happy easter!

natalie's fish died on saturday. i suggested not telling her and wait to see if she noticed that he was no longer in the tank. but JR just walked right up to her and said, "Cutler's dead. do you know what dead means?"
"no"
"he went to be with Jesus but we'll get you a new fish." and daddy said she could have TWO fish so she decided on a pink one and a red one. but we have yet to make it to the store.
i was afraid that with easter coming up she might think Cutler would be resurrected! today she looked in his tank and said, "where's Cutler?"
"he died, remember?"
"he died AGAIN? but i want to see his tail." she looked so sad, hugged me and put her head on my shoulder. aaaahhhh poor thing.

we tried a new church on easter and really liked it. JR even filled out a response card committing that we'll come back for the rest of the series! i think they "had us at hello" when the band was playing dave matthews band as their intro. after the service we ran into our friend stephanie's parents who invited us over for dinner! so even though my camera is broken, we do have an easter picture afterall. stephanie is in chicago so, as she put it, we just filled in for her and joe. we were actually hoping to catch some deer behind us in the picture but they ran away as we were sitting down. we did an egg hunt at home and natalie loved it! she squealed with each egg she found. it was really sweet to watch her.
thank you Bates Family!