Thanks!!!
I suppose that gives me some hope, then. My wife took most of the pictures until about a year ago when I got the photography bug after getting a nifty little waterproof Olympus. It died shortly after, but the refund money from that snagged me a new SLR, and I'm still enjoying the heck out of it... Even if I STILL haven't figured out how to consistently take good pictures with it.
I guess half the fun is the puzzle aspect to the whole thing and trying to figure out all the intricacies of taking pictures, because for whatever reason I still don't get too frustrated when they don't turn out. I just look at the settings I took the shots with, and try, try again.