Our adoption agency hosts an annual family picnic which we've unfortunately missed the past year or so. Thankfully though, we were able to go this year and had the best time! There were only a few families from our first travel group but since then we have made friends with some other families - so in a way it was almost like a family reunion. The girls had a blast playing with their friends from China ... and me, well - I got a little misty eyed thinking of the girls from our first travel group and how Emma has "known" them even before she became our daughter. It just further instilled in me how important it is that or Lianjiang daughters have a life long bond.
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| Susan was our travel guide with Rebecca's adoption. In fact, the area we traveled to was her hometown! While we were there we were blessed to enjoy some homemade dumplings that her mom sent to us at the hotel. Best I've ever had! |
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| Emma and Kate - We sat close to her parents on the trip to China and then became good friends too. |
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| Emma, Sheridan & Mattie Grace - our little "Lianjiang Sisters" |
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| Emma & Rebecca with Jenna - the daughter of a local family we met while waiting on Rebecca's adoption. Neat thing with this friendship is that they are in the process of adopting again and their new daughter is from the same orphanage Emma was in. How cool is that?!!! |
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| And just for fun - this picture was taken at the very first AHH Family Picnic we attended which was just about a month after we had gotten home with Emma. She was blowing kisses already! |
2 comments:
I am so sorry we couldn't make it. I so wanted to see Susan...and you guys too!!
What a sweet picture of Emma... Looks like you had an awesome time!
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