The Skarin Family Blog

I can’t believe that today was the first day of school and that this weekend is Labor Day weekend. Why is it that the summer always goes by so quickly? Today was my first day of school. Well, it should have been anyway. However, a few weeks ago, Bruce and I decided that I would take this first semester off...

Has it really been almost four weeks since I last posted already? How can that be?? I guess we have been too busy having lots of fun to spend time in front of the computer putting together blog posts. I will go back and post older updates but wanted to at least get something up so that I don’t feel...

Today we had another play date with the Cenotti’s and are already looking forward to this fall when we will be sure to have quite a few more. All the kids had a great time and Amelia and I had lots of time to catch up while they napped. How wonderful! Meal, Abby (aka Amelia's mini me) and Evan Evan...

Today Evan and I paid a visit to a very special lady, Kay Carlone. Kay is the mother of one of my good friends from high school. She is a wonderful, loving person and it was great to be able to introduce her to Evan. We had a lovely visit and will be sure to do it again soon! Nice...

Happy Birthday, Papa!! Hope you had a great day with your two oldest grandsons!! Here is a special birthday video from your littlest one!! We love you! Happy birthday, Uncle Ty, too! It was nice to see you last week…wish we could do it more often!! Raspberries for Papa! Smiles for Uncle Ty!

You may want to bookmark this video so that you can cheer yourself up if you are ever having a bad day! It’s a little dark in the beginning before we turned more lights on, but that’s when some of the best belly laughs were captured. It also goes on for a while, but it was just too hard to...

This weekend we hosted our annual summer party in Evan’s honor. While we still had the beer pong table going, this year was a little different than years past as there were quite a few children under five years old and it was a mix of friends and family. We started a cornhole tournament (that we never finished) and introduced...

Evan gets stronger and stronger everyday. He isn’t quite rolling over yet but does go pretty easily with just a little bit of help. Here are a couple pictures of the before and after tummy time progress. Before - June 4th After - August 20th Head held high! Look at me, Mommy!

This was Evan’s first time “floating” in Papa’s pool. He wasn’t too sure of it but he didn’t hate it either! I am sure he will be a little fish next summer just like Danny! Evan's first "float" This isn't so bad as long as I can suck on your thumb, Mom