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, April 4, 2013

Our First NY Easter, 2013

Hop Hop Hop 
I was wondering whether the Easter Bunny would leave his warm bunny hole to deliver easter egg goodies in the cold snowy grass, but nothing stops him..... Snow or Shine, this bunny means business!
This marks our first ever "white" Easter! And it began one week earlier when we had breakfast with the Easter Bunny at Wegman's :)


Jax was smitten with the bunny..... he loved on him so much, and wanted to take him home!

Easter 2013 Family Portrait :)

The days leading up to Easter Sunday were full of many arts and crafts, 
egg painting, and cookie baking!
Jax dyeing his first easter egg 

The day before Easter, we not only baked cookies, and dyed more eggs, but it was such a nice "warm 50 degree" day that we got to play at the playground!






Easter morning..... Egg Hunt #1 (indoors)





Egg Hunt #2 (outside)  The snow was melting and we had another warm day to relish!

Hunting for eggs in the snow!







The boys found lots of neat little toy surprises in their eggs, and also got a big Easter basket filled with new paintbrushes, science projects, squishy monsters, and chocolate bunnies!

Then the bunny told the boys he had another fun surprise for them, and so we followed the bunny down his bunny hole and came out on the other end... splish splashing!!! 
At Splash Lagoon (giant indoor water park) in Erie, PA!



Not a bad Easter Sunday, spent playing at the kiddie water playground, splashing in wave pools, floating in the lazy river, and going down water slides!  It was a fun family day!  Taji was also brave enough to go down a couple toddler/kiddie water slides and LOVED it!
It almost felt like we were on vacation :)

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