Pictures

Pictures from the walk of some of Braden's Team. Braden's friends Tristan and Gage strolled the walk in honor of Braden. Then a few pictures from the NICU reunion Braden had a blast. The a picture of Lisa and Palmer with Braden.

More soon.

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NEWS

We hope that everyone had a great mother's day! we had a good time we were all together at mom's and enjoyed each other very much. I did manage to get sick that day but still had a great time. We got good news and some bad news that day as well. My dad's aunt passed away Sunday. Things are crazy we are doing the best we can and trying to move on. Like i said before we have a huge family and a great support system of friends that we will get through this. NOW for some good news. My brother JJ is getting married in August. We are so excited and can not wait for a new sister-in-law. And get this i will instantly have 2 nieces without having to deal with a 9 month 2 weeks over due pregnant sister in law...............now that is good news if i have ever heard it. They are going to get married on the beach and we are all planning to go. This will be our first full family trip. We can not wait.. I am sure that Braden will love the beach. So get ready for some fun in the sun pictures.

Junior in Galveston HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY
GRAMY IN MEMPHIS AND GRANDMA PEREZ IN HEREFORD HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAY 16TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE LOVE YOU ALL

News

No news is good news right? Braden has been doing well. He went to a birthday for our dear sweet Audrey. You might remember her from the blog she was born with CDH. She is a year old now and as cute as can be. We were so happy to be a part of that. We also went to Baylor NICU reunion. We got to see some our nurses from when Braden was in there. We finally got to meet Kellar and his mommy. He is so cute and doing so well. Lisa,my NICU rock, was there with her son Palmer he is so big he will be 7 this June. Getting to see all these kids and babies was such an eye opener of how lucky we are with Braden.

A bit of sad news. My dad, Braden's PoPo, has had 2 deaths in his family. His sister and his brother have both passed away. We are very sad by this and we are dealing with it the best way we can. The Jackson family is a BIG family so there are lots of shoulders to cry on. We love you PoPo and we are here for you.

We would like to wish everyone a HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

plus 1 makes 4

RYAN CHRISTOPHER KEDROSKI IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was born on Friday May 4th.........mom and baby are good. Brother Owen is happy as can be. Clara and I are trying to go see then on Saturday the 12th. Here is a picture of our sweet baby Ryan!

Love you Kedroski family.......

SLEEP

So you know being a new parent you hear people say "oh when they reach a certain age they will just start sleeping through the night." To a sleepy mom and dad that is the best news ever. Braden for the most part has been doing that for a long time BUT no one told us about nightmares, growing pains or just waking up from a dead sleep crying his eyes OUT. We do not have them all the time but we do have them. We work through them but when he does that 3:30 and Steve gets up at 4:30 and i get up at 5:30 makes for a long day!!! But hey we are alive and some what awake.

Things are good we are gearing up for Walk America on the 21st. You still have to walk or donate. Last day for donations is in May so plenty of time for that. And if you want to walk with us just show up at White Rock Lake in Dallas. April 21st at 9:00 a.m. It is a good time and we have so much fun. We do run into some folks who do not understand the purpose of our walk and that makes me mad. We kinda just walk right pass them and think they do not know my Braden or they would think otherwise. So to each their own right?

Susan our friend in Austin is due any day now and no baby name yet. Jenn has call her out on it and we are waiting for a name. I am with Jenn if she does not come up with a name we are going to call him Bubba forever. I just might do that anyway!! Love ya Susan!!!

We are doing great just going with flow. we did not get any good Easter pictures, SORRY!!! But we had a great time. We all over ate. We laughed so hard and played so hard that i think that we were all sore the next day even thought no one wanted to admit it.

Well i better go for now. But check back soon i promise to get more pictures this weekend and during the week of Braden.
Thanks for checking in on us.

Update

Sorry it has taken us so long to post but we have been so busy. Braden had all his checks in March and good news all the way around. His CT-Scan the one we were really worried about came back perfect. We did have some issues getting him to stay still for the test. They did have to give him something that made him "DRUNK" kinda but we got the pictures we needed. So we will go back in a year. Braden went to the eye Dr. and we will have to get some new lens but nothing big there. So we are doing good and we are on track. THANK GOD! We pray so hard for Braden to just catch a break when he can and so far so good.

We are gearing up for Walk America. We sent out letters out to raise money and to get walkers. If you live near Dallas and want to walk on Braden's Team email me or post a comment and i will get back to you. We have about 23 walkers now and would love to have more. If you want to donate get with me and i will give you Braden's Team number.

Easter weekend is coming up and we are ready. Braden was still to small last year to enjoy it but this year it will be lots of fun. All our family is coming over and we will be sure to post those pictures for you.

Words! The words that Braden comes up with. He loves to say Pizza and if you are around him he will say like 3 or 4 times in a row. Get this he is starting to sing his ABC's!!! Yes some of the letters he says them clearly but he hums it perfect. He even says the "now I know my ABC's" it is so cute. He is counting to 5 and using a spoon and fork like an old pro.

My mom, Braden's MoMo, is retiring in May and she will start to keep Braden on May 29th. She will have Jackson and Jonathan as well during the summer. So that will be alot of fun for them. We are so happy to have mom have this chance with them. It will be so good for the boys to have this time to remember with her. We are sad on the other hand to take Braden from the people who have cared for him since Aug. 2005!! We will miss them and hope that they will still keep in touch with Braden and us.

We are sending get well wishes to Gran in Memphis!!! Hugs and Kisses from Texas!!!

Thanks for checking in and remember March of Dimes Walk America, walk donate or spread the word anything helps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pictures

Here are a few pictures of the little birthday party that we had for Braden! He loved every minute of it.

Happy 2nd Birthday

Can anyone believe that Braden is 2 TOADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are so lucky to have Braden with us and he is so loved by everyone. He is having a nice day at home today. We will have a small dinner for him tonight. I will post pictures as soon as i can get them online.

So thanks to everyone for being with us these past 2 years. We look forward to many more


HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE LOVE YOU LOTS.

What a time Braden has had

Well Braden has been super busy this past week. Gramy and Grandbob from Memphis came up for about 5 days and WOW what a great time we had. My family came up we all had dinner and just talked and laughed it was great. Braden got some great early birthday gifts from them and we had a good time playing with them. Amy and I got some shopping time on Sunday and Wednesday which was nice. And Steve and his dad, Bob, had a few days to play as well. We got to spend Valentine's together and that was really nice we had dinner at the Tortilla Factory in Plano. Clara joined us and we all had a really good time. The left on Thursday and we tried to get back to NORMAL. RIGHT!!! Normal who knows what that is.

Thursday night Jonathan had a play in Denton, so Braden went to stay with my friend Kim so that i would have free time to go and see the play in peace. Jonathan did great the kids were all so cute and Braden had a great time with Kim. The pictures below will show of his time with her. She says he was "a perfect angel" but we will just have to take her word on that.

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The Pictures are in

Steve and I took Braden to get his first studio pictures. He was not happy he thought he was at the Dr. So his face is red and you can see he was crying but I think he is too cute for words. Hope you enjoy them.

Here we go

Well February is a very special month at our house. Braden will be 2 at the end of the month. Can anyone believe that WOW 2!!!! We are so happy he is doing so great and we are just amazed every day. This month so farhas been good for him. He had a small cold but we are over that now and just in time for visitors. Gramy and Grandbob from Tennessee are coming the 9th!! We are very excited to see them and for them see how well Braden is doing. We are going to have a great time with them and hope that we can get some new pictures up from the time we spend with them.
Braden has a few Dr. appointments coming up nothing big just check-ups, Synagis and stuff like that. The Big appointment will be on March 22. We go for his CT-Scan and we will see how well we did this past year. We can not wait for Dr. Weprin to see him. So keep this little guy in your prayers and hope for a good report that day!

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Braden at his best.....EATING

Here are a few pictures of Braden eating. We were iced in so we cooked all weekend and as you can see from the photo's he ate everything!!!! We had red beans and rice, corn on the cob, cornbread, green beans, and of course sugar cookies.

Happy New Year & Happy BIrthday Steve

Happy 2007 to everyone.!! We start another year and hoping that everyone has a great one. We are hoping for little to no Drama this year. But what a great year we are going to have. Braden will be 2 this year! Steve and I are going on 3 years of being married and so far everyone is doing great in our family. So bring it on 2007 we are ready for you.

I would like to ask that you all all say a pray for my grandfather who lives in Hereford, my mom's dad. He fell on new years day and had to have surgery the next day. He is doing much better but still has a long recovery ahead of him. Thanks so much.


Happy Birthday to Steve. Steve is all of 3?! Like i am going to say. But we wish him a great and happy birthday from all of his family who love him so much.

Here is a picture of Kim, Santa & Myself right before we delivered present to the babies at Parkland Hospital in Dallas!! We went on Christmas Eve Morning and we had a great time.

The Holidays

Everything started out great! My Uncle from Florida came to spend Christmas with us and his kids that live in Plano. We had a nice lunch on Saturday with him and enjoyed having him at our home. Clara moved in with us for the weekend since all of the fun was at our house. We got up early Sunday where Clara, Braden and I drove to Denton. My friend Kim and I went to Parkland hospital to give out presents to babies that were in the hospital. It was very nice to give back. Steve and I did it last year but he had to work so Kim went with me. We have pictures and will post them once i get all the Holiday ones set and ready to post.

Sunday evening, MoMo, PoPo, Connie, Chris, Jackson, Jonathan, My Uncle and a good friend of the family all came over for dinner. We had brisket tacos with all the trimmings and our home made tamales!YUM YUM YUM!!!!!!! We had chips and dips and shrimps bites and fruit and lots of sweets. We ate so much that I think we were all looking like good old Saint Nick! We finally got the house quite and clean and it was time for the kids to get ready for Santa. A little after 11:00 p.m. we got all the gift out and we slept until 4:00 when Jonathan woke up from a coughing spell and saw Santa had come. Well after that it was a battle to get him back to bed. The excitement was to much for him. Braden decided around 6:45 that the whole house needed to wake up and we did. We got everyone up and focused and then it was present time. The kids had the best time paper was everywhere. Santa knew they were good boys they got tons of stuff. Braden was very happy and will look very cute in all his new Longhorn clothes! We got all that paper cleaned up and time to get ready for breakfast, we had fruit and tamales. Everyone got showered and time to get ready for lunch.

After we got everything going it was time to rest and wait for the turkey to get done. WELL little did we know, my sink and my washer flooded my KITCHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a mess we had towels everywhere and everyone was cleaning. We got it cleaned up and got it where we could continue with our day but it was still a mess. We had to wait till the next day to get a machine to help us fix it . So no kitchen sink, no dishwasher and no washer!! everything was having to sit, and for those who know me that was not easy to do. So we all laughed about it and moved on. Braden hit Connie in the face almost knocking her out, she has bump on her left side of her face. SORRY!!! Braden then had a nose bleed and at that point we all said ok what ever else happens we will just roll with it. Thankfully nothing else happened. Tuesday my dad my uncle and my cousin Joey from Waco came and FIXED MY KITCHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am back in working order. While they were fixing it i got all my Christmas decoration put up got all the presents where they needed to be so that when it was fixed i could clean that kitchen. THANK GOODNESS. It was like a ray of light shinning on me and I could finally clean. I was so happy i think i cried a little bit. So may house is back in order and no problems so far. Thanks Dad for always having just what we need you are the BEST!!!!!!

My nieces are in town for the week so we will be spending time with them. New Years Eve falls on work night for Steve so i am sure we will be in bed by 9:30 or so. So to everyone thank you so much for a great year and for keeping out little Braden in your thoughts. Thanks for reading about our little life in Texas. This year has been great for my whole family we have had so many blessings and hope that you have too. Wishing you all a great and happy 2007!!!!
Love
Steve, Annie and Braden Bunger

My Buddy

Landon needs your prayers. Jan is a friend of my mommy's and Landon is her grandson. He is in the hospital and can use some extra prayers. My mommy says that he had a rough night and that he is not eating and was not breathing for a while. Mommy says that she understands how his mommy feels. So please if Landon's mommy is crying like mine please pray for her too. If you want to know about him please visit his blog at http://www.babysites.com/sites/landonjax/default.asp

Landon and his mommy, Stephanie, she sent me my first build a bear when i was at Baylor his name is "fighter!"

Holidays

Braden went to get his next round of Synagis today. Steve took him and then they were going to do some stuff afterwards. A nice daddy day too the weather is going to be great here. I am sure they will have a great time.

Last night we had our daycare party, and what a great time we had. It is so much fun to get together and sit and talk and not rush out the door to try to be on time for work. The boys all get great gifts and we had great food and just a great time.

We are going to have a few busy weekends from now till after the first of the year. We have a few parties and a Graduation party for our friend Courtney!! We are so proud of her.

So if we do not post for a while know that we are ok and that Braden is good. And if you know us call us or come by and see us. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year!!!!
Love to you all
Steve, Annie & Braden Bunger!!!!

Enjoy the following pictures!

Bunger Home

If you notice the bottom of the tree is a little bare. Well we put the stuff at the bottom that Braden could get and not hurt himself with. Next year I am sure it will look the same but more of the tree will be bare, since he will be taller.

Bunger Home

This is kinda blurry but you can see what little decorating we did.

Let me think?

Daddy I do not like this?

HEY

Why am I in the bath so much? How come i never you see you in here?