Confirmation and dressage competition

Time for an update of what we have been doing lately! First of all two weeks ago we went on our friends' sons confirmation. They got confirmated in different churches, but celebrated together afterwards with a very nice lunch in a lovely restaurant. We had a good time and their relatives from Finland and Sweden were so nice. The weather was rainy in the morning when we got to the church, but then it stopped, luckily.

The boys, Alessio and Marco before lunch
Carlotta and Sofia in front of the table where the starters were served

There was a play ground and a football field and luckily the sun started shining, so after lunch the children could play outside. Daniele and Marco going towards the football field


Carlotta and the flowers. She loves flowers!

Last week-end me and Sofia participated in a dressage competition together with Sofias friends. It was very exciting and we had a good time! More photos on my horse blog.

This is Sofia and her friend Alice with the pony Kenny before the competition.

May day

Horse friends

What a lovely week-end we had. On the first of May we went to the mountains in Ovindoli and had a nice day out with friends. The weather was fantastic and everything was green. We had a good meal at a trattoria and then we went out on a horse ride and Carlotta rode a small pony called Azzurra. Afterwards our friends invited us to their house in a small village called Luco dei Marsi and we stayed there and had an other nice meal and chatted till it was time to get back to Rome again. Lots of eating, laughing and fresh air - is there anything better than that?

Ice cream seller or Princess

Carlotta wants to be an ice cream seller or a princess or both when she grows up.

Pick-nick

First pick nick together with friends this spring. We met in a popular pick-nick area, at the sanctuary of Divino Amore where lots of Romans go pick-nicking. The weather was beautiful and I regretted having put my jeans on, because it got really warm in the sun! It had been raining for the last two days, but now that the sun was shining, the grass was dry again. First in the morning me and Sofia went on our riding lesson, came home to have a shower, packed the last things and then the whole family went off to meet our friends at the pick-nick area. So nice to have a glass of wine, sun and good company after the sweaty riding lesson!
We all enjoyed it. We all are Swedish-Italian and Finnish-Italian families and the children have known each other since they were born, so it's really nice to get together once in a while!

Armando taking a nap and the boys playing football

Part of the group. A few of them (one of them my husband) inside the car listening to the football games.

Scrapbooking course 18.4.2010

On Sunday I went on a scrapbooking course organized by Timbri Tinti. I made this cute lay-out. Actually I had signed up for a mini album course, but there were some problems with the kits, so they organized this course instead. It was fun and relaxing! In the afternoon I took Carlotta to a birthday party. There were three of them this week-end, one for each of the children.

New hair cut

Me, Daniele and Sofia got a new hair cut. Mine is not so different from what it was before, but Daniele and Sofia changed quite a lot and both looked really good!

Parco dell'Insugherata

The lovely green area of Insugherata was just behind all the blocks of flats.

Fishing small water insects to look at with the microscope

Using the microscope was fun




The last Sunday of March we went on a guided tour to a natural park in Rome that's called Parco dell'Insugherata. It's a huge green area quite near the town. It's on the other side of Rome than where we live and I had never been or even heard of this park before. Roma Natura organizes these guided tours free of charge and there are really many interesting tours that you can do with the hole family. Carlotta wasn't the smallest one, there were some really small children with us and they all made it quite well. The theme was insects, so we walked a little and then we stopped when we noticed some interesting insect and we got to know their names and lots of curios things about them. We also go to watch them with a microscope. It was a warm and nice spring day and we had put on far too much clothes, because the day before had been windy and chilly.
Finding some interesting insects

Clay modelling