Molly Ray - Our Newest Family Member

The week after Jerry passed we added a new member to our family. :)  

The girls have always wanted a puppy and so we began to pray about it.

Brian's cousin's Scottie Terrier, Nellie, had some puppies that were too cute.  So the girls and I went to see them one afternoon while Brian was at work.  Needless to say that we fell in love immediately!  So when Brian got home from work we went to get our sweet little Molly.

She is actually half Mini Schnauzer and half Scottie!

We had to take her to Pet Smart after we picked her up to get her necessities!

Isn't she cute?!

The girls discovered that she can wear their Build-a-Bear clothes. :)

Poor Brian has another lady in the house!  I don't think he minds though.  He's pretty smitten with her too!

This was after her first puppy cut!  It wiped her out.

She turned 16 weeks old today and we feel like she has always been a part of our family!

Poppy

We lost Brian's dad on Monday evening.  It was and still is such a shock and our hearts are broken.  It feels like we're living in a bad dream and it doesn't seem real.
He was tilling in his parents garden and collapsed and when his mother got to him, he was unresponsive.  The coroner believes that it was a heart attack.  He had been doing so well with his liver transplant that he had last October, but it was his time to pass.  He'll be honored with full police honors this weekend during his funeral and all other 119 counties in Kentucky will have a police representative to come pay their respects.

Please say a prayer for Brian, our family, and the rest of his family and friends.  He was very well loved and he will be greatly missed.  God has had His arms around us and we can feel the prayers.

I wanted to add a few photos that are going to be in his slideshow.

July 2010

June 1994

August 1996

He is on the left and his twin brother, Larry, is on the right.

With Holly when she was born.

Anna when she was born.

Holly's 1st birthday.

With Anna.

Brian's 18th birthday.

Right after he was elected Sheriff.

Jerry, Pam, and Brian's sister, Tracy.

Christmas 2012

Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths."

Here is the newscast:

http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Madison-County-Sheriff-dies-from-apparent-heart-attack-208400431.html#.UZ3rpbU3u_R

May's Happenings - New Truck, Living History, Shooting a Wedding, & Mother's Day in Gatlinburg

Brian bought a truck!!!  He's wanted one for a long time, but he didn't want to get rid of his Jeep.  So he finally found one that he loved and we got it!  (We just sold the Jeep in July to his cousin's hubby.)

And it's automatic, unlike the Jeep, so I can drive it too!

The girls participated in the Battle of Richmond Living History in May. 

Anna churned butter and Holly did games demonstrations.

 Second day they tended to the chickens!  Something they are definitely familiar with. :)

In mid May I shot my very first wedding!!!  I had done a few others with my film camera, but this was my first "official" wedding!

The sweet couple got married in her mother's barn out in Poosey Ridge and it is GORGEOUS out there!

Beautiful Jessica!

Jessica and Jon :)

 On a random day the week before Mother's Day the girls fixed me breakfast. They had a deadline for our co-op's yearbook on a certain day and they got that day confused with Mother's Day. :)

 So that night I milked the Mother's Day thing and got supper at Papaleno's!  Yummy!

On the real Mother's Day we actually pulled off a surprise for them!  I had packed a bag the night before and put it in the truck.  The next morning Brian woke them up early and told them that they were going to take me to breakfast.  After going through McDonald's drive thru they were curious what was going on and it wasn't until we were a couple of miles heading south on the interstate did they really believe us!  I'm always saying things like, "Guess what girls?!  We're going to ________ (some random place)!"  This time we actually got to go!  We shopped around a little and drove through the Roaring Forks Motor Trail in Gatlinburg and then Cades Cove.  We saw our very first bear ever on the RFMT in Gatlinburg!!! We ended our night eating at Joe's Crab Shack.

It was a very blessed Mother's Day!