Matthew & Chelsie Smith

Long awaited.. CARRIBEAN BRIDALS PICTURES!!

2009-04-18T15:55:00.001-07:00

Hope you like them!

I am so grateful....

2009-04-12T15:23:00.000-07:00

For MY loving Heavenly Father. We finally sold the Mercedes after 7 long months of it being on eBay every weekend. I know this sounds silly, but we could not get rid of that car if ours lives depended on it. I have prayed so earnestly every single night for 7 months and we have even fasted for it. But the other night when I went to the temple with Stef, I was in the celestrial room, and as I was praying for the mercedes to sell the following day, I got this overwhelming calming feeling, and I knew my prayer would be answer very soon. Sure enough, the next day I was at work and its was like 7:30am, and we were a little slow, so I got on eBay just to see if we had any bids (the first person who bid ment it was sold) and sure enough it had one bid on it, I got up immediately, walked to the bathroom, locked the door, and kneeled in prayer. I was so overwhelmed with happiness and tears streamed down my face. My Heavenly Father heard my prayer, and he gave me my answer in the Temple.

I've never shared my full testimony at church because every time I get up their, I freak out, but I thought by it being Easter Sunday, I would share my special testimony with you.

I KNOW WITH OUT ANY DOUBT IN MY HEART, THAT THIS IS THE TRUE CHURCH ON THIS EARTH. I KNOW MY HEAVENLY FATHER LOVES ME, KNOWS ME, AND HEARs EVERY PRAYER IN MY HEART. I KNOW THAT HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, DIED FOR ME, SO THAT I MAY BE ABLE TO BE FORGIVEN OF MY SINS, AND BE ABLE TO RETURN TO HIM AND MY FATHER IN HEAVEN. I LOVE THEM BOTH SO VERY MUCH, AND AM SO THANKFUL FOR THE SACRIFICE JESUS CHRIST DID FOR ME. I KNOW THAT JOSEPH SMITH WAS A PROPHET OF GOD, I KNOW HEAVENLY FATHER GAVE HIM THE KEYS TO LET THE TRUE GOSPEL RETURN TO THIS EARTH. THE BOOK OF MORMON IS TRUE AND I HAVE A TESTIMONY OF THE SCRIPTURES AND THE PEACE IT GIVES TO MY HEART. I KNOW PRESIDENT MONSON IS OUR PROPHET, I KNOW BECAUSE WHEN I SUSTAINED HIM, THE HOLY GHOST ASSURED ME. I LOVE THE HOLY GHOST AND THE GUIDANCE IT GIVES ME. I AM SOOOOO THANKFUL FOR THE TEMPLE, AND FOR THE COVENANTS I HAVE MADE TO MY HEAVENLY FATHER, I PROMISE TO HONOR THEM ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE. I AM SO THANKFUL TO BE ABLE TO BE WITH MY HUSBAND FOR TIME AND ALL ETERNITY, AND THAT OUR CHILDREN WILL BE BORN UNDER THE COVENANT, AND I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR THAT BLESSING HEAVENLY FATHER GAVE US. MATTHEW IS MY SOULMATE, HE COMPLETES ME AND HEAVENLY FATHER PLANNED IT THAT WAY, AND I CANT THANK HIM ENOUGH! HEAVENLY FATHER IS ON MY SIDE AND I AM ON HIS! I KNOW THAT MY HEAVENLY FATHER AND JESUS CHRIST KNOW THAT I LOVE THEM AND I TRUST THEM, AND I WILL FOLLOW THEM AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY THAT I CAN BE WITH THEM AGAIN, AND BE ABLE THANK THEM PERSONALLY FOR EVERYTHING THEY HAVE DONE FOR ME. I WILL SERVE HIM ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.

and I say these things in the sacred name of my savior, Jesus Christ, AMEN :)

that is what I want to say everytime I get up and bare my testimony...

Our Sealing Pictures and Endowment Dinner ::))))))

2009-03-30T17:58:00.000-07:00

I love these! I cant wait to get all the rest for Nick and Signe! We had such a wonderful day!

Jordans Trip!

2009-03-21T13:26:00.000-07:00

Matthew's son, Jordan, came down to St. George a few weekends ago, and stayed with us for a few days! We had so much fun with him, and we love him so much. He is such a perfect little boy. Here are some pictures from when he was down here with us. We love him and miss him so much, he is such a blessing in our lives :)

ps- dont they look exactly alike! its like a minature Matthew!

eeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk!

2009-03-18T17:51:00.000-07:00

9 days till our big day!

WOW!

i know your all sick of hearing all of this...

2009-03-15T21:18:00.000-07:00

but today, me and Matthew received our temple recommends for the very first time today. it's so great to finally have them, we have been on a long, tough road, and to finally have them in our hands feels like VICTORY! haha. Tomorrow, Stefanee's coming with me to pick out my garments (eeeeeeeeeeee!!), then I have an interview at Quality Inn ( say a lil prayer I get this job), and then I'm gonna watching my friend Katie's little girl for a few hours! I cant wait to babysit her, she is so cute! I'm gonna take my camera, so I can post pics, if her Mommy lets me! anyways, i hope all of you are doing well, my sweet friends. i love you!

chelsie

ps- cant wait to see my Mommy in 13 days! YES!!!

All because I got a flat tire....

2009-03-13T20:25:00.000-07:00

These are just from our Temple session, arent they great?! I love them, I cried through the entire viewing of them. I've been a big cry baby the last few weeks! These are the pictures I have dreamed about since I joined the church and now I have my very own. I am seriously so blessed. I hope you all like them!

WOO HOO!

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We are meeting with Nick and Signe Adams, to check out our pictures tonight at 6!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

new pics for our trip, by Nick Adams

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are these amazing or what? we should see are other pictures and temple pictures SOON! :)

oh my goodness, oh my goodness!

2009-03-10T15:55:00.001-07:00

We have one temple prep class left! This is my last two and a half weeks wearing regular underwear! haha. I am getting anxious, a little nervous ( not a bad nervous, like nervous first day of school nervous) but mostly I'm super excited. I can't wait to take out my endowments and be sealed to Matthew. I have everything pretty much ready to go, I think we will be getting our temple reccomends next week, then off to buy all the new stuff. :)

Also, for friend, we have changed our reception to the new building on top of the hill, its a lot nicer since it new, and they wont be having a Young Women broadcast up their either! I am sure it will be perfect and romantic ( least thats what I'm hoping for, but with all these kids running around, it might be a ZOO)! :)

Hope all of you are doing well, I am thankful for our friendships, and I love YOU! (yeah, you!):)

Chelsie

Bridals...

2009-03-05T19:53:00.000-08:00

Just a few sneek peek pictures :)))

Our temple bridals were today! And I basically cried through all of them... it was such a spiritual experience for me, I prolly sound crazy but its was so emotional. This was just preparing me for our temple day! Signe did this picture where Matthew was at the top of the temple stairs in the front and I had to start at the bottom and walk up to him while he had his hand reaching for me, and I basically lost it by stair 3, I cried all the way up, thank goodness no one could see me. It was such an amazing feeling. I can't believe I got so lucky finding him. We have come along way and I can't wait to be sealed to him for forever. It will be the greatest day of my entire life. I can't wait!

Also thanks to my fabulous hairstylist and friend Kensey for curling my hair all pretty! She is AMAZING! :) And Kathy at bloomers for making my exotic bouquet!

Holy crap!

2009-03-04T15:19:00.000-08:00

23 days till me and Matthew will be sealed for eternity!

Excuse me, where did this last year go?! Surely don't ask me because I have NO idea! We are excited to see all our you and for all of you to be there on our special day. My bridals are tomorrow, and I'm excited. Finally, I get to do all this wedding stuff I never got to do. I love my husband for letting me do all this, he's so awesome! :)))

More...

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More pictures....

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This is the turtle we swam with!
snorkling!

before one of my beach bridal shoots...

our hotel view...

on the sailboat!

Our Trip to the British Virgin Islands...

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At the park in St. Thomas
An island :)

Sailing...

Our view from our room

We are so happy to be home in beautiful St. George! We missed our home so much. We had such a blast on our charter sailboat, and we will never forgot the time we got to share together. We had a blast with Nick and Signe Adams and cant wait to see the results from our photoshoots with them out there! Me and Matthew snorked almost every day and saw amazing things! We both got to swim with a wild sea turtle, we followed it underwater for about 30 minutes till we got tired of following it everywhere! Also, we also got to stop in Tortola and swim with dolphins!! We spent about two hours in the water with them and did tons of tricks and just had a fun being with the dolphins and the trainers, it was definately once in a lifetime moment for the both of us! I have so many pictures, so enjoy!

Love , Chelsie

ps- 27 days till the Temple!

Headed home...

2009-02-28T10:34:00.000-08:00

We are heading home from St. Thomas today, I will post all the pictures we took tomorrow, we had a great time, but cant wait to get back to the states ASAP! :)

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

2009-02-18T13:33:00.000-08:00

Off we go, see you all in two weeks! :)))))))

41 days!

2009-02-14T20:10:00.000-08:00

We are almost to our temple date! We are getting really excited, and can't wait to see everything all come together next month!

In 4 days we will be leaving to the Carribean! We are slowly packing and getting things ready to head to the airport on Wednesday. We are SO excited, and know we will have a blast together. We have also decided we are going to swim with the dolphins! Isn't that awesome? And don't worry, we will take a million pictures.

Also, we had an appointment with Dr. Rogers on Thursday, it didn't go so great, he diagnosed me with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Which totally sucks, but at least we know why I am not getting pregnant. He put me on Metformin, twice daily. And it makes me feel like crap all day! I hate it. He told me it would also make me lose weight, and I know why, because I feel like crap all day :( He did an ultrasound on my ovaries, and basically they are completely full of cysts. I called my Mom to tell her, and she was upset, and so was I, and have been since. It has been tough few days, but I am strong. And in my patriarchal blessing it tells me that I will be a mother of many special children, I trust the Lord, and I trust that he knows whats best for me and Matthew. You gotta go through a little rain to stand under a rainbow, right? :)

Other than that, Happy Valentines Day, my friends!

Love,

Chelsie <3

ps...

2009-02-04T22:03:00.000-08:00

55 days till our sealing! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

my page needs a makeover....

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really bad! but I don't know how to make like a cute background and stuff! I'm still new with the whole blogspot thing! But I promise, put me on myspace, and I could create anything on there BLINDFOLDED! haha! So will someone donate so of there time you give my profile a updated look :))

Let me know, and I'll give you my pw and stuff

Thanks!!!

Carribean in 2 weeks!

2009-01-30T14:41:00.000-08:00

We are going to the Carribean in 2 weeks for 10 days! And Nick Adams Photography is coming with us to do our bridal photos there! :)) We are so excited and can't hardly wait to be sailing on our Yacht!

Moving on...

2009-01-26T13:18:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! I don't have much to blog about. So I'm going to just ramble on... This is our last week in our 1st condo together, I never thought I would be so sad to leave. Me and Matthew shared our first year of marriage here, there are so many memories in this place! But hopefully we find a home soon, so we can plant our roots some where else, for a long time :)

We hung out with the Durhams a lot last week, and we had a great time with them!

We only have 8 weeks left till we go to the temple! This month flew by! Hopefully the next two fly by too! I cant believe I've already been baptized for 10 months, its amazing.

Anyways, thats all :)

This might be a long shot..

2009-01-23T14:30:00.000-08:00

But we are desperate to sell our 2003 Mercedes Benz CLK 500. We are letting it go for 15,000 even though we owe 17,600 :(((( So maybe if any of you want it, or know of somebody needing a Mercedes LET ME KNOW! lol. So sorry guys. I'm embarrassed.

Chelsie

New fertility doctor..

2009-01-23T08:01:00.000-08:00

We found a new fertility doctor, his name is Dr. Rogers, and he is AWESOME! I had to do some blood work this morning ( i hate needles) and he is gonna check some stuff, and then he's gonna induce a period, so he can check me out in three weeks, then he's gonna dye my tubes to see if theres any blockage, but he promised me I'd be pregnant in six to eight months! WOW. He seemed super confident, so we will see. Anyways, just a little news I thought I'd share.

Getting closer..

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All this waiting stinks! Get us to the temple :) I have been busy packing and moving, and been busy planning our wedding reception! Nick Adams is doing our Bridal pictures, Bloomers is doing our flowers, and center pieces, Panama Grill is doing our catering, Harmons is doing our cupcakes :0) and I have been doing our invites by hand! I already bought my temple dress AND a wedding dress, we are going all out for this, once in a life chance!!! We are so excited for it and counting the days!

We've also been going to the gym 6 nights a week! We are proud of ourselves, :) Matthew is busy with work, and I'm busy with life in general.

Hope all is well with all of you!

65 days left...

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Till the Temple! We are so excited! I hope these next few months will go by fast!

need some help!

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I'm looking for an amazing photographer for our sealing! Anyone know anyone in town? Thanks!

So over...

2009-01-05T21:42:00.000-08:00

The cold weather, seriously. I am tired of going outside freezing my butt off, I hate getting in my car when its cold, and I hate having a gas bill. :((

I'm off my soap box now! Thanks!

BIG NEWS!

2009-01-02T09:57:00.000-08:00

Hello all! Christmas was a blast for us! We ended up driving about 3000 miles round trip! It was insane. We got stuck in a huge snow storm on the way there that made us travel all the way down into New Mexico, but we made it to Colorado! We were sad to come home, but we are happy to be out of the snow!

Also, WE MADE OUR TEMPLE DATE!!! Matthew called today and got everything set up! We will take our enodowments out March 27th @ 1pm, and then we will be sealed the following day on the 28th! We are so excited!! There will be invites sent out in Febuary, we hope you all can make it!

Hope Christmas was great for all of you! Happy New Year!!

Love, Chelsie

Christmas Time!

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Since I know all of you will be wondering where we are for the next TWO weeks, we're going home to Colorado! We are extremly excited and wish we could leave this instant, BUT we have to wait till Wednesday because I have two finals that day, but after that we will be on our long 13 hours drive home! Pray we have good weather! We wish you all Merry Christmas, and hope Santa brings you something goooood!

Love, Chelsie, Matthew & Wylie Beau

Thanksgiving...

2008-12-02T20:52:00.000-08:00

Our thanksgiving was a BLAST! We had a great time with our family in Cortez, Colorado. It rained most of the time we were there but it was still beautiful! We had 20 pies for breakfast the morning of thanksgiving! Everyone's pies and dishes were great! We were definately sad to leave, but we will see them all soon when we head to Canon City in 16 days!

I cant believe its already going to be Christmas! What a wonderful time of year! We are so thankful for our Savior, Jesus Christ, and the perfect example he leads for us. :)

I am totally glad the semester is almost over! I DID IT! I registered for next semester for Anatomy and English 2010, and they are both night classes, so I am going to try and get a job! Wish me luck! It sure was nice not having a job this semester, but I will be bored out of my mind next semester if I dont get a job.

I hope all is well with all of you, and hope you had a great Thanksgiving! And congrats to our friends, Josh and Joy, who got sealed over the holiday. We love you guys!

Love,

Chelsie & Matthew

SO EXCITED!

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For Thanksgiving! We can't wait to see go home to Cortez!! We miss our family so much, and have been looking forward to this since last year :)

Everything else is well, cant wait for the semester to be over! :)

We love you all!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

2008-11-16T13:02:00.000-08:00

toooooooooooooooo US! one year down, eternity to go! Matthew surprised the crap out of me by buying me a louis vuitton bag! And I had no idea! (usually I snoop around to see what he got me, but this time I didnt) =) I was so excited, and I started screaming when I saw the box! It was the greatest present ever!

I am so thankful for Matthew and all his hard work in Carpet Direct. I've never seen someone work so hard to accomplish all his goals. He is a wonderful husband, and I know he will be a wonderful father to are children one day. He has such a strong testimony, and I am honored to be his wife and eternal companion. I can't wait to be sealed in March, and look forward to eternity and beyond with him. Heavenly Father sure did bless me!!! The tears are flowing!

:)))

Happy One Year Anniversary baby!

Stole from Heather :)

2008-11-09T14:08:00.000-08:00

hello my friends :)

2008-11-06T13:42:00.000-08:00

First of all, I AM SO EXCITED FOR THE HOLIDAYS! this is me and matthew favorite time of the year! while i was at my visiting teachers house, the house across from her had all their Christmas decorations up and I could help but scream a little, because I am so excited! We cant wait to see our families, and be able to spend time together. On November 16, it will be our one year anniversary! I am excited for that, time goes by so fast. I cant imagine what life has in store for us, but I am looking forward to it. This year has been wonderful so far! Anyways, about the house we offered on, they countered and we reject, to expensive! We're on a budget here! So, we made the decision to build our own house, we figure we can build our dream home for less than what St. George is selling homes for in our price. So, we are on the look out for a lot now! Matthew has been working like crazy, the economy has really made his work slow down, but I can proudly say he is in the top 3 of the salesman in his company. Good job baby! And as for me, I'm just finishing up the semester! It great to finally see the semester ending! I just got to pass my biology! Pray for me!
We started a new fertility pill, and we will see what the results are in TWO WEEKS! We really hope this time will be the one! And if not, that greatest thing is that we can try again! LOL. I dont mind trying ;) Too much information, SORRY!
Anyways, we are looking forward to seeing our families and friends for the holidays! We hope all of you are well, and your always in our prayers!

WE LOVE YOU AND ARE THANKFUL FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIPS! :)

hiii :)

2008-10-16T18:38:00.000-07:00

hello my friends. just a little update over here! we put an offer on a gorgeous home a few days, and today we got some bad news, they counter offered, BUT it was out of our budget. it sucks, because i was in love with it. but we're on the hunt again! :) but other than that, same ol stuff, :)

hope all of you are doing well!

update..

2008-09-28T15:56:00.000-07:00

Many of you have requested to have an update in my oh so popular blog. LOL. I'll admit it, I'm not much of a blogger, maybe if I wasnt so busy with school and Matt wasnt so busy with work we would have more to talk about besides school and Carpet Direct.

But over the last few months, we went to Colorado for a week in August, and had a total blast, not to mention we came home with $30,000 dollars! Matthew won Sales Rep. of the Year, so that was for all his hard, sleepless nights of work. It was a nice bonus, but for now its just in a saving account till we find the house of our dreams, well our current dreams anyways :)

We are still trying to have children, but the Lord seems to have other plans for us at the moment, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for sometime soon! I have a high baby fever!

School has been extremely hard for me this semester, maybe because I have never gone a semester full time, but I'm determine to get all this school done and out of the way.... eventually :)

Well I hope all of you are well, and I'll try and update more often!

First time....

2008-07-09T21:03:00.000-07:00

So here we are, our first family blog! No more myspace, its all about the blogspot now! Hehe. Not much is going on in our lives at the moment, Matthew is just busy with Carpet Direct and Team National. And I'm not that busy, just working part time at State Bank. :) I start my second to last semester at Dixie in the fall! YAY! We do have a few vacations coming up, were going to California in two weeks to see Matthew's son Jordan, that should be way fun, and in August, COLORADO! Finally! I cant wait to go home and see my family, and of course win the money from the Carpet Direct contest! This weekend I get my patriarchal blessing on Saturday, I am extremely excited to see what my blessing contains. And Matthew gets his the following Saturday. Well, thats all for now :)