WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) -- Over 30 children are now able to call the houses they've been staying in 'home' after their adoptions were finalized Saturday on National Adoption Day. 37 Sedgwick County and Manhattan, Kansas, children were adopted into 21 new homes. Anaiyah Blackshire and her four siblings are among the 37.

"We've been waiting for this since I was 15, for about two years now," said Blackshire. "It feels kind of unreal that we're adopted now, but I'm glad that we are."

Blackshire says after entering the foster care system, she spent months away from her siblings, which was hard for all of them, but especially her youngest sister, 10-year-old Lorelai Wimbley who was eight at the time.

"I was just sad and I was like, I felt like I was never gonna see them again," said Wimbl

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