Bryan & Jenny

Blessed by six...

Married for 3 years now, and the Masches tried to have children for about 2 ½ years without any luck. Jenny did get pregnant twice but unfortunately had two miscarriages. That’s when Bryan and Jenny decided to do the artificial insemination procedure. The Masches DID NOT IMPLANT SIX EMBRYOS. People have asked “Why would you have six kids implanted?” That’s when it has to be explained that a totally different procedure was used. The doctor simply gave Jenny the drugs to increase fertility, and then they took Bryan's contribution, and turkey baster...and voila... God decided to make six babies.

Jenny is currently 18 weeks pregnant and all six babies seem to be fine at this point. An ultrasound last week and it revealed that we are having 4 boys and 2 girls. All of the babies are in their own sack and have their own placentas. It is a miracle that none of these babies are identical….no twins, triplets etc. Dr. Elliot has stated that this is a better situation because the risk of twin to twin transfusion in not there. Jenny is currently living in Phoenix with her Aunt and Uncle which is about 3 hours away from Lake Havasu.

back to the beginning...

After high school Bryan joined the Air Force and spent 4 years traveling the world, living in Japan, Korea, and Guam and spent a substantial time in the Middle East. At 22 Bryan's enlistment was up and he went off active duty into the reserves. Bryan started school at a community college in Glendale, Arizona. At the same time Jenny was starting Physician Assistant School also in Glendale. Bryan and Jenny lived only minutes apart from each other at this time, but never met. After Bryan's first year of school, he transferred to Arizona State University. After started his sophomore year at ASU in August 2001, a month later 9-11 happened. By this time Bryan had already gone into the inactive reserve and only actively drilling reservists we being called up giving Bryan the thought he was safe from being placed on active duty. Its not that the Masches weren't upset about 9-11 and that Bryan did not want to serve again, but at this point Bryan was already in school and had already served in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Unknown to Bryan, the military was trying to track him down, but since he was an inactive reservist he was not required to go to the base nor keep in contact with anyone.

Bryan continued to go to class everyday and watch the beginning of the war on terror from his television set., and then the phone call came. Since the military did not know where Bryan was they called Bryan's parents' house in Lake Havasu. Bryan's dad answered the phone and said “Of course I know where my son is”; not realizing he had just triggered the life changing event that lead to the circumstance of today. The military tracked Bryan down and he was placed on active duty. Bryan had to cut  classes down from full time to part time and started working the 12 hour night shift at the base 1 hour away. At this point Jenny was far along in her studies preparing for her career in medicine. Little did they know that when Bryan would drive to the base he was only minutes away from Jenny.

During the second year of Bryan's activation, the military decided to start using reservists the same as active duty and they were now going to be shipping my 13 man team off to Kuwait to perform Air Base Defense for the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  This trip would be where Bryan and Jenny would meet. Bryan's closest friend in my unit had grown up with Jenny in Camp Verde. His wife and Jenny had been best girlfriends growing up. Mike my friend had started telling his wife about me, and she thought that Jenny and I would hit it off. So Mike emailed Jenny who was now living in Texas, having started her first job after graduation from Physician Assistant School. So from opposite ends of the world, after living just minutes apart from each other,  Bryan emailed Jenny and a pen pal relationship began. Jenny says to this day that she was just doing her patriotic duty. So for about 3 ½ months Bryan and Jenny emailed each other back and forth while Bryan waited for the war to begin. Then in March of 2003 Bryan came home, was released and started school again. Jenny and Bryan then spent 3 months talking on the phone and developing a wonderful friendship, having not met or seen pictures of each other, but were falling in love. Bryan found himself being attracted to someone without having ever seen her face. Then on Memorial Day 2003, Bryan and Jenny met. Jenny flew to Arizona and they were inseparable from then on. Bryan would fly to Texas and Jenny would fly to Arizona.

A few months after first seeing each other Bryan knew 'this was it'.  On August 29, 2003 Bryan and Jenny got engaged at a nationally televised Arizona Diamondbacks game. Bryan had emailed an announcer Todd Walsh from FOX Sports Net and told him the story of their meeting in detail. Todd liked the story so much that he interviewed Bryan and Jenny, and Bryan did the whole 'one knee thing' in front of 50,000 at the ballpark and live TV. The proposal was awesome and the Masches have the tape to show the kids someday. The Masches got married the following January (2004) and have been together since. There is plenty more to the story, and now the story only gets better with the blessing of 6 babies on the way!