Greene Family Adventures

It is time to do the technology upgrades. I decided to spring for a pair of iPad2s to replace the existing iPad that I bought for the wife awhile back. I am not overly excited about the iPad2 but it does seem to serve its purpose and do it decently. We are turning the original iPad into a family iPad that the kids can use and play with, hopefully without breaking it. I also bought mom an iPhone 4S as well as one for myself.
So far the iPads are fairly interesting in their portability and usefulness, but I don’t a ton of stuff with mine and still prefer a real keyboard and mouse.

For some reason I started feeling different before the new year was here.  I decided to have the family join Lifetime Fitness and I made the decision to drop 100 pounds by the end of 2010.  I have been going to the gym every day since the start of 2010 with the exception of one day a week.  A is taking introduction to rock climbing class and enjoying it very much. N isn’t ready to take a class but does love going to the gym just to play around in the pay area. Mom has not been making it to the gym as much.

N is also going to start taking Violin lessons which he is excited about.

A is still taking Piano lessons but now wants to take Violin lessons. She also starts golf this Friday after school.

For us it’s going to be a very busy year.

Since it this past weekend and with the impending freezing rain, Mom’s grandmother didn’t want to travel outside the house to our house for Christmas dinner. Instead we had dinner at her house with our family as well as my dad, great uncle and mother in-law. Everyone had a good time though and the kids got to open presents the day before Christmas. A received some American Girl doll items and N received some fun toys including a remote controlled truck that has a flat bed and can have Legos snap into it.

I have now posted pictures here.

A and her Brownie troop went to the Baltimore Aquarium today and my wife took some pictures of them and a dolphin that they got to see.  The images can be viewed here.

Update: Unfortunately since this was a Girl Scout function and there are pictures of other kids in the shots I have to not publish them until I have edited them out or fuzzed them out. So we just get pictures of dolphins.

For Memorial weekend we decided to go camping with two other families. I finally got around to posting some pictures and you can view them here.  For this camping trip we went to Gettysberg PA.  We toured around the city some and visited some of the historic points of interest.  We also did the audio tour of the battles. The kids were somewhat excited, but I think they had trouble visualizing some of the things they talked about in the audio tour.

Today was a great snow day. We received about 4.5 inches of snow on the ground. There was no school, and the kids got to have fun playing in the snow for awhile.  This was the soft white powerdery stuff, not the frozen kind, so it was good fun for them. Unfortunatly since I had to work I didn’t get to take pictures of them playing in the snow.