How do kids just know how to be photogenic? Maybe it’s the lack of self-consciousness that we all seem to paint on as we get older, or maybe it’s just a constant focus on having fun and being sweet; sugar and spice and yadda yadda yadda?

These kids are totally that way – I had trouble narrowing down the choices from this photo shoot (which was quite a long time ago – these are their Christmas photos from last year!) because they took so many great pictures. They are such good-natured kids, too – except for the pretend sword fight that Jason unleashed on Maddie with a big stick, but that was just hilarious.

I love the above photo so much – I use it in a lot of my marketing materials for family photography because I so love the expressions on their faces and how sweet they are together.

Amy, these cute kids’ mom, won my first e-mail newsletter contest this year so you’ll probably be seeing these kids again this year on the blog! If you want to win one of my contests, check back on the blog on the first of every month and sign up for the e-mail newsletter over on the right side of the blog. Thanks, Maddie and Jason, for coming out to play!