Caedon Turns 1!

Our good friend Caedon Exsted turns 1 on December 18! We can't believe its been a year!
We got to celebrate with Caedon and family and friends on Sunday at Kyle and Jen's new house in St. Louis Park. They threw a great little party for Caedon, he's a lucky a little guy!


Yum...my first cupcake!

Here's Caedon opening his gift from Logan.

Logan actually wasn't too sure he wanted to give the gift away...but we said,
"Logan, you aren't big enough for the baseball game yet!"

The dads and the boys, playin' baseball. We're so looking forward to our boys growing up together and being great friends!

YL Par-tay!

Friday night was the Young Life leader/committee Christmas party. Always a highlight of the season!
Its so fun to get the whole group together: leaders who have been serving by meeting and loving kids, committee who have been serving by guiding and supporting the area.
Its always special to be with leaders and committee and experience what a great community we are blessed to be a part of.
Thank you to EVERYONE for supporting John and our little family and for loving Christ and kids in the Chippewa Valley!



The ever-famous white elephant gift game that brings out the holiday greed in all of us!

Here some people are showing off their gifts. Highlights included the book "Everybody Poops",
a giant jar of pickles, Starbucks coffee paraphernalia (always snatched up by Mary Meyer!),
and even a weird homemade nursery nightlight.

Logan was great, all dressed in Christmas attire. He loves seeing so many new faces all the time!

He did get really tuckered out...Nicole was just so comfy he fell right asleep in her arms!

As mentioned before, we know a freakish number of people with December 7th bdays...
leader extraordinaire Tim Bauer happens to be one of those wonderful people!
Here's the bday boys sharing a cake. Happy 21st, Tim!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Friday, December 7th was John's 28th birthday! Wow!
We still think we are the same age as our college YL leaders, so the numbers are always a bit of
a shock to us! What a great year it has been.
Last year at this time, we were just finding out that Baby Eiselt would be joining our little family!

John shares his birthday with about eleventy-billion other people.
Seriously, we know more people with December 7th birthdays than you can guess:
good friends, family, leaders, old roommates, acquaintances, you name it.
So.....
Happy Birthday to ALL of you....you know who you are!



Just makin' a little birthday breakfast.
(Bumbo-phobics - don't worry, we stood right next to Logan
the whole time he was in his Bumbo up on the counter. No danger here!)

"My dad is HOW OLD?!"

"Daddy, you can always make me laugh!"

Happy Birthday, John! You're the best dad...we love you!

I'm Crazy!

There is no sound on this video, but here you can see how active Logan is!

Check out my toes!

Logan found his toes! He's always grabbing for this feet...its so funny!

Lounging Around

This week, Logan has decided he likes to "lounge around".
We've never been able to get him to sit still much before, but he's been quite the snuggler as of late.
Here's Logan and Dad, lounging on Wednesday after work, but before a rousing game
of Campaigners broomball! (Thankfully no teeth were knocked out this time!)


"Mmmmm...my hand is so yummy!"

Logan is the strongest 15 week old boy you've ever seen.
He LOVES to use his legs and stand up. We're not talking like 5 seconds of standing...
we're talking minutes at a time with only a short rest,
and then we're back up on our legs again! Crazy!

"Look out, Mom...comin' to getcha!"

Kisses for Dad

John and Logan usually spend time like this in the evening.
Mom can work on stuff around the house and have a little time for herself while the boys sit and chat and play!
John is so good at getting Logan to talk and smile and giggle. Its so cute!
And Logan's voice is sure getting loud!
(I can't imagine where he would get that...his parents are such quiet people....oh, I'm thinking of someone else).

After the Storm

We woke up to a beautiful sunshiny day! We have so much snow!
So, we couldn't help taking Logan out while the sun was nice and warm.


We graduated to laying in the snow today...Logan was okay with it, I think.
When we go out, he doesn't know whether to laugh or cry because
the wind takes his breath away and he can't do much of anything!

What a cutie! Lounging in the snow bank!

Logan almost slid from the bank onto the driveway...good thing mom was being attentive!

That tootsie roll snowsuit is a slippery little sucker!

Note: We went out to see John while he was snowblowing again, but he was no where in sight.
So, I thought maybe he ran to the store to get fuel for the blower or something. Nope, when John came in I learned he was down the block blowing out a neighbor
who was trying to shovel his way through. BIG SHOCKER!
Not really...this guy actually asked John if he "charges" for his services. Apparently, John is beginning to make quite the impression on the neighborhood.
Halarious. Never a dull moment here at the Eiselt house!