So, Travis played in the Guitar Hero Tournament this past weekend. He did really good. He was the oldest one competing though, and definitely the only one who had responsibilities such as two little girls and a full time job. Yes, he was competing against a lot of teenagers (who obviously have plenty of time to practice) and a few 20 somethings. They played on the Nintendo Wii and the XBox 360, neither of which Travis had practiced on as we have Guitar Hero for the Playstation 2. The guitars were somewhat different and the game responded differently to the guitars, but all in all Travis did great. Whoever chose the song though ended up usually winning the face off. They played head to head with a double elimination. Some of the younger players were very impressive. One young teenage girl did fantastic, and she did it while sitting down too! Anya enjoyed watching her Daddy play though while Arwen slept through most of it! The tournament was a benefit for Relay for Life and Travis walked away with a t-shirt that says “I rocked out to fight Cancer!” He did great and I’m very proud of him, even though he didn’t win! He’ll get them next year maybe!
Saturday afternoon I ventured out of the house and got my hair highlighted and lowlighted! I had some caramel blonde put in and some burgundy red. I love it and Travis loves the red in it too. There’s a photo below but its hard to tell how well it came out though from the photo. Its much brighter and prettier I think than what the photo shows.
Yesterday we took Anya to visit Sacred Heart pre-school and we really liked it, but its a bit expensive and we aren’t sure if we are going to start her there in the Fall or wait until she’s ready for Kindergarten, but either way its a pricey school, although it does seem to provide an excellent education!
We also went to eat Mexican for lunch yesterday and Arwen did very well while I was eating. She was awake the whole time we were at the restaurant and enjoyed just looking around.
Anya has been very busy playing computer games lately and she was playing the Word World games the other day, came into the living room and asked me for a marker and some paper. She sat down at her table and started writing. She then brought it over to me and showed me that she wrote the word “B A L L” – “ball, Mommy”. She wrote in the right order and everything. I was so proud of her. She then proceeded to write two more times, all by herself. So, that is Miss Anya’s first word she WROTE by herself…Ball…isn’t that cool?
Here are some photos of Arwen that I took yesterday.