19th Referral Day Anniversary

 (At 19 years old, my sweet girl obliged me and posed for a photo holding her referral photo. Next year will be our last year taking a photo. I told her that I hoped to get to 20 years of pictures and then we would be done.) 

 

Nineteen years ago (June 6, 2007), Doug and I received the phone call that would change our lives forever. We had a baby girl waiting for us on the other side of the world. A few hours later, we saw Jiang Ai Juan's beautiful face that day in pictures for the first time. (She was around seven months old in her referral pictures, she was ten months at the time of referral, and we met her a few days before her 1st birthday.)

I truly cannot believe it has been nineteen years.

Here are her referral pictures...

 Seeing her for the first time (our referral video is in the sidebar of the blog under "Travel and Referral")...

Below are pictures of Briana holding her referral picture each year on our referral day anniversary ~

1st referral day anniversary...

2nd referral day anniversary...

3rd referral day anniversary...

4th referral day anniversary...

5th referral day anniversary...

6th referral day anniversary...

7th referral day anniversary...

8th referral day anniversary...

9th referral day anniversary...

10th referral day anniversary...

11th referral day anniversary...

12th referral day anniversary...

13th referral day anniversary...

14th referral day anniversary...

15th referral day anniversary...

16th referral day anniversary...

17th referral day anniversary...

 

18th referral day anniversary...

 

And now, our 19th referral day anniversary...

 

 Briana is truly the best gift we have ever received. 

 

Here she is with her glasses on (because that is how we really recognize her!)...

 

 Happy Referral Day Anniversary to us!!