November Events

We took a trip to the beach the last weekend in November to celebrate my birthday early and to have a fun outing before I head to the U.S.

Luis, Angela and Katty burrying a friend while Nico supervises

Happy early birthday to me, a Peruvian tradition of an egg on the head (mixed with flour)

Yarayda playing with Angie, loving to smile with her new teeth!

Ana playing with Nico in the sand, that's improvement!

Laura with Diana and Lina with Karla on our first trip to the beach this season

We were blessed with a full table of traditional U.S. foods for the first Thanksgiving in Peru

Thanks to Bridget, we had the delicious treat of cuy (guinea pig)

No one is ever too old to play with Barbies!

Nico working hard to bring home the bread!

We were invited to a friend's birthday party

Karla is so big, or is she a doll?

We had a great (although very short week) with a New Covenant team from Atlanta

My kids all found new friends on the November team!

The team presented Edgar's new house to him and his family- what an exciting day!

October Events

Our first big service project with this group of women and children- cleaning the chairs at the Sector 3 church. They even got recognized and thanked in the service the following day.

Little five month old Karla is growing so quickly!

Julio came to do devotionals with the kids a few times this month- he's teaching them about obedience in a special way!


Katty's mom, Yolanda, continues to come spend Sundays with us. Please pray for their connection as it's more difficult for Katty for have a relationship with her mom.

Flower from Nico?

Even though we weren't celebrating her birthday, Diana had a great time!

Since we had three birthday's in October, we went to Norkys to celebrate, as well as something special on each of the three days.

Lina turned 24

Piero turned 5

Sayra celebrated her 8th birthday in her dreamed about white dress!

September Events

Everyone loves to play with our quickly growing baby Karla

The kids run and run and run, it's so much fun when you have friends by your side!
Edgar's daughter Betzy came to visit with us. She just laughs and laughs with Angela and Sayra, but then she cries when it's time to leave.

We are so blessed by generous donations! Everyone is repairing their clothes, and even making new ones for their children out of scraps

What a blessing to have bicycles donated for the little ones

Happy Birthday, Blanca- even Karla made a special card

Even the little ones are learning the importance of prayers

There is never a dull moment with Mattias around!

Piero and Jhonattan had a special day at school and we all had the joy of watching. Yarayda and her son are dancing with an apple between their heads- what a competition

Laura and her son are playing musical chairs and almost won

To celebrate a Peruvian holiday, we all took a day off and went to play in a local park

Mattias and Nico are becoming great buddies

Along with some great friends, we played volleyball most of the day

We got up early that morning to cook an excellent picnic lunch (sandwiches here are not a meal)

Thanks to some wonderful friends, we were able to bring our long jump ropes and have competitions

Our favorite part was sliding down a wall that appears to be part of a skateboard park- we did it again and again

August Events

Karla is growing big and strong, and happy!

Nico once cried and faught becuase he didn't want to eat, now he cries because he wants more food!We were asked to dance for the Sector 10 anniversary; the women did a fabulous job!

Happy 19th birthday Nory!


We like to take the kids to the park when their moms are in classes...
to play,

to eat,

to make a mess, to rest, ...and then it's bath time!
We were asked to dance in Sector 5 for Independance Day
Diana ate how many choclatejas???
Jeff Gordon persues me everywhere- thanks Jill!
I'm in charge of the "nursery" while Blanca does devotionals with the moms
We were blessed with Vacation Bible School while the kids had their two week spring break