Round 2

It has finally arrived! Our busy season! I have wonderful news and not so wonderful news. I will start with the blah news and end on a good note :)

Cody came home this afternoon and wanted me and mom to come outside and look at something. As soon as we stepped on the front porch I could see it......the huge rattler 2 ft from mom's car! Luckily, Cody saw it before it made it's way to the dog pen again!

I am not looking forward to rattler season :(

On a brighter note we had our first set of fawns yesterday! They were twin girls and we had a set of boys today! Both sets were very healthy looking and gonna do great!

I have a feeling this year is gonna go way better than last year. We moved here a week before the doe started having their babies last year and we didn't know how the last guy took care of them. The majority of the babies were small and weak. This year the doe have been in good hands and I think it will show when they start popping out their babies!

They are just so stinkin' cute and very fluffy! :) I just can't wait till the fawns we are gonna bottle feed arrive! Their home is all ready and waiting for them!

Makin' Plans

When Cody and I got married we both decided to not rush into having kids because we wanted "us" time for a bit. We met fairly young, around 20, and would have loved to run off and gotten married then but we both wanted to do it right. Since we were so young, we dated longer than we wanted to but we decided one of us needed to finish college first. So when we finally got married it was pretty awesome and we decided we would be on the 5 year plan for kiddos. We wanted to come and go as we pleased, go hang out with friends when we wanted and just enjoy each others' company for as long as we could and we had so much more to learn about each other that we couldn't have learned living apart. We have had many weekend getaways together, some more eventful than others!

Our first romantic weekend away as a married couple, other than our honeymoon, we went to the smokey mountains and stayed in a cabin. Let's just say it wasn't the best! It poured all the way up the 90 degree incline to the cabin and once we got there Cody's truck just died and we had NO cell phone service at all! It was super late when we got there, pouring down rain, so we decided to just go to sleep and worry about the truck in the morning. I had nightmares all night seeing stuff and waking Cody up every 10 minutes freaking out about something! haha We laugh about that now! Somehow we managed to get a tow truck up there and somehow he managed to get Cody's truck off the mountain and we ended up staying in a piece of a motel next to the car shop waiting for someone to fix our truck. At the time it didn't seem at all like a great weekend, but on the way home we talked about all the fun we had and what a great time we had. We have half that trip on camera and it's pretty funny to watch.

Our first 4th of July getaway trip was to Lake Oconee when we lived in Georgia. That's the weekend we decided to move back to Texas. We didn't know anybody but had an awesome time trying to find something to do that we ended up upon Zac Brown Band's CD release party right on the lake! This was in 2007 when no one knew who he was and we fell in love with them!

Many weekends hidden away at our honeymoon suite and not wanting to leave the room because our bed was THAT COMFORTABLE!

Many weekends hidden away at a 5 star hotel thanks to priceline when we really couldn't afford our honeymoon suite again, lol

We have had so many wonderful little getaways that it's hard to remember them all. Maybe we could squeeze in a couple more before...........

this little bundle of goodness joins us in December! Even though we threw the 5 year plan in the trash a few years ago and decided to begin trying FOREVER ago, this seems like perfect timing to us!

Senior Pictures and Baptista's

We had one big fiesta this weekend with Luis and Gisella. They had about 30 family members drive in from Nacogdoches, they arrived at 8:00 a.m Saturday morning. They drove all night with about 15 of them being kids. Baby Luis had is Baptism Saturday afternoon then they had a big cookout! Since the wind was blowing 50 mph (no exaggeration!) they decided to cook out in the barn and they set up tables and chairs and had balloons and everything turned out great. We had a lot of fun and got to eat some really good Mexican food. They had baby Luis decked out in white silk and gold chains!

Gisella also wanted me to take her senior pictures for her. Of course I said yes, but I was a little nervous because I have never done that before. They turned out better than I thought they would! They were very happy with them too and thrilled they didn't have to go pay a fortune for them!

We tried to jump the fence across the street from us and take picture in the wheat field and it didn't work out the way we planned. I didn't want her to rip her shirt trying to jump over and I had the hardest time getting that dang gate open! I finally managed to get this 1800's wooden/barb wire gate open and it almost took my arm off with it! I have a huge bruise and scrapes, no bueno! Cody was out on the ranch and I thought I was gonna have to call Luis to come shut it back for us but after about 15 minutes of trying, sweating and out of breath, we finally managed to get it back up!

Here were my favorite two pics I took! I took about 100 more but didn't want to resize anymore :(

No Mas Deer in La Casa!

We got our building for the new fawns finished this week. They did a great job on it. I'm not digging the doors, but Cody went to pick it out and they gave him a great deal on the frame and 2 beautiful french doors! They put in the frame, go to put the 2 beautiful french doors in and they don't even go with the frame! I guess that is why they gave him a great deal on it! The doors were for a sliding frame! I was so mad! I went with him to try to exchange them for the same type of doors just not for sliding doors and they didn't have any but just plain doors :( It will do though.
The fawns will even have doggy doors so we can let them out and nibble a little in the dirt on pretty days. Cody will have to build a fence around it first.

There are 8 compartments inside, 4 on each side and we will put about 3 fawns in each pen. We are only gonna bottle feed the babies we 'AI'ed this year and leave the rest with their mommas. Since there will be so many they will not be in the house this year!

The doggy door is the cutest.

We also had to work the deer again this weekend to give them the last of the vaccines they need for the year. Luckily, Drew came down from Nacogdoches to help and brought his dad and a few friends. Which meant I didn't have to help and almost die of a heart attack! They started them Thursday night and Cody called about 8:20 and it was almost dark. He was a little frustrated because not everyone was there yet and he needed me to come hold a flashlight for them to finish the last 6. When I get there everyone finally showed up and started helping and the last 6 went by really fast. The last 12 we did we loaded in the trailer to unload in the high fence. These were the Doe's Jeff bought a few months back. We bred them to awesome bucks and then wanted to release them to get more good genes in the high fence. Usually when we release them, they fall from the chutes and then turn a corner and run straight to their pens. Well this time they had to drop from the chute and run forward about 10 feet and jump in a trailer. Well one decided to turn around when she reached the trailer and ran back to the working area where everyone was standing. At this point it is pitch black, except for the flashlight I am holding. Of course everyone said a few choice words and just plastered themselves to the wall in case she started bouncing off the wall and going nuts. All I was thinking about was all the medicine laying on our table and all the needles that would go flying everywhere if she went nuts. I guess since it was so dark she just stood there and we kind of shooed her back out of "our" area! It was intense! The funniest thing about the whole incident was I kept my cool! Drew's friend was filling the needles for Cody and I was holding the flashlight for him. So when the doe came back towards us he kind of followed me where I ran. He then grabbed my arm and I was thinking, "that's sweet, he is trying to save me from this wild animal!" Instead he grabbed me and ducked behind me, lol. I don't blame him, he had never been around deer before. I still get a mental picture of this and literally laugh out loud each time!

They did half Thursday night and the rest Friday night. Thursday went pretty smooth except for that one and Friday went just as smooth except the second to last one. Since everyone showed up on time I didn't have to go help. When Cody walked through the door I could tell he was not a happy camper and he could barely talk. Apparently, somehow, not sure, when the deer jumped in the chute, she jumped sideways and when they went to open the top to give her her vaccines her legs weren't hanging like they should have been. Instead they were up on the sides and she was laying on her side. Her back was against the boys stomach and they were trying hold her down and push her down in the chute. Well deer are strong little things and she pushed off the wall with her feet and went flying out of the chute! When her head came up she hit Cody's chin and he thought his jaw was broke for a minute. It's a little swollen today but he is fine and pretty dang tough. I wish I could have seen what that guy, who grabbed me, did when this happened, lol!!!!!!!!! So now this is the second time a deer has gotten into our area and not a good thing. Cody said he just yelled to open the gate and he isn't sure who was brave enough to do that, but she went out into her lane and they just ran her back through. I might have had a heart attack if I was down there to see all that!