Sitting, waiting, wishing...

Here i am at school, sitting in a study cove-thingy above the computer lab, waiting for my next class to start, wishing that i was at home baking bread...

ps... I love that Jack Johnson song!

The Family Photos

This year Chris and I spent Thanksgiving with his parents and Christmas with mine. While we were with our prospective families we took family photos. I got to be the photographer! They all came out great but there's too many to include them all, so I'm putting up just the big photos.

Hope you enjoy!

The Hodge Family


The Titus Family

Boy! The Families just keep getting bigger! I am hoping to be able to post more photos from New Years Eve... Let's see if i do it tomorrow as planned!

Happy New Years!

i have decided to go against tradition and send out New Years letters instead of Christmas letters. i figure that i don't have time to get them out before Christmas and besides i would procrastinate anyways, so i am sending out New Years letters on purpose instead of on accident! I am emailing those of you whose email addresses i have, writting this on my blog for those of you i don't have email addresses for and sending to those of you who only have snail mail addresses... hopefully i don't forget anyone! if i do, i am terribly sorry. The following is my New Years letter...

To all my friends and family,

First of all, I'd like to request that if anyone receives this letter but knows someone who didn't, who should have, would you be so kind as to relay/forward this on to them? Thank you very much!

So much has happened in this past year... so much has happened in the past few years. Since that's just too much time to cover we'll start this letter with February 21, 2009. Christopher and I were married on that day! Yeah!

Since that day, I have worked at Convergys (selling and troubleshooting for Directv... BOOORING!), gone to school (I've gotten one and a half semseters in at ISU... oh and I am working on a BA in Mass Communications), and officially started my business (Through The Linz Photography... look for website below). I've also done some reorganizing and fixing up of the house... actually chris did all the fixing up, but i did help.

Chris has gone to school (he's a junior at ISU getting his bachelor's in zoology so he can eventually become a physicians assistant... aka: P.A.) gone to medic school (For those of you with army lingo, Chris changed his MOS and MOSQ'd as a 68W this past summer... for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, chris changed his job in the National Guard and got trained as a combat medic (which also means that he trained, and certified, as an EMT)) and he found out that his unit will be deployed to Iraq by next fall.

This past summer we also got a puppy! Her name is Molly, she was born on May 20th, and she's is just wonderful. She's so smart (a mixed blessing) and she is very trainable. Like all puppies, Molly loves to chew and tear at things. So far the training-not-to-jump-on-strangers-or-any-other-people-for-that-matter is the toughest thing she has had to learn. She sits, lays down, crawls, plays fetch, can catch a ball (or other toy) in mid air, and is learning how to roll-over. The most frustrating moments this year have come because she loves to dig, and apparently, the garden has the best dirt to dig in! Next year, Chris and I will be taking steps to keep her out of the garden... drastic steps.

Plans for 2010 include, but are not limited to, getting jobs at the forest service (or some other temporary employer) for the summer, taking classes at ISU, expanding my business, drilling with the Guard for Chris, and more training of the pup (I'd like to train her to walk/run with me but she gets so distracted right now!). We also plan on having a garden, researching everything to do with homesteading (Chris and I's biggest dream is to be self sufficient some day) and spending as much time together as we can before he goes to Iraq. Kids are not in the plans this year because we don't want Chris to miss out on any of the future baby's life.

So far, Life is good! Chris and I have dreams and hopes and we are just enjoying the ride. We hope that all is well for all of you too! We miss and love you all and we hope the best for you in 2010!

All our love,

Chris, Lindsay, and Molly Hodge
cudls16@yahoo.com
krazyhodge@yahoo.com

925 W Young St
Pocatello, Id 83204

Chris' cell (208)705-7205
Lindsay's cell (208)705-3760

my blog...
viewtheworldthroughthelinz.blogspot.com

my website...
throughthelinzphotography.weebly.com

I don't have a facebook page but chris does... (maybe i'll finally break down and get one this summer!) so the best ways to keep up with us are to email or call us (alway welcome) and to follow the blog... I'm getting better at updating it!

Pictures coming soon...