Last Day to Order Shirts, Ornaments, etc.!!

Today is the very last day to order any Ordinary Hero t-shirts, ornaments, or coffee and tumblers to benefit our adoption! If you're interested, head on over to:

http://ordinaryheroblog.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to click the "Add Special Instructions to Seller" button and add our name!

Thanks so much for your support!!

Christmas gift ideas!!

Some ideas for Christmas gifts!

There are just a few days left in the month to support our adoption and supportOrdinary Hero at the same time! This non-profit organization graciously has offered to give to our adoption fund when you purchase items from their site! All you have to do is put our name (Brian and Angela Hunt) in the Add Special Instructions to Seller when you are checking out.

Look at the awesome stuff they have added that you can purchase!http://ordinaryheroblog.blogspot.com/

A Red Shatterproof Christmas Ornament for $13!

A Coffee Traveler Tumbler w/ Just Love Coffee Christmas Special for $25!

(or just the tumbler for $12)

Then of course you can still purchase the cool t-shirts! I got mine in the mail and it is soo soft and comfy! I love it! It looks like this, except mine is light brown. They also still have lots of other designs. Just check out the right side bar of the OH blog.


You can also still purchase any coffee from our JustLoveCoffee Roaster's Store Front. We receive $5 from every bag of coffee purchased.

http://www.justlovecoffee.com/TheHunts

Also, if you just wanna support adoption in general, then you should check out this link. There are a TON of wonderful causes and families listed that are fundraising!

http://thisdomesticateddiva.blogspot.com/p/shopping-for-cause.html

Need some more ideas??

The International Justice Mission is an incredible organization. If you haven't read "Just Courage" by Gary Haugen then you need to ask for it for Christmas and read it! This organization fights for freedom and rescue and hope for victims of violent oppresion, including forced labor slavery and sex-trafficking, Check out their Christmas catalog.

Check out the Samaritan's Purse 2010 Gift Catalog. There are soo many ways that you can give an ETERNAL gift. Something that will change someone's life in a real and impactful way. You can help feed a hungry baby for a week, transform the life of a disabled child, provide lifestock and other food to families in need, provide a life-saving mosquitoe net for less than $15.

There are several others that I'd love to name and I'm sure I'll come back and update but I gotta get to bed!!

You have been so Good

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Here's one of my favorite songs.

Number 84 and Our Paper Chain!

Yay! This is our new number! I really can't believe we moved up 9 spots! I'm not counting on every month to be like that but it sure would be nice! This weekend Isabel and I made a paper chain while Brian was at work to help us count down our numbers until we get to number 1. Waiting for a sister has been very difficult for Isabel. Lots of her friends have siblings and she just can't understand why her sister can't come home now. She asks if she's safe and taken care of because she worries about her. We remind her that God is already taking care of her and loving her all the way in Africa. So, we thought that a visual paperchain could really help her during this process. So, she started at one end and I started at the other and we made 93 little links with really pretty scrapbooking paper. A year or two ago, my biggest adoption cheerleader and wonderful friend let me pick out a bunch of extra paper (knowing that I would NEVER use it in a scrapbook). :) I've kept it and used some occasionally but it turned out to be the perfect paper for our countdown chain! I love it! What do you think?

It's actually shorter now! Isabel and I made 93 and then I had her take off the 9 after the photo.

Also, speaking of being on the waitlist, I'd like to just make a quick suggestion to everyone that asks families that are adopting about when they will meet their child.

Try to remember that it is very difficult for us to wait and wait with no idea really of when we will be able to see our child's face. When you ask us how long it could take and we tell you hopefully next year sometime, please don't respond with: "Good grief." or "Oh gosh, that's FOREVER!" Please don't roll your eyes and say something about how we could have our own child sooner. Please don't sound exasperated and not talk to us about our adoption anymore just because you don't know when our child will be here. You can still ask what the newest update is or how things are going. And please, don't respond with "That's a LONG time." in front of our biological kids that are learning to wait patiently even though it's very difficult for them too. Alright, I'm sorry to hurt anybody's feelings on this but I think people should know how words affect waiting families' feelings. We need all of the encouragement that we can get.

P.S. I WON a giveaway!! Seriously, I won! I am super excited. Remember how I told you that Ordinary Hero is giving us $10 for every t-shirt that you guys order and put our name in the special instructions memo for the month of November?? Well, when they got to 300 followers, they chose a winner to win a free t-shirt and sure enough, they announced my name? Wanna see? http://ordinaryheroblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/we-have-winner.html While you're there check out their shirts! I'm pretty sure I'm gonna ask for this one.

pink 84 by Leo Reynolds (flickr)

Ordinary Hero T-shirt Fundraiser!!

Oh goodness! This is so cool and such a blessing! A wonderful non-profit, child advocacy organization called, "Ordinary Hero" is supporting adopting families this month since this is National Adoption Month! They are giving our family (and other families that signed up too) $10 of EVERY SHIRT that is purchased for the month of November!! Every shirt is $24.95 (that includes s&h) and they are all SO COOL! This money will go directly to our adoption agency where it will be waiting to help pay for our referral fee when we receive the referral for our daughter!!
So, just go to http://ordinaryheroblog.blogspot.com/ and go to the RIGHT SIDE BAR of the blog. You will see all the different options for shirts. When you click the shirt you want to add our name to the Special Instructions Memo Line. Look for "add special instructions to the seller" Ad. Click on the blue "ad" and put our name so we'll be credited for the shirts. It is hard to see this sentence if you are not looking for it. It mostly appears under the address portion.

So, would you help us sell some shirts??? Facebook it, blog it, email it, and give them as Christmas presents....BECAUSE here is the even cooler thing:
They are going to match the amount given to the top three families who have the highest shirt sales. So let's say we sell 50 shirts...weg et $500 toward our adoption. If we fall in the top three, that will be doubled to $1000!! Isn't that craziness?! Wow, so yea, we need your help selling these shirts for this month!
So here are the shirts! Different designs and colors. There are women's, men's, infant, toddler, and kid sizes too! Go to the blog and check it out!

THANK YOU!!!

Israel Houghton CD Winner!!

Alright, my husband just drew the name of the winner for the new Israel Houghton album, "Love God, Love People"!! We both closed our eyes and then he

picked one! :) Very professional, can't you tell??

So, the winner is Shannon!! Yay! I'm so excited to send you this album. I can't say enough about it. Our whole family loves it. I pray that it blesses your family too! Send me an email at hunts4adoption@gmail.com with your address and I'll send it out to you!

Israel Houghton giveaway!

Really? Nobody else wants a free copy of Israel Houghton's new cd, "Love God, Love People"?

I'm gonna randomly pick someone tomorrow! Looks like it's just between two people! :)

http://hunts4adoption.blogspot.com/2010/10/israel-houghton-love-god-love-people.html