Family & Home

We live in a small town in Southern California. We both grew up here and have loved it our whole lives! We have an adorable downtown that has fun events throughout the year like the annual “Holiday Stroll” that includes a tree lighting ceremony, or a fun “Trick-or-treat” event for Halloween where elementary schools nearby walk the kids over and trick or treat at all the shops during the day. The whole community gathers for each event! We can go to breakfast downtown on a Saturday morning and see at least 4 people we know each time. It’s quiet, safe, and beautiful! Our town is tucked right up against the mountains and has incredible hiking trails, and it’s only about a 30-minute drive to the beach. Our home is on a quiet cul-de-sac and is walking distance to a few parks. We bought it as a fixer upper and we have worked hard at turning it into a home that we love. Our back yard has lots of grass for playing and we have a jacuzzi that we soak in almost every night. We have wonderful neighbors with young children and it’s a great neighborhood to raise a family!

We are so lucky to have amazing families on both of our sides that are a regular part of our lives! We believe family isn't just who we’re related to; it's about the people who fill our lives with love, laughter, and endless joy. We are so blessed to have most of our family living within a half-hour of us. We both have very supportive parents who can’t wait to be grandparents and siblings who love kids and will love our kids just like their own! Our future child will be incredibly loved by amazing grandparents who have loved and raised us well. Zach’s sister is a nurse and only lives one city over, so we are together often and she just welcomed her first baby which we are over the moon about! Shawna’s brother is a Fishing Guide a few hours away so we go visit him and fish and enjoy the mountains and fresh air and beautiful scenery! Shawna has 2 cousins who are basically like her sisters, who both live at the beach and they are a huge part of our family. We go on family vacations with both sides of our family to the river or the beach, we go on Disneyland trips, and share fun holiday traditions like baking cookies together and enjoying Christmas Eve Game Nights! We are all very close. We also have lots of close friends who have turned into family so our future children will have tons of bonus “aunties” and “uncles” too! Since most of those friends already have children, our future child will have lots of little best friends that become family too.