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