The Skarin Family Blog

As you can see in Playing Outside, our deck is in desperate need of a new paint job. It needed it last year but for some (little) reason we never got around to it. This weekend Bruce power washed and primed it. Hopefully someday soon, Evan will do more than just watch! Photo slideshow from the original blog. The slideshow...

Thanks to a Groupon deal and me feeling the need to occasionally organize group outings, 19 of us attended the Pawtucket Red Sox game tonight. We were undecided during the day as to whether or not we should go because Evan wasn’t feeling well. We thought due to his new teeth coming in so we decided to go anyway. We...

We have spent a lot of time over the last few days getting ready for Omi and Grandpa to arrive and also for Evan’s first birthday and party. Much of this time has included cleaning. I decided it was a good idea to spring clean as I cleaned for our visitors and the party…in hindsight…not so much! Oh well, at...

Today at Gramma and Papa’s, Evan was exploring in the kitchen and found a yellow colander that he thought was fun. Later in the afternoon he found a new use for it! Let's see, what can I do with this? Perfect! A hat!

Now that the weather has been getting nicer we have been trying to take advantage of it and spend time outside whenever we can. It has been a little difficult trying to find a good place for Evan to play. Our top deck (as you can see from the pictures) needs to be painted, the bottom deck is sagging from...

Hoppy Easter everybunny! Today we celebrated Evan’s first Easter with dinner at Uncle Glenn and Aunt Chris’s and then dessert at Aunt Diane and Uncle Pat’s. It was nice today to remember just how pregnant I was last Easter. I remember being very uncomfortable all day but not this year! This year we had a great day. It was a...

Tonight we went to a party in honor of Amy and Mark who were visiting for the weekend from Texas. We were able to see so many friends who we do not get to see nearly often enough. Evan fell asleep in the car on the way home and didn’t even wake up when I brought him in the house....

Tonight at dinner Evan must have been really thirsty. He doesn’t generally drink at all while he eats but tonight, he wanted his juice and his milk at the same time. Such a goof ball! Photo slideshow from the original blog. The slideshow service (Picasa/Flash) has been discontinued, so these photos can no longer be displayed here.

Anytime we leave our house and go north, we pass a ball field and a playground. I don’t know why but for some reason just the other day it dawned on me that we could probably walk to it. We looked it up on Google and sure enough, it is just over a mile from our house. A short little...

Evan won’t be one for still a little over three weeks but he has already received some early birthday presents. He got a lawn mower and tool bench from Mom and Dad and a ride-on giraffe and a sports center from Gramma and Papa. He must have been a good little boy! It will be a little while before Evan...