Merry Christmas!

Hello All,
We've been having a great time in the cold Ellensburg these past few weeks. Here is what we did:

We made gingerbread houses! well... kinda... It was the college student cheap way with gram crackers and frosting! It was a fun activity and we watched Elf again while we made them. Matt laughs so hard at that movie every single time haha... We both love it.

Last weekend we drove to Richland to watch my sister Lenise's show choir performance. It was really good. She sang 'O Holy Night' at it and was SO amazing. We were glad we decided to go because it was worth it.

We got tired of no heater because we were freezing all day so we decided to leave it at a low temperature and even that helped a lot so we are staying warmer then usual!

This last Sunday we 'Ovoo'ed our friends Brittanee, Devyn, Will, and Suzi all at the same time! Technology is so great that even though all of us are in different places, we can still stay in contact and have fun together.

On Monday we went to Sherlock Holmes 2 which we were super excited to see! It was great just so you know and we both recommend it to anyone who wants to see a good movie.

We JUST got our wedding pictures in the mail so to all of you who wanted some from me: They are coming! I hung some up yesterday and love them. Thanks Sharee your a great photographer :)

Matt and I leave tomorrow evening to go to my parents house in West Richland for CHRISTMAS! We are so excited and have a few presents under out paper-made Christmas tree. Then the 26th we fly off to Virginia!! which is exciting because we haven't been able to see Matt's family since the wedding. Also we plan on going to Washinton DC and going to some sites there along with the DC temple too so we are really looking forward to going to visit the Montoya family.

Well I hope you all have a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year also. We are so happy to know all of you and are grateful for your support and love towards us.

We LOVE you!
Leisha and Matt Montoya

He sees you when your sleeping, He knows when your awake....!

It's almost Christmas and we haven't done any shopping yet!! Being as the only stores we have here are FredMyer, SafeWay, and a grocery store we have to drive 30 minutes to a Target or Wal-Mart and 40 minutes to a Mall. So it's made things a little difficult but hopefully we'll make a trip to Yakima to go Christmas shopping soon!

This week Matt turned in his last final papers for his first quarter of grad school and is now VERY happy to be free to read, work out, play the guitar and make Christmas cookies with me to take to the neighbors (we did that for family night tonight)

On Saturday we drove to Leavenworth. There were about 1000 people there and it was packed. We all gathered together and sang Christmas songs and did a count down for them to light the whole town. It was beautiful with all the trees, and shops lit up. We met up with some distant relatives of mine there and they showed us around.

We are excited to be getting to know our ward better. Matt had 3 hours of meetings thought this Sunday about scouts that I think he got a little bored at... hahaha...

Well we'll update you all later! Have a great week!

Leisha and Matt Montoya

Another week

Hey Friends and Family,

A pretty uneventful week for us here in Ellensburg.  We came to the realization that there's less to do in Ellensburg than there was in Rexburg!  One bowling alley... a theater.. that's about it.   For everything else we have to drive to Yakima.  They have food and ice cream places though so we went to Dairy Queen on Thursday and on Friday we went to Fred Meyer and walked around for an hour or so.. .Which was more fun than we thought it would be.  We also got Netflix for 1 month free to keep us occupied, and there's a couple from another ward that are organizing get-togethers for married students this month so maybe we'll make  some friends...  That would be good. And we're getting together with a nice couple this weekend that I met at school.

We've also been going to institute, and that's been a lot of fun.  Classes are over for the quarter though so we'll have to get a little more creative.  I have a week left to finish my two term papers but I won't bore you with the details of them.  Leisha's been working and decorating our apartment nicely for Christmas time.  Other than that we're looking forward to going to Richland the week of Christmas and then Virginia the day after Christmas.

Have a good week!

Matt and Leisha