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, February 16, 2017

Friday, February 10, 2017

Ski Season 2017



 This was truly the winter season Peanut graduated to SKIER (at age 5)!  He went from ski bunny on the bunny hill practicing his pizza and turns with his teacher mama, to then riding the chair lift on the big hills and joining in a race with his brother!  By the end of ski season, mid March, the brothers were flying down the hill, chasing after one another!  Taj has always been a speedster on skis since last year, but now we have new dare devil among us!  He's the youngest, the smallest, and he just zips down the hill.  I have to remind him to make wider turns and keep better control because the bigger hills are steep.  SO proud of our Peanut for really working hard to ski his best, and now both boys have so much fun skiing together!  WE as a family have a BLAST skiing together, our first season to ride the chair lift together and ski the hills of Tannenbaum and Yodeler at Holiday Valley!  We went from couples skiing with the boys in ski school (and Jax in daycare) (approx year 2014 & 2015) to teaching Taji and skiing with mostly him while Jax was in ski school (year 2016), to year 2017 officially being the year we skied as whole FAMILY... and mama also got to ski solo with her boys and ski the big hills.  Each year, they improve by leaps and bounds! 


















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