A Very Funny Farm Easter

Easter at the Funny Farm was so sweet this year. Kids, eggs and food were over flowing. Everybody - all 26 of us - had the best time. Well, except Molly when we tried to take her picture in the bluebonnets. Even the weather held off until we were done with our festivities. It was my first Easter at my mom's house ever. I have spent every Easter of my life with my dad's side as that was always their holiday. This year, Woman decided not to come in so I headed down to Waco. It was so fun to spend it with my mom and the Marable gang! The only downfall is that John and I can't hunt eggs at the Funny Farm - only kids. There are no kids on my dad's side so John and I along with my cousins get to hunt even though none of us are under the age of 18. This year, I had to settle for taking pictures of the kids hunting while John hid the eggs....guess it is time to grow up!

Amy and Blake's 3 kids - Molly, Baby Hallie and Emery Kate. Ha!



Sweet Molly was not happy about the bluebonnets!

Betty Boop kept us entertained.

The Ducks

My contribution to Easter!

One of Moma Duck's yummy pies

She hearts her babies!

Camryn, Stella, Gibson, Thomas, Wills, Hudson, Caden and EK

Attack on  Bebe!

Paw Paw's turn!

Rough housing with Uncle John

Trying to get in one last picture before the storm. Love the Cox Crew!

The Infamous Cross Wall

One of my top priorities in setting up the new house was getting the cross wall done. Priorities, right? Our crosses are a unique collection. We try to collect at least one from every place we go - Mexico, Alaska, NYC, Cali, Florida and Hobby Lobby! It took us awhile but we are really happy with it!

What is behind wall number one?

Scratch, claw, scratch, scratch, bang, claw, bang, bang, bang. That is what we heard at 1am coming from an inside wall close to our bedroom. You guessed it. We had an animal caught in the wall. While it thrashed for a few hours, I was furiously trying to find a 24 hour animal removal service to come out and get whatever was stuck in our wall. I had no luck so we shut the door to try to drown out the noise. At 8am, I was back on the phone securing an animal removal specialist. It took 3 different guys but we finally did it. The animal is officially out of the house and I am ready for a nap!

Our 3rd expert - Brian. He has a degree in Biology and was really fun to talk to.

We narrowed down the location to this corner of the wall.

I stacked boxes around Brian just in case the animal was about to bust out!
Was it a mountain lion? Opossum? Raccoon? Skunk? Rat?

This would be hole #1. It was just a little too high so he had to make it a little bigger.

Nope! It was a mouse! This dang thing kept us awake all night long.

This is my patch work until the drywall guy can get out here on Thursday. We are just thankful that it didn't die inside the wall because the expert said it would take close to 3 weeks to remove the smell! Gross!

Down in the backwoods

When we lived in Arlington, the closest thing we got to wild animals were squirrels and birds. Living in the Town of Trophy Club, we get a little more action. While we are not technically in the country, we aren't really in the city either. You pass longhorn cattle, buffalo and even camels along 114 when you come to our house. Then you have to go through all of TC to get back to our house which is nestled in a private street by Lake Grapevine. We have no homes behind us and never will as the Corp of Engineers owns the land and it is flood zone. The woods go on forever and ever and is the home to many animals. So far this week, we have had our first snake which was on our driveway, watched deer, possums, and raccoons play right behind our fence, listened to coyotes and hogs, and then watched a turkey as it walked across the field across from us. It is never dull out here and we love it. I do not love the snake though! We bought moth balls last night to put out in the flower beds just in case....


Our first snake.

Kelly ran over it with his truck. We didn't even see it in the drive way when we pulled in!





5 minutes later, we had a turkey!

Isn't he gorgeous!