Long time, no post!

Sorry for being such a slacker! We have had a very busy, but wonderful holiday season, with lots of pictures to come later. Our computer is in line to get repaired right now so I have to make you all wait another little while before I can post pictures. In the mean time, here's what we've been up to!

- Christmas
We spent Christmas at home in Bend. Doug and I both had to work on Christmas Eve, and poor Doug had to work the Friday and Saturday after, so it made it unrealistic to travel up to Portland for one day. We spent Christmas Eve eating out at yes, a chinese food restaurant (they were the only places open here!), and later coming home to watch Christmas movies and decorate our Gingerbread house. Christmas day we took it easy, played in the snow in our backyard, and saw Seven Pounds as a matinee. While I will admit it was a great heartwarming movie to see on Christmas, it was also a horrible movie to see on Christmas, it made me so sad and I cried so hard at the theatre. Preggo hormones not helping, as most of you know, I am always easily touched to tears in movies. I tried not to be sad, but it left a grey cloud over me for sometime. All in all we had a wonderfully relaxing time, and spent the following days packing and getting ready to go to...

- Mexico
My parents have a newly finished condo in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico and they invited us down to spend New Years Eve with them! I had never been to Mexico, only the scummy parts so I don't count that, and could not wait! We left Portland on Dec 28th and had an amazing time down there! Doug and I had the first couple of days to ourselves, as my parents weren't coming down until the 30th. Fortunately for my parents, their condo was already rented for the time we had all planned to be down there, so the rental managers arranged for us to stay in the PENTHOUSE CONDO!! We had amazing top floor views of the ocean, and a 2 balconies overlooking it all. It was beautiful! We spent some time strolling around the shopping areas of Playa, snorkeling in the ocean, eating great food and lots of virgin margaritas and RELAXING, which I desperately needed. My parents got in the day before New Years Eve, and we had a great time the rest of the week with them. We celebrated the new year downtown with thousands of other people cheering, dancing and spraying champagne everywhere in the streets. A major party! We went to see some ruins at Tulum, and of course Chichen-Itza, which both were amazing! We took the ferry over to Cozumel, and did 3 snorkel dives in the middle of tons of fish in the most clear warm water I have ever seen! I even got stung by some almost invisible jellyfish, which kind of sucked, but it was still pretty cool. Doug and my dad were able to go on a scuba dive together, which they both loved, and my step mom and I did some shopping around town. Doug and I were both so sad to leave, there is something about it down there that we love and miss daily. We can't wait to go back next year! In the mean time we have a lot to do around the house to prepare for...

- The Babies
I can't believe I am already 6 months in! the third trimester already, it's really going by almost too fast, and I am going to be sad when it's over. Now that they are moving constantly and I can see my belly move when they do, it's too fun, and I can't get enough of it. I showed Doug last night my belly when you can see it move, and he thought it was a little weird looking, but I just think it's awesome! It makes me happy to know that they are active and doing well in there. Doug and I have been busy rearranging some rooms so the girls have their own nursery. We got the wood trim around the room painted white, and a chalk line up for where we will paint up to the chair rail. Now we just need to paint, which I hope we can get to this week! The crib is on it's way along with the car seats and some other goodies I have ordered for them, and it's finally getting real that they will be here before we know it! I am starting to get a little freaked out about it. No longer will it be just Doug and I, which part of me is sad about as that is all I know, but yet there will be two more people to love and care for which I am so excited about, and overwhelmed with. What if I suck as a mom? I mean, I have no idea what I am doing, and it's starting to scare me now that it's getting closer. Ah! I am sure things will be fine, but there's a part of me who is scared to bits to have responsibility for these two precious girls.

What a long post! I will get pictures up as soon as I can of all our fun adventures in Mexico. Until then, Adios!