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6 lbs. 13 oz, 22 inches, 9:10 a.m. Friday May 18.
Happy birthday, Marshall!

We had a lot of fun!

We had cupcakes from Evil Empire Bakery!

Everyone loved the spring chick cupcakes

Corina got a lot of new toys to play with, including this bracelet making kit I got her.

Later, after everyone left, I made Corina take this photo outside with three blooming angel's trumpets. They bloom at night, and she also wanted to play with her glow wand.

See all the photos in the Corina’s Birthday Party 2012 photo album.

It’s a great place to work; I get to create websites and fill them with stories we write about how RE/MAX agents and offices help Texas homebuyers and home sellers all over the best state in the union.

But the best part about where I work is the people I work with. When they learned that Kim and I are expecting our first child — Marshall Edward Moeller, on or around May 10 or so we’re told — everyone has been so excited for us.

And they threw us a baby shower, too! Well, Kim and I are just floored by everyone’s generosity and support at this company!

See more photos from the RE/MAX of Texas baby shower.

See more photos in the Easter 2012 photo album.

Guardian of the nursery.

Chaser of the mousey.

More kitteh photos here.

I took a video of the cat today. Once I came outside, she didn’t want to be out anymore. Here’s what happened. Slow and rainy day.

Self portrait, Kim and I, outside Churrascos in Sugar Land

Annette, Mac, Kathy and William. Aunt Mac made the red velvet cake and let us keep a good quarter of it.

Grandpa Steve and William, who is three months.

See more photos in the Picasa album, Annette Kovar’s Birthday 2012. There’s a video, too.

So, I took the photo, imported it into Sketchbook Mobile for Android, and boom!: I had something to do while I waited for the Mazda to get an oil change and a new motor mount this morning. Uh. I guess that’s what was causing the rattling noise that shook the whole dashboard and sometimes caused the CD player to skip. Who knew? I hate cars.

Yes, we all got presents!

Also, see Early Christmas 2011.

B O Y ! ! !

Kim readied this shirt to wear to work in an attempt to not have to talk to everyone and their annoying questions.

You know how when, before you know, people are all up in you business like,

“So, what do you want it to be …”

And then you’re all like …

“I don’t care, man – as long as it’s healthy … “

And it wouldn’t be that bad to have these words come out of your own mouth if you didn’t have to keep repeating them. I mean, everyone asks this question. You can not escape the stereotypical questions that people ask when you are anticipating a birth of a child; the only thing you can do is limit the number of people you tell by only posting about it online where surely no one will go and read about it.

Oh, you have a website? That’s nice … hey, you should friend me on Facebook.

I’m lucky; I’m not showing. If these types of conversations start, they’re typically my fault.

Our baby boy, Dec. 20, 2011

Anyway, back to how they always ask that question and how you’re always supposed to pretend that you don’t have a preference so as to not offend anyone who may have a differing preference or to let on that you may be disappointed if it turns out your baby is not the sex you were hoping it would be.

Well, here, today, on this very blog, I will summon up the courage to say, I did have a preference, and I’m glad that it is a boy.

Because, with a boy, I can …

• Go fishing (and by fishing, I mean visit aquariums and pet stores to stock our own)
• Take apart electronics and try to put them back together again
• Work out in the garden
• Ride bikes and play sports
• Grill meat and otherwise make messes in kitchen areas
• Find new and exciting ways to irritate mom

Our baby boy, Dec. 20, 2011

I’m also pretty sure that if it turned out to be a girl that I would have written this blog the exact same way, except I would have just replaced the word “boy” with the word “girl.”

See more photos:
Polar Express Train 2011

See more photos here:
Thanksgiving 2011

Kim and I are expecting our first child! We’re really excited and we can’t keep the news to ourselves any longer! This is big — we’re even using exclamation points, people!

Update Dec. 23, 2011

See photos from Kim’s second ultrasound appointment from October 26.

Fried oreos and twinkie on a stick!

They had a new, smaller ferris wheel this year.

Kim entered some cookies this year and they won a blue ribbon. Her prize: One dollar.

See more photos from our trip to the Fort Bend County Fair 2011.

Corina shows off her missing teeth

Left over flowers from Virginia's baby shower last week

Since then, we’ve been a great team, as she would say, and I’ve never been happier.

So in my continuing effort to embarrass her, here’s some more photos.

Aug. 19, 2011 - my last day at UH

Aug. 9, 2011 - At Brennan's for her birthday

Location: Dallas, Texas
Date: Jun 10-11, 2011
Number of Photos in Album: 385

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Location: Surfside, Texas
Date: Jun 6, 2011
Number of Photos in Album: 14

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Our cat, Daphne, winks just about all the time. It’s a nervous twitch or something. True story.

Location: New Braunfels, Texas
Date: May 27-29, 2011
Number of Photos in Album: 23

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Location: Rosenberg, Texas
Date: Mar 19, 2011
Number of Photos in Album: 36

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My Uncle John passed away a month ago.

I learned a lot from him and this was the last photo I took of him.

My twin brother Adam, in the background, shares the frame with him in this photo.

One of Corina's favorite Christmas presents is this Barbie pool, that came with a few "pups."

I got her The Beatles and John Lennon albums she didn’t have, and now our Beatles collection is complete.

A day at the beach.

Location: Freeport, Texas
Date: Jul 24, 2010
Number of Photos in Album: 26

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Location: Katy, Texas
Date: Jul 4, 2010
Number of Photos in Album: 12

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One of the first shots I took of Daphne.

This is her normal spot. She's a consistent cat.

Location: Rosenberg, Texas
Date: Jul 11, 2010
Number of Photos in Album: 67

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I made omelets Sunday morning and they turned out really good and so I just want to brag about it.

Another omelet from the master

Speaking of bragging about things, I wrote an article about CLASS staff members who won UH Staff Excellence Awards today.

Speaking of orange babies, over the weekend – when I finally got around to cleaning Corina’s fish tank – I discovered that the fish I just knew was pregenant when I bought it, must have been, because I found its small orange offspring.

Check out these photos:

He likes to hide under the large decoration in the tank.

Here's a shot of the baby with its orange mother. I wonder what happened to all his brothers and sisters? Did the filter get them? Did the other fish eat them? Did mom eat them?

Can you see him?

The Space City Chapter of the American Hibiscus Society had its first show in Pasadena this past weekend, so Kim and Corina and I braved the torrential storm to travel 45+ miles across the metropolis to see purty flowers and have a chance at grabbing some exotic specimens ourselves.

We didn’t stay that long. We got there three minutes late, and at that time – all the really exotic offerings from the local growers had been snagged – some people had whole shopping carts full. I was only allowed what I could carry, so I picked up an Indian Princess and a Seminole and then I got in the very, very long line to wait to purchase them ($8 a pop).

I’d have a photo of the two shaped bushes/trees I bought, but it’s dark now and I don’t feel like taking photos now, so just settle for this one, which links to a photo gallery of shots taken by my wife, while I was in line waiting to fork over more money for my obsession.

Corina looks at hibiscus flowers ready to be judged.

Corina's Barbie Fairy birthday cake.

Great friends and family came over, ate some barbecue and showered her with gifts. A great time was had by all, best I know.

Corina opens presents.We evenÂ

For the second year in a row, we splurged on a bouncy castle. Why not?

We even got a bouncy castle.

The day before Easter, we dyed eggs.

Corina helps dye eggs.

Corina said she had never dyed them before – maybe that’s my fault. To me, it’s always been about the candy, and you can’t stuff it into a hard-boiled egg.

But you can do plenty of other fun things with hardboiled eggs, like throw them at each other. And then, when they crack, you can ask if you can take the photo.

Corina holds a cracked polka-dotted egg.

Easter means a lot of traveling. We went to church, Kim’s aunt’s house and my aunt’s house. Our day started early so we could make 7 a.m. mass.

Some of us were awake for this pre-mass portrait with the camera timer.

Aside from seeing so many great people, Easter is about new awakening – and traditions.

We started a new tradition this year of building a nest for the Easter bunny. The nest is made out of wildflowers and rose petals. The bunny delivered!

We used the font Brioso Pro throughout the program.

Here's the main graphic for the cover of the wedding program that I designed.

Here's the graphic I created for our name. Note the interlocking ampersand.

Here's the front and back covers of the wedding program.

Here is the PDF of the wedding program I designed for our wedding.

I designed them using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS4.

Here they are:

The blue "formal" coozie.

Photos taken for the blue coozie were shot by Pin Lim, from our engagement photo shoot. The background of this coozie will be blue, so the ink needs to be white, and so the white ink is black above – which means it’s kind of hard to tell what this one will look like. I’m confident it will be awesome.

The white "fun" coozie.

One of the photos taken for the white coozie was shot by Pin Lim (see the one on the far right). The others were shot myself, holding the camera out at a decent distance. This coozie was white with blue ink, so it’s not hard to see what it will look like, since the black ink above will be blue.

UPDATE: See a photo of the finished coozie, printed by Kustom Koozies, from Pin Lim’s wedding photo shoot:

The coozies came out great. Our guests loved them!