Spring Break/Dollywood

As always - we have remained busy. Maggie had her Spring Break 2 weeks ago and I took the week off and we had a "stay"cation. We went to the library, the zoo, the park (two of them) and just played at home. It was a great time! Maggie graduates from preschool on 5/28th and will be attending a prekindergarten camp in early June followed by several camps at the Little Gym. Last Saturday we took Maggie to Dollywood for the first time and we all loved it. We bought season passes so will be going back. Our house is still on the market and we have had better luck with viewings (2 today). Maggie is still playing soccer and we are hoping to have her take swim classes soon.

March happenings!

I know I haven't published to this blog too much lately, but we have been sooo busy! We went to an open house for the school where Maggie will be going to kindergarten this fall. We were very impressed. She will be going to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) Catholic School and she is so excited! I can't believe she will be starting school already.

Maggie and I attended her current preschool arts and craft show and we purchased several items of Art made by Maggie, in addition to some great pictures and a cutout of her silhouette. Barbara was sick and had to stay home but Maggie and I enjoyed the evening. We began Spring soccer and I am again the assistant coach. Maggie had to miss one game because she was sick and we had another rained out. We are hoping it's not a repeat of the fall league with the weather.

We also celebrated our 2nd year gotcha day as mentioned in an earlier post. Additionally, we have decided to put our house in the market to get a one level home and we are hoping that we have better luck with showings this month. I think with the weather improving, that things will get better.

We went to see Annie in Crossville, TN (actually occurred in February) and also took Maggie to see the Circus. So as you can read, these are busy days in the Haimelin household, but we are enjoying every minute of them (except for the being sick parts).

Happy Easter!

We hope everyone had a very happy Easter! We sure did. We colored eggs yesterday, hunted them today and had family over for dinner. Maggie and Barbara both looked beautiful in their Easter dresses, and as usual, Maggie was spoiled by the Easter Bunny.

Gotcha Day

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of our gotcha day! It's hard to believe we've had our precious daughter for 2 years, yet is seems like it has been forever. We are so lucky to have her in our lives and it's amazing what a lovely young lady she is becoming.

I remember the time we had like it was yesterday. A friend who is going to China soon to get her second daughter from the same province we were in asked me to give her some insight as to our experience. It was amazing how vivid my memory was after 2 years!

Today I took a half day off work and Barbara and I surprised Maggie at school with a balloon bouquet featuring Dora! We went to lunch and to Maggie's gymnastics class. This evening we watched our video from our time in China and we were all touched!

Chinese New Year

We went to 2 Chinese New Year celebrations the past 2 weekends. The Creative Discovery Museum presented a Lion Dance and martial arts exhibition and then last Saturday we had the local FCC (Families with children from China) party. We had so much fun at each one. We have tickets to see the circus next month and will be going to see the play "Annie" next weekend. We continue to stay busy and are doing very well. Maggie is signed up for soccer for the Spring as well so it looks like our busy weekends will stay that way.