Christmas Cards

We love photo cards for Christmas. It makes at least one thing a little more simple during this busy season. This year we are going to try Shutterfly. With a new baby this is going to be our Christmas card and our baby announcement card all in one. Last year we got a great family picture and used that for our Christmas card, this year with the baby we have not been able to get a family picture so I'm going to try and do a montage of pictures. I have been looking at all the Christmas card websites and thought that Shutterfly would be a good place to go this year, since they have a great promotion where you can get 50 free Christmas cards if you post about it on your blog. If you want to find out more about just go over here...






A friend of mine had a great idea to ask people for their help in picking her Christmas card. I think that is a really good idea, but I don't have enough time for that so maybe next year. If you are still trying to find your 2010 Christmas cards come on over to Shutterfly and have a look at what they have. There are lots to choose from! Check it out here...
Give all year with a calendar http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars/wall-calendars
Find your own card here http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery
And herewww.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards

Boys, Boys, Boys!!

I love my boys, they are so cute!!!

Our 5 year old!!

William turned 5 a couple of weeks ago, how crazy it is to have 3 kids and one is 5 yrs old!!

Turtle!

William told me the other day that only turtles have the name Peter, so we needed to call baby Peter something else. I asked him what and we decided that turtle would be a good nickname. So Peter Robert Gaulke is now known as "Turtle", to William only.

Peter Robert Gaulke

Walk through the doors of the hospital st 3:43am and Peter was here at 3:48am.

Eddie

We were at Ikea the other day and I got this great pic of Ed. So cute!!!

Maxium capacity?

So we went to the free wading pool by our house one day and we were the first ones there! But soon after we got there 1 bus showed up, then another and another. A total of 4 buses full of kids showed up and this was what the pool looked like once everyone was in. Not much wiggle room. The kids still loved it!

sand box or pool???

We have a little turtle sand box in our back yard but over the summer it has been left open and has gotten a little water in it. The other day the boys thought it would be a great place for them to swim and our pet turtle.

Summer Fun or not so much

Two things of summer that are not all that much fun, mosquito bites and mowing the lawn.

It's a boy!

We found out about a week ago that boy #3 will be coming our way on Nov 1!!

Amazing Mike!

In January a friend at Mike's work said she was going to run in a half marathon, to her suprise Mike said he would run it with her. So on April 17th Mike's 31st birthday he ran 13.1 miles in under 3 hours. I am so grateful I got to be there to share the experience with him, I felt so much love for him and excitment that he set and kept this amazing goal.

Long time!!

Sorry everyone, having two kids I take a lot less pictures and seem to share a lot less. I am going to try and update this on a more regular basis from here on out, at least once a month is my goal. Thanks for your understanding and desire that I get this back up and running!!
Love,
Rachel

Bathroom remodel

I don't add much to our blog, sorry, I have a hard time thinking any one really cares about the day to day events of the Gaulke family. But I think this is pretty cool. Rachel and I redid our bath tub and tiled it, here's so pics for those are interested.

Three boys

Smart boy

William with Grandma Jeanne's glasses on.

Nanananana Batman!

Kites

William got to fly kites for the first time ever. It was great!!!

Birthdays!!!

It was Mike's Birthday last week and Edwards with week. Mike is now 30 and Edd is now 1, so since they were big days we had a suprise party. Here are some of the fun pictures. Mike and I went to Taylors Falls first and had a fun time hiking around. Edward loved the cake!!!

Handsome boys!!

They look so good!!

That's not a grub worm, it's my finger!

The first basketball game of the season and I jammed my finger. I dedicated my finger and performance to my dad.