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!

Monday, June 1, 2015

Spring Break with the Boys- Chasing the "Green"

 The Buffalo Botanical Gardens
Loved it.  Will definitely be coming back especially next March/ April.  The flowers, plants, and trees were very beautiful and so tropical!  It was very warm in there too, especially the children's garden where they got to play in the sandbox










 Erie Zoo
Our hundredth visit or so….. this is always a favorite of ours any time of the year.  It was a no-jacket-kind-of-day so we seized it by going the zoo.  The animals were really excited about the temperature change too, they were all out!  Do you see what I mean about the brown??








 Tom Ridge Environmental Center, in Erie PA




Future Engineer at work!

We also met friends and visited the Erie Experience Children's Museum on the Friday before Spring Break.


IMG 5489 from jana grover on Vimeo.

The week of Spring Break (last week of March), the weather kept warming up….. and the boys finally got to play outside on their playground without needing a winter coat!

They were really excited! So were we!

A few weeks after, on another non-Spring chilly day,  I took the boys to the Buffalo Museum of Natural History to see their dinosaur exhibit.  Its a great museum with plenty of fun, but I hated the location.  Right smack in the middle of the ghetto :-(










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