Thanksgiving with Arnold

Life is full of twists and turns and things don't always work out as planned. Sometimes we are faced with making difficult decisions when we're not prepared to make them, but we do the best we can. My sister had to make a tough call recently when she broke up with her boyfriend of 1 1/2 years the day after Thanksgiving. After he had been included in all of the family pictures. The pictures we take at Thanksgiving are usually sent out with Christmas cards to everyone, so this situation pretty much makes that impossible. Or does it?

My brother suggested Photoshopping my sister's ex-boyfriend out of one of the photos and sending that one out. Great idea, except that the ex-boyfriend is standing right smack in the middle of the group. If we remove him, then there is a really obvious and fake-looking gap in the group photo. We thought about shuffling people around in the photo, but that will start looking very fake in a big hurry and in the end it really doesn't get us anywhere.

But if we intentionally make it look fake, maybe that will work? We can't send the picture as-is, but why let it go to waste? Might was well make the most of it and fix up the photo so that we at least have something to send/post. On my brother's suggestion, I've replaced my sister's ex with someone who will definitely boost my family's coolness factor. Not that we aren't already cool. Here's what we ended up with:

It really is an improvement. If you saw the "before" picture you would understand.