The Skarin Family Blog

Today we had a wonderful, water-filled day with the Carlone’s!  Ben is home from Thailand visiting for a few weeks this summer and Kristen just arrived in RI from Minnesota last night.  It was a beautiful, warm summer day - perfect for water squirters, a couple of (freezing cold) dips in the pool and running through the sprinkler.  It’s always...

Most of my blog posts are all about the boys or adventures we have with the boys but we do still have a life that doesn’t always include them.  Tonight we attended the wedding of two of our good friends, Ray and Emily.  The Roger Williams Botanical Garden was a beautiful setting for the marriage ceremony, complete with a Carl...

Today I took the boys to the Touch Tomorrow event at WPI.  It is a festival of science, technology and robots, on a beautiful campus and it is an awesome event for children of any age.  Plus it’s free!!  Pretty much a no brainer as far as I’m concerned!  Evan and especially Logan are a bit on the young side...

Now that Evan is out of school for the summer, he has been joining us at music class.  The last two weeks were beach music, one of Evan’s favorites from last year.  Logan has really been coming out of his shell more and more and acting like the little monkey that he always is at home.  These boys…so silly!! Photo...

We have a point and shoot camera that generally just sits on my dresser these days.  Evan uses it if he wants to take pictures and I used to take it along on “outings” and play dates with me before I had my MotoX.  Now that my cell phone takes such great photos, the little lumix mainly collects dust…Except for...

Omi has been spending lots of time in Montana with the Smucker’s and helping with Ellamae so Grandpa Bob came to see us for a few days.  He walked with Daddy on the campaign trail for two days and spent lots of great quality time with the boys.  The boys loved having him here and keep him going from morning...

Today started out a little bit cool but it was perfect weather for a bike ride and walk so we grabbed some sweatshirts and headed to the bike path.  Each time we go, Evan is better and better at balancing on his balance bike.  He’ll be ready for a 2-wheeled pedal bike in no time.  We found a couple of...

It’s hard to believe that Evan’s first year of preschool at Here We Grow has already come to an end! Even as long and as cold as this winter was, it seems like just yesterday that we were dropping him off for the first time, crying as we left him.  Evan has learned so much this year and grown up...

This morning I dropped Evan off for his first last day of school then had some time to kill before returning for the end of the year program for the parents.  After running a few quick errands, we had time for a quick photo shoot with Logan.  My handsome little ham!  Always so playful! Photo slideshow from the original blog....

The boys and I spent a few days in RI at Papa & Gramma’s and Uncle Dan & Auntie Karin’s houses which means there was a lot of cousin time!  We enjoyed beautiful weather and had so much fun!  We are so blessed to have family who are always there when we need them!  Love you all! Photo slideshow from...