Sorry, that is a super lame title, but what else do I say when faced with these faces? Other than…can you believe they let me take these photos? And if the eyes aren’t big enough, you can click on both photos to see them in an even larger size.

Remember back in 2010, when we went on an amazing family vacation to Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas? When I only every managed to post pictures from the first 4 or 5 days and totally left you hanging about the coolest parts of our trip?

When we went rafting on the Colorado River and camped under the stars?

Oh, wait, that’s the part I never posted about.

Well, we did. And we went to the Grand Canyon (North and South Rims) and this man decided that some day, he needed to make it to the bottom, and he was dragging the rest of us with him.

Well, some day is in July, because we are going on a Grand Canyon rafting adventure. 6 days and 5 nights. (And even though the trip is 3 months away, he’s already talking about how some day after this trip, he’ll want to HIKE to the bottom.)

This is where you imagine me alternately waving my hands and screaming in delight and wringing them in consternation that I could have agreed to this scheme.

And then you can imagine me realizing: “Crap, this means I really need to work on getting in shape.”

I guess it’s good to have a goal.

Will and/or Joe are totally going to be Major League Baseball pitchers, and they will totally take care of their aging parents.

How’s that for a retirement plan?? Realistic, right?

I walked in to the computer lab on Monday, where they were blasting Bon Jovi (“You Give Love a Bad Name”)*** and it was like I was back at Ledyard HS as a student: well, except for the part where I was in a computer lab.

And I’m almost 40, not 14 (that sang came out in 1986. I googled it…).

Speaking of things that are old-fashioned, I placed my second order of prints today. I ordered the first set back in February, after I had about 50 days of photos taken. It was pretty weird getting actual photos…printed on actual photo paper…

April 2nd was my Day 100****, so in honor, I decided to place another order. I’m using Snapfish, and I actually prepaid for about 300 photos, so now I just have to pay shipping each time. And then I have to sit and twiddle my thumbs and wait for them to process. In this day and age of instant gratification, it’s definitely an old school kind of thing. (I think that from the time I ordered until the time the pictures arrived, it was about 10 days. That’s like…an eternity!)

Here’s the part where my sister goes “Who are you, and what have you done with my sister…” because my original print order: those photos are all IN the photo album with the journaling cards all complete.

Seriously.

It’s funny, when I was picking out photos for yesterday’s blog hop post, I grabbed a few favorites, but when I was just paging through the album last night, I kept seeing photos that I thought, gee, I should have picked that one to share. Or that one! Or this one! It’s fun to see them all as physical objects. I’m really proud of some of the photos individually, as well as the whole kit and caboodle.

100 days down, 266 to go.

***I’m sorry if you have that song stuck in your head now. I didn’t do it on purpose. But it’s definitely stuck in mine…

****If you are counting, (which I’m sure you aren’t), I started my “official” project on December 25th, which is why I’m claiming 100 days as of April 2. Photographers who started on January 1st have to wait another week before they get to 100.