MicahStubz

Dec 29 / 2012
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Merry Christmas – The Hiatus Ends!

After Mormon Daddy Style I had a hard time getting myself to make a video. I had so many new viewers that I didn’t want to let them all down with my average vlogs. I wanted to come up with another parody or skit but I also got busy with another side project so I quickly found myself with less time to be creative.

In the end, I just needed to push through and get some videos out before I really got out of the habit. I had been sitting on episode 4 of Minecraft Boy for months. I had plans of rescuing Stubz Jr at the Grand Canyon or even finding him at Disneyland (since we went there in November anyway). I needed to just make something happen so I did. I had already filmed the clips with the villain, our friend from church who is a big Minecraft fan. I just needed to come up with something to film with Stubz Jr. It turned out alright.

I then decided I want to interview the kids about the different fun things they do so we can record their thoughts sort of like a family journal as well as document family trips and holidays.

So there…two videos in one week!

Sep 28 / 2012
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Disneyland Without Kids

Mommy Stubz and I got away from the kids for a short trip to Disneyland. My sister over at cleverhousewife.com had two extra tickets so we got some babysitters and went on our own. We’ve been twice with little kids which is a ton of fun but you don’t get to go on a lot of the rides or you have to take turns. So it was fun to be carefree and not worry about keeping a baby and toddler happy.

We’ll go again with all the kids in the near future so look forward to that vlog. In the meantime I made an interactive video where you can experience 5 of the rides with us. Have you been to Disneyland when was the last time you went? What is your favorite ride and best memory of Disneyland?

Since I always like to put multiple videos in my posts…here is a video from the last time we went to disneyland when Sarah was about 8 months pregnant with Stubbette.

Aug 27 / 2012
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Thoughts, Vlogs

An Odd Way To Get Views

My most viewed video is titled “Extreme Child Abuse”. All the traffic comes from related videos. Some of which are videos of real child abuse by parents or usually footage from nanny cams. I don’t recommend watching any of them. Child abuse is a horrible thing!

If you know me, you know that I would never abuse my children. I do, however, enjoy roughhousing with my kids. Wrestling with your kids is actually very beneficial to their development. They enjoy it and it makes them more resilient.

You might ask why I titled the video as abuse (my wife certainly has). I like to test out different titles and thumbnails to my videos to see what gets views. I had followed Shaycarl for a while and noticed that he used outrageous titles and thumbnails especially at the peak of his popularity. Shay also likes to horseplay with his kids and in one of his very early videos he used the term “Child Abuse” in the title of his video. I thought I would give it a try.

A month or two after I posted the video I started to notice the views go higher and higher. YouTube had picked the video up as a suggested video for several other high traffic videos. The views just keep going up! As of the writing of this article the video has been viewed 134,000 times!

Minnie Stubz asked me yesterday if we could make another video where we swing them around and I thought it could be a sequel to the above video which was made nearly two years ago. I labeled the video “Extreme Child Abuse (Part 2)” and sure enough it is already getting over double the views my typical new videos get in the first day.

Why do you think people want to see child abuse? Is it wrong for me to mislead people like that? I feel like I’m doing people a service. They are likely watching a lot of depressing videos before they get to mine and my hope is that it acts as a ray of hope and an example of how to play with kids and enjoy rough play. I don’t necessarily want to be associated with abuse but one of the reasons I choose to post videos to youtube is to be a positive influence on the internet to do what the Vlog Brothers refer to as decreasing world suck! If you think this will help, go “like” and “favorite” the above videos and help decrease world suck.

Leave a comment and tell me what you think. Why do we, as humans, sometimes seek negativity?

~DFTBA!

Aug 13 / 2012
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First Time Golfing

This weekend I took Sarah golfing for the first time. It had been a couple years since the last time I golfed. It was about 110 degrees out but that did not stop us. It took her a while but she finally got the hang of it. The best part was she says she would go again! Why haven’t we done this before?

After the driving range we headed over to some batting cages and hit a few rounds of softball and baseball. Again, we are both pretty rusty. It felt good to get out and do something physical.

Let’s see, what else is new? I have a skit in mind for August but I need to sit down and write it out and take more time then just one or two takes so I can be sure the quality is good enough for people to share. I think it will be a very shareable video. If you want to help out with it just leave me a comment. The premise of the video is Men and Pinterest. I’ll let you guess where that is going.

In case you haven’t see the last few vlogs, here you go!

Jul 25 / 2012
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Road Trip

We spent half of July in Northern California so our kids could spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa Stubz. They also got to meet Great-grandma and grandpa! On the drive home we decided to visit Yosemite which put us through Las Vegas.

I took the opportunity to collaborate with one of my favorite channels (epoddle). I made the decision to keep my vlogs and skits separate because I have a hunch that the audiences for each are slightly different and I want to focus more on the skits. I’m going to start out doing a skit every month. My goal is to either collaborate on each of these videos with other YouTubers or create a video that is very shareable (ie Viral).

Be sure to stay subscribed here because I will be sure to share everything here as well as my thoughts. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

I guess I haven’t posted the last few vlogs on the blog! Lazy Bum!

Mommystubz and I got to have a day without kids in Tahoe

We also had a fun day trip to the Jelly Belly Factory in Vacaville

Jul 11 / 2012
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Videos, Vlogs

Vidcon and Family Reunion

I took some vacation days and attended vidcon and the Stubz Family Reunion. I didn’t take a lot of time to get some footage but was able to put together some highlights for both events. I hope you are enjoying your Summer. Have you done anything fun or have any big plans? Let me know!

Jun 19 / 2012
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VideoStudio Pro X4 Giveaway

There are 6 ways to enter:
1. be a subscriber and leave a comment on the video below saying I WANT VIDEOSTUDIO
2. ClicktoTweet http://clicktotweet.com/NmQcX and follow me on twitter.
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4. Share or +1 the video on Google+
5. Pin the video on Pinterest.
6. Subscribe to this blog!

In a comment on the video page tell me how many you did and I will announce the winner next Tuesday.

Jun 11 / 2012
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The Next Michael Phelps

Stubz Jr had his first swim meet last week. This week he improved his freestyle stroke to 1st Place! I missed it because I was traveling for work They also did backstroke this week and he got second place right behind his older cousin.

The kids have also been selling popsicles. They are raking in the cash. I think they’ve made over $40

Here is the vlog from last week. Sorry I took forever posting it. Like I said, I’ve been out of town and working long hours.

Jun 01 / 2012
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Last Day of School and Memorial Day Weekend

Let’s see, the kids went to a bounce park. One memorial day we went on a short hike in South Mountain. Stay tuned. This week the kids opened a popsicle stand and started swim lessons. It’s going to be a fun Summer!!!