This photo has nothing to do with Jasper, except I'll mention that he slept like a champ! So, even when Stacy, Joel, Sarah and Drew were playing doubles tennis on Wii Jasper slept through all the activity in the next room.
I mentioned previously that Jasper seemed to like the travel swing we bought for him. Turns out as he sat in it more he realized that he didn't like it. The big swing allows him to sit with a flat back, and the travel swing cradles him more. Consequently, he doesn't sleep in it - so we didn't bring it. We just brough the car seat and his bouncy seat. That thing compresses down to a super small profile when disassembled, and he sure can sit in it for hours. He napped in either that or .... surprisingly his car seat in the afternoons. Jasper has gotten much better in his car seat. All our work to take him out on errands day after day seems to have paid off. Either that, or he's just getting old enough to realize that it's not the end of the world to be in the car seat.
Jasper loved Stacy's voice. She was telling me a long story on Sunday evening, and he just locked in on her voice and loved listening to her.
Sarah and Stacy loved hanging out with Jasper in the evenings and were a big help to play with him while Drew and I frantically tried to get ready to catch our flight yesterday morning.
Drew and I took Jasper out on Sunday afternoon to experience the snow. It was a very bright and sunny day. Jasper doesn't like the sun, and he was a little tired, so this experience wasn't a highlight for him - but we had fun exposing him to something that was a staple of our childhoods. 
After his snow exposure, we decided to expose him to the hustle and bustle of Snowbird. This is the terrace where you can pick up the tram, get food or just ski in and hang out. There is music playing and lots of ski stories get swapped her. Jasper slept through it all. :) On Sunday the temp was in the upper 30's - it was beautiful!We have no photos from the flights, but I'll report that Jasper is a good traveler. Our flight out on Friday (direct from Austin to Salt Lake City) was a breeze. He was unaffected by the pressure, and he slept a good portion of the trip and never cried. He did have two messy diapers that Drew changed in the tiny airplane bathroom that - to our shock - has no fold down table for changing diapers. It was an event, but Drew did a great job. (He even had to change his outfit on the second diaper change.) He got kudos from a woman sitting across the aisle, when he got up to change the second diaper. She leaned over and said, "He's a really good dad." I agree!
Yesterday, the flight wasn't as smooth. I boarded the plane carrying an overly tired, hungry and crying baby. I got the looks of annoyance from the first class passengers, and I made it to our seats as quickly as possible, and I fed him on the plane as soon as Drew made it to his seat next to me to help me create a little privacy. I held off feeding him again until we actually took off - and he did well and stopped crying. The only problem is that he didn't sleep right away - so he got fussy later and cried some more. The lady sitting behind us intervened to talk to him while we were trying to get him to calm down. He thought she was funny, so that worked. Eventually he did fall asleep and slept through the descent into Austin. That trip gave us a little run for our money, but we made it. Of course he had another messy diaper, and Drew again changed him (and his outfit, again) in the ill-equipped bathroom. Less than 20 seconds after he returned to his seat w/ Jasper, the flight attendant stopped and said "if your little guy needs a diaper change, we have a slick set-up in the front of the airplane." What are the odds!
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