The Skarin Family Blog

We’ve been having fun making all sorts of forts and structures with Evan’s Christmas gift from Auntie Karin and Uncle Dan.  Today we made a tunnel that Evan wanted to take a nap in…I think you can imagine how that went.  After “nap time”, we had a snack in Evan’s room…a special treat! Photo slideshow from the original blog. The...

With all the snow that has fallen this year, it is hard to believe that this is our first snowman.  But then again it has been so cold that all of the snow has been too fluffy…Until today.  Today was perfect “play in the snow” weather…high 30s/low 40s, a little sunny and not windy.  The boys enjoyed playing for a...

Evan & Logan’s train set has grown quite a bit this year thanks to Omi and Grandpa.  When they visited in December for Christmas, they brought a mine car mountain and some additional track pieces with them.  Once Logan (aka Godzilla) went down for a nap and it was clear that Evan wasn’t going to take one, he and I...

(Edit January 7th, 2014) After 365 days I can say this for certain…this was quite an undertaking!  I know it is my own OCD that got the best of me but try as I may, I just couldn’t help it.  In the end, I didn’t stay on top of this as I should have so some photos at the end...

I see ornaments from my childhood on the Christmas tree And I can’t believe you are gone. I see gifts you gave the boys And I can’t believe you are gone. I hear you say “Hi, dear” as you did every time I called And I can’t believe you are gone. I see your photograph on my dresser; I can...

I titled this post Christmas…parts 2, 3 and 4 thinking that Christmas Eve was part one.  But if I am really being particular, Christmas with Omi and Grandpa was part 1, Christmas Eve was part 2, Christmas morning/Santa at home was part 3, Christmas at Uncle Dan and Auntie Karin’s was part 4, the Dowding yankee swap was part 5 and...

Mark, Laura, Henry and Charlie were visiting family for the holidays in Massachusetts.  Even with the crazy busy week we have had, we couldn’t let this opportunity pass without getting together with them and Nicole.  The boys had fun playing together and the adults even got a chance to catch up a bit (thanks to Mark’s mom!). It was a...

If you are a loyal reader, you are probably familiar with our holiday traditions.  This year we stayed in MA instead of going to WA so that means that tonight we were at Aunt Linda and Uncle Louie’s in Cranston, RI.  It is an amazing celebration with food galore and people every where you turn.  This year we were missing...

Today was Evan’s holiday program at Here We Grow Preschool.  Picture this…twenty-eight three year olds singing and performing seven holiday songs and poems.  Can you say adorable??  They were all so cute in their holiday outfits.  Evan’s class wasn’t quite as into it as the other class but they still did a great job.  Most of the girls were paying...

…Everywhere you go…Including our house!  We went to Sleigh Bell Farm to cut a fresh tree again this year.  It’s a fun family outing and we don’t have so many needles on the floor at the end of the Christmas season.  Evan and Logan were excited to help pick out the tree and even more so to test out all...