One of the best decisions we made prior to having Harry was to find a photographer to document his birth & newborn photos.  We were so lucky to find Lane Proffitt Photography.  These images are priceless and we are so unbelievably grateful to have them.  Lane, you are such an amazing talent and we couldn’t have found a better person to have document this special time in our lives.

Enjoy a few of our favorites from Harry’s birth story & newborn photos!

All images by Nashville Baby Photographer, Lane Proffitt

While we continue to be on a short maternity leave, we want to thank all of our clients for your patience during this time.  To all of our new clients, we look forward to meeting you soon!  We can’t wait to begin our 2012 season!

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Today was a very exciting day. We found out our little “stowaway” is a boy!  We are thrilled and can’t wait to meet little Harry Phillips Thornton III in February!  Now to figure out how to raise him to speak with a British accent…

There is plenty to love about Phindy Studios. They’re uber-talented photographers. They are friendly and generous. They combined their names to make their business’s name (Phil + Mindy = Phindy… adorable). I mean, really, they’re pretty awesome. But what really impresses me about Phil and Mindy is that they have built something (Phindy Studios) together. They pooled their individual skills and resources together and have shed blood, sweat and tears (the wedding photo industry is more intense than you realized, huh?) to build this business as a team.

Most couples don’t realize that being a team is at the heart of a healthy marriage. Being a part of team requires having goals and knowing that everyone on that team is working towards said goal. Teammates know that they are each invested in the success of the team, and that investment means that no one is going to walk away.

Now I’m not saying that you should run off to buy a fancy camera and start your own married couple wedding photography business. I am suggesting that you and your honey use your marriage to dream together, have goals together, build something together. What those goals and dreams are depend on you guys. It could be as simple as getting fit or as large as running for president.

What you decide to accomplish together isn’t that important. The important thing is to start acting like teammates. Build trust by showing up to practice, or your marriage, every day. Invest in each other financially, physically and mentally. Encourage each other when life gets rough. Recognize what each of you contributes to the success of the team. Have each other’s back no matter what.

Practice being teammates so that you don’t accidentally become roommates.

We are excited to finally announce our news to everyone… we are having a baby! We are beyond excited and only those very close to us really know how much this means to us. It’s been a very long road for us. Very few knew of our struggle to get pregnant. We can’t thank our family & close friends enough for your constant prayer & support. When the doctors told us we had a 1% chance of getting pregnant, my Dad said: “1% and God…that’s all you need!” Of course at the time we felt defeated, but he was completely right.

When we found out our good news, we also knew that when we wrote this post, we wanted to share a little of our experience in order to hopefully help others who might be struggling with infertility. While we were trying, every announcement made by another couple that they were expecting was unfortunately a sad moment for us. Not that we weren’t happy for those people, but it always reminded us of our own struggle. I don’t want this post to be a sad moment for anyone, but one of encouragement. Look at the odds we were given…you can’t get much worse and look, we did it! Granted, we had a lot of help. We took a decidedly “East meets West” approach. With dozens of acupuncture sessions, eastern herbal medicines and modern day western fertility treatments we were finally successful. If you are having difficulties, we highly recommend looking into this method. It definitely worked for us and for so many others. Trust me, our fertility Dr. is still in shock that we are pregnant. All that to say, we are more than happy to share more of our story with anyone who might need a little support. Please feel free to reach out to us.

We are so very happy and are glad to finally let everyone know! We’ve been off the radar the past month (morning sickness is no joke!) but I look forward to feeling better, hanging out with all our friends again and to all the beautiful weddings we still have to shoot this year! 2011 has been a great year and 2012 is going to be even better!