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Adoption Shower Success

08.17.2011 by juliegumm@yahoo.com //

The Dinsmore family is featured in the book with one of their fundraising ideas, but they just had success with another one.

It was actually spearheaded by two of Lara’s friends. The Dinsmore’s needed to fund the last $5,000 of travel expenses so they can go to Uganda to pick up their son.

So Shelly & Colleen hijacked her blog to conduct an online Adoption Baby Shower with the goal of raising $5,000 in 7 days.

And as baby shower prizes go, their’s was amazing. They gave away a Canon EOS Rebel T3i Digital Camera (w/ zoom lens) as the grand prize with a few smaller prizes as well.

Want to know how it went?

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