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, January 18, 2014

Story Time with Ms. Jana


I present to you, Ms. Jana, the story teller!!  Yup, let me introduce you to my once a month gig at our favorite library, Ashville Library.   You can call it "wetting my toes" as I creep slowly back into the working world!  HA HA This is just a volunteer thing, and I secretly love it and get to play preschool teacher for a mere hour a month!

The librarian and I have become pretty good friends and she asked me to do story time every month.  It was my idea to do a monthly theme along with a craft and snack to match!  December was my first story time. We had a GREAT turnout!  8 kids, and their parents.  Whom might I end are all my friends!  Nice to have my friends and community there supporting me.  I did a Christmas Story time, complete with gingerbread baby cookie decorating and eating!  My friend Christy played on her guitar when we sang Christmas songs. It was a blast, and I love that my boys get to participate and enjoy this experience with me!







The January story time turned out to be even bigger: 10 kids!  Some of the same kids and some new friends that heard about the last one and joined in this month!  I did a Snowman Winter theme, so all of the books I read were about snow and winter play!  We made a yummy marshmallow snowman on a pretzel stick snack.  The kids put the marshmallows on the big pretzel stick, added little pretzel sticks for the arms, a gummie hat, and the mommies helped decorate the face and buttons with a cake marker. The kids began munching on their snowmen so fast I couldn't get a single photo of the snowmen's head!  We also had hot cocoa I cooked the morning of story time.  



Next month's story time is all about Valentine's Day, love, kisses, hugs, hearts, and all that mushy stuff since my story time falls on the tuesday right before V-day.  Looking forward to putting on my Pinterest hat again and coming up with a fun craft/ snack!

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