new one started

Hello my family and friends!

I have started a new blog, and found a new name for it! FINALLY

We have been settling in really nicely. I cannot believe we have been here for 2 weeks and 2 days already!

If you would like to see it, please send me your email, and I will send the link! You can email me if you know me personally, or leave that info in the comments section. I will check back here later.

Cheers!

Cathy

Good bye Murrayville! Good Bye!

Well, we are happy in our new place! We are getting settled in, finding new places to do our daily grind!

All we know is that we LOVE LOVE LOVE it here! Totally the best decision ever!

Still trying to figure out a new name for my blog! Once I do, and we get a little more settled and things in their places I will get blogging with some photos of our new place!

I will post that link up here so you all will know!

Cathy

1 boy, and 5 girls

Last Weekend Here

Some design inspiration. I think our bedroom will be a peaceful, calm white. With a pop of colour. LOVING the white. I LOVE white very much. We have lived in a BROWN house for three years and I know I am not a dark brown kind of girl. I need light and airy.

I think i will do white in my new office as well! Cannot wait to dream in our new place!

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Wow! The boxes are reaching the ceiling! We are getting there with our packing! I am really thankful the sunshine decided to come out for this weekend! It was absolutely gorgeous out today!

It is weird living basically out of boxes. It is weird knowing that this is IT! Next weekend we will be busy unpacking and getting our new house feeling like our HOME.

Still trying to come up with a new blog name. The right one hasn't hit me yet! Just like this move hasn't hit me yet!

Time for a glass of wine.

One Week

Taken on my iPhone in our new town!

In just one week, we all wake up in a brand new home! I cannot believe how quickly this day is coming!

We are really excited!

So, obviously, I will not be MurrayvilleMom anymore. So, I am thinking I need to begin a new blog, to remember this time in our lives, and to document life in a brand new town! And, of course to keep our family in-the-loop.

I would love some help picking a new blog name! If your blog name is chosen by me, there might be a gift card in there for you with your name on it! So, please...add your blog name suggestions in the comments section below. The only thing I can come up with is Cathy and Cliff plus Six. Not so original, but we get called this a lot. So...I would love something original and special.

It has been a long process, deciding to move, to pack up and go to a brand new town where we really know only a set of cousins. And me, a couple of photographer friends! Lots of new adventures on the horizon for our family of eight. A new school for the four big kids. New trails to walk on, new shops to discover. Wow! We are almost there.

I cannot believe that I have been blogging here since May 16th, 2006. When we had a newborn who was number 5, and a family of 7. Oh how life changes so quickly! Caroline, she was supposed to be our last baby. Oh how I am glad that was not the case! Coco has injected a whole lot of joy into all of our lives. Completing this babymaking journey I have been on during the last decade or so.

We are truly excited to have fresh start with our family of eight. I have recently noticed that an eight, turned sideways looks like the symbol of infinity. I think that is really cool!

We are moving on, creating brand new beautiful family memories. Pieces of eight.

Little Rag Doll

A long long time ago, back when we had an 'average' size family my sister Amy bought either Claire or Carly a pair of wooden clogs. Well, as we were packing up and sorting through boxes etc. We came across the clogs again. Coco really likes them. I love seeing something get another use again!

P.S. Coco used the toilet again tonight to go pee. 4th time now!! Go Coco GO!

Growing Girl

We had a really great week last week. Things are changing around here! The kids are growing up, and we are liking all that is happening to our family! We are having a lot of fun together that is for sure. For many Sunday's in a row, my parents have been taking all of the other five kids to Sunday school. They of course leave little Coco behind to spend a quiet morning with us. It has been highly enjoyable for all of us. This past Sunday Cliff, Coco and I went IHOP for pancakes. It is certainly easier heading out with one little one. And as you can see from the photos she is full of life!

If you are wondering how the images look like that? It is an app for my iPhone called "Hipstamatic" and I absolutely love it! It is fun just to take photos of the kids just because. I need to do more of that.

We are down to a mere two weeks before we move. Still need to figure out a blog name for us. I hope to blog more about our life as a family of eight.

Still a lot to do! We are breaking it down in chunks to get it all done. I am glad that we did a lot of prep work before we listed our place.

New adventures on the horizon! We are so excited!

Sisters

This is what I love most about sisters, and their sisterly love!

They were sleeping together. I guess the day wore them out.

Big Girl Now?

Coco went pee in the toilet again tonight! You should have seen the excitement around here!

She did it her first pee last week ! (I missed the first one!) This is her second time!

Could this be the end of diapers? I won't get too excited just yet.

Happy Friday!

Friday Five!

Me and my two sisters who I adore and love. Their support and laughter keeps me going on the days when I feel like giving up! I love that we are all Mom's now!

The original family! This was taken on Mother's Day. We all snuck into the corner for a photo. Rare!

We have a long weekend coming up this weekend! It is good, because we have a lot of packing to do! Yes, we are moving! Our move will bring us to a brand new town, and we cannot be more excited! Life is changing and we are all looking forward to brand new adventures together!

Thank you for the great suggestions for new blogs for me to check out! Much appreciated!

I have a LOT of packing to do. A LOT! Feels like we just got in here, however we were here for over three years! So many changes in those three little years.

I need to figure out a new blog name, if I decide to keep blogging. Still thinking on that! Maybe I can get some help on this! I may blog just to keep our family up-to-date on the goings on with our family! Not sure if I can keep up with it all.

I gave away all of my little girls stuff, and I got rid of Cameron's crib today. It has been a bittersweet week for sure. Not willing to pack it all and not use it. The items are best being used by babies who need it!

Had a nice hug from an old high school friend. The one who took the crib! Love her and miss her! It has been too long!

I am not running at all. Just taking it easy as we adjust to all of the new stuff happening around us!

Happy Weekend!

Cathy