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!

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Grover Brothers

Awww, here come the Grover boys! Or will it be more like..... Uh Oh! Here come the Grover boys!!! ha ha! I'm sure we will get both scenarios at one point or another! About a week ago I had this amazing dream about my 2 boys.... in my dream they were both riding in a red wagon, like 2 peas in a pod, one with reddish strawberry blond hair, the other with really light blond hair. They both had the sweetest smiles and I felt overcome with so much love and pride. I woke up from that dream smiling, and very excited for the arrival of Jax and the 2 boys meeting and forming a brotherly bond. Got me thinking and dreaming even more about what our future might look like. I started thinking about our own "brother relationships" within the Grover and Dlab families. Maybe that's why we are being blessed with 2 boys, guess it runs in the family!! Brad is one of 4 children, but he and his brother Rodney are the youngest, exactly 24 months apart to the exact day (they share a birthday!). Their baby and childhood pictures come close to what photos of Taj and Jax may look like (not only because they will only be 19 months apart, but don't tell me you can't see the resemblance of baby Brad and Taj in the first few pics!)

This is what we have to look forward to when we bring Baby Jax home from the hospital and Taji may try to cuddle with him!: (the baby is Brad if you are wondering!)
Here's more of the Grover brothers:
And in the below pic, this is where Brad (on the left) looks so much like Taj..... similar smiles! :

Boys will be Boys..... we have this to look forward to....... the boys fighting over toys. A piece of advice I recently heard is when you have 2 boys (especially young and close in age) be prepared to get 2 of everything......

And hopefully as they get older, they will have the same shared interests like Brad and Rodney had.......


This next set of photos absolutely cracks me up!!!! It's the Dlab brothers!!! My dad and his brother Jura are 3 years apart (my dad is the older brother). Growing up the poor boys were succumbed to my grandmother's crazy fashion sense!!! She loved to dress her boys like identical twins, and so many of the outfits look like costumes but they actually wore them out to public! The photos are sooooo adorable however a good warning for me to not go overboard like this with my sons!



Even as handsome young men, they continued to sport the same hair!!! I'm sure this makes my dad shudder, sorry Tati but I just couldn't resist!!

We have so much to look forward to! SO excited to take pics of my boys in coordinating outfits (don't worry I won't make them into twins)...... i'm getting inspired just thinking about it :)

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