tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30927450078808460522024-03-13T09:19:41.411-04:00Tapper family blogKLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07453532401536014707noreply@blogger.comBlogger575125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-40995109394638548342017-08-17T09:28:00.001-04:002017-08-17T09:28:20.039-04:00First Day of School! Wow! Summer vacation 2017 is history. The kids started at their new schools today. While the last few weeks have been a flurry of transition activity, I thought I'd share a few highlights:<br />
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The younger three successfully completed the Pickens Turtle Search while Andrew was at football practice one day. Lots of fun!<br />
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This guy turned 14 years old! He wanted to bake his own cake. He is such a one-of-a-kind character! We love him like crazy!!</div>
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Andrew is headed to high school! He is starting 9th grade and D.W. Daniel High. Ethan and Abby are starting out at R.C. Edwards Middle School. Jadon is going to 5th grade at Six Mile Elementary. I am so excited to see how they learn and grow this year. Love this crew!!!K Tapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06722691150925598240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-27688813438606009982016-10-31T19:57:00.004-04:002016-10-31T19:57:36.233-04:00Halloween Fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Then, there were the costumes! Jadon was a turkey dinner...<br />
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Ethan was a hashtag...<br />
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...and Abby was an old lady!<br />
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(If you are wondering, Andrew chose to stay home and hand out candy this year.) Lots of fun was had by all!<br />
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K Tapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06722691150925598240noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-79678171804920947662016-09-06T07:48:00.000-04:002016-09-06T07:48:55.351-04:00New School Year 2016-2017Holy, triune God, go with us today. May Your strength, Father, keep us secure. May Christ, our true Wisdom, guide our learning. May the Holy Spirit make us glad and good. We pray that you would hold us and bring us, at day’s end, safely home. Amen.<br />
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We celebrated Ethan's thirteenth birthday on Sunday before sending him off to Caton's Island for the week. We love this kid like crazy!!!</div>
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Thanks to the organizers of the Truro Kids Triathlon for putting on a great event! All four Tappers were finishers. All agreed that a triathlon is harder than they thought...and that swimming is the hardest part. What an adventure!</div>
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We completed our <a href="http://expanding-heart.blogspot.ca/2014/04/easter-egg-traditions.html">Easter family egg hunt</a> on Monday this year, since Andrew and I were away at his provincial hockey tournament while Mike and the rest of the gang were working hard with the Easter Bunny Blast and Easter Sunday at Moncton Wesleyan.</div>
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It was fun to read the notes that the kids are writing as they get older. They are really thoughtful, funny, and unique. This is definitely one of our favourite family traditions!</div>
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By His Wounds We Were Healed, Anthony R. Falbo, contemporary</div>
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There is a strange dichotomy between the Cross of Christ and the cross of Christian culture. We wear it in beautiful chains around our necks--Christ wore it in bloody stakes through His hands and feet. We display it on bumper stickers and posters with pride, but shame consumed the One who hung there for hours. We hold it close and sense heaven--Christ embraced it and encountered hell.<br />
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Our sanctuaries display a cleansed version of the Cross--no blood, no struggle, no filth of sin--solely a monument to resurrection power. We celebrate the passion of Christ once a year, but for most of us the journey from Good Friday to Easter is a short one.<br />
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Somehow the horror of Jesus- final days eludes us as we bask in the glow of His ascension.<br />
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It's almost as if we've gotten beyond the Cross, though surely that has never been our intention. As believers, we want it to be central to our faith, but struggle to find a practical place for it in our lives.<br />
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What would it look like if we did? A morbid fascination with grim details? An aura of morose resignation settling in our souls? Sackcloth...ashes...melancholy chants from monotone choirs? Surely not.<br />
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But if no greater love has even been seen than when Christ lay his head on the crossbeam at Calvary, we must find a way to be consumed by it. If it took not gold or silver, but precious blood to secure our redemption, we must comprehend the incomprehensible. If God's glory is a jewel hidden in the hollow of the Cross, how can we do anything less than search for it with all our might?<br />
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K Tapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06722691150925598240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-42489983116336870322016-03-04T07:42:00.004-05:002016-03-04T07:42:59.982-05:00Brothers: Formal Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These two.<br />
Only six months apart in age.<br />
Couldn't be more different in most things...<br />
Yet have a very special relationship.<br />
And they dress up pretty nice, don't you think?KLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07453532401536014707noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-5101283401803152722016-02-25T13:03:00.004-05:002016-02-25T13:03:54.982-05:00Jadon is 9!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We celebrated a special day for the youngest Tapper! A few pictures here capture Jadon's last year.<br />
I tried to think of a few things that make Jadon so unique--here are just a few of his special traits among the Tapper kids:<br />
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1) Most likely to ace a math test<br />
2) Most likely to wear the same shirt to school every Tuesday because "it's tradition!"<br />
3) Most likely to make a pun, on purpose, or catch someone else's unintentional pun<br />
4) Most likely to be able to tell you about some small part of his day in 1000 words or more<br />
5) Most likely to say: "This is the BEST DAY EVER!" <br />
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His enthusiasm for life, quick wit, and love for others is incredible. Happy birthday, J.D.! We love you!!<br />
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K Tapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06722691150925598240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-74969827726312673432016-01-24T20:44:00.003-05:002016-01-24T20:44:44.333-05:00A Teenager in the House!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy 13th birthday to Andrew! We've seen this young man growing by leaps and bounds over the last few months--certainly, physically--but also in wisdom and character. He is loved by many (you can see a few of his biggest fans in the picture above), and we feel blessed to be a part of the adventure of living with a really awesome teen!K Tapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06722691150925598240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-79913165440287903832015-10-31T14:40:00.001-04:002015-10-31T14:40:06.470-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is that time again--time for the annual Tapper family jack-o-lantern guessing contest! Check out the cool designs created by the kids, and try to figure out which made which...<br />
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1) Minion<br />
2) Hi!<br />
3) Owl<br />
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This is one of our family's favourite traditions, and the kids LOVE to see who guesses what! So, give it your best guess!<br />
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Abby Hope turned 10 today! What a great decade we have shared with this precious gift! Abby is full of creativity, generosity, determination, and style! She catches frogs and makes scarves and stops goals and writes songs and . . . so much more! We consider her to be a very special young woman, and we thank God for her life.</div>
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<br />KLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07453532401536014707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-81974613159252609462015-09-28T20:37:00.003-04:002015-09-28T21:18:07.102-04:00Lives By Example<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am so proud of my Dad, who finished a dream trip, riding his bicycle from Northampton, Pennsylvania to my brother's house near Marion, Indiana. That's over 1000 kilometers (650 miles) if you take the highway, but he had to make his own route on the back roads! He left last Sunday and arrived today, just a few weeks before his 68th birthday. What an amazing man!<br />
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Thanks, Dad, for being you.K Tapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06722691150925598240noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-38524312184208701102015-09-08T12:40:00.003-04:002015-09-08T12:40:37.604-04:00First Day of School 2015-2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had a blast today celebrating Ethan's birthday. (It was actually Friday!) He is such an amazing kid--he always seems to see things from a unique perspective, leading him to make the most unusual but insightful observations and ask great questions. He knows how to enjoy the simple things in life--LEGO, water guns, climbing trees, and playing Monopoly. This year, he has also begun working as a classroom assistant in our church's preschool program, and he is very sensitive and helpful with the little ones. They all love him! And so do we!!!<br />
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Today, we celebrate this AWESOME guy!<br />
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<br />KLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07453532401536014707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-33227196537773797022015-06-12T12:00:00.001-04:002015-06-12T12:00:11.532-04:00School Year Completed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ethan had a great year at Moncton Christian Academy. We are very thankful for his fabulous teachers and their dedication to his academic and spiritual growth. (He is also thankful to be done a week and a half before his siblings!!)KLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07453532401536014707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-78446284139638895362015-05-23T21:00:00.001-04:002015-05-23T21:00:15.715-04:00Father and Son<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love the faces of family members reading their notes of appreciation from each other--we love <a href="http://expanding-heart.blogspot.ca/2014/04/easter-egg-traditions.html" target="_blank">this tradition!</a>KLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07453532401536014707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092745007880846052.post-82751295752192132032015-03-21T14:05:00.003-04:002015-03-21T14:05:52.893-04:00A Few Pics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Jadon loves his box subscription through Little Passports. Each month, he receives information and special gifts from a different country. He loves geography! (And I think this is such a nice picture of the brothers...)</div>
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So far, the kids have had 13 days of school cancellation due to weather, plus 2 Sunday church cancellations. That adds up to a lot of extra time at home! Here are Ethan and Jadon on one such occasion:<br />
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Today, Abby got her first-ever shut out as a hockey goalie for Moncton Minor Atom Hockey. 1-0 for the Kings! Great job, Abster!!!<br />
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For our friends and family who do not live in New Brunswick...<br />
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Here is the my view from in front of our house (taken from my eye height!):<br />
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This is the view across the street:</div>
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This is Mike shoveling snow to the banks above his head:<br />
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And these are kids who can find ways to enjoy all this snow!!!:</div>
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