Andrew's company party - Six Flags

 

Fun with friends

We went up to Austin to spend time with Dan, Ashley and her little boy

 Andra got to toss her

 over and

 over

 and over again!

He tossed her so many more times.......

Andra loved it!

First day vs last day

1st day of the 2012-2013 school year!

 Last Day

It has been a great year. Andra has grown sooo much this year (physically, mentally and spiritually )!

We have loved our time at MVM and will miss it next year when she goes to Kindergarten!! 

Watermelon day

MVM has watermelon day (think Field Day)

Andra soooo wanted a pink shirt but all they have left was a 7/8 but she had to have it.

 yes, she has shorts on !

Mischa's Birthday party

Miash had her birthday at Landa library and park today.

They had a great dress up - photo booth area  

 the hair was very popular

 as was the "fairy ears" as the girls called them

 

later on the play ground Max was showing the girls how to dance

 then they started to read the books around the park area

 Happy Birthday Mischa!

Alley Girl

We got Alley in August of 2001.  She got her name because Courtney (who graduates high school this week) knew what an alley cat was but not a stray dog, so she told her mom (Katy) that an alley dog was in the back yard.  Then we drove down (Andrew and I were both in Plano at the time)  to go to Katy's birthday party and left SA with Alley.  We have very few pictures of her at that time because (ha ha) we were using film.

Alley in 2001 at Andrew apartment

 2006 

 Alley had her first tumor remover in December of 2011.  She was good until November of this year when the cancer came back.  We did a round of chemo and she was in remission but the chemo gave her diabetes.  Then about 6 weeks ago we found out the cancer was back.  We decided to make her as comfortable as we could for as long as we could without chemo again. 

This is one of the last pictures we have of her.  You can see her right ear is raised because of a tumor that was on her head.

 She was our first child, our Alley Girl, and she will be missed greatly.