Play as Work– #ThrowbackThursday

November 20, 2014 - Today's ‪#‎tbt‬ photo is one of my favorites because it really encapsulates the approach that my Mom took to training my brothers and I.  Mom, I am so thankful for how you emphasized that even our play was a training ground for real life. Thank you for all that you've done to prepare my brothers and I for life, and for your continued support as we prepare to someday raise our own sons.

1998 - At ages 2 and 4, Benjamin and I pulled our battery powered jeep into the garage, set up a work light, jacked up the car, and got our hands on a socket set.

2008 - Disassembling an engine with Ken and Nathaniel Bauwens.
I'm so thankful for the men in my life who took the time to mentor my brothers and I.

2008 - Benjamin and I are back in the garage together 10 years later.

2011 - All three of us are doing a tune up on the family van.

Incomplete: <Title Here> (Video)–Throwback Thursday

This video has NEVER been placed online, so you are about to view something that few have ever seen before…and hopefully few will ever see.  

(Below you’ll find a “trailer” for this movie that we posted on this blog over four years ago.)

This incomplete, nameless movie was filmed in July of 2010 with the LaMotte brothers and was the last “movie” we ever filmed.  We did some additional filming with the LaMottes to help complete this movie on August 21, 2010.  That evening would be the last time that our Dad would be at our house before he was rushed to the hospital and died a week later.

Don’t see much of a hope for ever finishing this movie, seeing as how we’ve probably all collectively grown four feet taller.

 

Two Missing Persons (or toes?)–Video (Throwback Thursday)

Lion Safari (Video)-Throwback Thursday

Ben and I made this hunting video parody way back in 2008 in our backyard.  After making a couple of similar spoofs we actually filmed several “GTC Outdoors” videos that featured real hunting/fishing.

Jerry Lartin is a subtle spoof from one of the personalities in Bass Pro Shops hunting videos, Jerry Martin (see him in the video below.)  The Okavango Delta is a real place in Botswana that features a large game preserve.

The bloopers at the end kind of poked fun at some things you usually won’t see in perfectly-edited hunting shows.  (Such as leaving a gun on safety, missing a shot, or your cameraman falling down.)

The dog/lion was Gideon – our golden retriever who died in 2010.