We met in April 2014 while visiting our grandma's here in Spring Hill, FL. Rachel was on spring break with her friend and Alex had just moved down from Minnesota. Rachel and her friend were at the timber pines lodge hot tub one evening and in walks Alex and decides to hop in and strike a conversation. Rachel, being on the shy side, didn’t contribute much to the conversation at first. By the end of the evening, we were talking and laughing. Alex made the sly move of saying “Hey, give me your number and we can meet up here again before you go back home”. And Rachel obviously did. We met up a few more times that vacation and kept in touch after Rachel went back home. After a month of talking nonstop, we decided to officially start dating long distance. Here we are 9 years later with an amazing little girl and ready to start our forever!