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		<title>New Year Activities!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This new year has been probably the busiest we have ever had. Michelle and I decided to have a big New Years party for our children on January 1st since we dont get to celebrate the Chinese New Year with most of our children. Typically the Chinese people celebrate their New Year according to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2012/01/18/new-year-activities/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After returning from the Xuzhou Home of Hope for Thanksgiving we started decorating for Christmas. Last year Joey had the honor of putting the star on top of the tree because he was the youngest, so we decided&#8230;. to let our eldest child, Hollie, place the star on the tree this year! Picture on left [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2011/12/19/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>A Walk Around Our Home!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most enjoyable things we like to do on the weekends, is to walk around our property to see what all of our children are doing. The kids have so much pressure from the schools and society to be the best in school, that even on the weekends, their teachers give them enormous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2011/10/24/a-walk-around-our-home/</link>
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		<title>Fall Activities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our children all started school on September 1st! Below is a picture of the children lining up to walk to school. The older girls and boys walk about 7 minutes to the public primary school. The kindergarten boys also walk to school but it takes them about 15 minutes to get to school, its not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2011/10/11/fall-activities/</link>
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		<title>5Th Annual Summer Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This years summer camp was held in Gongyi, where the first Home of Hope orphanage is located. Each year we try to host the summer camp at a different location, either at the Gongyi Home of Hope, the Xuzhou Home of Hope (last years camp was held there), and hopefully when we raise enough money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2011/08/09/5th-annual-summer-camp/</link>
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		<title>Happy Easter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year was the first time we were able to celebrate Easter. Last year we had only been open for one month and were too busy trying to get used to one another to celebrate anything. We want to thank you for your continued support for our children; you are truly saving lives. Back row [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2011/04/29/happy-easter/</link>
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		<title>Spring Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our children taught us a fun game; which is a version of Marco/Polo. One person is blind folded and spins 10 times around, then they yell out stop. Once they yell out stop, no one can move from there spot. The the blind folded person walks around trying to find them; but the fun does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2011/03/29/spring-time/</link>
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		<title>Lantern Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2011/02/23/lantern-festival/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We celebrated the New Year with shooting off fireworks and having a party in our house where the children played with toys, watched a movie, played several board games and we even had a PAPER FOOTBALL COMPETITION!!! Mark (left) and Ellie (Right) playing paper football Winners of the Paper Football Competition (left to right) Eddy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2011/02/06/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Children in Need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the excitement of Christmas about, we were reminded of why we are here when 2 families came asking for our help. First was a 77 year old man and woman who have 2 grandchildren, one 9 year old girl (Hollie-Zhang Guang Hui) and one 5 year old boy (Chris-Zhang Guang Zhen). Hollie and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pingyu.homeofhope.org/2011/02/06/children-in-need/</link>
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