Best Friends

We had the best week!! Matthew was in heaven because of Isaac. Our house feels sad and empty without Isaac, Eliza and Smith. We can't wait to see them again.

Michael's haircut....

After many, many months of pleading, Michael finally let us cut his hair. It was torture for all of us, but probably worth it. Brent had to promise to take him golfing, (and the real golf, not mini!). We can't get over how small his head is!!

Ellie's lemonade party!

We kicked off summer with a Lemonade/Garden party. Ellie enjoyed having her cousin Eliza all the way from California to visit. Thanks again to Dave for the awesome pics.

Brandon has a good group of friends. They had a great time at Prom and many thanks to Dave for the great pics.

Butler update: We Want Summer!

Yes, we may look like we're having fun, but we are so done with winter.

Instead of a Valentine's party in Matthew's class, we opted for a Chinese New Year Celebration, dragon parade and all. Instead of Valentine cookies, we had eggrolls. Good fun.

Ellie is building a tower out of magnets.

This has been a great year for the Butler family. Here are some random pictures from this year, the professional looking ones were taken by cousin Dave. We look forward to all the things to come in 2010. Matthew will be getting baptized, Ellie will start kindergarten, and hopefully Brandon will be getting his driver's license. We have been incredibly blessed and wish all of our friends and family a wonderful New Year.

This may be one reason the blog does not get updated so often, when he's not on the wii, he's usually on the computer.

Ellie and Monica, or the Pink Ladybug and Snowwhite

Ellie participated in two Nutcrackers this winter, as a snowflake and as a chinese dancer.

Michael turned 3 this summer, and by the way, he loves golf.

we found a baby bird in the yard.

Santa Cruz