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Aramelle and I decided to take Zachary to Monster Jam and introduce him to the world of Monster trucks.  For a little boy that is very much into trucks right now, he was in complete heaven.  I don’t know if I enjoyed it so much just because of all the fun that he was having or if it was a bit of a reminder from my own childhood of how much I loved to watch Bigfoot and some of the older trucks on TV while growing up.

I was using our new point and shoot camera that we got a couple of months back to take some pictures and I quickly remembered that this type of camera wasn’t good for action shots but I still think I got some good pictures.

I have uploaded some of the pictures I took to my gallery here.

You can also see all of the pictures over on our family blog (yes it is still there and we might actually start posting move often) here.

Tonight the Wheeler Family found our first cache.  Aramelle, Zachary, and I took advantage of the awesome weather today and the fact that I didn’t have to work to go out on our first Geocaching expedition.  Today’s find was just a quick trip over to a park in our subdivision right before dinner.  This was just a quick one we decided to grab to “start getting our feet wet”.  Assuming the weather holds through Friday as it is supposed to we are going to see if we can find a few more.  Check back up pictures of all the fun.

Been looking for something that we can get out and do as a family and I think I may have found it, Geocaching.  Nice thing is that it can get us out of the house a bit and explore places around the area.  Plus give me more of an excuse to buy/play with more gadgets!  It is a total win – win situation.

Zachary and I had some time to kill while Aramelle had an appointment.  So we went and spent some time at the Mall.  While there we found some little kid rides.  I wish the quality was a little better but all I had with me was my cell phone.

Before you say it your right it isn’t December yet.  So no this isn’t a post about the new baby.  Today Aramelle and I went to the Nevada Humane Society.  They right when you walk in they have cats everywhere.  They have been over run with so many people having to move to places that may not take pets and have to give up their animals.  Because they have so many right now they were having a special were cats over 4 months old were only $10. Once we walked in we pretty much knew we were going home with a new cat even it is wasn’t for the cheaper adoption fee.

Meet Trina.

At first I joked that Trina was like a “micro Reggie” since they are so close in color and she is about a third of the size only weighing in at 6 pounds.

Aramelle and I got pretty lucky to be able to do two games in a weekend for a first experience to an Ace’s Game.  Things started when Aramelle’s work was planning a company outing to a game.  We decided to go since there was a little bit of a discount since they have a whole group going.  Shortly after that my work was then planning an outing for the night before.  So we ending up going both on to Friday and Saturday night’s game.  Below we have some pictures.

We already have tickets for the June 12th game when they will be having Military Appreciation Night.  Plan to have some more pictures and maybe a video or two after that night.

Here are a few pictures from last night as promised.  Had a great time.  Good food at the Prime Rib Grill as always, and We hit a Good night for the Comics at Catch A Rising Star.

Yet another year Nevada gave the game away against Boise State.  This year I think was a little bit worse then last year just because there is so much hype around this team as they are ranked so high.  I quite frankly think any one that thinks this team should be ranked that high needs to be kicked squarely in the head, but that is a different post all together.  When it comes right down to it with some better play this game wouldn’t have been even as close as it was and Nevada could have sent all of the Orange clad donkey lovers back home with a loss.

All en all it was a fun day.  After the football game I ended up going with Lou and Mark to the Home Opening for the basketball team against Oregon State.  Check out the main site as I have pictures up loaded both from this weekend and last weekends game against San Jose State.

I don’t seem to have as much time as I used to in the evening with all of the good shows on and trying to hit the gym after work on a consistent basis so as you can see I haven’t been posting in here as much lately or got around to posting some of the pictures I have been wanting to get up to my flickr account that I took on our recent Trip to Minnesota.

After a very long week at work Aramelle and I both were very much looking forward to the weekend.  We started off with the Nevada Football Game on Saturday.  It was pretty fun in that they won and it was Military Appreciation Day being the week of Veterans Day.  Of course knowing this Aramelle brought along her camera for a few shots all of which I will get posted here hopefully this weekend at the latest on the main page.

After the game we went home to relax a little bit before going out to Celebrate a little bit for Aramelle’s Birthday that was on Sunday.  We started off with dinner at the Prime Rib Grill and had a very nice dinner that was followed up by this desert.

After Dinner we made our way over to Circus Circus for a little while to catch one of the Circus acts.  We tried to get some video but all we had with us was our little Point and Shoot Camera so they weren’t the best.  One Weekend we plan on Going back and catching all of the shows.  For we will take the regular video camera.

We then headed over to The Catch a Rising Star Comedy Club in the Silver Legacy.  This was actually the second time we have been there in the last few weeks plan on making as many trips as we can.

This next weekend will be the last home football game for this year.  We are still thinking about if we are going to take a Camera or not so they may be more pictures after this weekend.