Last month at Pat's Place- June & July Events

Don's 4th of July surprise birthday party- we had a blast getting it ready!

We make one small group walking to the park with Mama Joy and Papa Don

They sure play hard!

Anything can be a toy, but I think Angie is having the most fun as the monkey in the middle!

Laura and her four kids

Yarayda and her three kids

Eufemia and Nico

Daniela and Deick

Sayra and Diana, all smiles

Celebrating our social worker's birthday

Happy 6th birthday Jonathan!

Getting ready for the teams' visits

One of Angie's many fans

Pat's Place goodbye gift to Crosswave

We enjoyed a brief visit with my cousin

May Events- let them eat cake!

In the last days of May we were joined by Angelina and her two sons,

Slator (8) and Diego (5 months).

The bigger people that were here to celebrate Karla's first birthday (L to R): Yumi, Ana, Daniela, Laura, Nory, Lina with Karla, Katty, Yolanda, Yarayda, and Angelina

All our kids (plus a few visitors)

Deick, who used to cry all the time, is now one of the happiest guys I know!
Diego is such a sweet baby!

Nory came back to spend the day with us. Her work as a live-in nanny is going well and she's studying again this year!

I don't think Diana liked her lunch!

Edgar. Betzy, and Yumy came to celebrate with us

We all went to eat chicken at Norky's to celebrate Mother's Day. The mom's relaxed and the kids played! Jonathan was the last to come out of the toys!

All the kids presented their moms with flowers

These were the first real flowers any of them had ever received

Mattias, my favorite rock star, had a Mother's Day show at his school

Some of the kids went to visit Betzy for her 9th birthday and brought her a lot of joy!

Katty wanted to give a gift to someone who had less than she for her birthday so we settled on two boys in the Sunday school class she teaches- my little girl is 14 and has the hand of God all over her!

As we celebrate a new year of Yarayda's life I'm so thrilled to see her depending on and seeking the Lord more every day!

Nico is now three! It's a Peru thing to ice the face...

I think Angie liked the gifts she received for her 4th birthday!

I was blessed to get away to Mira Flores for a week and ahalf of studying Spanish intensely, and to be visited by my Peruvian family...

March & April Events

Our newest resident, Daniela (18) and her son, Deick (1 year) before his haircut

Our women were invited to dance for two sector anniversaries-

they did a great job and enjoyed it!
We got new Peruvian sandals called yankees and the kids loved them!

Happy birthday, Luis (8)

Thanks to a great friend, we were able to hunt washclothes in the form of Easter eggs.

Deick has changed so much in his month here, he's learning to eat real food and he likes to do it all by himself

Mattias takes great care of Holly's turtle

Happy birthday, Angela (10), who got her Caldo de Gallina that she'd been wanting for months

Elva and her four children went back to the jungle (with our pet monkey, George) after a month of not being able to adjust to the Lima way of life

Dianna is turning into such a little lady!

Happy birthday, Ana, but I think her son Nico is more excited than she is!

School started up again in the begining of March- we had quite a group walking

Formation on the first day of school

February Events

Buying new chairs can be a blast if they come with stickers!

Mattias, one cool dude!
Fun day out at the water park

They played together so nicely!

Ana, Laura, and Yarayda

While the big kids played, the little ones slept the day away

Katty learns how to ride our new bike

Nico helps his mom wash their clothes

Angie and her mini-me

Katty learns how to knit

Fun in the pool!

Cleaning out the algea after using the water
Lina visits us with Karla on Sundays

Cooking food for a birthday party


Yarayda's children (Luis, Piero & Angie) at the party

Can you find Pat's Place kids in the crowd?

Mattias loved the party, or at least the food!