Michelle (Costello) Armstrong

Like everyone else, I can't believe it's been ten years since we graduated. In some ways, it seems that time has just flown by. In others, high school seems like it was a lifetime ago.

After high school, I went to live in St. George for about a year and a half. I attended Dixie College and then in February 2000, I decided I would move to Las Vegas. I had every intention of going back to school eventually, but that has yet to happen. My first five years in Vegas consisted of a few different jobs, a few different boyfriends (maybe I was trying to "find myself"), but eventually led to me moving back in with family. And then life as I know it began in February of 2005. At my sister's fiance's birthday party, I met the man who is now my husband. We had our first date on February 14, 2005 and were married January 14, 2006. Albert has a daughter Audrey from a previous relationship who is now 5. About 9 and a half months after we were married, we had Jackson, who will be 2 in October. He is quite possibly the funniest and most interesting person I've ever met and he constantly keeps us laughing.

Last summer, we decided that city life was not what we wanted for our kids so we moved to Ely, NV. Ely was my home-away-from-home while I was in high school as this is where my dad and step-mom live. It's a small town that would probably fit right into Emery County (minus the casinos and houses of ill repute). We bought an 80 year old home that we're working on restoring and updating one room at a time. I work for State Farm Insurance here, as I did in Vegas, and absolutely love it. Al works at the mine but we're hoping for a proposed power plant to open up so he can get out of mining.

Also, last Halloween, we discovered we were getting another addition to our family. On July 8th, our baby girl Layla Joy was born. She is beautiful and amazing and a wonderful baby. It makes me sad that I don't really have anything to come back to in Emery County anymore. My grandparents, mother and siblings have moved away. I don't think I've been back since my sister graduated from high school in 2001. We aren't going to make it to the reunion because of work schedules and a brand new baby, but I sure do wish I could get there to see everybody. Oh, well, maybe next time.