It is with great joy we announce the referral of our daughter, Emma XinLan! Please bookmark us and follow our journey!
OUR TRAVEL DATES: July 1 - July 17, 2010
Chinese Name: Long, Xin Lan Birth Date: May 9, 2009 Birth Place: Kunming, Yunnan DTC: August 3, 2007 LID: August 7, 2007 Referral: April 11, 2010 Travel Dates: July 1 - 17, 2010 Agency: Great Wall
Adoption
You first came to us in an envelope
With letters, forms and such
Just two tiny little pictures
With nothing warm to touch.
You grew in our imagination
In our hearts and in our minds.
You brought us greater joy
Than we ever thought we'd find.
A phone call started labor pains
Which lasted 'til we met
Strangers brought together
A day we won't forget.
You bloomed as you were planned
In our hearts, our lives, our home.
Our child of chance, of plan, of will
You're now our very own.
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Thanks so much for visiting us during our journey, Loren, Sheri, Andy, Joey and Emma XinLan!
You can not change the world by adopting one child but you can change the world for one child.
Emma
XinLan
An invisible red thread connects those who are destined
to meet regardless of time, place or circumstance.
The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break.
-An Ancient Chinese Belief
We witness a miracle every time a child enters into life
But those who make their journey home across time and miles
growing within hearts of those who wait to love them
are carried on the wings of destiny and placed among us
by God's very own hands.
~Kristi Larson
