The Skarin Family Blog

Ever since I was in high school, I have wanted to go to the hot air balloon festival in South County.  I don’t think of it every year, some years I miss the dates or have other plans, but for one reason or another, we’ve never been.  Until this year!  I thought it was something that we could do as...

You’ll want to bookmark this post so you can pull it up anytime you need a good laugh. I can’t decide which I like more…Logan’s giggles in anticipation of what Evan is going to do or the laughter that begins around 52 seconds. Enjoy the entertainment from these silly, silly boys!!

We’ve been trying to beat the post-beach vacation blues this week.  We are missing the beach and missing our friends.  It’s been a hot week so we’ve been enjoying some time in the pool and playing with water!  The boys have been bickering quite a bit, especially when compared to last week but here are a few moments when they...

We had such a great week at the Cape that we didn’t want it to end…so we made sure it didn’t…At least for today!  We spent one last day at the beach.  We started with a stop at Allie’s Donuts on the way to meet Nicole at Roger Wheeler state beach aka Sand Hill Cove.  We got a bit of...

When you are on vacation, living in a house with 9 people including 4 boys ages 4 and under, things can go horribly wrong if people aren’t getting along.  Thankfully for us, this was not the case!!  We had a wonderful week in East Dennis with Mark, Laura, Henry, Charlie and Nicole.  We couldn’t have asked for better weather or...

When we knew we were going to be spending the week on the Cape, we asked our Cape expert friend, Jenna, for suggestions of things to do with the kids.  We knew we wanted to just mostly spend the week on the beach but everyone, even this beach bum, needs a break from the sun once in a while.  Jenna...

After 4 straight beach days, we needed a little change of pace.  We took this opportunity to visit the O’Shea’s, who happened to be in Mashpee this week as well.  We went to their house for lunch, pool time and lots of fun!  They boys had a great time with the O’Shea kids.  Evan especially loved playing hide and seek...

We started our Cape week vacation with 4 straight days at 3 different beaches.  Days 1 and 2 were at Sea Street beach, day 3 was at Cold Storage Beach and day 4 was at the beach in Brewster, just across from the house that Adria and Avi rented.  Each day we would load up the car with gear and...

Today we met two of Evan’s friends from Here We Grow at West End Creamery for a play date filled with jumping fun and ice cream.  I would have thought the kids would have jumped and jumped and jumped but they were just as (if not more) interested in playing in the sand.  They all enjoyed their afternoon treat of...

We’ve been having a great summer so far!  Lots of water table and pool time at home with our new blow up pool from the family picnic.  Snacks and squeeze pops outside after squirt gun fights.  Pizza and movie nights.   Fun at the playground.  Lunch at Bentley’s.  And even a trip to Jump In With Me…a new play place...