... of photo withdrawl

We've been taking it really easy around here recently. Well, I've been taking it easy. I'm really feeling the effect of this rapidly growing baby in my small body. I feel blessed that I haven't been uncomfortable or had many issues until this point. With Abram, I remember being miserable pretty much the whole time. A lot of that was a mental, unexpected first pregnancy attitude problem I had. My friend reminded me yesterday that I actually didn't want any pictures taken at Abram's baby shower. I don't remember that, but it doesn't surprise me. Selah's shower is this weekend and I don't care how big I feel, I want pictures. So that will be a photo filled update in the next few days.

This is not a photo filled update. There aren't any photos, to be frank. I've been either laying on the couch or trying to get through the moments when I'm not laying on the couch. The camera has not been out at all and my iphone is pretty much out of memory. I need to sync it, but I've been too lazy.

I have not been to lazy to design Selah's birth announcement, however. I guess that's the one productive thing I've done. It is a nice couch project that Quinn and I might both be too tired to focus on after she comes. We definitely want to send one out, so I thought I'd get it ready. Quinn's been a really good photoshop teacher over the last 4 years (he uses it every day). I still do things that I know he would shake his head at if he knew, but I can figure stuff out and make it work. So I did it all by myself! And Quinn liked it! And he only added one small gradient/shadow! I'm excited to share it with you and our mailing list when we have a picture of Selah to insert, instead of the picture of Abram with her name under it :)

Well, I slept from 11-2 and was up with a pushy, hiccupy, sciatic nerve hitting baby from 2-6. Waiting for Abram to fall asleep so that I know how long his nap is and then I am going to try to fall asleep as well. Really, people, this has been one of the least productive weeks of the last year or something. But I'm growing a baby... so I guess that's a pretty big accomplishment.

Oh so happy it's Friday! Have a good one.

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