This all means that from June to November you might find us brainstorming card ideas in secret, costume shopping, scouting photo locations, or – our favorite – humiliating ourselves when spotted taking pics for the card in public. Some embarrassing incidents have included: sprinting up and down a crowded beach in wigs and whistles as Baywatch babes in 2013; knocking on a stranger’s door in a maid costume in 2016 to ask if we could pose near her cows for a “maids-a-milking” photo; John flailing in a Speedo at our local gym’s busy indoor pool while recreating the underwater “naked Nirvana baby” photo in 2015; and, arriving at a rocky area along the James River in 2019 in full face paint and head-to-toe lion costumes – including the dog – only to find that we’d picked the exact same spot as 100 friendly churchgoers (there were Bibles, guitars, singing, and then… six lions and a photographer). But John will say the most embarrassing of all has been his super-duuuuper skimpy “Borat” photo shoot in 2017 which, due to some poor planning on our part, took place in full view of a busy wedding reception! He still has PTSD.