TheBungerFive :0)

2011-02-18T07:41:00.000-08:00

Wanted to post a few pictures of our newest family member. Travis, Macey, and I traveled to Oceanside California to pick up Ms. Joycie and spend two weeks training with her. She's been training for us for TWO years!!! She is incredible! She is the sweetest and best behaved skilled companion dog you would ever hope to find! Macey loves her dearly and already we can see her speach improving and she stays with us in public because she is holding onto her handle on Joycie's vest -- we call it making a Joycie sandwich (me and Macey w/ dog in the middle). I can not wait to see all of the things she is going to do in Macey's life. Having a great time getting to know her!!! Thank you so much to Canine Companions for Independence and all the trainers there!!! Also to her two puppy raisers - Maureen & Barbara!! You guys all did an awesome job and we couldn't love Joycie any more if we tried :0)

Macey reading Joycie a book about Marley :0)

2011-02-18T07:12:00.001-08:00

Oh, my! I haven't updated this since before our crazy summer. So much has happened! We went to Disney in July to attend a Down syndrome conference and hit the parks for about a week -- Nana Pat & Pepaw went with us, too. On our way home we detoured through Georgia and visited with best friends from Seminary. Three sets of friends were all along our route -- it was so cool! Two of them that didn't know each other at Southwestern actually wound up about 20 minutes apart from each other. We had a WONDERFUL time and rarely a day goes by that one of the girls doesn't ask when we are going back to Disneyworld....

April & May Pictures

2010-05-28T11:28:00.000-07:00

First -- I want to brag on my husband! He was voted teacher of the year at BrookHill and its only his second year teaching :0) I'm a proud wife!!!

Lily & Carsen have some ice cream on the last day of school

I'm not sure what this was other than cute. Never know whats going to happen when I leave the girls with Travis for a weekend...

When did she grow up?

Macey took "private ballet lessons" from one of Travis' students. She enjoyed it although she didn't participate as much as we had hoped. In August we'll start back up and include her sisters, too....

This is their favorite ride at Six Flags. They would ride it over and over again if we'd let them.

Easter Pic w/ Carsen

Macey takes over Nana Pat's desk

getting ready for Easter Sunday. Macey only kept the rollers in long enough for this picture

us :0)

We've got big plans for the summer. Both girls are going to summer school all of june and then Disneyworld in July. hoping we can fit VBS in at some point but not looking too promising. memorial day weekend we are headed to Circle of Friends at Camp Gilmont for some relaxation and fun....

2010-02-12T11:10:00.000-08:00

We are all enjoying the snow and the unexpected day out of school!

2009-11-09T06:43:00.000-08:00

The girls had so much fun at the Red, White & Blue festival! They earned money from Nana Pat picking up pecans in her yard and got to ride several rides!!! I can't wait to get a season pass to Six Flags this summer. I think they are ready....

Trick or treat'n in Tyler!

2009-10-11T10:52:00.000-07:00

Lily had a ball at the queen's tea and even was on the CBS local news as this picture was being taken. We didn't it but several people have told us they saw her....

August Pics

2009-09-02T06:21:00.000-07:00

This kangaroo was so sweet and soft. He is a family pet that was "loaned" to a teacher at daddy's school. He travels in a diaper bag on his back. Its so sweet it made us all want a pet kangaroo -- except I wouldn't want to deal with the diapers. Carsen is going to come out of her's soon and I'll be diaper free for the first time in SEVEN years. Macey is still in pull-ups at night but that doesn't count, right?

The Jacksonville Rodeo has a "special needs" day at the end of their run where they invite the kids out to ride horses. This year the turn-out wasn't as much as expected so Lily and Carsen got to ride horses, too. It was a fun morning that Macey is still talking about a month later. ...
Macey is such a "pepaw's girl". This was at the fireworks in Bullard this year.

The girls are thrilled school has started back up but Carsen, I think, is a little lonely. We are really close to being finished on the house. Carsen is keeping me company as I complete the finishing touches. Today I paint the front door yellow. I'll put up some before and after pictures once we are finished. My husband has done an amazing job!!!!

Macey's acid reflux seems to finally be under control after numerous trips to Dallas and a scope. She is on two different meds and a restricted diet but doesn't seem to mind at all and never complains her tummy hurts anymore. We did take the pillows out from under her mattress (they were propping it up on one end) and the very next morning she was hurting and throwing up. Don't know if that was a coincidence or not but they pillows are back and we aren't taking any more chances.

OK - enough procrastinating. Off to paint the door.

Family Vacation Pics

2009-06-30T17:47:00.000-07:00

Travis was in San Antonio for a week for some training so the family tagged along! It was great to see friends from both Austin & New Braunfels as well as San Antonio! Not much relaxing and lots of driving but also lots of fun and playing in the pool....

Easter Pics

2009-04-18T18:48:00.000-07:00

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This only lasted about 4 minutes and then she refused to move again

until the roller skates were removed!

We discovered this month that Macey has a bad case of Acid Reflux so we've started medication but after a month it still doesn't seem to be helping much. She's been referred to a gastroenterologist but the closest one on her insurance is in Dallas and can't see her until mid-May. Her behavior lately has been awesome so maybe it is giving her a bit of relief? Nothing else really new to report. We still love East Texas! Travis is starting to count down the days until his first year of teaching is over. He really enjoys it and is looking forward to doing things a little different next year. I'm counting down the days as well with a promise from him that next year we'll get him back in the evenings. Carsen is a talking machine -- its almost comical that we were worried about her speech only six months ago. Lily also never stops talking. God has been incredibly good to us lately and I just feel so blessed to have such a great family and life! I'm in a constant state of praise!!! :0)

Christmas Pictures

2009-02-02T06:32:00.001-08:00

She had dressed herself and was SO proud! This was a "taa daa"

Everybody got new nammies for Christmas

We had a wonderful time celebrating Jesus' birth and its

been so nice to have life return to "normal".

Macey's tubes have fallen out of her ears (after three+ years) and she's just had one ear infection on top of another. She is pretty much always snotty and her eyes are weapy and red. We took her in for allergy testing and discovered she is allergic to NOTHING. Her doctor thinks she has cronic sinusitus and has put her on a three week round of antibiotics and a steriod nose spray. She's in the final week of drugs and is clearer than she has EVER been. I'm hoping he's on to something with the nose spray. Our new allergy doctor is great! He actually has a son with Down Syndrome who has Macey's exact same symptoms and is also 7 years old!!! I had no clue when we scheduled the appointment and nearly burst into tears when he told me. I know he thinks I'm a nut :) I think any other allergy doctor would have said "Well - its not allergies - good luck!" but this one is still working with us and trying to fix her problem - which is wonderful. I love it when God throws you a little surprise!!!

Nothing else really new around here. We had our picture shown on the Regis & Kelly show over the holidays. You can see it at www.livewithregisandkelly.com and go to "videos and clips" and then "host chat". the date was 12/23 and its about 3 minutes into the show. Its one of the pics regis keeps shuffling around on the desk during the beginning of the show. That was the Bunger family's 9 seconds of fame!!!

2008-12-15T11:45:00.000-08:00

We celebrated birthdays in November with a camping trip and Chuck E. Cheese! Macey turned 7, Lily is now 5, and Carsen is 2.

I had a great weekend with my two best friends in Dallas!!! Now I'm tackling a pile of laundry while nursing two sick kids and trying to get the house back in order after a couple days away. Isn't reality grand :0)

2008-11-13T19:14:00.000-08:00

Macey is wearing a costume that my mom made for me when I was seven! She lined the inside of the hat with newspaper so we were able to find the year she made it -- 1977!!!

Cuties in Costumes!

2008-11-13T18:54:00.000-08:00

Three parties and nine costumes later we've survived Halloween!!! Yes -- Lily is wearing a wig :0)

Now we're on to Birthdays. Lily's was yesterday, Carsen's tomorrow and then on Monday we celebrate with Macey. We're headed camping this weekend and having one big party!!!

Rose Parade & Tea

2008-10-22T18:12:00.000-07:00

Nana Pat & I took Lily and Macey to the Queen's Tea on Friday and Lily LOVED it. There were "princesses" everywhere and she got to get her picture taken with a couple, too. We waited in line for quite a while to get one with THE queen and it was the only picture of the fifty that i took that was fuzzy. The whole family went to the parade the next morning and had a great time. All three girls have mastered the princess wave :0) Macey's favorite part was the horses at the end and daddy loved all the miniature (and loud) motorcycles and cars. We figured out while we were there that Nana Pat has been attending these parades since before I was born! Almost 40 years!!!

Finally up again!

2008-10-14T14:27:00.000-07:00

We'll i've finally figured this out (kinda) and have it linked to girls web address so i'm going to give it a shot at keeping new pictures and updates going.

Bullard is great and we love the school the girls are going to. Macey is in Kindergarten with a wonderful teacher and full time aid. We could not even ask for a better situation for her. She seems to really be thriving with the one-on-one attention she gets from Ms. Kim. She's got really bad allergies so she's a snorting machine. Sounds like a donkey sometimes he-hawing. We're headed back to the doctor tomorrow to see if we can find something that will help. She's already on two script allergy medicines that are obviously helping because it gets MUCH worse when we forget - but she's still snorting ALL the time. Especially when she's mad :0)

Lily is in a half day pre-k program at the same school and loves it! She also has a great teacher!

Carsen loves all the attention she gets at home while her sisters are in school but she loves it even more when they come home to play with her. Lily is great with her and Macey tolerates her pretty good.

Travis is enjoying teaching at BrookHill but I think it is much more work than he ever thought it would be. He's got 4 different classes to prepare for in Chemistry and Environment Science.

The House? Since school has started any work on it has pretty much stopped so we are still living on cement board floors with no trim in the kitchen and no doors anywhere in the house - except for the bathroom. It'll happen though. It's gotta, right?

OK -- now your updated. I will try to post pics more often from here on out. This is going to be tons easier than what I was doing!!! (or trying to do??)

wow - has it been that long

2008-10-06T11:24:00.001-07:00

still getting settled in bullard and just got computer access back!

Trying something new!

2008-05-09T08:31:00.000-07:00

I've been keeping up a website for the girls since Macey joined the family six years ago but with three babies there just isn't time to keep it updated - so I'm going to give this a try! It shows promise of being easier and I would love to keep friends and family current on everything that is happening in our lives right now. We just purchased a house in Bullard that we are going to remodel and Travis is traveling to East Texas every weekend to get it livable before we get kicked out of seminary housing in June. We're both really excited about the move and being closer to my family - and the house shows LOTS of potential. Unfortunately it also means I'll be a single mom for four days a week. Speaking of being a single mom - i'm one right now and duty calls....

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