It is because of her that perfectly nice photos like this are just not good enough:
Improved:
Most of the time I am firmly in the subtle photographic enhancement camp, but in this case I did actually replace my closed eyes with new and improved (and open) ones from another picture. And I removed that dude sitting behind us. Its still not as bad as being photoshopped out of a family portrait so that my brother could have head shots for his college applications.
Hmmmm. Funny, Stalin used to do the same thing. He would photoshop (or whatever the Soviet, 1930's version of Photoshop was) people out of photos after he had had them killed. Not that I am trying to compare you or your mother to Stalin. :)
call us when you get to my home state!
You are never going to let me forget that, are you? ;o)