Cox's Critter Corral

06/10/2022

Come buy our farm and home 💜 13 acres, 2,685sqft home with 3 beds and 2 full baths, an office/craft room next to the mud room, ans beautiful open concept kitchen/living room/dining room/bonus room...plus all that square footage of a beautiful screened in back porch, perfect for pool and darts and a bar, with a great view of the Tiki Bar and Grille and huge saltwater pool, pond in background.
This house had lasting memories made, and is ready for another family to enjoy country life outside of the DFW metroplex. 💜 OPEN HOUSE SAT+SUN 12-4 6/11-12th

For sale This 2685 square foot single family home has 3 bedrooms and 2.0 bathrooms. It is located at 1617 County Road 123 Gainesville, Texas.

07/29/2021

I couldn't help it 🤣😂😅

07/16/2021

Welp...maybe Jay is going thru a mid-life crisis after buying a brand new dirtbike WEEKS AGO and truly wants the kids and I to get to go with him out on trails, or maybe he is tired of hauling one ton of feed around the farm, but whatever the reason 🙃 he surprised me with a brand new 2022 Kawasaki Mule 410 4x4 UTV , 6 person seating, a DUMP BED that can extend, etc etc plus a custom rhino lined paint job and a pretty awesome Bluetooth surround system and other things that go over my head. So...if you see us cruising around to go check the mail I will 100% deny it and pretend I needed to go drop some feed off somewhere on the 13 acres 🤣😂🤣....actually, BRB, I need to go throw a decoy bag of feed and some baling wire in the bed now so it always looks like I'm always doing something "farm related" 🤣😂 the kids and I spent exactly an hour cruising around the property this morning, giving them opportunities to see spots on the farm we normally don't take them! What should we name it?! My vote is either Farm Tax Write Off 😂🤣🤭 Yall have a GREAT weekend...I need to call our tax guy now...🤣😂🤣

06/10/2021

The boys and I just came home from a 7 day trip to see family in Louisiana, and I tell you what, it's amazing how much has changed on the farm in just a week! Canna's are blooming, lanatana is blooming, and the view from laying in the pool, and by the bar and grille, is gorgeous with the mimosas blooms!! Ooh Texas weather, thanks for the rain and please don't do it anymore 😂🤣

05/28/2021

Little splashes of color out in the fields on dreary days...you also have to literally splash thru all this soggy sandy loam to get out there, so please, whoever was praying for rain, can you stop now? We got it 🤣😂 A little over 6 inches in a week with more storms on the horizon 🙃

05/24/2021

"Who teaches us more than the beasts of earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of Heaven?" - Job 35:11

Yesterday evening Jay and I took a walk around the farm, talking about what projects we need to get started, what plans we have for the farm...and I was consistently amazed in all the ways I found God. Do you see that teeny tiny frog?! We have millions of them all around our pond, and I was so humbled to be in the presence of such artistry. It's so easy for my mind to slip into the thought process that the God I serve is just a cosmic ATM, a granter of wishes and an overwhelmed therapist who listens to my disjointed prayers...sometimes I need to be reminded of His greatness, that my God is the ultimate creator 💜

05/18/2021

🍷👀 Does anyone know what wine pairs nicely with fence maintenance and repair? I found out today! 😂🙋‍♀️ Our goats have realized there are wild plums all along our fence line, and coincidentally have made a jailbreak EVERY 👏 SINGLE 👏 DAY 👏...apparently the grass, err trees and shrubs, is greener on the other side! 🙄🤭

05/10/2021

I'm completely late to post a sweet Mother's Day post...but, here goes:

To all the mommas holding babies, to all the mommas missing babies, and to all the mommas wishing for babies -> you are loved and cherished, and I'm praying for you 💜 AND to all you surrogate mommas, you mommas who chose to love unconditionally, thank you 💜 To those who long to be mommas, to those who mourn their unborn babies, I feel and understand your pain and I lift you up in prayers. 💜

05/08/2021

🥓🥓 Anyone one else feel like BACON is LYFE?! 😂 Breakfast request from the turd-lers was "bak-ee" and eggs, and I am so thankful to be able to raise our own yummy pork! Imagine feeding your family meat, being able to know EXACTLY how humanely the meat was raised and EXACTLY what all went into that animals diet and body! 👀👀 For us...it cancels out the occasional donut holes or French fries that the kids eat 😂😅 It's all about balance, right?!
🤩🤩 This mornings pictures feature Abel Benjamin (3y/o) aka Bubby/Bubs and Noah James (almost 2y/o) aka Smooch(ie)/Bubba...both with crazy bedhead 😂 and a burning hankering for bacon 👇👇 Abel's facial expression when I told him he had to eat his blueberries before he could have more bacon 🤣😂 Both boys could easily eat a pound of bacon every morning 🙄😅

05/04/2021

Our thick 🤤 cut 🤤pork🤤 chops are prepping for sous vide ...thats right, those are our PORK CHOPS and they are what made us fall in love with the breed of Red Wattle, and chose to raise them for butcher. Yeah yeah yeah..."but what about BACON, Kirstin?" 🙄 Look, if they somehow genetically modified a pig to produce only bacon, I would be first in line to buy a freaking herd of them. 🐷 However, Red Wattle pork chops have the perfect amount of marbling, tenderness, and "jucy-ness" to never be dry 😍🍽 I mean, a pork chop that resembles a steak...what's not to love?!?

04/29/2021

🌠 What are some things that bring you JOY? 🥰 I like to celebrate the little things that make my heart happy, and one of the things that brings me BIG JOY...is having big ol' calf nose in my face 😂🤣 You can't help but smile when you get chased down and loved on by sweet cows that think they are puppy dogs 😂🥰