New It's About Love Website!

It's been several years in the making, but LDS Family Services (our adoption agency) had finally updated their website. It is full of information for adoptive parents, birthparents, family members and anyone who is interested in adoption. It also has a searchable database of all of the waiting hopeful adoptive parents. Our profile is listed: https://itsaboutlove.org/ial/profiles/8360424/ourMessage.jsfFeel free to take a peak, also comment here and let me know what you think, or if you feel like we need to add more. It is so hard trying to decide what to include in the profile, so if there is something about Lilly, Mike or I that you really love and you think would stand out as an important thing that is missing let me know and I will add it.

We are still searching for our next child, there are a few things you can do to help:

1. The pass along cards that we sent out this Christmas and last summer are no longer valid as the links to itsaboutlove.org have changed. Mike and I are feverishly working on designing a new one, but in the meantime please refer those to our website http://www.mandamike.com/ or the http://www.itsaboutlove.org/ and have them search for Mike and Amanda. We will send out new cards ASAP.

2. We are making copies of our DVD slideshow to give to birthparents who are considering placing their baby for adoption. If you know of someone who would like a DVD let me know and I'll mail it to you. Unfortunately, our caseworker will not include our DVD with our paper profile so we are going to try and distribute it ourselves. You can also view it here .

3. Add our button to your blog, instructions on how to do this click here help us get the word out that we are trying to grow our family. Who knows, maybe someone who knows someone who is thinking about placing will see our website.

4. Pray for our family, add our names and all birthparents to the prayer roll in the temple.

Thank you again, for all of your love and support. It isn't easy growing our family by adopting, but it sure is worth it. As we already know thanks to our beautiful Lilly and her wonderful birthmother. Hopefully our 2-year expectancy (adoption pregnancy) will come to an end soon. We are sooooooo looking forward to being parents for the 2nd time. We are also excited about adding another birthmother into our family and look forward to having an open relationship.