ICloud Backup taking up a huge amount of space

I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 1, and I had Mobile Me,, so I have 25GB of iCloud storage, but my current Storage is syaing it is taking up 9.99 GB of 25 GB, 9.1 for my iPad 1 and 5.9 for my iPhone. Now I have a lot of books and PDF's on my iPad, but not nearly that many, and my iPhone has next to nothing but apps on it. And both iOS devices say that the backup is incomplete. Does that mean it will get bigger?

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Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Carl%20M.%20Sutherland%20II,%[email protected] ocal/Carl%20M.%20Sutherland%20II,%20MD'
Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/Carl M. Sutherland II, MD'
Disk image /Volumes/Carl M. Sutherland II, MD'/Carl M. Sutherland II, MD’s Computer_00254bb234c8.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Carl M. Sutherland II, MD’s Computer
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Carl M. Sutherland II, MD’s Computer/Backups.backupdb
Node requires deep traversal:/Users/carlmsutherlandiimd/Pictures/iPhoto 5 Library reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonMissedReservation|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 245.6 MB requested (including padding), 314.67 GB available
Copied 1005 files (28 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 229.8 MB requested (including padding), 314.67 GB available
Copied 472 files (33 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
July 21
Starting standard backup
FSMountServerVolumeSync failed with error: -36 for url: afp://Carl%20M.%20Sutherland%20II,%[email protected] ocal/Carl%20M.%20Sutherland%20II,%20MD'
Backup failed with error: 19
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Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Carl%20M.%20Sutherland%20II,%[email protected] ocal/Carl%20M.%20Sutherland%20II,%20MD'
Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/Carl M. Sutherland II, MD'
Disk image /Volumes/Carl M. Sutherland II, MD'/Carl M. Sutherland II, MD’s Computer_00254bb234c8.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Carl M. Sutherland II, MD’s Computer
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