A sweet (almost) 16

At the surprise party I met a nice woman who was there with her two daughters, both adopted from China (that is great story, too-get to that in a minute) who also happens to be the principal of the middle school in town. She explained to me that the older of her two girls will be having her sweet 16 in a few weeks and that she would like a few pictures to put up at the party, and wanted to know if I would take a few. Being that the girls are so beautiful and sweet, how could I say no?! Plus the fact that it would be fun to get these two together as they share such an amazing bond. So we headed outside the restaurant and snapped away.

The story is that these two girls were best friends and grew up together in the orphanage in China. First, "JL" was adopted and brought back to America to live with her mom. Soon after she asked her mom to go back to China and adopt her best friend. Of course, the mom went back to China and came home with another girl. So now they are not only best friends, but sisters too! They came to America only recently (within the last 5yrs or so) and spoke no english- you would NEVER know it. Isn’t that the best story? Here they are.