The GoPro Hero 4 camera has been a game changer for us. 
This little camera has completely rearranged the way that we look at photography. 
We first bought it to record our daughter’s recovery from shoulder surgery, and we thought it would help her to be able to watch her own comeback. We had several trips upcoming and knew that it would get used for those as well.
We had no idea what we were to learn and what we would come to achieve with this little camera.
Best modern memory keeping device we have right now.
Best modern memory keeping device for our teens.

We’re not like other families.
we have some pretty strict rules around social media. 
which might be kind of weird to most people who’ve read our posts about This is how we Tech.
Tech plays a pretty important role in our household.
but social media does not. 

Technology is central to our family’s existence. it is our everyday. Jeffrey has been hustling in the IT world since he was in high school. we made our living for more than 15 years running an online business. technology has just always been a part of us and we’ve always been a part of the technology world. 
Because of that, our home network has been incredibly high on our list of important things.

We feel kind of giddy about this one, how we do this particular tech. We don’t usually share it. It’s our secret, our claim, because it is basically what makes us, Us. 
Basically, we have our entire movie library available to watch, all the time, any at time, any where in the world. 

(imagine what that is for a second. yes. we have that. and we hacked it ourselves).

iPhones

In this house, every one of us has one. this is our family touchstone. we use our phones to stay in contact at all times, via apps, calendars, emails, group texting, gps locating, find my friends, photo and photo sharing, social media, games, evernote, music and more. 

We don't have a regular phone anymore and basically just use our iPhones for everything. It is so much more than just a phone, and a way to stay connected. It is our device for almost everything. Sorting our notes, our calendars, our contacts, our emails, our businesses, our homework, a good chunk of our photos and photography, all of our contact with friends and family. 

We don’t run our “TV" like other families. We've basically hacked our TV technology. 

Most people don’t know this about us just by looking at us, but if you are friend to one of our teens you know this… 
We don’t have cable (in fact, years ago, we literally cut the cable cord the runs underground to our house from the box — sorry next people who might buy our home someday).

Walking into our house you will instantly understand that technology is deeply a part of our lives. You might not always know it to see us in person, or to talk to us, but spend any time in our home or get to really talking to any of us and you will shortly understand that we are a modern technology family. It is deeply ingrained in the definition of who we are. 
Jeffrey has called himself a hack IT guy forever. And he has charmed me with the story that he engineered a powered gate for his family’s guinea pig when he was in elementary school. Our house and family life is basically one giant motorized gate for us guinea pigs. He has filled our lives of technology, and hacked our way into living a modern life. 
Our tech may not be the latest and greatest like it might have been years ago when we were obsessed with consuming and acquiring things. Now we are more obsessed with making things work for us while having super great Tech.