Thursday, November 30, 2006

SHE FOUND US!

Dear friends and loved ones. WE GOT THE CALL! Thursday morning, 30 November 2006 our adoption agency called and said, "congratulations, we are looking at the picture of a beautiful, little girl -- and she's your daughter!"

She was born 8 April 2006. Her Chinese name is Jiang Cheng Guo. That's all we know so far. We go in tomorrow to pick up her pictures, sign the papers, and learn more about her. We will update the blog then!!

We are thrilled and numb and so very happy right now. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers and calls and love through all of this. She'll be home soon!!

Next step -- we sign papers and then head over to China (probably in mid-January) to pick her up and then bring her home.

Love, Steve and Sheila

Friday, November 03, 2006

Welcome!

Welcome to "Where's Erin?" We'll do our best to keep you updated on this final phase of our long journey to bring her into our life...and to bring her home!

Here is the latest news -- and it is good news! Families who have LID's (log-in dates) up through 25 August 2005 have just received their referrals. Our LID is 8 September -- and we were told by Heartsent (our agency) that we "are next!" We don't know when the referral will come in...but the next round will have OUR NAME on it! As Sheila's brother (Kenny) said when he heard the news -- "hey, you're not number one...you're next!!"