Pioneers

Back in 2002, I had the opportunity to work on a film called "Handcart".

It was a strong, one word title that, it was hoped, would bring big excitement as had other strong, one word titled films...Titanic, Armageddon, Aliens perhaps?

It didn't exactly make the top ten that year, but it was a rather fun experience for me. My son Josh was seven years old at the time and he played a featured extra role of a little boy who had gotten lost on the pioneer trail of 1856 - which you can read about here.

Since the budget was a little on the low end, we had to be creative with costumes. I sewed some pants and suspenders for him and was an all proud Mom on the day of shooting.

While digging in the costume box this week, I found the blessed pair of handcart pioneerboy pants and greatly begged Jake, my now seven year old to put them on. And what do you know, they fit perfectly. And I really just had to have fun with that.

So here is seven year old Jake...acting like a pioneer?

I just took the pictures.