Can I still update to Lion and wait on Mountain Lion?

I am still on OSX 10.6.8 with my first gen Mac Pro running 2 dual-core 2.66Ghz Intel processors with 16GB RAM.
This is my audio production work-horse running Logic and several 3rd party plug-ins. Over the years, I have learned the hard way to wait on upgrades to maintain compatibility across the board and allow all developers to catch up with the shiny new OS X. For this reason I have waited on upgrading from Snow Leopard.
I like the way my machine runs on Snow Leopard and almost wish I could stay here. However, I am also an iPhone usera and a long-time user of .mac/MobileMe. Now for me to continue those features I paid for for nearly 10 years, I must move to iCloud. Which requires OS X 10.7 and up.
So part of me wants to update to 10.7 now that I know all of my 3rd party plug-ins are ready. However I am scared to update because I feel the more I update my OS X, the older I will make my computer. I am worried that I will see worse performance on newer OS X.
Anyhow, is there a way to simply update now to 10.7 and still wait on updating to 10.8? I only see 10.8 in the App Store.
Does anyone have any insight to my thoughts here and have any experience to add? Am I worrying to much and should my 2006 Mac Pro be fine with Mountain Lion?
Thanks!

If you want to upgrade at all, I think you would be better off going straight to Mountain Lion. It is likely that it will perform better than Lion anyway.
Not knowing what third party utilities you are using makes it difficult to predict, but just assume you will run into some compatibility challenges. If there are any, they will be identical for both Lion and ML.
In any event, you should definitely consider cloning your existing system to another partition so that you have the option to revert to it. Both Lion and ML are big leaps from Snow Leopard. Having a reversion plan will ease the transition, even if you never avail yourself of the option.

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