marcus' birthday

Marcus is now six years old! We celebrated his birthday last Friday night with our church and other friends.

Marcus couldn't wait for his friends to get here. The theme of his party was Marcus' Farm and he loved being dressed as a farmer.

Our friends are here!!!

The big surprise was that our friend Quimi (AKA Fosforito) came to entertain us all.
All the kids loved it.

And the grown-ups liked it too!

Gaby was really happy to have her friend Emily from her class at the party.

Fosforito had everyone's attention.


Marcus even had a visit from Grandma Peachey and Grandpa and Grandma Briceno thanks to Skype.
FELIZ CUMPLEANOS!!!!!

Here's all the farm animals.

We ended the night with the game "Pin the Hat on the Farmer" invented and produced by Gabriela Peachey.

mid-october update

Greetings long lost blog readers! I can't believe that it's been a month and a half since I last posted. I knew our lives have been hectic, but didn't know it was that bad! We are now all back in school, which has life taking a totally different direction than it did in the summer.

Naty and I are both back to work at the schools we were at last year, and enjoying the year so far. I'm also back to studies at OSU learning about teacher decision making this quarter. Gaby is now a second grader and Marcus is in kindergarten. They both get to walk to school with me every day, which is a lot of fun!

Naty and I have started leading a Married for Life class every Wednesday evening, aside from our weekly house church gathering, so that is about all we can handle on the ministry front right now.

Gaby and Marcus have started taking violin lessons with a colleague of mine from the school I teach at and they are getting better at it. They have their first recital this coming Friday. They are also taking drama classes in Grove City every Saturday morning.

Here is a glimpse of some of our activities:

First day back to school for all of us.

In mid September we had an Engaged Encounter at Rosedale and had the privilege of having Naty's sister Rosy and her fiance Wladimir at the encounter.

Gaby and Marcus enjoyed some extra time with their "tios" after EE was over.

Enjoying an evening with some little friends at our place. We are helping this family out since they lost their home in a fire and are working to get all of their paperwork squared away.

Pumpkin carving fun!

Feliz cumpleanos Christian! The little boy Gaby is holding just turned one.

Marcus was having fun taking pictures. Here are the two most beautiful girls in the world cooking lunch. Naty is using a new hot pad that Gaby weaved for her.

Our dear friend Antonio from Honduras, helping us change our back door. He and his friends are also going to help us change out our windows next weekend.

Me, acting like I know what I'm doing! Notice the nice new door.

Here are the kids just after our drama class yesterday.

I'm so sick of paying for haircuts, so I decided to give Marcus a cut and then Naty cut my hair after that. Marcus was feeling really ICHYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

After the haircuts, we went to work, taking all of the plants out of our garden. A sad day, but it just means spring will be coming again.

This morning we had a baby dedication with our church for these two happy families. God bless you Jonathan and Brennan!

After our gathering we had a nice hike at the park where we were meeting.

Fall has certainly arrived in central Ohio and we love seeing all the colors.

philadelphia and camping in pa

I need to work on this post a bit more but for now, here are some pics. more later

the peacheys visit nyc

We made a quick one day trip to NYC on August 8 with my cousin Rich. Here is a bit of our trip on the subway.

Gaby with a live statue.

Mis bellas mujeres....
Rich was our tour guide... (insert sarcastic glance here)
Us and Lady Liberty.Inside the Ellis Island museum.
Marcus was really hungry for pasta so we found some thanks to our friend Amy's iPhone.

globalocal house church

Thanks to a suggestion from our friend Michael Phillipps, we decided to open up our house church to the world by inviting in people via video chat. Tonight we had Naty's parents join us from Venezuela as we had communion, ate arepas, sang and talked about faith. It was especially meaningful that we could put our faith into action and pray for Naty's dad since he goes to his doctor tomorrow to see if his ankle is healing well from the surgery so they can give him a hard cast.
During our gathering, just after a few worship songs, our dear friends Luis y Nubia stopped in to say goodbye before heading back to Philadelphia where they now live. We really miss having them here in Columbus, but it was great to see them over the weekend and giving them a prayer of blessing before they went.
So to put it all together tonight we had church with people who are native to PA, New York, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Ecuador! There is nothing I love more that seeing first hand that the Kingdom of God truly is about ALL nations coming together to worship The King.

Quien es el verdadero cachorrito?

Esta caricatura apareció en La Voz Hispana, nuestro periódico local en Español, la semana pasada. Hace como un ano el presidente Chavez hizo un comentario que el presidente de México, Vicente Fox, no era mas que un cachorro de Bush. Ahora, parece que quieren decir que Chavez es el cachorro, pero, de la FARC. Con todo lo que dicen que pasa con la FARC dentro de Venezuela, no lo dudo. Lo mas triste es que el poder de la FARC viene con billetes verdes que consiguen atravez de la venta de las drogas aqui en EE. UU.
Todo vuelve a la raiz de la avaricia del poder, el dinero y la fama que es realmente lo que controla a Chavez, sus colegas, la FARC e inculsive los distribudores y consumidores de drogas que en fin financean sus obras.
Nunca puedo quitar de mi mente las palabras de Jesus, »Nadie puede servir a dos señores, pues menospreciará a uno y amará al otro, o querrá mucho a uno y despreciará al otro. No se puede servir a la vez a Dios y a las riquezas.
Se puede saber de los actos de una person cual dios estan sirviendo. Es un ejemplo mas de que no podemos creer que los gobernantes de este mundo nos ayudaran. Jesus es el unico confiable de nuesta fe y adoracion porque demostro un camino distincto que el abrio con la humildad y el amor.

Food Inc.

We went to the movies this afternoon and saw this movie. I'd recommend you find it, watch it and think about it. Who really feeds us?