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Welcome to our homepage.   As many of you may already know, Steve and I have adopt a little girl from China.  We traveled to China the first two weeks of September 2003 to go get our daughter.  Her Chinese name was Yuan Zhan Min and her Chinese nickname was Min Min.  We gave her a new name when we adopted her which reflects both her new American life and her Chinese heritage.  Her name is now Emilie Mae Zhanmin.  On the following pages, we have tried to present the timeline and process and give as much information as we possibly can about our adoption journey to get Emilie.  Since we have brought Emilie home, we have had trouble finding the time to complete this information, but will try to do so as time allows:  Who knows, maybe our information can be of some help to others who are going through the same process.  Or even serve as a way of getting others interested in international adoption and give a loving home to a child who would otherwise not have a home or a family to call their own.  Please check out and enjoy our Adoption Story.

     We ask that you also take a look at our
Adoption Fund page.  On this page you will find donation information and information on a few products we are selling to raise money to help us with the adoption expenses and the travel expenses we will incur as we prepare to start the adoption process for the second time.   We hope to travel to China for another little girl to be our second daughter and a mei mei (little sister for Emilie.)
HOME  /  ADOPTION FUNDORDER FORMADOPTION STORY PAGE 1 /
ADOPTION STORY PAGE 2ADOPTION STORY PAGE 3EMILIE'S PHOTOS PAGE 1
EMILIE'S PHOTOS PAGE 2  /  EMILIE'S PHOTOS PAGE 3  /  CHINA PHOTOS PAGE 1 - BEIJING  / 
CHINA PHOTOS PAGE 2 - NANNING  /  CHINA PHOTOS PAGE 3 - GUANGZHOU  /
 
LINKSCONTACT US
Our Adoption Fund and Charity Opportunity
Our Adoption Story Page 1 and Page 2 and Page 3
Emilie's Photos Page 1 and Page 2
Photos from our Trip to China to adopt our daughter Emilie =
Page 1 - Beijing  /  Page 2 - Nanning  /  Page 3 Guangzhou
Help us bring home another little girl from China.  Support our Hammell Adoption Fund by supporting our sponsors.  Use the link below to enter our affiliate stores and they donate 5 to 50 % of your purchase to our fund.  Thank you so much for your help.
As many of you know, we had a journal website where we made journal entries during our trip to China.  You can still access that site and we try to make periodic updates.  Find that site at http://www.caringbridge.org/in/emiliemae.

We have now also started a Hammell Family Yahoo group where we can post even more pictures and will be making periodic entries to keep everyone informed about our next adoption journey.  Anyone who joins the yahoo group will be able to post messages for all to see, view photos, etc.  Find that site at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hammellfamily.
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