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.