Our Adoption Journey

So this month I have been asking friends and family how they can help us get the word out that we are trying to adopt. Some have chosen to use Facebook or Myspace, others have suggested using a blog, and others have asked for a copy of our physical profile to send to their relatives who live out of state. Cameron and I want to thank you all so much for helping us as we continue down this path. If you have any ideas of how to help us, please post and let us know! These ideas could be you telling us what you are/could be doing to help us, suggesting what others could do to help us or ideas that have helped others who have gone down the adoption path.

Just to update people a little, we are working through LDS Family Services. Any potential birth parents can work through them also, and it's free for them. LDS Family Services suggests that we have our profile out there for others to see on another website so we do have it on a free adoption website along with our profile on itsaboutlove (the Family Services Adoption Website). Here are links to both if you'd like to take a look.

http://www.myadoptionprofile.com/id=304
https://itsaboutlove.org/ial/profiles/23013464/ourMessage.jsf

We also have our profile with a charity organization that is trying to stop baby abandonment. They are called Project Cuddle. Feel free to google them and find out more! They are not an adoption agency, so their birth parents can work through an adoption agency or find a lawyer. We suggested that they work through the free services of LDS Family Services.

We have given a copy of our profile to Arlin, Cameron's best friend in Colorado. He works across the street from a Catholic charity that is a pregnancy care center trying to educate women on alternatives besides abortion. We haven't heard back yet, but if they choose to consider us, we will post their website so that you can check them out as well. If we receive a baby through either one, we plan on giving info. on how to donate and/or what we can donate to these charities to show them our thanks. I'm sure they would appreciate any donation regardless of size or amount.

Here's my thank you's to all those who have helped so far: I want to thank Jamie Coe for getting word out there on her facebook as soon as I told her we were approved to adopt. Susie Holley took two copies of our physical profiles and sent them to extended family in different states, thank you! Thank you Arlin for being willing to get the word out to doctors. I want to thank my sister Katie for putting us on her "wall" on her facebook as well. Teresa Glad, Wendi Baggaley, my sister Lori, my sister-in-laws Jillayne and Allison, Wendi Christensen, and Jennifer Peterson for accepting a copy of our e-profile to forward to others and info. for blogs. And thanks to my Aunt Penni, who was the first to reply to my email asking for help and for reminding me that God knows the baby we will receive. Thank you to those who went to the temple with our future birthparents in mind and for those who joined us in our fast.

Thanks for all your support and prayers!