PingYu Home of Hope

Happy Easter 复活节快乐
Easter and the Chinese Grave Sweeping holiday are very close to each other. The kids usually get a couple of days off for the Grave Sweeping holiday. Our kids go to 6 different schools with 9 different school schedules. So its always extra special when all of our children get to come home all at once.
复活节和清明节正好赶到一起。孩子们通常在清明节会有几天假期。我们孩子现在去到6个不同的学校有9种不同的时间表。所有的孩子们全部聚齐是很不容易的。

Debbie and Lester 郭倩和孙李

Thomas and Ellie 陈新元和冯智慧

Catina and Robby 冯秀云和李明洋

Michelle and Tyler set up an egg hunt for our younger children and some of our friends kids too.
笑笑和雅各给我们家小一点儿的孩子和朋友的孩子们准备了一起寻找复活节彩蛋的时光。

One thing nice about having older kids and volunteers, they help us out big time!
有大孩子和志愿者的一件好处就是可以给我们大大的帮助！

Becca 孙芳芳

Zoey and Graham 孟雨晴和王留旭
Dana and Wally 胡杨舍和闫诚诚

Tyler (our youngest) and Emma 雅各（我们的老小）和王子艺

Chris and Abby 张广振和冯静怡

Wendy and Sammy 孟文迪和邢恩典

Sarah and Gene 叶梦佳和王子昂

Eddy and Jaxin (our eldest son) 郭新和杰克（我们家的老大）

Thomas and Danny(right) 陈新元和杨新放

Crystal and Davey 宋奥珍和冯金福

Hollie and Noah 张光会和张晨亮

Kelly and Eli (our middle son) 李佳曦和以利亚（我们家的老二）

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Special Lunch! 特别的午餐！ Special lunch! At least once a month, Michelle (Mommy) gets a group of kids together and makes an American style meal. This month the kids voted for Spaghetti with bread. They love the sauce she makes!
特别的午饭！至少一个月，笑笑（Mommy）和一些孩子们一起为大家做一顿的美国的饭。这个月孩子们一致选择想吃意大利面和面包。孩子们非常喜欢笑笑做的番茄酱！

Hanging out and enjoying our lunch!
出去闲逛及享受我们的午餐！

Some of our kids put on a dance skit to help explain the holidays.
穿上服装可以来帮助解释这是什么意思。

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Strong and Healthy 强壮和健康
Michelle and I try to live a life that sets an example for our children to follow. We watch what we eat and exercise to show them a healthy body is a happy body. We like to go running often and am grateful for this beatification process Pingyu is in because it is giving us very nice running places.
笑笑和我尽力为我们的孩子做一个好榜样，让他们可以学习效仿。所以我们会注意我们所吃的东西也经常锻炼身体，让他们知道健康的身体也会让人更加快乐。我们经常跑步
Aaron and Eli went out for longer runs with me. Aaron ran a 10k with me, while Eli ran a 6k.
孙方旭和以利亚和我们以跑步。方旭跑了10K,以利亚跑了6K。

Abby and I went for a 30 minute walk while we waited for her doctors appointment in Zhumadian.
我们在驻马店医院等待医检报告的时间里，我和冯静怡一起有30分钟的散步。

Thomas (above), Jake (below right), Frank, Aaron and Danny all came up to join us in our work out room.
陈新元（上图），王大宝（下图右）朱雪峰，孙方旭和杨新全部加入运动行列，一起在健身房运动。

We took the kids out for a walk to the ShangHe area.
我们带孩子一起去上河城散步。

Of course if you have been to our home, you know that we LOVE playing dodgeball! Danny(left) and Wally ready to knock someone out:)
当然如果你曾经来过我们的家，你会知道我们都非常“爱玩三个球！

We don’t usually wrestle too much as we don’t want it to lead to fights…but sometimes a dad has to do what a dad has to do…
我们不是经常摔跤因为我们不想因此造成孩子打架的问题…但是身为父亲有时也想做任性的事情…
Jaxin, Eddy and Gabe had just a little too much energy and were trying to show how strong they were to the younger boys. It was a good lesson all around. They learned that they are not as strong as they think and I learned that I am getting a little too old to wrestle three 16 year old guys:o
杰克，郭新和王呈龙三个人有太多的精力同时也是想表现自己到底有多强壮。通过这次我们都学到了一堂课。那就是孩子们长大了，有点不服输，感觉自己很厉害但其实没有他们想象中那么厉害，而我也知道了自己和三哥16岁的男孩摔跤，实感觉到一点点变老

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Wally joined our family officially on Christmas day. He is doing very well and is a special boy. Do to the abusive history he experienced, he is a little shy and slow at times. We have high hopes that he can see that this is a safe place and that everyone here loves him. We can see him trusting us more and more each day. When he first arrived, we told him, “I love you!” He did not even know what those words meant…we spoke in Chinese to him. The greatest part of our job, is to see children who never knew the meaning of love, get to understand what it means, and then give it back! Wally gives the best hugs and when he says, “I love you”, you know its the truth!
闫诚诚正式加入我们这个大家庭是在圣诞节时候。他现在非常的好，他是一特别的孩子。正是因为他过去的经历导致他有一些的害羞和做事情比较慢。我们对他抱有很大的期望，他自己也越来越感受到这是一个安全的地方及这里的每一人都非常的爱他，每一天都看到了他的改变。第一次见到他，我们跟他说，“我爱你！” 他甚至不知道这是什么意思、、、我们对他说的是中文。我们的工作最美好的一点就是，你让一个从来不懂得爱的孩子，慢慢明白什么是爱，他们也开始回应你的爱！诚诚总是给别人最真诚结实的拥抱，当他说“我爱你”时你就会从心里知道是他真诚的！

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Michelle and I want to apologize for how long its been since our last update. It’s been a rough couple of months and we have had to handle a lot of different situations. First was the loss of Nathan Bell in November 2017 and then the loss of Cindy Sayre in January 2018. Both made huge impacts in not only our lives, but they touched so many people all over the world.
We also had to fix the Home of Hope website. It somehow got hacked, blocking a couple of our sites, but thanks to our hard working friend, Keith, the Xuzhou website and the main Home of Hope site are back up and running.
我和笑笑向关注我们的所有人说声抱歉，这么长时间没有更新我的网站。在过去的一段时间里确实很多的事情发生。首先提到的是内森贝尔先生于2017年十一月份逝世，紧接着2018年一月份Cindy Sayre由于疾病逝世。他们两个不仅仅对我们的生命有很多大的影响，他们也影响了世界各地不同的很多人。同时这期间我们的网站也需要重新修整。不知什么原因网站被黑了，总是感谢我们的朋友们Keith,现在徐州的网站和几个主要的网站已恢复运行。
Another issue to tackle, was re-establishing everything for our business license. We are still working on this project, but are getting close to finishing it. We are a legal government orphanage but needed to make certain proofs, do to some changes in the law. This involved having to go back to the States and getting all kinds of documents authenticated.
Finally, we are still currently raising money, and desperately searching for a new location to move our home to. Thankfully the local government has given us permission to continue living in our current home, but our time is running out. We need to raise a lot of money in a little amount of time. Please be lifting us up and spreading the word of this great need. If you would like to help us reach our goal,
另一个问题是关于我们的合法登记证。材料我们还在准备中，不过已经快好了。由于一些法律政策的改变，我们所开办的是合法的福利院，所以需要申报一些文件来证明。这些准备的材料中有些需要回国办理。最后，我们还在筹集资金中，为下一步搬迁做准备。也感谢当地的政府部门给予我们的足够的时间让我们可以继续居住在这个地方，但是，我们知道可以继续住在这里的时间不会太长，我们需要在很短的时间的筹集到足够的资金。如果想要帮助我们实现我们的目标（给孩子们一个家）请大家继续关注我们，帮助我们，也请转发我们的需要。click HERE to find out how to make a donation.怎样捐助我们。