Meet the Parents: Ventura, California

Peek inside the life of this surfing, designing, business-owning family on the California coast.

By Anna Dubrovsky

Courtesy of the Jones family

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Meet the Joneses

Meet the parents:

DeNai, 35, and Braden, 33

Meet the kids:

Sutton, 2
Miller, 5 months

How they met:

"We met right after high school," says DeNai. "A mutual friend was taking a photography class, and she used both of us as models independently. Brady happened to be flipping through her book of photos and saw my photo and was asking who I was. She gave him the photo, and he had it up in his bedroom for a couple of months. Then she surprised him by bringing me over to one of his family barbecues. He panicked because he was afraid I'd go into his bedroom and see the photo. At the barbecue, he acted like he had no idea who I was, and I thought: This guy is a real piece of work!

"We started hanging out and became good friends, and then we dated for six years before we got married. We've been married 10 years now. We've definitely grown up together."

"The day I met her, she was perfect," Braden says. "It's hard to imagine her getting any better, but she has."

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