Lantern Festival
Our Lantern Festival was a very busy and full celebration. We started off by welcoming in (below left to right) Chris (Zhang Guang Zhen), his older sister Hollie (Zhang Guang Hui) and Wendy (Meng Wen Di). You can click the names in red to learn more about each child.
As soon as Chris, Hollie, and Wendy were settled in, we were invited to watch a free movie in a newly opened Movie Theater.
The 2 people in the front right row were friends of the owner, but everyone else in the theater were either our children or our staff members. Our children really enjoyed the movie, they even played the movie with English subtitles so Michelle, our three sons, and I could follow the movie too.
Before the movie, the owner of the theater gave each one of our children a new school bag. Zoey (Meng Yu Qing) front left with Anna (Wang Yan) right behind her, Joey (Wang Bao Gui) middle row looking back at Noah (Zhang Chen Liang) and Mark (Zhang Guang Hui) front right with Lester (Sun Li) behind him.
As soon as we returned home from the movies, we were met by a group of volunteers who wanted to bless our children by giving them bubbles and kites. Our yard is too small and has way too many power lines to fly one kite let alone 10 kites; so we drove all of our children to the park.
Noah and Tyler (our youngest son) flying a kite together. (Right) Sarah (Ye Meng Jia) and Gabe (Wang Cheng Long).
(Left to right) Jake (Wang Guo Bao) and Thomas (Chen Xin Yuan) blowing bubbles.
Right after dinner we had a birthday party for (below left to right) Thomas (5 years old), Chris (6 years old) , Lester (7 years old) and Emma (8 years old).
To finish the Lantern Festival off we shot off more fireworks and lanterns!!!!
Emma (Wang Zi Yi) is holding a sparkler. The picture on the left is 10,000 fire crackers (about the same thing as a Bobcat fire cracker but more powerful) being shot off…very loud and very messy, but the children enjoyed it which makes it well worth while.
We bought each room their own lantern to light. This lantern was the kindergarten rooms, as you can see Danny (Yang Xin Feng) in the bottom left wishing it a good flight.
We thank you for taking the time to read about our family here in Pingyu China. We are quickly approaching our 1st anniversary and we are so grateful for all of your prayers and financial support that you have given to help save some of the lost children of China. Below is a picture of our children with their lanterns. With your prayers and financial help, you are spreading hope into a child’s life that never knew the meaning of the word….HOPE!
Posted: February 23rd, 2011 under Uncategorized.
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