This shoot is one for the books. It's the shoot where we hope it all begins, a new journey into the quiet—maybe even sacred—world of family lifestyle photography. 

Pictures like this freeze more than a smile; they trap the essence of a day in the life. These are the moments you never want to forget, but somehow never seem to remember. They're the little things that you've grown so accustomed to seeing and hearing that you don't see or hear them anymore. 

The Cottrills are friends of ours, and if we ever had any doubt about that we certainly don't anymore! They were gracious enough to let us traipse all through their house (and mudroom 😉 ), camera snapping, flash popping...and as if that weren't enough, they're letting us share their life with the rest of the world. Not just their faces scrubbed to perfection for a Christmas card portrait. Their life.