Bailey & Eeva’s love story
Bailey and Eeva were united by a little princess named Lumi. Eeva came to the United States in fall 2007 to be a short time au pair for a family who moved from Finland to California. The family happened to move to a new place 2 weeks before she went back home. One evening she went to borrow a cookie tray from her new next door neighbors.. And Bailey was the one who opened the door. That was the first time they met. Bailey was smitten, but he didn’t let anyone know about it. Couple days later Bailey and Eeva happened to be at the same time in their common garage. They had a chat. By the end of the chat they realized they were both Christians and they had similar passions in ministry. That was the only discussion they had. Eeva went back home but some how she couldn’t forget her next door neighbor. Something was stirred in her heart. They ended up being Facebook-friends and chatting every once in a while via internet. They began to cultivate a friendship. Eeva decided to go back to California in summer 2008 to work with a Christian organization called Youth with a Mission. She lived in Los Angeles over the summer. She came to visit the little princess and her mom in Santa Barbara at the beginning of summer. Bailey found out that she was coming and invited her to visit his church that weekend. She finally ended up going there all by herself. Luckily they ran into each other in the church’s parking lot. After church Bailey asked her out to lunch before she went back to LA. It felt a little bit like a date, especially to Bailey. Few weeks later Eeva invited Bailey to a Dodgers-game cause she was already going with her YWAM team and she knew he liked Dodgers. Bailey was so excited and drove down to the base. He liked the Dodgers but he was really interested in Eeva and what God was doing through her at YWAM. He drove there and spent a little bit of time at the base with her and her friends. And they drove together in his car to the Dodgers-stadium and shared their testimonies together. At the game they both were little quiet. Eeva’s friends were worried about Eeva. But she was just in her own world and thought about different things and also Bailey who sat next to her. Bailey was just really in awe of Eeva. At the end of the game every one was able to go to the field and watch a firework show. It was at that point that Bailey realized that he had feelings for Eeva and wanted to let her know how he felt. So when he got home from LA a few days later he resolved to write her a letter to tell her how he felt. It took him many revisions before he felt comfortable with what he had to say. But basically he told her that he liked her and he hoped that she liked him. And he asked her out to dinner Earlier that week Eeva had realized that she really liked Bailey but decided not to do anything about it. She decided to give the whole thing to God and let him take the lead. When she got the letter, she was so happy. They ended up going to their first official date a week later at CPK and they hung out all day in downtown LA. The rest is history..
