Adoption Media Blitz THIS WEEKEND!!

This photo is intended to be a pass-a-long photo 

Save and post on Facebook and others will like and share to help spread the word:)

As many of you know, we are trying to adopt. What you might not know is that you can help us by getting the word out to others that WE WANT TO ADOPT!!! You can help us to find a potential Birthmother!  PLEASE tell anybody and everybody you know that we are wanting to Adopt—a personal referral will greatly increase our chances of finding the baby that is supposed to be in our family. The more people that know about us, the better chance we have of being found by an expectant mother. 

Our PLAN is this!  To have as much circulation on Facebook and traffic to our Facebook Adoption Page and to our BLOG as Possible! 

 How can you HELP us do this?  

For Starters the BIGGEST WAY to help: 
Lift (save) the photo below and Post it on Facebook! We are asking EVERYBODY if they would make this photo their timeline cover photo for Saturday and Sunday if willing or at least SHARE it....more people will see it for the BLITZ!  Again, Exposure is key!  You never know who your networks know...when they press "like" it then shows in their network feeds and on and on!!!

 p.s. if you know me personally please tag me in your post so it links on my wall and my network sees as well!

This Photo will also be on our Adoption Facebook Page if you want to share directly from there!  This photo is perfect size for the timeline cover size for SATURDAY AND SUNDAY!

Another Way to help is: Copy our information (all info is below) and blog about it, link it, write about it, text it, tweet about it, and most importantly Please Facebook about it by sharing our blog or our Adoption Facebook Page…the possibilities are endless. Anything you do directly impact our chances and would be greatly appreciated!  If you have any questions, let us know! Otherwise go media blitz crazy!

With the assistance of friends and family letting their NETWORKS know about our desire to adopt...the more likely that we will find our baby!  The more people that see our blog, Our Facebook Adoption page, a comment, a Facebook picture, a parent profile or a pass-a-long photo the more likely a birthmom will find us.  

The more people who follow our blog, the more traffic that flows to our blog.  The more people who "like" our page on Facebook, the more likely that someone who can help us will see our adoption information. 

If you have any questions, let me know! Otherwise, go media blitz crazy!!!

Our Adoption Contact Information that can be shared!!!

Our Adoption E-mail: alittlefamilyblessing@yahoo.com

Adoption blog: http://alittlefamilyblessing.blogspot.com/

FACEBOOK! PLEASE Share our Page -https://www.facebook.com/LeapsofFaith

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PARENT PROFILES: http://www.parentprofiles.com/profiles/db29074.html

IT's about LOVE Profile:https://www.itsaboutlove.org/ial/profiles/24628056/ourMessage.jsf

or you can go to itsaboutlove.org and search for us by first names (James & Deanna)

SHARE our BLOG Button ON YOUR Blog!!!

Just copy/paste this to   add to your blog!

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Home Study for Adoption...

On Monday we had our home study visit with our adoption agency and they are about ready to submit to the state....That was way faster than we thought but we aren't complaint...btw for all of you out there that are reading this please know that even though we haven't been technically re-certified by the state yet we can still be picked by a birth mom....how you may ask?...well she would have to designate us...meaning our case worker would know that she wants us to be the parents of her baby...When we first went through this process a few years ago we didn't know this until I went to an adoption class where there was this couple that weren't even in the process of certifying but had a birthmother choose them and then they were just beginning their process with LDS Family...I am not sure if they were expedited a bit or not but i so that would have made sense.  So with this you can see why we are getting the word out to everyone that WE WANT TO ADOPT!!!

This past week I was released from my calling as a primary worker (I was a sunbeam teacher- 3 yr olds) at church and was called as a Sunday School teacher.  The Church is implementing a new program for the youth called Come Follow Me for this coming year.  I am really excited about this!  I have felt like these kids many times and as I have learned more about this new way of teaching and learning I have felt that this is exactly where I am supposed to be serving for sure!

Abbe had her first Band Concert this past week...She had a ton of fun...and WOW does she seem grown up! She did Awesome!

Abbe also had her first slumber party for her 12th birthday last week...they had a blast between all the 1- Direction singing, pizza eating and twister playing.

This week for FHE we watched the Christmas Devotional and made homemade pretzels from the Mel's kitchen cafe blog...they were soooo good!  I have to confess James made the dough!  I just helped roll them!

Lastly, Our Adoption Cards came in last week and they turned out AMAZING!!! I am so excited to give more of these out!

Getting the word out... that we want to adopt!

Well we have had a busy few weeks since we decided to get ourselves re-certified for adoption...the good news is that it sounds that it may go WAY faster than we anticipated and many parts are able to be pulled up off our past information! I have been busy updating all of our paperwork...but as of this coming Monday all will be done on our end for it and then we get a visit from our caseworker to finish up our home study and we wait for the state to approve!!!  This has been going way faster than last time, that is for sure...but maybe it's because we have been around the block before....lol

Last night, I met up with an adoption group that I had been part of last year.  Many of the girls that were in this adoptive group before have been placed with and have moved away with exception to one I knew before...It was fun to get out and be able to talk about everything that has gone on since and I got to meet a bunch of new women I had never met...some placed with and some that just literally got certified.  What I did realize after last night was that I needed to get new pass-a-long cards!  I was thinking I would wait to have these made again until we got certified again so we could have our parent profile link on it, but after last night I realized that was just stupid!  I mean seriously a birth-mom can still pick us before we are fully certified (they just have to designate that they choose us with LDS Family Services) and someone could know of a situation and if people don't know they won't know to tell them we are looking to adopt.  So with that I created and ordered some today...Here is a sneak peak but I wish I could show the back to you too since it will have some picts on it too...oh well...lol

This past weekend we got to have a fun adventure with my family and were in Tucson for the Weekend.  My Uncle was receiving an award and we got to visit with everyone including my sister Mandi who lives in St. Louis now and a bunch of my family that also lives there.  It was absolutely gorgeous with the weather...none of us were complaining that is for sure! 

We even got to get dressed up!  

This week James and I went shooting....He usually goes without me since he likes to go hunt and that is way to early in the morning for this night owl and I am not the most fun person when I have to sit and just wait and be quiet and do nothing but look in the desert for a possible animal, but this time we had an old TV and a bunch of junk that he had set aside to shoot in the desert.  It was a lot of fun!

Lastly, this week we had some Christmas fun with Abbe...We got some gingerbread houses and decorated them!  Abbe of course picked the one I had to assemble (a train one)...go figure...lol...after we joked about how James made the biggest mess in the end...he is usually teases Abbe and I to be careful and then he is the one that makes the mess. 

Pass a long cards!

I just received our pass along card proofs...I should have them next week! looking to adopt...Alot of people including some I know have had their birthmom find them because they had received a card like one of these from someone they knew that knew of the family. Including this couple's blog that I follow. Click Here to read their story!