This was the day Zane came home from the hospital and soooo much has happened since then! Ive been a total slacker at posting so this is going to be a long post!

Zane was blessed by my wonderful and amazing hubby on November 2, 2009. We had a get together at our house after. Zac did a great job during the blessing and I am lucky to have a worthy priesthood holder as a husband to give our son such a spiritual blessing. Zac's mom made Zanes outfit and as always she did a great job.

Heres our little guy on his special day. He didnt cry during the blessing...yeah!!

Morgan came down in November from Chicago for her family baby shower and I was lucky enough to be able to go to see her and her beautiful belly. She was able to meet Zane, we didnt get to see her for long but it was great to catch up with her!!

The Hoover family goes bowling every Thanksgiving so we took Zane to the bowling alley so he could join in the festivities!

Cara and her gorgeous babies came to Az over the Thanksgiving break. Our babies are 4 days apart...and we didnt even plan on having babies together it just happened that way. I was so excited to see Cara that I started crying as soon as I saw her. Katie came down from DC to visit us too and we had a lot of fun catching up on baby stories and stories about boys!

Dawn and Tyler were also in town for the Thanksgiving holiday and I was soo excited to see Dawn. Dawn is an amazing friend. She lives in CA and came to Az for my bridal shower and for my baby shower!! She is so thoughtful and giving and I wish I was more like her. I miss her lots. I remember when Tyler was born and I got to hang out with him just about everyday when he was little :)

Zane has a smile that lights up a room. He loves to stick out his tongue when he smiles. He rarely if ever smiles for the camera so I tried with my camera phone and it finally worked. Zane is such a good and happy baby. He only cries when he is hungry or tired. He smiles all the time, babbles, laughs and just started making rasberries with his mouth. I love watching him grow and develop...its my favorite thing these days.

Heres a family pic. We went to the temple lights with my parents, Anna and her kiddos. Anna was in town for a few days and I totally forgot to take pictures of her with Zane and I. She will be back in March so I will have to take more pics then. I miss her like crazy!!

Here is Zane on Christmas morning with Zac. Zane loves his dad. Zane totally starts kicking and making sounds when Zac comes home, he gives Zac big smiles and it's the best thing ever to see them hang out together. Zac is a great dad and helps me out more than he knows!!

I love being a mom. I am blessed to have Zane. It was rough for me the first 10 weeks but then he started sleeping more at night and that has been fantastic. For awhile I thought that day would never come. I cant thank my mom enough for all the help she gave us after Zane was born. I had a really hard time adjusting and healing after Zane was born and my mom was there anytime that I needed her...and it was lots! I love her even more and have a better understanding of the love she has for me now that I am a mom. She also watches Zane while I go to work, another thing I am sooo grateful for! Zane is growing like a week. He was in the 99th percentile for his weight at his 2 month check up and 75th for head circ. and length. I weighed him the other week and he was 17 pounds. He's wearing 6-9 month clothes, except the pants are way too long..but he looks so cute in them! I hope to get better at posting!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Heres a pic of us on Christmas day...more to come soon!!

We're alive...but tired

Life has been wonderful but crazy over the last 7 weeks. I love being a mom and Zane is growing like a weed. He will be 2 months next week. I cant believe how time flies!!! Zane has had several feeding issues which has been difficult for him and for me too. We are working on getting him to go 2 hours in between feedings, and we are almost there!!! He likes to sleep for 3 hours at night and then he is up every 90 minutes after that and I have to make him hold off for another 30 minutes before its time to eat again. That being said I've had little sleep over the past 7 weeks. He eats almost as frequently as a newborn. So that is why I havent had time to blog, when he finishes eating I have about an hour til the next feeding and I usually eat, pee or try to sleep in that hour. Zane was blessed this past Sunday and Zac did a great job. Heres some pics of our little guy. Ill get some more soon!!

BABY HOOVER IS FINALLY HERE!!!!

This is Melanie posting for Tia and Zac. I'd love to introduce to you...........

ZANE WHITING HOOVER

born 9/13/09 at 9:27pm

8lbs 3.5oz

20in

(1 day shy of her due date and Zac's birthday)

Tia was a trooper and did an amazing job! Zane is a beautiful baby boy! Tia and Zac are so happy and overjoyed! I'm so excited for this new adventure in their lives! They are going to be AWESOME parents! Love you guys!!!

July 2009

On July 1st Zac's brother Jeremy and his wife Lauren had their baby. They named him Conrad Quinn Hoover. I cant remember how much he weighed but he is a cutie. I thought for sure their baby would have the Hoover nose but he has Laurens nose, so my guess our baby will inherit the prominent Hoover nose.


Thanks to Jeremy we got to stay at the Montelucia in Scottsdale, right behind Camelback mountain. It was beautiful. Jeremy and Lauren were supposed to go July 3rd and 4th but thier baby came a week so they werent able to go and Jeremy asked us if we wanted to go so we jumped at the chance.

This was our bed. It was most comfortable bed we have ever slept on!! It was very nice!

This was the view outside our balcony. You could see Camelback mountain when you walked out the front door and this is the view from the back.

This was the fireworks show we watched from our balcony...it was amazing to see them so close.

We went to Colorado Springs last weekend to visit my sister Anna and the triplets. It was the last week my doctor said I could fly so we decided to go and had lots of fun. We went to Helen Hunt Falls and Zac enjoyed playing with the kids in the creek.

I was too afraid of falling in the creek so I mostly hung out on this rock and at the picnick table with Anna.

AACSg/bT The next day we went to the Airforce Academy. We thought we would see lots of cool planes but this was the only one we got to see. Its a huge tourist attaction but had we known that there werent any cool planes etc we would have skipped it.

They have a really cool church that you can see from the freeway.This is us outside of the church, you cant see much of it but I promise it does look cool.

6H4Gptw2f4/s320/July+2009+017.jpg" border=0> We went to Garden of the Gods, which was really cool. If I wasnt pregnant I would have been able to go on the trails. I was a little bummed I couldnt do as much hiking as I would have liked but we will visit again and then I can see more.

m/_HEVaYI0TgKk/SnZYrQU087I/AAAAAAAACR4/Dl6iVPX2ZX4/s320/July+2009+024.jpg" border=0> I thought this picture of Anna and I was funny because Im covering half of her body...good times. Six more weeks to go before baby Hoovie is here. No name picked out for him yet and we still have lots to do before he gets here....so much to do that I dont even like thinking about it...Ive been a slacker!!

Busy Busy

***Long Post**
It been awhile since I last posted. The last 2 months have been really busy! My pregnancy has been great since week 18, no complaints. Our little boy is due exactly 3 months from today. I cant believe I am heading into my 3rd trimester...it has flown by. I hope the next 3 months go by fast!! I love feeling him move around in my belly its the coolest thing ever. Here's whats been going on with Zac and I over the last 2 months. I posted from most recent to oldest but should have done the other way around...oops!

The newest addition to the Scanlan family,Gracee, was blessed in June. Here is Zack's family on her special day. Zack gave a wonderful blessing. His kiddos are so lucky to have such wonderful parents!!

It looks like Addie is trying to crush Gracee's head but she is trying to keep her head from falling to the side. She is such a good big sister to her 3 little sisters :)

Here we are after the blessing. Gracee was asleep so we didnt get a picture with her :(

The last week of May Zac and I went to San Diego for our last trip before the baby is born. My favorite thing to do is to relax on the beach so that was our plan and one of the main reasons we went to CA to enjoy the sun. We never saw the sun for the 4 days we were there. From the time we got there until the time we left nothing but clouds. I was sooooo sad. The weather was really nice but I was hoping for some sun but no luck. I was a little freaked out when I walked out of our hotel room and saw this warning sign about how the hotel has chemicals that can birth defects and cancer. Good times!!!

Zac had never been to the SD temple so that was one of our first stops when we got there. I love this temple.

We went to the USS Midway. It was really cool to be on the ship and to see all the planes. We love to check out air museums etc. Zac thought we was Maverick from Top Gun!

We went to Cabrillo National Monument. On a clear day you can see all of SD but since there was a marine layer we could only see a portion of it but it was still a cool place.

Here I am freezing at the beach on Coronado Island. It was nice to walk around the beach but chilly.

This pic shows my lovely pregnancy weight gain!!

Here's my mom and I on Mothers Day. She is the most amazing woman I know. She gives so much of her time to her kids and grandchildren. You can always count on her. She is the a wonderful example to me and I love her soooo much! Zac suprised me and made me the cutest card and got me a gift certificate. I woke up on Mothers Day and went to get into the shower and there was a big homemade card on the sink. I didnt think he was going to do anything for me since I am not technically a mother yet. I love him like crazy and cant wait for us to start this next chapter of our lives.

Gracee Fate Scanlan was born on May 5th....baby #13 for our family. I cant remember how much she weighed but she was the biggest of the 4 girls. She is a cutie!!

Here my dad and Lucy (Jason and Emily's baby). She is a little chunker and is even chunkier now!! I love this pic of the 2 of them.

Here is Lucy at her blessing in April, much smaller in this pic. She was blessed on Easter:)