Quick Recap of the Holidays

James and I had a great time back east visiting family but as usual it was a whirlwind and sometimes not very relaxing. It was GREAT to see all our siblings and parents and so much fun to meet our two adorable NEW nieces, Lily Anne, who is 5 months old, and Addison Naomi, who was just over 3 weeks when we met her.

Lily Anne

From Christmas 08

Addison Naomi

From Christmas 08

We're so in love with both of them, though sad we live so far away from them.

We made it out of Portland just in time as Portland was hammered with a snow storm the weekend we left. They received 11 inches of snow which is the most the city had seen since 1968.

We flew back to Portland Dec. 30 and headed to Bend, OR about 3.5 hours from Portland the afternoon of New Years Eve. Our plan was to spend two days on the ski slopes at Mt. Bachelor. A friend from PT school who I recently found on Facebook lives in Bend with her husband, and we were able to ring in the new year with them. It was great to see Meg again! We hadn't seen each other since we graduated over 6 years ago!

We were up early to head to the mountain on New Years Day, only to be met with hurricane force winds on the mountain with all the lifts closed except the bunny hill lift. Not wanting to spend the money for a lift ticket for one lift, we headed home. Good thing we did though since about mid-day the resort lost power and had to close, and with no refunds given, I would have been pissed! We spent the day shopping, hot tubbing, and going to see Marley & Me. (I bawled, no sobbed, like a baby) We got up early again on Friday to head back to the mountain to find a few more lifts open (still very windy) and were told by the ski patrol that conditions were "grim". Hearing ski patrol say they wouldn't ski in it was enough to convince me not to do it. Visibility was basically 6 inches in front of your face at the top of the mountain. So we went tubing instead and had a BLAST. It sucked not to be able to finally get on the mountain, but we had fun nonetheless.

We're back home in Portland, the Christmas decorations have been put away, and we're enjoying our last evening off before heading back into the working world. Hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season!