Happy Valley is an intimate yet quirky photographic family history stretching back over a decade. This on-going series chronicles my nieces and nephews in Utah and Colorado growing up as typical middle-class, suburban white kids. They live a seemingly average and modestly privileged life. Theirs is the cloistered world of fast food chains, big-box corporate retailers, and cookie cutter housing developments that epitomize America’s “flyover country.” We witness personal fragments of their life stories where the receding American Dream offers a safer, quieter future with the promise of ever increasing home values for them and their family.