The Koehn Family

Problems With My Posts

So, I haven't posted anything to my Blog since we got our Mac computer. Now that I have posted a few things the pictures are not right. You have to click on the pictures to see thes whole image. I do not have a program on my Mac that will let me crop down my picture to the correct size. So not sure what I will be doing. I may have to ask for Photoshop Elements for the Mac for my birthday! :-) This is the program that I used on our PC. So I may not be posting again for awhile until I try to figure this out.

Marisa's 2nd Birthday

Marisa and Lorenzo celebrated their birthdays together this year. Us parents didn't think it was fair for the smaller ones to not have a party like the rest of their cousins did. So with that said we had them together! It was a lot of fun! We had the whole Ramos clan and the Pelletier side as well. They got lots of nice presents and most of all they loved playing with all their cousins! Here are the pics. Enjoy!

Marisa opening one of her presents

She got this nice jacket from the Dehne's

And a play jacket too!

Renzo's turn to open a gift!

Marisa got 2 Tinkerbell outfits!

Time to sing Happy Birthday! Cake was a Dora and Diego cake!

Marisa LOVES Dora!

Renzo blew out his candles...

Then helped Marisa blow out hers!

Ready for cake!

BIG bite!

Another BIG Bite!

Kisses all around! Once for Auntie Missy!

One for Lola too!

Time to play outside!

Noah jumping with the scooter!

Jon on his rollerblades!

Renzo liked the bug.

The girls like to climb our trees! Bella

Gen

All the girls! Aren't they cute?!

Maria - she matched very well with the leaves!

Renzo playing in the back.

Marisa cheering on the kids playing Hot Box!

Ria

Anthony and Nick

Ria joined in!

Lolo and Lola bought Marisa a see saw.

She loves it!

Nicholas' 6th Birthday - Wooddale Fun Zone

Nicholas decided to have his Birthday Party at the Wooddale Fun Zone! It was our first party there and he was able to pick two places the kids could play in. He picked the play zone and skating. For a lot of the kids it was their first time skating! We tried to do the skating first but a lot of the kids were having difficulties with it so we decided to switch and go to the play zone. After a while of that it was time for pizza and cake! But the kids all wanted to try skating again so I told them after they ate they could try skating again. Most of them were doing better the second time around! Jon on the other hand was skating the whole time! He loved it! Her are the pics! Enjoy!

Jon pausing for a pic before taking off on the rink.

Nick walking out of the play zone

Nick and his buddy Alex

The whole gang at the table!

Jonathan, Tommy and Nathan

The two girls Nick invited - Annabelle and Brynn

Nick, Brynn, Nick J., Alex and Annabelle

Nick J.

Nathan and Calvin

Nick's B-day cake from Dorothy Ann's Bakery

He was one Happy Camper!

All his gifts! We didn't have time to open them at the party so he opened them when we got home.

He was loving it!

Jon's 8th Birthday - PINZ in Oakdale

This year we decided to celebrate the cousin's birthday each Quarter so earlier on in February the adults and all the cousins went tubing at Afton Alps. It was a REALLY fun time! Since we did that for family the kids get to celebrate their birthdays with their friends from school. This year Jon decided to have his party at PINZ in Oakdale and have a Laser Tag Party! He got to invite 6 friends from school and they had a blast! They went against another birthday party that had more people and they won both times! Even though they were 1st graders! Here are some pics from the party!

The group waiting to go into Laser Tag.

All geared up and ready to go!

Time for pizza and cake!

Jon picked out his birthday cake at Dorothy Ann's Bakery in Woodbury. They all thought it was a cool cake!

Go TWINS!

Blowing out the candle.

Happy 8th Birthday Jon!

It's Been A LONG Time! - Jon's First Communion

I decided today that it has been WAY too long since I have updated my Blog. Facebook has been too easy for me to post pics but I wanted to start posting again to my Blog. There has been WAY too much happening so I am just going to start with Jon's First Communion and the kids Birthdays and try to start fresh after that. Since the beginning of the school year Jon and I have been doing his Faith Formation at home. We started out with First Reconciliation and he had that in December and shortly after that we started to prepare for his First Communion. Then on April 17th it was his big day! I was one proud Mommy! After Mass we all went back to our house for a party. It was such a great day! Here are some pics from the special day!

Jon up at the Altar before Mass at Saint Ambrose Church of Woodbury

A close up. People commented on how nice his shirt was. He wore a Barong which is the formal attire in the Philippines.

Our Pew we sat in.

For each First Communion Mass the participants got to choose what they wanted to do during the Mass. Jon didn't want to do anything hard so he decided to be a greeter and passed out the programs.