There is this photo idea I've had for months. Originally, I wanted to use it for our Christmas card but Stephen wasn't on board. He thought the idea was too lame, or cheesy, or predictable, or magical. Any one of those descriptors work. So instead, I decided I would use it for my blog header once it got closer to winter or actually snowed.

There is still no snow but since today is officially winter, I tried to stage the photo over the weekend. Here are the photos I ended up with:



They are not at all what I had envisioned and totally not header worthy. I might give it another go next weekend. All the same, I love this last one. They look just as disappointed as I felt...

because this is what I was going for:



(photos found here and here on Pinterest--imagine that!):