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Two years ago, our grade-schooler had to create a timeline, complete with photographs, showcasing all the highlights of her very young life. In the end, we proudly displayed a composite of all her "firsts"--first dance recital, first day of school, First Holy Communion, etc. The road to this masterpiece, however, was a nightmare for us. The reason? Our photos are a disaster. We envy our friends who have every picture ever taken in neatly labeled albums, all in order, on easily-accessible bookshelves. We had a giant box, with years worth of shots, still in the envelopes from the developer.

When this project was all over, we took a deep breath, and gave ourselves the very generous deadline of two years to get our act together and finally organize our very precious memories. Well, now our next child is in third grade and--guess what?--we still have the box, only today it's larger, and the project is due next week. Surprisingly, though, we're really having a good time putting this one together.

We finally got smart and enlisted the help of Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0, a program that lets us find, edit, and share our photos. We've uploaded our recent digital photos, called up our old photo CDs, and even scanned our older photographs and organized them all into albums which we've given labels...