our story

It all began on the evening of Nov 29th 2003, at former Chat Noir French Restaurant in Costa Mesa, CA. Brad approached me [Jana] and we instantly connected; it was love at first sight. The next 4 years that followed were a whirlwind of romance, growing pains, and adventures. We circled the globe, traveling to South America, Europe, and Asia. Then one night, Brad surprised me with a romantic beachside proposal. We made it official on August 23rd 2008 with an intimate wedding at a hip art gallery in Laguna Beach. A year later we finished redesigning our home in the beach village of Corona del Mar.

On May 18th, 2010, we were blessed with a sweet little miracle of our own, our baby boy Taj Leon. He stole our hearts and took our breath away! Then, 19 months later, his incredible little brother, Jax Franz, arrived on Christmas morning (December 25th) 2011. What an amazing gift we received! In an effort to slow down the clock and enjoy our beautiful family, in Spring of 2012, we sold our CA seaside home and moved across the country to our dream lake house in Brad's hometown of Bemus Point, a resort village on Chautauqua Lake in Western New York! Even though we are living a more slow paced life, we are living a life far from ordinary!

From the West Coast to the East Coast, our Grover family adventures continue! So won't you come along and join us on this journey of love, family, and travel we like to call our La Vida Grover!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

We have a CRAWLER! Time to baby proof the house!

Yippeeee! We are very proud to announce that Taj is officially crawling forward on his hands and knees! After weeks of crawling backwards and swaying back and forth (and teasing all of us), he is now in the crawling club! Maybe Bodee had something to do with it, and Taji felt the pressure to catch up to him LOL

I got really lucky today and captured his first real crawling on video!! A little long but you can see the transformation and finally the courage for Taj to just let go and crawl a few steps! If you want to see his "first official crawl" you can forward the video to the 5 minute mark and watch until 6:30.... he crawls 2 different times!



As I mentioned, Taji has been crawling backwards since before his 7 month birthday, and he is now super fast, especially on the hard wood floors! This has been his mode of transportation throughout the house and he is really good at turning and manuvering himself from toy to toy. Supposedly this crawl is called the crab crawl! I got this video earlier this week, and I like to call Taji's backward crawling his "moonwalk" :)
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