The Skarin Family Blog

Tonight was the first time that we left Evan alone with a babysitter.  We have left him before with either family or with a babysitter for Danny, Sean and Evan but never alone, one-on-one.  We went out to celebrate our 8th anniversary and had a very nice night.  We were out for about an hour when Katy, our babysitter and...

What’s better than apple picking on a beautiful late summer, fallish day?  Apple picking and a corn maze!  We had a fun family day at Schartner Farm in Bolton today.  We wandered through the corn maze for a while, got a little lost (isn’t that the point?) and made our way out.  Then we took a hayride out to the...

From the looks of this picture you would think that Evan was as proud as a peacock for the mess he had made in his room. Truth be told, he was cleaning up by throwing all of the animals back into his crib and having a great time.

Tonight we made pizza for dinner.  Evan was very interested in what we were doing and wanted to help.  I can already tell that making Christmas cookies this year is going to be so fun! Photo slideshow from the original blog. The slideshow service (Picasa/Flash) has been discontinued, so these photos can no longer be displayed here. </span>

Evan and I took advantage of the beautiful weather today to squeeze in one last pool day at the “beach house”. It has been a beautiful summer and we hate to see it end but we are lucky to have been able to spend so much time by the pool.  Evan did all of his favorite things today - played...

This past weekend we celebrated Bruce’s birthday with not one but two parties.  Friday night we had many of our WPI friends over.  It was a little cool but still nice enough to be outside on the deck and playing cornhole, life sized Jenga and beer pong in the grass.  We had a fire and a few people used the...

It’s not everyday that you turn 60.  And it’s not everyday that your entire family is together in one place, especially for the Brunner’s.  For that very reason, we continued the celebration of Gary’s birthday on Saturday as well.  We had quite the gathering at Sarah and Shawn’s house complete with good drinks, great food and wonderful people, close to...

Today was another super hot day in Ohio.  I guess this is our summer to travel on weekends of record heat!  We moved from our hotel in Cincinnati to a hotel closer to Sarah and Shawn’s.  After that, we had a relaxing day in the AC and the pool at their house, followed by dinner from Montgomery Inn…the Ribs King! (I got...

Today we celebrated Uncle Gary’s 60th birthday from the Champion Club seats at The Great American Ballpark.  Unfortunately the Reds lost to the Phillies but we had a great time anyhow.  It was nice to be able to go inside to get food and drinks for “free” and to cool off on such a hot day.  Evan was a little...

Early this morning, Papa dropped us off at T.F Green and we made our way to Cincinnati, Ohio.  We are in town until Sunday to celebrate Uncle Gary’s 60th birthday (ssshhhh….he doesn’t know we are here!) and to have a Brunner family reunion…the first since before our wedding!  We checked in, got settled, took naps and then headed out to explore...