Date at The Cheesecake Factory

So something awesome has come to my attention and that is I can go on dates more easily with my husband once again. Grant has started to go down to bed around 6-7pm finally. I had heard some girls in church talk about how early their babies when to bed and I was baffled. Grant went to bed usually the earliest at 8:30pm. So now we are lucky enough to have a baby that goes down at 6pm and now since the Grandparents are home Perry and I can go on dates and the Grandparents are sitting a sleeping baby that probably won't wake up. We went to dinner with my birthday money to The Cheesecake Factory and it was awesome. The lighting was low and romantic. We sat on the patio with a candlelit dinner and we enjoyed the smooth music they played and the nice night Henderson atmosphere. I especially loved the lanterns above the tables inside and the starlike lights on the side of the building. Plus the food was amazing!

Time Flies

Its been a while to say the least. As you can see from the previous post we have graduated, sold stuff, and more and more stuff. Now we have also cleaned our apartment and moved out. Our apartment manager was really impressed with how clean we got it to be. It should have been clean too. It took a day and half to do. So we had a couple neighbors help us as well and it was soo awesome. I felt like I wasn't completely worn from it at all. So that was great. We gave them lots of food too. Our neighbors are really sweet. They had recently moved in and we had had a couple game nights with them and they just we really fun, kind people. Too bad we are no longer neighbors with them. We road tripped down to Vegas, stopping at Perry's sister's house for the night, which was great to touch base with her (in Sandy, Ut) and made our merry way down. It took 10 hours to do a 6 hour drive, partly because we stopped and enjoyed the historic Cove Fort for 2 hours and we stopped at Denny's in St. George, Ut for dinner, basically to give Grant a break. It was fun and relaxing, especially since I had to drive the whole way because Perry's license expired.

-Funny story with that... It expired in April and we didn't realize it. Two praxis tests later, we went to Pocatello, ID to take the GRE and was denied entrance because it was expired. We had the forfeit $165 of fees for the test and with have to pay that same amount for Perry to take it again here in Vegas. Lame. Its too bad they didn't realize it had expired when he took the Praxis test because those tests would have been a lot cheaper to retake.

Anyway, so we are settled here in Vegas. It took a few days to unpack and get organized but its done now. Grant is getting used to sleeping in a crib and we are enjoying the rest of summer. We are working out everyday and spending time with my parents. Grant is really getting to know his Yancey Grandparents. Everyday after Papa Yancey gets home, Grant sits on his lap and spends quality time with him.

Developments of Grant:

Around 5 and 1/2 months old, Grant started Bananas, then we visited Redding (went camping, boating, hiking, and caught up with friends), and Grant tried watermelon, grapes, cantalope, and a bunch of other fruits. The only fruit he rejects is nectarine. I know you are only supposed to do one a week but Grant was okay with it all. Oh and we all got the flu! Grant now sits up! He babbles like crazy! Baba, mama, gaga.... and so on. It is soo delightfully cute! And he is now 6 months old. My big baby boy!

My birthday!

I turned 22 also while I hadn't been blogging. So Perry got me a great curling iron. I love it! I thought it was a necessity now that my hair is officially long. The day we spent at the lake boating was my birthday in Redding, CA. Perry took me out on a date later to Logan's Roadhouse and we bought an ice cream cake for my birthday cake. My sister-in-laws babysat. I'm very thankful to them for that.

We are college graduates!

This ecard personalized with Smilebox

5 Months

Grant is 5 months old! He is growing up so fast and so big now. Some things he can do now are almost sit unattended, he plays the drop the toy game and wants to pick it up again, and then drops the toy again, he babbles and coos and yells more, of course he rolls onto his stomach and can move a little bit from where he is but can't crawl yet. He also can sometimes straighten his arms while on his belly. He is very interested in our food when we eat and can drink water from a cup or water bottle. He also is just so cute and smiley most of the time and I'm pretty sure his favorite person is Aunt Gopher (Milae).

$339

That is the grand total amount that Perry and I have made from selling the stuff we don't want to move! Isn't that awesome! What helped is that we had a yard sale today from 8am to 3pm and made $94 from that alone! Yay! We might of made more than that but I can't think of anything else we might have sold but 339 is what I can remember.

Camping.

It was Grants first time camping. We went to good ole Beaver Dick Park (Terrible name, great place). It's free camping and its clean and just a wonderful place. We just stayed one night and had foil dinners on the fire that turned out fantastic, some marshmallows, and in the morning we cooked breakfast with our iron skillet (pancakes, eggs, and bacon, with a peach) Yum! Grant was a little disturbed the first time he woke up because he didn't recognize the tent as a normal place to be when one wakes so he cried but the rest of the night he was snuggling with me and probably just loved that. We really enjoyed the outing and were in much need of camping. Luckily we get to camp at Whiskeytown lake in a couple weeks in Redding, CA, and I think on my birthday! Woohoo. Fun! We will probably boat a little too. How lucky can we be. Visiting family is the best.

OUch!

Pinched nerve in the upper left region of my back, near my spine. OUCH! It hurts like crap. I can barely pick up let alone feed Grant. Luckily we have some stored breast milk and Perry is finally home from school and work. The nurse says to take 2-3 tablets of 200 mg of Advil and use a heat pad and Perry to massage the area and repeat. I really hope this works. I'm pretty sure I got it from a combination of side lye nursing on a air mattress because I fall asleep nursing him that way. Ugh. I will be more careful in the future.