Cute Photos I Found Today

Oscar spent the day at Parker's while Tara' & Billy were in town and I forgot about these photos and I found them today while cleaning up my computer. He loves his sorbet and obviously he needs his Blackberry close by to keep up with all his business ventures. He is such a toddler mogul, it is hard for the rest of us to keep up!

The Bald & the Beautiful

Oscar & Chris shaved their heads this year for St Baldrick's. This is the fourth year for Chris and he was having some trouble raising money this year since people have already seen his head shaved. I told him if he could raise $750, that we could shave Oscar's head too! Well that helped and we were at $800 in no time.

March 18 arrived and I definitely started to have doubts. My beautiful little boy was going to be bald...... I tried not to think about it, and when I saw him that night he was so proud and happy. He kept saying, "Mommy, look, I got a haircut!"

He was so excited to look like his dad, and we were happy that we were able to raise money again for such an amazing cause.

Our Son: The Multitasker

Oscar's teacher, Jane, captures him doing things that are just awesome. This is a photo she took of him talking on the phone and taking notes in school. I have no idea where he gets this crazy behavior from, probably his dad, he loves talking on the phone.

Luck of the Irish

Happy Saint Patrick's Day jauberry readers & of course a very Happy Birthday to my two favorite "Irish-ish" people- Dad & Hannah!

(My great-grandmother's last name was O'Neal so we are like a 1/16 Irish and that counts!)

Jackson Hole Winterfest

During President's Weekend was the Jackson Hole Winterfest. The JH Winterfest is, of course, a celebration of everything winter. There was a snow sculpture contest, cutter races, dodge ball on ice, professional aerial ski jumping, etc. The jauberry gang made it to as many events as we could that would also have something for Oscar. They had snow painting with non toxic spray paint, but all I saw in my future was a face and clothes full of paint, so we did not attend that event. We did go to the professional aerial ski jumping where they also had fireworks. Oscar kept saying "more fire! more fire!" and between jumps would play in the snow with friends. On Saturday we went to the Town Square where they were having a snow sculpture contest. The sculptures were amazing, the best was of the Aesop fable The Tortoise and the Hare, but the tortoise had a snowmobile. There also was a swan one and a Jeep one that you could sit in and take photos. It was great to have so many activities to get us out of the house and around town.

Disclaimer: All these photos below were taken with phones so do not except much.

Tara' & Jessica- Tart Masters

In October while I was at a used book store, I bought a 1992 copy of Martha Stewart's Pies & Tarts. I have always loved the way tarts look, so perfect with their beautiful fruit and delicious custard filling. I have always wanted to make one, but have never had the courage or the tart pan. After buying this book I vowed that I would make a tart before the new year. When I told Tara' she asked if I would wait for her visit in January. I need the time anyway to buy a tart pan and such. I made my first raspberry tart while Tara' & Billy were here and all I have to say is watch out Martha......(not really, Martha makes these in her sleep).

Breaks from the Dishes

When Tara' was not busy cleaning my house, I did let her take a break and hang out with me. Most nights we cooked great food, drank, and laughed. It is so wonderful having great people over because it makes our home feel even that much more like a home. Their visit was great and I cannot wait to do it again soon. Maybe we need a sister trip to Colorado or Canada now that all of us can ski...

No Free Rides at the Jauberry House

Apparently when you come and stay with us for vacation, we turn into slave drivers. Not really, but you would think that since I have 10 photos of Tara' doing the dishes and Billy cutting Oscar's hair. Poor Billy & Tara'. I hope they will come back one day. We will treat you better. Honest.

Stuart Lawson Jaubert

Winter Wonderland with Tara' & Billy

This blog entry is a month late, but life happens. Tara' and Billy came to see Jackson in the winter and they loved it! Tara' said she was not going to learn how to ski when I talked to her in December, but I am so glad she got up the courage to try it on her visit. They both had a great time learning to ski, unfortunately Billy hurt his knee and was not able to enjoy the last day, but hopefully he had fun before the knee incident. It was so much fun skiing with my sister and hanging out with both her and Billy! More entries to come on their visit.....

Tara' learning to ski on the rope tow.

Picabo Street!

Keeping Warm on the Way to School

Winters in Jackson can get extremely cold. This week the high has been 0, 2, 6, and a balmy 10 degrees. These extremely high temperatures means we wake up to such luxurious temperatures as -18 and -22 (yeah!). Keeping Oscar warm on the way to school has become a fun routine. We place him in his car seat with a puffy coat and knitted hat. Then Oscar asks for his knitted blanket (thanks mom) and his Oscar the Grouch. He then requests songs to keep him entertained on the way to school. Current favorites are "Wheels on the Bus", "Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee", and the nursery rhyme "Ba Ba Black Sheep" set to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". We spend the rest of the trip finding buses and having Oscar say, "Catch It!".

He has much more clothing on lately, this photo is from a month ago.

School Days, School Days

Oscar's teachers are always taking photos at school. They print some of them, cut them out, and leave them in your child's box for you to bring home. Here are some of the photos which show all the fun Oscar has at the Children's Learning Center. (Sorry they are not the best quality, but they are scans of photos printed on regular copy paper.)

Postmaster Oscar

Part of being two is learning you do not need those pesky "parents" as much as you did when you were one. Oscar's favorite phrases now that he is two are:

"Oscar read it" (because a two year old does not need books read to him)

"Oscar's turn" (which is always)

"Oscar do it" (when the other two phrases do not apply)

The last phrase pretty much is used for everything mom and dad use to do like check the mail. "Oscar check the mail." He is a pretty good little mail checker except for two small problems:

You have to be very careful he does not push the mail back to the post office side of your box.

He thinks our key open all 6000 mailboxes in the post office and wants to try everyone of them since he does not believe you that the our key only opens our box.

Oscar Rides the START Bus

Oscar loves buses and he loves to count them every morning on the way to his school. Last weekend we thought it would be fun to take him on a bus ride on our local START buses. These our the town's public buses and they are free in the town city limits. These are also not your average city buses. I realize some people, depending on where you live, might be thinking we are crazy to bring our toddler on the city bus. These are not those buses, these are the buses you wish those buses were so you could take them if you wanted to and not be scared to death. Oscar loved it and maybe we will start taking the bus more. It is free and most of the buses are hybrids, so it is great for Oscar and the environment.

Hybrid Bus

Happy 2011 !

We all hope that you have a great 2011 full of love, laughter, joy, and lots of memories!

Love-

Jessica, Chris, Oscar, & George

Happy Jauberry Christmas

Our Christmas plans this year were to have dinner at the Gotham's, but those plans went awry when Parker got ill on Christmas Eve. Poor baby! So after Saturday night mass, Chris and I had to make a last minute run to the grocery store so we could have Christmas dinner. On Christmas morning we had cinnamon rolls and unwrapped our presents. Oscar was excited about his Mater movie, Cars pajamas, and bike trailer among other presents. We went sledding later on and watched A Christmas Story and of course the Mater movie about eight times. We had a great dinner of ribeyes, green beans, and potatoes. Not necessarily a traditional Christmas dinner, but very yummy just the same. It was a great Christmas with my two favorite people.