June Festivities

Hey everyone!

Matt and I went to Virginia a few weeks  ago to visit the Montoya side. We both very much enjoyed not doing homework or going to work. Most days consisted of Running and Swimming, which we don’t normally get to do so it was great. We went to Grant’s high school graduation and went running with him. We played a lot with Logan- who referred to himself as “the doggy”. He always wanted to eat his meals on the floor as a dog would haha. We went with Cindy and Logan to Washington DC where we went to the Smithsonian museum and looked at all of the beautiful artwork for my entertainment and for Matt’s entertainment we went to the natural history museum and watched a 3D flying dinosaur movie. I found out he was obsessed with dinosaurs when he was little…and now still maybe? Haha… We went running with Frank and he smoked both Matt and I. We were happy though for Grant and Frank to whip us into shape. 

Matt’s parents went to the Washington DC temple with us to do a session and Matt and I got to be the witness couple for the first time so that was great. We also went to an amazing Brazilian restaurant that tasted heavenly. It was all you can eat and servers would bring hot meat by and you could pick what you wanted. The limeade was also heavenly.  Our trip also consisted of shopping, reading, playing the electric guitar (which matt is very excited to be taking home with us to play and record.), watching movies and playing ninjas with Logan. We had a great time and hope to be able to go back sometime soon! We are grateful my aunt and uncle Josh and Erin Volmer drove us to the airport and saved us money for parking at their house instead of the car garage!

Matt got all A’s this year in Graduate school and is glad it will be over for the summer. I’m proud of him for working so hard even with me always trying to get him to hang out with me when I was bored! But he is very disciplined.  He plans on finding a job in these next few weeks. I Go back to work tomorrow also… the countdown is officially on for the next vacation from work...

Well we love you all and hope you have a great week!

Love Leisha and Matt

Our Eventful Spring:

Hey Everyone! Sorry it's been so long since I've given the update! but here it is all the same :)

We went to Rexburg and had a great time visiting my sisters and Matt and I's friends and old roommates. And yes, I cut all my hair off while I was there just to try something new. I was a little scared to do it but I went ahead and did it anyways. Matt has asked me to cut his hair also. I wasn't very good but I'm getting better and he still makes me do it. I've learned he doesn't like it when I say "I'm going to try something new this time." or "oops"...hahaha

I couldn't find a good full time job in Ellensburg so at the end of March I moved to Richland with my family to work as a receptionist at the Tri-City Orthopedic Clinic. (AKA Dr. Hazel's office) It's been a lot to remember and we are very busy making appointments and getting authorizations for insurances etc. But it's been a good learning experience for me and it's helped to pay of graduate program loans as well. Matt would live in Ellensburg and go to school and be the apartment manager. He came home on Thursdays around dinner time to live in Richland with me and would go back to Ellensburg Monday mornings to go back to school. It wasn't very fun being a part so much but we are glad he is done with this year of school so we don't have to be apart! We are staying here for the summer to work. 

Living with my family has been fun and is saving us lots of money. We are grateful to them for letting us stay here.  Easter weekend was great and general conference we nice being with family also.

Matt got to go to our Friends' wedding in Georgia last weekend! Devyn and Will Geirke got married and he had so much fun being with friends and watching the sealing. I was sad I couldn't get work off and had to miss it but he was nice and took pictures for me. And thank you Frank for letting him use your frequent flier miles. He wouldn't have been able to go without them and he had a blast.

Matt was called as the Young Men's Secretary in the first few weeks we moved here. I was called a few weeks ago to the Primary teaching the 4 year old kids....It's really cool how it worked out that even though we moved away from Ellensburg, we were still called to almost the same callings we had while we were there! We try to go to the temple ever week or so. It's really brought us closer together and we love going.

We are very VERY excited to get to go to Virginia this coming Saturday for a whole week to visit the Montoya family! We're happy we will get to see Matt's brother, Grant, graduate. But that will be in our next update!

We Love you all. Have a great week!

Leisha and Matt Montoya

Happy New Year 2012!

I know I know we've been bad and haven't updated the blog for almost 2 months but life's been a bit crazy! So where did we leave off...?

For Christmas we went to Richland, WA. and spent it with my family. It was full of crazy amounts of family. We got some cool stuff for Christmas and had fun staying up late, talking, playing games and as you can see below, playing video games haha :)





We went to Virginia after Christmas to visit the Montoya's!
We went to the Washington D.C Temple. It was lit up and decorated like Temple square in Salt Lake City which was very neat to see.

 It was great going in and doing a session with Mom and Dad Montoya too. We did a lot of other fun things like going to national monuments in Washington D.C. and museums as well. Little Logan was hilarious and always made us laugh. He has a cute personality. It was nice to be able to hangout with Grant for a little bit since he was at a soccer tournament.

 Frank and Cindy spoiled us on our visit there as well. We played games, went out to eat, watched movies and shopped.

When we returned from our great journey back to Washington we became boring again...Matt started his second quarter of Graduate school at Central Washington. He has two classes that he goes to 4 times a week: Jane Austin class and a Creative writing class also. He enjoys them and we have spent many of our evenings watching pride and prejudice, Emma, sense and sensibility, etc.

Matt has been working with the teachers and I've been working with the 3 and 4 year-old primary children. Both are just about the same amount of crazy I think! Matt has a kid with attention disorders and has to keep him still. The boy chose Matt as his favorite and follows him around.

I've been cleaning like crazy with my job. It's been hard on my body but a good workout too! I still work at Real Deals (the home decor store) and love creating the displays when I get the chance. We went to the Columbia River temple In the Tri-cities last weekend and it was great to see more family.

Matt and Logan playing with remote control cars Logan got for Christmas

We were excited to hear yesterday that one of our very nice neighbors is taking missionary discussions and hopefully we can take part in getting him baptized.

We are looking forward to next weekend when our friends Will Geirke and Devyn LaFrance (soon to be Devyn Geirke) come to visit for a few days. Hopefully that will get us up out of this dreary winter feel here in Ellensburg. The snow is melting slowly so that is great!

Logan Bean (my brother-in-law) made this poster for my parents for Christmas. We all got a kick out of it...


In our free time Matt and I like to record music. We've been working on a song bit by bit. Slowly adding in piano, voices, Guitar and hopefully drums and more voice soon. And don't worry we'll let everyone listen to it but we got more to work on so we'll let you know when it's ready!

We hope you all are having a great New Year and are doing well!
Love you guys,
Leisha and Matt Montoya