Week 9

I'm behind schedule again with the 52 weeks photo project, but I won't give up. For week 9 I chose this one. This week it was Carlotta's turn to go pony riding after quite a long break with cold weather and lack of time. She is quite a cute rider, I think!

I'm still looking for the right riding school for her, since the one where me and Sofia go doesn't have small ponies, so now we tried a new one. It's not too far away from home and not too expensive either, so now I'm just waiting for Carlotta to tell me if she wants to start her riding lessons there. As you always have to pay a yearly member fee beside the lessons, I would like her to be sure about wanting to go there before I pay. She said the lesson was too short (It was a free lesson where they gave you the possibility to try before you decide, so it didn't last a full hour) and she didn't like the fact that she was alone without other children. The pony was nice and I think the instructor seemed quite nice, too, so let's see what we decide!

The nice photo frame is a freebie from Maybemej.

Eyes of March

This week's theme was Eyes of March. I have been working so much this week that my eyes have been really tired watching the computer screen for hours and hours a day. The weather has been so lovely here and spring really is in the air, so I have tried to get out at least a bit every day, either horse riding or on other days at least a moment out in the garden with the children. They also seem to enjoy it when I stay there with them. Their hobby horse got some apricot flowers as ornament. I find real horses eyes so beautiful, but this time I only caught the hobby horse's eyes.

 This is what Sofia and all her horsey friends like to do when they don't ride real horses.

Flowers! Quite hard to imagine that it was snowing here just a few weeks ago!

This week the apricot tree was in full bloom. So beautiful!

And Carlotta made some flower soup.

Daniele played table tennis with his friends and dreamed about having a real ping pong table in the garden.

Be still

This week's theme at My 3 Boybarbarians is Be still. I have been working a lot this week and sitting behind the computer, so there has not been too much time for photos. Wednesday afternoon we didn't have to go to any hobbies and the weather was really nice so I went outside to watch the children play out in the garden. The sun was going down behind our apricot tree. Soon it will start to blossom.

After just half an hour I saw that it was full moon.

After all those hours a the computer it felt good just to be outside and enjoy our garden for a while.

Week 7 and 8

I'm late again, so I here are both the weeks 7 and 8 for  the 52 week project. On week 7 me and Sofia both partecipated in a show jumping competition. For Sofia it was an important day because it was the first time in the 90 cm class. The pony she rode, Flicka, refused once, but other wise they did really well and our riding instructor was very happy with her. As I couldn't choose between the photo of Sofia jumping with Flicka and a carnival photo of Carlotta chasing her big brother and sister in the park, I included both photos for this week.

For week 8 I chose a photo of Carlotta watching the glittering sea and wishing summer would come quickly. My husband run a half marathon for the first time and we went to see him arrive to Ostia, which is by the sea.

 

P52 - Cabin fever

For the first time I will try to participate in the Project 52 photo challenge I found on the Life with my 3 Boy Barbarians blog. I have followed it but I find it very difficult to take a photo following a theme and even more difficult to do it on time to post the link on the blog. This week's theme was Cabin Fever. First I didn't even understand this expression, but in the blog I found the explanation "Cabin Fever is English slang for that pent up feeling you get when long months of bad weather have you stuck indoors".
This week we haven't had any cabin fever here in Rome as spring is really in the air now after the unusually cold weeks. My photo is from the end of last week when I had a fever and couldn't go out and didn't have the energy to do anything with the children. Carlotta resolved her cabin fever sitting on the couch in her princess dress eating sweets and watching films.

More snow photos

More snow photos. It was fun to have some snow here in Rome, but now I'm waiting for spring! It's not supposed to be so cold here and for such a long time! We live in Rome!

Week 6 - Dreaming

This is the photo of Week 6 in the 52 week's challenge. It started snowing a lot on Saturday and the girls went out to play. Sofia and her friend were running and jumping and throwing snowballs and Carlotta just stood still watching the sky. I asked her what she was doing and she said she was dreaming and then she told me not to enter other people's dreams.
I made a lay-out of it too. I'm really bad at remembering where I have taken or bought the scrapbooking kits and templates I use, but I will try to remember to leave a thank you note when I download free scrap booking material. From now on!