I feel similarly, but I know my husband would never want to adopt now that we have 2 of our own.  I don't have any useful tips for you.  At one point, before we had kids I did adoption research and found a lot of reading references, especially on special needs adoption.  Most adoption agencies had detailed seminars on international adoption, but I never attended one of those.  You could probably do a search on adoption in Arizona to get started, looking at government pages.

Sounds like a wonderful idea!  My SIL is adopting a baby girl from China.  Babies sitting in orphanages, nobody to snuggle them...  adoption seems a wonderful, wonderful thing to do.  Seems like any baby would be lucky to have you to love them! 

I have no personal experience with this - although my advisor and her partner adopted a baby boy from a local mom about 3 years ago and it seemed to be relatively painless :)  And they had the non-married-lesbians issue working against them!  But I just noticed in our local paper that there's a once a month info night for families considering foster care or adoption - perhaps your community has something similar where you could go and learn the first steps to take...??  It does seem daunting, but many families do it, so there's a way!

My daughter was a surprise to me. We were planning to adopt. I spent a lot of time reading books about adopting and books written by kids who had been adopted and visiting websites about foreign and domestic adoption. There's lots of great info out there.

I was so into the idea of adopting, that when I became pregnant with my daughter, instead of being over the moon with happiness, I mourned the loss of the child we'd never adopt. Two kids stretch us to the limit, so I knew we wouldn't be having more kids.