How We Met

Well kind of long and bittersweet journey……Now as you know Rachel and Bo grew up, and went to school together, but they had never officially met. Bo had a huge crush on Rachel for the longest time, but since Rachel was a few years older Bo never stood a chance! Now fast forward a few years and Rachel was living in Arizona, and Bo was moving around with the Navy.  Well in 2008 tragedy struck Bo and Rachel very similar, but neither knew at the time that out of their tragedy they would find love and friendship. While on deployment in April of 2008, Bo’s best friend Adrian Campos lost his life. Soon after Bo returned back to the states, after a few weeks home Bo learned that another one of his good friends had been killed in Iraq. Bo had never felt heartbreak like this before, but he continued on and went to Pensacola, Florida where he began his Naval Aircrew training. Little did Bo know but in August of that same year Rachel would experience similar a heartbreak. Now out to Arizona--Rachel experienced a huge loss when her Fiancé Michael, had a heart attack, slipped into a coma, and then passed away. Rachel’s world had been shattered, torn apart, and crumbled all at the same time.  
One night Bo noticed all the facebook prayers and encouraging words filling up his news feed to Rachel.  He had kind of heard through the grapevine what was going on, and commented to Rachel as well. He sent her and message saying that he knew where she was coming from and what she was going through. He then left her with a few Bible verses his mother sent to him after his friends passed on.  Rachel quickly responded with a "thank you" and asked for continual prayers. From that point on Rachel and Bo became best friends without each other even knowing it at the time.  Over the next year and a half they kept messaging and texting each other. It was December 2, 2009 and Rachel and Bo opened up about their “crush” on each other.  Bo told Rachel that he’d had a huge crush on her since they were kids. They talked constantly until finally on Christmas Eve they met at the Oak Ridge marina. It was pouring rain, but as soon as they saw each other, they both ran to each other, kissed, and the rest is history!