Hailey gets puzzled

On our most recent trip to Beaver Creek Hailey joined in the puzzle fun! She has always had her own 60 piece puzzles to do but hasn't been ready to help "us" yet. This trip she not only helped she helped a lot! She put together part of the edge, the entire green spot you see below and helped in many other places! She scouted out her own pieces and really had a great time and a great attitude.

It was really fun for me to see Hailey get Puzzling with us!

This is the finished product

What a yummy puzzle!

PS - Hailey is doing ok since the surgery - she is not back to 100% yet but she is hanging tough and we are knee deep in Peter Pan this week so I am a bit absent to say the least and yes, I changed the header on the blog...I will be moving it soon if technology ever cooperates...

The Thinker (the real story)

Maybe you already know the story behind The Thinker...

But do you know what he was REALLY up to?

???

???

???

He was doing a Springbok Puzzle!

Do you think Crayola thinks this hard when they make crayons?

Puzzling

You have never seen anything like it. Unless of course you are a die hard puzzler too. Puzzles, puzzles, Puzzles. We do a lot of puzzles when we are in the mountains. Most of the family gets in on them but quite honestly my mom and I are the addicts!

We only do Springbok Puzzles. For so many reasons. The pieces are nice, they always stick together they are a FAR SUPERIOR puzzle to any other brand out there (I dare you to prove me wrong)

They start out a little like this (with a few edge pieces missing now and then)

This one is partially done...each family member contributing to areas of interest.

And the final product is amazing!

We also did the above 500 Piece puzzle but I didn't get a picture before we took it apart...

And this one was super fun, especially when Lauren noticed we actually have some of these ornaments in our collection! This was a Hallmark Keepsakes Puzzle by Springbok.

All three of these were done in just 6 days. Yup. We are certifiably NUTS.

We don't keep them when we are done, we pass them on to friends and family (who are all probably tired of getting them!!!) But we so enjoy putting them together!