We all know how rare it is to see a referral from Wanzai. So I know you will join me in my excitement about a new Wanzai baby coming home to the USA. Go check out the family blog, she is a sweetheart. Stephanie and I have invited her mom to join our group. I so hope she does and spreads the word about our group to anyone else with a beauty from Wanzai....

http://www.journeytoscarlett.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to the family! We are looking forward to hearing all about your girl and following your trip to bring her home.

The Rizzo family would also like to say Happy Holidays to everyone. We have been blessed beyond measure this year.

Sophia Joy JinTe Rizzo 33 months old

Lily and Sophia

On our vacation this summer, we were able to meet with Susan, Riz, and Sophia at Epcot. We spent the evening together, and we had a wonderful visit together. Of course, we went to see Mulan- who knew Sophia by name. Pretty cool, huh!

Lily was a little shy with Mulan since she was her first introduction to a character at Disney.

Here are the girls sharing some Wanzai Love!

It is such a blessing to see Susan, Riz, and Sophia. We hope that we will be able to spend more time with them in the near future!!!

Wanzai Sisters- Lily and Marah

With a little help from Marah's big sister, Liana, the girls were pushed together for a big kiss. We went to visit Marah and her family over the weekend. Marah and Lily are only 14 days apart in age, and we traveled together to get our girls on March 17th of 2008.

We had a wonderful time together. The girls spent some time together playing in the sand.

They were also mesmerized by a baby caterpillar on a bridge. Liana, Marah's sister, is in the pink shirt.

Here the girls are looking down at the water below. They had spotted a turtle swimming by.

We had a wonderful weekend together. The girls enjoyed being together!

There are lots more pictures of our visit on our blog- Loving Life with Lily-http://oneworld--onelove.blogspot.com/.

Sophia turned 2

Happy Birthday baby girl

I just had to share with you all.....

Van Eman 1st Gotcha Day Anniversary...

Jocelyn and I went out to eat with some friends and then went to a park just down the road from us and just had fun being together and enjoyed the family we have become.

You can see more of our day on my blog http://mamas-china-doll.blogspot.com

I am amazed at how fast the time has gone.

Congratulations

I just wanted to say a big congratulations to those of you celebrating your one year Gotcha Day anniversary today. If you would like to share about you celebration, your gotcha day or about your first year we would love to hear the details....

Susan

ROBERTSON FAMILY - Hello!

Hi everyone! I've just joined this Blog and am thrilled to be able to connect with other families who have adopted from Wanzai SWI.

We have been home with our precious daughter for two and a half years now and my heart still fills with love and pride when I see her little face every morning.

I have posted our story on the Wanzai Family Story Blog and have added a few photos. It is so nice to read others stories and see the beautiful little faces of our children. We are indeed very blessed.

Marion Robertson

Welcome New Families

I wanted to post a warm welcome and a thank you to two new families that are joining us. Teresa, Marion and Nancy, welcome and thank you for wanting to share your stories with us. You both have access to both blogs and will be able to post and make changes to the blogs as you would like to. If you have any information about Wanzai or Nanchang, Pictures, stories, or tips please feel free to share them here on this blog. Your family stories should be posted on the "Wanzai Family Stories blog (on the side bar). I wanted to keep those stories separate from random stories so they would be easy to find. I really wanted them to be a separate page to this blog but I don't know how to creat tabs on a blog so I had to set up a whole other blog for them. If anyone does know how to creat a tab sytem on a blog I would love you to do that for us. That way we can share Then and Now photos, Oour Family Stories, etc... Thanks again for wanting to join in here...

Susan

Van Eman Family Story

Family Story has been posted on the Wanzai Family Stories link...

Davis Family Story

Our story has been posted, too, on the Family Stories page. It has lots of pictures of the orphanage. When we were waiting, pictures were so difficult to find. We really treasure the ones Lily's Nanny took for us. Enjoy!

Rizzo Family story

I just wanted to let you all know i posted our family story over on the family stories page. I hope you enjoy it.

rgggg

I had a nice post with pictures of our family story all done and posted here yesterday and then i got the bright idea to try and create a separate page for our family stories which I was able to do check it out on the right hand side. I tried moving my post and it got all messed up and I had to delete it Rggggg. I will have to re-write it and add the pictures again when i have time, Maybe Sunday afternoon.. Please feel free to post your stories whenever you are ready to.Please add them them to the page under the link "FAMILY Stories". That was they will all be in the same place and wont get lost on the home page of the blog as things are added. I will send you an invite to post to that page as well...That reminds me all of you who accept the invite to be an author to the blogs have administrator rights as well that means you can change or add anything you would like to.

Susan

This blog is dedicated to the Children of Wanzai, China. Those who have found forever families and those still waiting. We are a collection of families with stories to share. We invite you to read along and join in if your child is from Wanzai.