CREATIVE PUZZLE

 


It has been going on for years. The kids would ask what Carmen wanted for Christmas, and the answer would be the same. Current pictures of the family.

This year they all took her at her word. All of them. The ones from Georgia and Pennsylvania and Minnesota. The in-laws and out-laws. Our immediate children and their spouses. The newlyweds and their spouses. And all the grandchildren.

Everyone in one big picture.

However, there was a catch. We had to put it all together because the pictures were part of a 1014-piece puzzle.

Chad and Sarah planned it and ordered the puzzle from Snapfish. Carmen and I loved putting it together and planned to glue it and mount it, which may still happen one day. But the immediate plan is to disassemble it. We have a family reunion planned this summer and we want everyone to have a chance to work on it together. What fun that will be!

We have assembled many puzzles over the years. But we have no doubt that this is indeed the best puzzle ever.

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