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i finally have a new belly picture.

18 week belly

this pregnancy seems to be TAKING forever. haha. the belly is getting bigger, though it isn't huge yet.. i now know why my clothes still fit.. for one it seems my belly is starting to grow from the middle.. and my hips/butt are staying the same size (thank goodness). i can't believe in two weeks we will probably know the sex of the baby! eek!

i also got my editing action set friday.. i have been playing here and there with it.. editing pictures takes up a lot of your time when you have no idea what you are doing. but i know with practice i will get better/faster with it. even then.. i am really loving the sesame ellis action sets.. REALLY loving it.. i know once i figure out how to do it correctly i will be even more in love with it.. it was worth the money and is going to come in handy when i have kids..

here is my 18week belly edit i did this morning with my action set.. SOOC stands for straight out of camera.. in other words it hasn't been edited yet.. the other two have obviously been edited using some of the sesame ellis action sets..

i also ordered first prints from our digital camera.. david and i have never had anything printed before.. we have owned a digital camera since 2003.. i mean it when i say not once did we ever go to walmart or any other place to have any of our digital pictures printed.. i mainly use my images for the internet etc.. no need to really print anything out.. but now that we are pregnant (yipee) and we now own a DSLR, it seems unnatural for me to not ever get anything printed.. so i found a professional photography printing studio.. no offense to those who use walgreens, walmart, cvs etc. to develop your pictures.. those places are great for point and shoot style cameras.. but not for DSLRs.. i found a picture that i took of velveeta last spring.. edited it using my sesame ellis action set and then ordered several sizes ranging from normal album size to 8x13.. pretty large.. i know.. but i wanted to see how clear the image would come out.. i could have gone larger.. and i probably will when our baby gets here.. but they are more expensive the bigger they get and since i am only testing it right now there was no need to spend too much money on one picture! i ordered from www.mpix.com. it's going to take a few days for my prints to get here and i am anxious to know how the images turned out on paper.. btw.. here is the picture i picked for my test.. it's not the BEST picture i have ever taken of velveeta.. i was in a hurry to find one that was SOOC (straight out of camera.. no editing done to it).

left: SOOC; right:edited with one of the sesame ellis action set

i guess i should also include my 11week, 14week, and 18week belly side by side eh? see the progress butterball has made..

11week ::: 14 week ::: 18week

hahaha.. looking at my progress now doesn't seem any different than how i looked when i was 11weeks pregnant.. wtf?! i bet in a month i will pop.. i will enjoy being "small" for now..