"The Call" Anniversary!

One year ago today we received one of the most exciting phone calls of our lives. It was a sunny day on March 2, 2006 at 2:04 PM our adoption agency called to tell us, “It’s a girl” (also known as Referral Day)! We couldn’t have been more thrilled.

The phone call went something like this:

“Ring”, “Ring” OMG - This is it….look read the caller ID. Our dear friend Kathryn, even took a photo of the phone to show it was them calling with the time and date.

Us on Speaker Phone: “Hello”

Agency: It’s *** agency calling to tell you – this is it “the Call” – Your referral is here…It’s a girl!

US: Screaming, hooting, hollering, hugging, and then we all calm down enough to hear….

Agency: She is a cutie (you see we got a phone call first, and then the next day we wait for our UPS delivery person (aka – the Brown stork) to bring us a packet of information on her along with photos). His name is Roger and we have photos of him as well.

US: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Agency: Her name is Liang, Xiao Yan (was then named Isabella Ruby Xiao Yan). She is from Chongqing, China (central China) and was born on June 4, 2005. She is little and has hair.

US: We tried to get as much information as we could, but they too did not have much to give us at they are the local office and the main office was getting our packages ready to mail.

Phone hangs up; we laugh, we cry, we high five on another, we hug…and just sit as it seems so surreal!

Above are some photos from last year on this day we thought we would share yet again. The first one is us sitting at the table with the speaker phone on and taking notes as we got “The Call”. The second one is us waiting for the UPS man to deliver her packet of information and photos to us (friends sent flowers, balloons, decorated, and even had a banner made and hung). Then alas, this is one of the photos we got of Isabella at about 6 months old. Last but not least, a current photo of Isabella at the gym playing. It’s was a great day for us and we hope you have a great day as well.