Happy New Year and sharing our Christmas morning!

This Christmas was very special for us for many reasons. First of all, it's the first one for us as a family of four! But also, because it was the first Christmas we felt that Lucy really understands quite a lot now. I was enjoying seeing Christmas through her eyes. I want to share some of our Christmas morning with you.
We started off opening gifts for Klara because we knew she would soon need a nap:

She loved it!

Lucy's turn:

She is obviously happy with her gift, so happy she wanted to get into it straight away. She loves Gap pijamas:

Another hit was Toy Story 3 DVD from Klara, Lucy is a big fan of Toy Story so she was over the moon!

She wanted to watch parts of it after she unwrapped it:



Thanking Klara for her gift:

Love this photograph!

I hope you had a fantastic time with your families on Christmas!

2011 starts tomorrow and I wish you to have a great year! I don't know what it will bring, but I'm looking forward to it, it'a new beginning, chance for us all to look at the last year and to see what we can do better and set new goals. I know it will be magical!

Merry Christmas!

"So, are you ready for Christmas?"- a question I've been asked a lot over the last few weeks, as I'm sure you were as well. I think I'm less ready than a month ago, but it's fast approaching! Christmas trees are decorated, houses have great light displays, ginger biscuits made a numerous amount of times, cards are sent and gifts are wrapped and waiting to be opened... I hope you enjoy nice time with your families and spoil your kids  :)
Merry Christmas, have a good one!
Tamara x

My new website!

My website really needed to be updated for a long time. I have been working on it for a while now, and it's finally ready and live! Please visit http://www.tamaratoveyphotography.co.uk/
And I have also created a Facebook business page, if you want to join and receive updates about contests, new blog posts and other fun things, please join it using a box on the top right or just search for Tamara Tovey Photography on Facebook.
And because I don't want to make a post without a photo, here is a recent one of baby Klara:

Value of photography...

I was working on my website tonight and found this in one of my galleries:
A year ago:

This year:

Isn't it amazing how much this family has changed just within a space of one year? Especially the little girl? You can see a blog post from a year ago here: http://tamaratoveyphotography.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-do-you-hold-moonbeam-in-your-hand.html I was once again reminded why do I love my job so much that I stay up almost every night to do it.... Photography is such an amazing thing - in a few years this little girl will grow up and the parent will find a great joy in looking at the photos and seeing their kids so small. I love love love looking at the photographs of my oldest daughter when she was a baby and she is not even 3 yet. So I can only image how I will feel about those photographs when she turns say 18!

Four now!

I had my first  session since I had Klara, so I guess that's my maternity leave oficially over. I absolutely love to work with families I met before, especially with this beautiful family since we are in the same boat with them  -there are four family members in their family now and our kids have similar age gap between them. And especially because of all the love I feel in this family when I was capturing those images for them. I hope I managed to show it in the photographs I took.

The big sister - even more gorgeous than a year ago and with even more curls!

 

New addition - a handsome little guy: