The closest thing Brielle has to a little sister is her favorite little Buddy Gracie! She was SO excited one night when they had matching Gingerbread nightgowns!
I had to include this pic. of Dean...the night before he hit his head on something (for the billionth time), and had this giant goose egg between his eyes...yet, he's still smiling!
One of Brielle's dance performances was at The Gingerbread Festival. 
These were the most amazing Gingerbread houses I have ever seen!
We had so much fun on The Polar Express with our friends the Lundquist's!
Brielle told me a couple of days later that this was not the real Santa because she noticed his beard kept falling down...so sad!
Brielle loved playing with the Elves. They even brought her up to sing "Rudolph" to the whole train car!
Hot Cocoa & Cookies!
Mitch & Chris sat in the back ''complaining'' most of the time at how LONG the whole event was!
We loved having Mitch, Linds, Micah & Jade come stay with us and we especially loved our ride on The Polar Express! The kids had such a great time...even if it was not the real Santa! 
(above: back row, middle -- in between the tree (left) and candy cane. below: far right of the trio)
(above: front row, second from the end on the right -- flopping reindeer ears. below: center, front)
She also had a performance at school. She was an angel, of course (her little face is right above the bald man's head in the center). All of the pictures I took were horrible, but I wanted to include this pic. because it is crazy that she's almost a head taller than the girl next to her (right) and nearly 2 heads taller than the girl to the left...yet she is the youngest one in her class! Needless to say she is the tallest in her class.
We had our friends the Lundquist's in town the week of Thanksgiving. We loved having them and can't wait until they come back next year to see us again! 
Brielle decided last Halloween that she wanted to be a witch (the cutest you've ever seen) and Deano LOVES 'playing' pirate...so Chris and I tried decided to be their sidekicks! Every witch needs a black cat and every pirate needs a parrot!
Did I mention that Chris is such a good sport!
Every year, I come up with these costume idea's for him and he actually wears them...and plays the part! He's wearing a plastic table cloth and bird feathers!!! I don't think I realized I was getting 'this' when we got married, but I feel so lucky I did because my kid's love it! 
These are the cutest ''scary'' faces! 
After a little 'Trick or treating" in our neighborhood and at Nana's & Bobpa's, we went to meet up with our friends The Asay's and Losee's. 
Is there any question why they are friends...
These are Brielle's favorite buddies...Cash, Golden & Starli. 
Brielle & Golden were hiding from the little kids...because they kept eating their candy! (Golden told his mom a couple nights before this that he was going to marry Brielle when they grew up)
Dean is not a gentle kid...but you would think he is the nicest, sweetest kid ever if you saw him with Gracie! He tells me all the time "Mommy, I 'wove' Gacie!" It's so funny, it's almost like he sees a need to protect her rather than feeling threatened (that she might take his toy)! It's fun to have good friends!
Riding the carousel at the Zermatt Resort in Midway. 
Fall Lacrosse--Deano LOVES BYU Lacrosse games!
Pumpkin Picking!
Decorating cookies with the Asay's...Deano was more interested in eating the frosting off the top of his cookie then anything else.
We also made a really cute ''Scary House''
We had so much fun visiting the witches at Gardner Village. Could these kiddo's be any cuter?
