How did I make this picture?

I used Serif PhotoPlus 7, available for $9.95 from:

  http://www.freeserifsoftware.com

(You act like you're downloading the free version 5.5, and it gives you a chance to upgrade to version 7 for $9.95.  The current version from http://www.serif.com is PhotoPlus version 9 for $99.99.)

I started with the Thanksgiving picture, widened it on the left, removed me, and then put in a nice random background from the other parts of the picture.  I then copied Isobel and me from a picture taken a few days earlier in Las Vegas and pasted us on top of the original picture as a new layer, stretched it, and adjusted our brightness down a bit.  I then did the same for TC, and also swapped him left-to-right so he was facing me, like in the original picture.

The three original pictures are:
   
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