The Skarin Family Blog

Seeing as I am so far behind in blogging and I haven’t yet posted anything from Bruce’s actual birthday, I figured it was ok to post this absolutely adorable video of Evan singing “Happy Birthday, Daddy”.  It is, after all, the 11th…just not the right month!  Such a sweet little voice!

If Evan's career as an astronaut doesn't work out,  He may be able to get a job as a singing custodian Or fill-in when one of the members of STOMP gets sick. I'm sure we will be proud of him no matter what!

Today we had a nice visit with Papa & Gramma for the Pats game.  I know you are probably thinking that we see them all the time and that we often get together for Pats and Sox games but today was different because it was just the five of us.  We hosted it at our house and Evan was the...

Emily and Ray bought a house in western Mass and tonight we helped them break it in.  In keeping with tradition, some of the guys got together over the last few weeks to build Ray a custom beer pong table.  Each table has a different design and is personalized.  Evan had a great time playing Cornhole and playing with the...

Did you miss me and all of my silly antics?   Good 'cuz, I'm back and I have so much to tell you about! Stay tuned to see what I have been doing for the last month.  

Contrary to what the scale readings show, Evan has been doing a lot of eating this month.  Here is the evidence to prove it.  It’s not my fault if he runs around so much he burns all the calories he eats…if only we were all that lucky! Photo slideshow from the original blog. The slideshow service (Picasa/Flash) has been discontinued,...

As you can probably tell from the recent posts, Evan loves to do everything that we do.  He always wants to be right in the middle of the action.  The same was true this weekend when Bruce started fixing the back door due to the ants feasting on the door jam. I have my hammer and wrench, Dad.  I'm ready...

Same activity, different monkeys, and different zoo than before.  This time the monkeys were Danny, Sean and Evan and the zoo was Southwick’s.  What a beautiful day to visit Southwick’s Zoo, especially considering that school is back in session.  It felt as if we had the entire place to ourselves.  We had a little bit of a rough start to the...

Thanks to Groupon we enjoyed a fun, rainy day and picnic lunch at The Butterfly Place with Abby and Connor.  I didn’t realize know what to expect but there were tons of butterflies, flying all around us.  A couple were close to landing on Abby and one landed on my head as we were leaving.  We had planned a picnic...

Today was a beautiful day for a fall 5K…the CVS Downtown 5K.  Bruce was planning to once again run with Evan in the stroller but Uncle Dan volunteered to push him while Auntie Karin pushed Danny and Sean so that both Bruce and I could run.  It was a great course with local bands playing all along the route.  Bruce...