I didn't forget, life happened.

The plan was to get some Halloween pictures up pretty quickly, then keep up with the posts as things happened. Well, I didn't have all the pictures, Kim had some so I waited, then spent a week in The Woodlands (Houston) and in between we had... well, life! So here are the Halloween shots. Batman and Hannah - what a combination!

The weather was beautiful - not too cold or rainy for a change, and the kids got a good amount of decent candy too.

November has brought about normal fall activities - school plays (Stone Soup), school pictures, school holidays. Sounds like a lot of school... and of course church. We hosted a Thanksgiving pot luck this past weekend and served over 200 people. Mike is going dowtown to Church on the Street in downtown Wichita to help in feeding the homeless, and they expect close to 300 on Thanksgiving. I will update more on that later.

Here are a couple of school photos - for better or for worse ;-)

Happy thankgiving to all!

And the story continues

Both girls grew older and went to school. Becca graduated from East High School about the same time Holley started pre-K and the cycle started over!!

Becca is now enrolled part-time at WSU, and Holley is in Kindergarten at Wichita Friends School. I will post activites and achievements here from time to time to share with family!

Becca is engaged to Shawn Woods, with a date set for sometime in 2011, "after graduation". Shawn left for Marine boot camp (or whatever they call it) in October. She also works as a waitress at Yia-Yia's Eurobistro and the grapevine says she is working a lot and doing well. I suspect she is keeping herself busy while Shawn is away.

Mike resigned from law-enforcement in 2007 after 18 years. He now works as an independent insurance appraiser - something he describes as learn-as-you-go. There is often a lot of travel within the state, but he doesn't mind the driving.

I have been with Hewitt for 10 years (including mergers) and am working on project design and implementation for recruitment outsourcing. I really love what I do, and the fact that I work from home, though there is a bit of travel as well. I had my first trip to the UK in October.

In the beginning

In the beginning, there was man and woman. And they married on November 21, 1992. And they shared life with Rebecca (9-5-88) and all was good.

In 2000 they built a house and moved a mile away (uh, Toto, I think we're still in Kansas!)

Rebecca was a student and got involved in debate/forensics.

Mike worked in law enforcement and Debi worked in Recruiting.

Then one day came Holley, God's special surprise for everyone! And all was good.

Starting over

I started a blog earlier this year dedicated to my Stampin' Up! business. Then having reconsidered my priorities, decided to invest my time differently. Building my business would be nice, but it is not my priority now. I like my comfortable hobby and my small stamp group and will leave it that way. So I ended the blog not too long after it started, after all, I still have the website!

But lately, I started thinking about better ways to stay connected with friends and family and decided a blog of our family was the way to go! Here you will find pictures - maybe even remotely close to the date they were taken, and randomness from the "Costello Ranch".

I hope you check often, or subscribe to the feed for updates, and leave comments! This is an interactive family adventure - so off we go!