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I’m trying out a bunch of new themes for LDSFamily.net. I don’t know how I like them yet so you may see several changes over the next few days and weeks. I don’t want it to look girly but I want it to look like a family site. I’m afraid that most “bloggers” out there, at least Mormon Bloggers seem to be female. I know there are some awesome male Mormon bloggers out there like “a minority report” and “Mormon Online” and “Mormon Cartoonist“. But in general, the blogger world is filled with females. Hence, most of the wordpress themes cater to what a woman would love to use on their blog. There arn’t too many “dad”, “father”, “male” type themes out there so I’m doing my best to make this website look more manly without it looking to dark and rough.

So, If you like the current theme, please let me know.

I follow a blog called Mormon Cartoonist. This guy creates creative cartoons that he submits to the Friend, The Ensign, The New Era, and other LDS magazines. Many of his works make it to print. Anyway, as I as reading through some of his cartoons I started thinking about what would make a good cartoon. I can’t draw worth a darn so being able to create one on my own would be a disaster, but, I could come up with an original idea for a cartoon. So, I started looking around in my life for something that might be cool illustrated in cartoon. One evening while talking to my sons, I came up with an idea for a cartoon. So, I went to Mormon Cartoonist and suggested a funny premise. A few days later I received a response that he would take my idea and make a comic that would come out in February. Well, February is finally here and below is his cartoon based from my idea.

Click on the link below to go to his website and see his comments about this cartoon.

http://www.mormoncartoonist.com/2012/02/eight-bit-love.html

I’ve seen a few videos lately of people that will video something every day. One video was of a kid that took a video of himself doing a flip every day for a month. Another video was a 1 second snippet of a girls day for a full year. So, in honor of these two videos, I decided to take my flip video with me every day and video something. After a little bit of thought, I decided to take a video of the Twin Falls LDS Temple. I don’t drive by the temple every day but it is close to my house and if I plan it right, I can drive past every single day. So, I took my Flip Video and filmed some snippets from each time I passed by the Mormon Temple in Twin Falls. Below is my edited movie.