starting to show

I can't believe I am already 16 weeks pregnant! This whole process has been so surreal... over the past couple weeks my belly has started to grow and its feeling more real. I swear every morning I wake up and freak out cause I feel bigger and bigger, so crazy. I can't believe there is a baby growing inside me. At first all these changes really freaked me out cause I could feel it stretching and all this pressure that would make me sick. I lost 1o lbs in the first couple months because of lack of appetite so I'm happy to finally be feeling better and I'm enjoying the process now. Its been fun to read all the prego books and find out how much our baby has developed every week. Its amazing.
Scotty has been the best supportive husband during the past 4 months. My morning sickness came at night and luckily I only threw up a couple times but I had really bad cramping and unfortunately I still have trouble sleeping so I'm always exhausted. Scottys been there for me with anything that I needed.. back/foot massages, whatever food I was craving (mostly sprite and salty foods), and sleeping on the couch when I needed the whole bed to be surrounded by pillows. He has had to be patient with me when I bursts of energy and want to go out and then an hour later I'm feeling terrible and wanna go to bed. Our date nights have been a lot of take out and movie nights. I'm lucky to have an almost doc hubs that knows whats going on when I get my paranoid concerns. He couldn't be more excited about my growing belly and is looking forward to delivering our baby.
I'm supposed to double in size between now and 20 weeks- My torso is so short that this baby is going to make me huge. Luckily I can wear scrubs to work! I've got bio oil, maternity jeans, cute preg tops, and the best maternity bra... I'm ready  :)  

15 weeks size of an apple



size of a lime



size of a sesame seed

12 week ultrasound pics

{12 week ultrasound }

This was my second ultrasound so I didn't cry as much as the first but I still get emotional even now looking at them. Its so amazing to see our little baby growing inside me. Hearing the heart beat makes all these months of feeling sick so worth it and brings everything to reality. They measured the spine and took some blood to make sure the baby didn't have down syndrome or other defects. Everything was perfect and the ob was really happy with how healthy the baby looked :) I'm gaining some of my weight back and starting to get a little belly! Can't wait for my 20 week ultrasound in Feb to find out if its a boy or a girl.

I'll be home for Christmas

Christmas Eve

we went out to dinner at the Jasmine, got silly pjs from the elfs, played games, and watched Christmas Vacation. I couldn't get in the hottub this year but it didn't matter since utah had no snow.. crazy. We had a great night!





mom and lil sis

 Christmas Morning

We woke up early cause Santa came for Scotts little brother Hayden! We had a great morning opening gifts and surprising his family with our exciting news...

Scotty with his lil bro Hayden

 Telling Scotts family that we are expecting a baby....

Mike is in total shock

so excited for their first grandchild!!!

 we headed over to my parents house for brunch with my grandparents. we spent the afternoon opening gifts

my sisters and I with grandpa O

My grandparents surprized us with a baby present... so thoughful!!

Jensen Christmas party

 gamma girls

 Jensen Family Pics

remake of a pic when we were younger (we do this every yr lol)

we didn't document our trip in pics that well cause we were so busy trying to see everyone/ do everything. We had so much fun telling everyone in person that we were going to have a baby. Since I'm pregnant I couldn't do our usual (skiing, iceskating, hiking, even temple square cause I get so tired at night).. but scotty went skiing with his family, I went to park city with my family, we ate at some of our fav resturants, caught up with kat and jon, saw my gamma sisters, visited family, got gel nails with  my my mom and sis, played michael jackson wii with my fam, went out to lunch with mike and jordi, saw scotts buddies for new years, and we did a lot of shopping. We were so spoiled and took full advantage of being with family and friends for that short amount of time. So sad Christmas is over and I'm back in wisco...but so happy we had an amazing christmas holiday!  

best fortune cookie ever

this is the story of how I told scotty I was pregnant...

{warning:  I only spared a few details}

A little over 3 months ago I woke up to a normal Friday morning and went to the bathroom to get ready for work. I had been feeling kinda crappy but since I recently got off of birth control it was totally normal for me to feel bad and to be a couple days late.  Being my curious self I took a preg test anyways just to get my hopes down and prepare myself for another torturous period. I didn't think anything of it and continued with my normal morning routine. When I got out of the shower I remembered and look down at the stick in disbelief. I stood there dripping wet, all by myself, in total shock. It was positive.

I'm pretty optimistic but when it came to getting pregnant I prepared myself for the worst. Even though it would be frustrating I was totally prepared to try for at least six months before I even started tracking ovulation and wait at least a year before I became obsessed and go to the doc for help. I watched my oldest sis try for years and I just assumed it might also take long for me... so I was fully ready to not be disappointed once a month. That being said, Scotty and I were trying and hoping and praying but not expecting anything to happen right away.

I don't really remember what happened during the next couple minutes... I was freaking out. I had to tell somebody... I knew scotty couldn't answer his phone and I couldn't say it over text/email. How was I supposed to get ready for work now?! Scotty was in the middle of his OBGYN rotation and had been really busy with long hours. I hadn't seen him really in the last couple days and I was looking forward to our Friday date night. Could I wait til then to tell him?! Being close with my coworker Mandy (who also found out she was preg that week, crazy!) I texted her and ran over to work.  Working together for over a year now we knew each other really well and had talked about ways I could tell my family when I got pregnant.  Since I couldn't tell Scotty right away I thought it would be so awesome to surprise him in one of those ways! For lunch we went over to P.F Changs and told the manager what I wanted to do... I grabbed some fortune cookies, made reservations, and bought a gift card.  We came back to work and after many attempts we put the same fortune in two of the cookies. (wrap the cookie in a wet paper towel and microwave for a couple seconds... then quickly replace fortune while cookie is still warm) We even glued that plastic covering back over them and you couldn't even tell!!  

Work was agonizing to say the least. I finally got a text from him around 4 asking how I was doing... I told him I had won a gift card from my Rewards & Recognition committee and I had made reservations at 6. He was stoked for free dinner and didn't even question it because I had won gift cards before. When I initially saw him it was hard to not share the huge news but by this point (and after all my planning) I could wait another hour. With the fortune cookies in my purse, we finally went to dinner. When I told the hostess my name she smiled at me and the other waitress's all gave that cutesy look at us and totally almost gave something away (scott says he didn't even notice but it was obvious haha) They sat us at a nice private booth and our waitress was super nice. I don't know if I was just anxious or cause I was sick being preg but chinese food was the last thing that sounded good to me..  I barely ate anything. gag.  We had a great dinner though- we hadn't really spent time together in awhile so it was nice to catch up and hear all about his rotation and his experience delivering babies. At one point he even said "its totally normal to take a year to get pregnant for like 80% of women"... little did he know he was about to get the biggest surprise of his life. I acted like I had to go to the bathroom to give our waitress the fortune cookies and told her to bring them out asap cause I couldn't wait any longer. We weren't even done with our meal but she brought them over and Scott picked one up right away. I could see the super glue on the plastic wrap where we had carefully put it back together. I tried my hardest to continue in our conversation but I was just staring at the cookie as he opened it up and read it. His expression was priceless... total shock/confusion. I can't say his exact words since he swore haha I guess my well worded fortune was so legit he thought it was just a coincidence cause we were just talking about pregnancy. He looked at me and I said "its true... I found out this morning... I'm pregnant!!!" AH he had no clue, we hugged and laughed and smiled and got really nervous/giddy as reality sunk it... it was such an AMAZING moment. I was so happy that he finally knew and that we were going to have a baby!!! The manager came over and said congrats and that he had told some of the tables around us.. one even payed our bill but remained anonymous. I'm pretty proud of myself for keeping it a secret, everything worked out perfect!

What was going to just be our normal every friday night-date night will now be a night we will never forget. We coudn't be more excited for this next chapter in our life :)            

2011 highlights

{2011 highlights}

Went snowshoeing when everything closed down since wisconsin got the most snow in one day that it has had in over 10 years. saw janet jackson in vegas with my sisters. Celebrated my 24th bday. I survived the lack of husband during his busiest year by watching Friends. celebrated our 3rd year anniversary. Scott passed the step 1 boards!! I helped out with young women girls camp. Stayed at a b&b in Door County for a little summer getaway. went to nauvoo with my mom and lil sis. Scott started his 3rd year of med school with easy rotations. spent a lot of time being photographers and learning how to edit. went to north carolina for the baby blessing of my 4th niece Ava. Spent a week at myrtle beach. Officially been at my job for a year. went to chicago with my girls. Found out I was pregnant! dressed up as snooki and pauly d for Halloween. Had a delish thanksgiving at the Jackmans surrounded by friends. Celebrated scottys 28th bday.
 Had an amazing christmas back in utah with family that we already miss so much.

Here's to 2011!!
 We had an amazing year.  2012 will be even more amazing... We are happy to finally tell the world that baby carver is due June 21 :)

Merry Christmas {love the carvers}

hope your holidays are bright





{of course I couldn't just choose one pic cause they were so fun to take... merry christmas!}

candy cane lane

every year Scotty and I take a drive down

Candy Cane Lane

Its not really a lane...but rather an entire block of houses that are decorated like crazy. Santa is even there and hands out candy canes when you make a donation to some charity. Since we don't have snow yet and it still hasn't hit me that's its December... it was a great night to get us in the Christmas spirit!!

and my favorite.. the penguin house

ugly sweater ~ eggnog party

on Saturday the Halls hosted a

ugly sweater eggnog party

and it was so fun to get together with everyone before we all leave for the holidays. We found some pretty ug sweaters...

Happy Birthday Hubs

28!!

if you had a birthday shout HOORAY! we want to sing to you today. one year older and wiser too. Happy birthday, to YOU!



I keep giving scotty grief that he turned 28 but he reminded me that I'll be turning 25 next... we are getting old!

We usually can't celebrate Scottys birthday because it always around finals so we got excited that this would be the first year that we could actually go out... but his birthday happened to be on a Sunday haha. He was also on call Saturday night so we couldn't go out until Monday. We went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and it was so delish. It was so nice to have a good meal and be with my birthday boy. Seriously best hubsand ever...

 how did I get so lucky?!

I love you babes!

for his present he got a canon wide angle lense that brings in more light and takes really cool artsy pics.
He already loves playing around with it...

miller time {weekend recap}

here in Wisco instead of going to Temple Square to see the lights we head over to Miller Valley. Not to down play the ghettoness but they actually put on a really cool light show thats fun to check out. Very festive. Although its starting to get freezing cold, it was a nice date night with the hubs to get us into the Christmas spirit. We went out to Noodles & Co. for dinner and spend the night cuddled up watching Elf.

On sat we went to the Halls to play a Dance 3 game on their wii.. it was so hilarious to watch the boys get there dance on. Jess and I are getting pretty good at Britney Spears (I felt like I was 13 again dancing to oops I did it again haha) We made hot chocolate with their cocomotion and chilled after so the boys could watch the Badger football game. It was a fun and relaxing weekend :)