Nothing beats an ordinary morning in your family's life--whatever that may hold! Just capturing your time together on an ordinary day will tug at your heart strings in years to come.

The light flickered and filtered its way through the trees on a late August evening. The sun was setting earlier, the buzz of school in the air, the garden was lush with a late season bounty. I found Karsten getting cozy on the John Deere, Hazel snuggling a soft barn kitten, and Ryan raking crab apples for the hogs. Sarah grabbed her woven baskets, a pair of scissors, and led the way through roaming chickens toward the garden. Hazel snipped towering, brightly colored flowers, gathering and arranging them as she went. Karsten finally cut loose the watermelon he cultivated all summer and carried to the edge of the garden, and then went back in for heavy, silky ears of corn.

A family brings home a newborn daughter. This is an ordinary day in the middle of an extraordinary time together. The family makes crepes, reads & snuggles together, and takes a walk in the neighborhood as a new family of four. Their day is documented using available light and their regular day.