Happy Halloween from our 3 Peas In A Pod

Thank You Stacey for loaning us the costumes!

(we are excited to see pictures of your little strawberries)

aaahhhhhh.....

"Thank you Tim & Ivan for all the furnace help, now we can roam around the house in normal outfits instead of always having our parents bundle us up like below."

Three Pictures From Today

Keegan, Maggie & Samantha

Smiles

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"Keegan, I do not stink!"

"Enough DAD!!!"

our night away

we feel so completely blessed and rested after our good friends liz, amanda & tim, brad & jill, dave & catrina, and laura gave us the gift of a night away. they bought us an amazing hotel room here in the city for friday night while liz, amanda, brad and jill watched the girls for us. they thought of everything down to giving us a gift bag of goodies for the hotel room. we felt like newlyweds again. we began our night away with dinner at Don Pablos (thanks to a gift certificate from Dawn). then we went to the hotel for a swim and slept for 13 hours. it was heavenly!!! the hotel had an awesome breakfast in the morning and then we went back to bed to sleep some more. on our way back home we stopped at Robinettes as it was a beautiful fall day perfect for apples and cider. we were so excited to see the girls after 24 hours away from them. they were full of smiles and told us all about the great care they received. we really cannot say enough about how special it was and comforting to know the girls were in such good hands while we got some much needed rest.

brrrrrrrrrrr...............

today we found out that both of our furnaces have to be replaced because of cracking in the heat exchangers (i.e. the potential for carbon monoxide leaking into the house). we have two furnaces because the house used to be a two unit and we have been told it is virtually impossible to convert to a single furnace setup. we have received multiple quotes for new furnaces that are a lot more than we can afford. SO, we thought we would see if anyone out there has some connection to help us get our furnaces replaced inexpensively. does anyone know of someone who is able to purchase furnaces at cost and then we could find some help to get them installed??? or is there someone out there that owns their own business or knows of a business that would be willing to do the work for their cost of the furnaces or do the work after hours we would love to put an ad on our blog to promote the business. with three little mouths to feed, money is extremely tight and the cold weather is quickly approaching. we just thought we would check. if you have any connections or ideas on how we could save money, please feel free to email us at thadvh@gmail.com.

a month already?

the van van household is never boring now that there are three bundles of joy around. we can't believe it has been about a month since the last post, sorry! well here are a few words to explain the lack of blogging the past month as well as give a little insight in to our daily world: new schedule, adjust, adjust again, adjust once more, hmmm seems about right, fingers crossed; flu, cold, flu, cold, doctor's appointment, more sleep <--- yeah right; spitting pacifiers, new pacifiers, still spitting pacifiers; won't eat, doctor's appointment, hour later, new bottle, trip to the store, still not working, another trip to the store, all good; cold, hot, cold, broken furnace, still cold = warm clothing; t.u.v. rides; walks; laundry, dishes, laundry, bottles, bottles, eat/sleep?; smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, melting hearts, smiling, smiling, cooing, more smiling, cooing; doubt, heartache, stress, love, thankful, amazed, dumbfounded, laugh, cry; and probably a thousand other things that i'm forgetting but above all we are having fun.