Taryn & Brandon's Adventure

There has been a lot going on in Taryn & Brandon's life so we wanted to share it with you.

Lets start with May of this year when Brandon graduated from GCU with his degree in Christian Studies. This will allow him to pursue his passion of being a youth minister. While going to school this year he had already started his pastor adventure by working with a start up church in Scottsdale and creating thier youth program.

Then this summer he and Taryn moved to Scottsdale to be near the church and her work. She also had a job in Scottsdale working as a nursing extern for Mayo Clinic for the summer. Taryn still had 1 more semister to complete her degree in nursing from GCU so this was a great opportunity for her.

They also decided to become dog parents once they had there own apartment which wasn't on campus. They went to the pound and are now the proud parents of Tayler. She was 6 months old when they got her and is a lab mutt. The cutest thing you have ever seen!

During the summer they also found out that the start up church wasn't going to be able to move Brandon to a full time job so they decided it was time to look for a job that was something more stable. This led them to a country wide search of churchs who had an opening for a youth pastor. Brandon ended up with a number of interested churchs from CA to IL to MO to VA. In the end it was the Journey Christian Church in Midlothian VA (a suburb of Richmond) that won! If you would like to check it out here is the web site
http://journeychristian.us/index.php?nid=37507&s=hm
The postion they offered was for Brandon to start Sept 21. This meant that they will live apart for 3 months with him in VA and her in AZ. Then when she graduates in Dec she will join him. They have given up thier Scottsdale place, rented a VERY cute house in Midlothian and she is going to live with Catheryn (her old college roommate) until she leaves for VA.
As I write this she, Brandon and Tayler are in Brandon's car crossing the country to move him to VA. Then we will be back in AZ in Dec and get to drive her to VA after graduation. Can't you just picture Tom, Taryn and I in the Echo for this road trip. What a hoot that will be!
Also remember that Taryn & Brandon helped us drive to FL so this makes MULTIPLE trips for all of us across many states with Taryn winning the prize for the most since she gets to do it 3 times in 1 year.

The latest (and best) part in all of this is Taryn found out a few days ago that she is pregnant!!!!!!!
Yes Brandon will be a Dad, Tayler will have a sibling and we will be grandparents. All of us are VERY EXCITED!!!!! She is only 6 weeks along and due May 17 so things will stay as planned with us scheduling a trip to VA in May! Of course there will be blog updates as things progress.

If you would like to send them a Congrats she can be reached at volybal2@msn.com