The Garic Family: Our first 2 weeks of summer

Our first two weeks of summer have been very busy, but lots of fun! The kids left on June 2nd to go to Tennessee with their Mawmaw, Great Uncle Tom, "Aunt" Tania and their 2nd cousins, Madeline and Gabby. They went to Dollywood, Dollywood's Splashtown, hiking, ziplinging and alpine sledding in the Smoky Mountains. While they were gone, Bobby and I were able to take a short trip to Southeastern Oklahoma. We spend a nice day canoeing on Mountain Fork River and exploring Broken Bow Lake. The lake is surrounded by the Ouachita Mountains. It was breathtakingly beautiful and peaceful. We all arrived home on Friday, June 8th and the entire weekend was spent watching Bobby play baseball in a tournament in Colleyville, Texas. Last week, the kids and our neighbor, Chase, all attended Vacation Bible School at our church. The church was raising money to put wells in a small town in Ghana that currently has no water. They had the kids broken up into teams and challenged them to bring as much change in every day to help pay for the well. At the end of the week, the kids brought in over $4,000 in change! I tried to give my kids some dollar bills and they wouldn't take them because the contest was based on the weight of the money and dollar bills don't weigh anything. Father's Day weekend, Bobby played in another tournament in Southlake, Texas. His team played awesome on Saturday going home with 2 wins! Sunday, the Stars won their first game and then were knocked out in the semi-finals. We came home and swam in the pool for awhile and then went to see The Avengers.