Marissa & Dylan Are Hoping to Adopt!

MARISSA & DYLAN

Dear Birthmother, Thank you so much for this opportunity to give us the chance to introduce ourselves and tell you about our family. We are Marissa and Dylan, and we are so grateful for you to be reading our profile. We are foster parents, but are now interested in just adoption. We have had many up’s and down’s, but are very thankful for you. We express our love to you for how much you love your child enough to give him/her a hopeful adoption plan.

We met in 2015, but we knew each other long before then. Both of us went to high school together and later rekindled our relationship on a dating website. The love didn’t develop for one another until meeting online. Dylan sat with Marissa on the school bus, and after Marissa told Dylan she didn’t want him sitting with her, Dylan did anyways. Dylan and Marissa have had their disagreements as well as their joyous events, but always knew something was missing in their lives -- wanting to become parents and build a family together.

We did just that, and now our family is made up of two loving people, two dogs, Lola and CJ, and three cats Mittens, Oliver and Tucker.

We have been trying for a family for the last five years, but we have been unsuccessful. Lots of doctor’s appointments and failed pregnancy tests have led us to the decision to adopt. We hope to bring joy and happiness to your child and also to you for considering us to be the parents.

We strongly appreciate your time and patience with reading this letter and understanding how important you, as the birth mother, are and how much we love you, even though we haven’t met yet.

We enjoy going on trips, going to the movies, and spending time with friends and family. When we aren’t doing that, we are working hard to provide ourselves with a good, healthy life. We are looking forward to helping you, supporting you and meeting you, along with the your bundle of joy. Our journey started with fostering, but now we long for something more. In the eyes of God, we are all adopted and accepted. You, the birth mother, loving us for who we, are is the most important part and also for giving us the opportunity to be part of your adoption plan. Tears are going to shed and it’s going to be hard, but with us by your side to help and guide you, your plan should be smooth.

With Love, Marissa & Dylan

About Us We live small, simple lives. There is nothing fancy about the way we live or act. We work hard and enjoy seeking out the nice things of life; living out our days as if it is our last. You never know what tomorrow is going to bring! We were two young, dumb kids that just happened to fall in love. True love is possible because that is what we share as a couple. I like to think of our relationship to be like the movie “The Notebook.” We did love other people, once, but then realized that wasn’t what God had in HIs plan for us.

We live in West Virginia where the trees are as old as the hills, and the country roads take us home to where we belong. West Virginia is a slower pace type of state. One where everyone knows everybody, and the tea is sweet and the people are sweeter.

Being from a rural state, we don’t get in a hurry. However, what we did want to get in a hurry, was creating a family! We have picked out baby names and knew how many children we wanted way before we were married in September 2017. Marissa hadn’t graduated college yet with her bachelor’s in social work and Dylan was still working a minimum wage job. We lived from paycheck to paycheck, but we always had each other, even if we had nothing else at all. The love from one another has always been enough, even to this day and at the time you’re reading this profile.

Dylan

By Marissa Dylan enjoys playing video games and hanging out with his friends. He also enjoys spending the majority of his time with his dear wife, me. Dylan is a forklift driver/laborer at a machine shop. Dylan is funny, loving, outgoing, charismatic, and adventurous. Dylan enjoys fishing, riding ATV’s and traveling. The most important thing to Dylan is his family and growing that family. Dylan grew up with a mother that had issues with alcohol and substance abuse.

Dylan has always wanted to keep that from happening to another family. Sometimes he had nothing to eat and wore clothes that were too small for him. Dylan is the oldest child and has a younger brother. Dylan is very close to his younger brother and his grandparents basically raised him. His biological father has nothing to do with him.

So being a good father is a very high priority to Dylan.

arissa MBy Dylan Marissa enjoys shopping, dressing up, doing her makeup, line dancing, cooking and camping.

Marissa also enjoys spending time with her pets and her friends/family. She enjoys learning about new cultures and about history, and she likes to watch Food Network to learn new recipes and to learn about all about different types of food. Marissa likes making new friends and talking to different people. Marissa has always had the dream of being a mother and raising a family.

She enjoys being part of her church and helping people when help is needed. As a family, we are nowhere perfect. In fact, we are just two imperfect people that want to raise a family and live the American dream just like anyone else. Marissa was raised as an only child. She seems to have the better qualities of life, compared to me. Also, Marissa would consider herself very close to her mother.

Family

Family traditions consist of going camping multiple times throughout the summer and going to the beach once or twice a year. We also enjoy reading the “The Night Before Christmas” on Christmas Eve. We enjoy attending New Years parties and going on red eye bus trips. We try to go to the park and watch our pets play. Another tradition is we eat cabbage on New Years so we have plenty of money the entire year through.

We also believe in leaving the door open on New Years, to let the old out and welcome in the New Year. Another family tradition, and old wives’ tale that we believe is, if you wrap a baby blanket up for a couple on Christmas Eve and open it Christmas Day, a new baby will happen the following year. We also enjoy watching the ball top on New Years and “National Lampoon’s Christmas Family Vacation”, along with “Home Alone”. However, we also enjoy new traditions that other families may experience.

Marissa is an only child and lost her father in April 2023. Marissa’s father died suddenly of a massive heart attack. Both her mother’s parents are deceased as well as her father’s parents. Marissa has two aunts that she has no relationships with, for a variety of reasons. Marissa has one 1st cousin whom she was raised with, like a sister. This cousin has two children, ages three and nine years old. All Marissa has left is her mother. When Marissa’s family was all living there were a lot of good and happy times. Big dinners on Sundays at her grandmother’s houseYour all paragraph packedtext in a small living room. Christmas trees were lined with presents, and laughter and hugs were welcomed. Marissa’s mother and father were married for 31 years until his passing. Easter was a happy time, and church was a priority. Morals were taught and respect was a must. Marissa wants her child to experience the happy memories she enjoyed and longs for still.

We made a friend on our recent Carribean Cruise :)

Pets

Leisure

Home

We live on the outskirts of a city out in the country. We have a three bedroom and two half bath home. It is a single story with a front porch and a fenced backyard for the children to play and the pets to roam free.

We live down the street from a gymnastics center and an elementary school. The local high school is not far, along with a gas station. The neighborhood is made up of families with children and older people.

Since we have been doing foster care, our two bedrooms are already made up for children. We also have the house childproofed and baby gates are put up. We have no garage, just an outbuilding for storage and an attic. The house is about 1,500 square feet and very cozy. We do live on a somewhat busy main road, but it is mainly used for the residents that live in the neighborhood. We have lived in this house for the last two years. People are very friendly and willing to help you out if needed.

Thank you for taking the time to check out our profile. If you are Interested, please call Everlasting Adoptions at 630-880-3717