROUGH THEIR CHILDREN! They are playing basketball and loving it! Ahhh... The glory days.

When I first told Parker that he had to play basketball on a team he totally freaked out. He told all of our extended family how I was forcing him to play and how much he disliked having his freedom taken away because of sports. Tantrums were flying out all over the place. Quite comical actually. Well, after his first practice and game HE LOVED IT! Now he shows off his "skills" to the kids in the neighborhood, scores every game, works hard at practice and just loves the sport in general. He's a boy after his parent's heart. Who knew? I did!

Grace is a total natural at seeing the court and hustling. She is the best passer on the team and is always looking for the open lane and how best to fill it. I got the privilege of coaching her cute little team and loved every minute of it. It was so fun! I think that I had a better time than she did. I'm gonna coach her teams for the rest of my life! We just have so much fun together.

That's a wrap!