About Abigail and Emmanuel

On January 10th, 2007 we were matched with Abigail and Emmanuel (or A&E as I like to call them) as our children. It was Abigail's 7th birthday when we found out. A & E are biologically brother and sister. Their father is still alive and lives about 20 minutes outside of Monrovia where AFAA's foster home is that A & E will stay in until we bring them home. We don't know what happened to their

How it All Began, Learn about our Adoption Agency

It didn't take us long to pick our adoption agency, Americans for African Adoptions. The Executive Director, Cheryl Carter-Shotts found her son after watching the news! Did God need to hit us with a rock to tell us this was the one or what? Read her story at: http://www.africanadoptions.org/media/indystar/afaacheryl23.htmlVisit our agency website at: www.africanadoptions.orgAFAA as we like to

Richardson Family Web

Hi all! Thanks for visiting.We're going to do out best to keep you posted on the events of Annie's life as she grows. We know you're all a great distance from her and we hope this will help bring us all closer together.Also, we're going to use this space to introduce you to Abigail and Emanuel. We're still getting to know them ourselves. The first pictures of them arrived today and we couldn't be