puzzles

I’ve been on a puzzle marathon since Christmas. We’ve had a puzzle going in the living room since Mom brought home our Christmas puzzles for the Christmas season. For as long as I can remember puzzles have been a part of our holidays. We start one Christmas day and one New Years Eve. This year we did about 5 puzzles during the season! I just couldn’t seem to stop. And I continued after the New Year. Then an awesome friend suggested a puzzle exchange and we hit the jackpot!!

I didn't even know that 2000 piece puzzles existed until she sent me one!! We've had so much fun with her puzzles. Although my ego is crushed, I thought I was a pretty good puzzle solver, but now I've been put in my place!!

I'm including a few of them below. This first one is obviously an eagle, but it's made up of tiny individual pictures. We've got one of Marilyn Monroe, made up of lots of little pictures of her. That one looks scarey to me.....as in hard scarey!

I just finished this one this week, it was an "easy" one, in that it only took a few days to do, versus the weeks that some of them took!

This is one of the puzzles that took a couple of weeks. It's of the seven drawfs heading home.

I'm off to the start of our busy weekend. Tonight we have a church family desert and dance, then tomorrow I'm driving the three older boys 2 1/2 hours to compete in a archery tournament. And the youngest two are tagging along with me. After that, I'll only be about 1 1/2 hrs from Courtney and her birthday is Monday, sooooooooo you know I have to take her out to the Olive Garden!!

The downside to that is that we won't get to Courtney's until 4pmish, then it's an hour from her house to the nearest OG, then obviously it's an hour back. So that gives us about two hours to do dinner. As I really want to leave her house around 8pmish to get home four hours later around midnight.

Because I don't want to leave Amanda alone for two days in a row and Lee has a talk in church Sunday. Oh yeah, and Brent left today for a business conf. so he's not around to help out. He'll be back Sunday, in time to pick me up off the floor...... I'm just praying that I DO NOT get the stinkin virus that every other person in this house has had. I'm the last man standing as far as the virus is concerned.