Clearing Throat with a Trace of Embarrassment

So...a few of my pictures below aren't where they're supposed to be. Actually, none of them are where I would've liked them to be. However, it turns out that my wonderful husband does not know how to intersperse photos with text, so I had to compromise and be glad they got on the blog at all. So bear with me. I'll assume that my descriptions are so magnificently worded that you'll have no problem pairing them with the corresponding pictures. And I'll work on layout another time.