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16 weeks.

After last week's ultrasound, Mom suggested the name 'Skeletor,' since that is what the baby most closely resembled.   We are seriously considering it. 

Oh, baby.

All sorts of new things brewing here in Klamath Falls... Our beautiful town was selected as the next Blue Zones project after some heavy campaigning to the state. The Oregon Healthiest State Initiative chose us due to our need (34th out of 34 reporting counties in health outcomes) and our will (we showed enthusiasm and collaboration and fought hard to be chosen). Watch out world! Klamath is going blue! The Wellness Center launches on Tuesday and we are going to be ready (ish). Our building is complete (ish) and appointments are made. We're finally doing it!! And there's a little something brewing in the Pope house that should arrive around mid-September. It gives me an overwhelming sense of... weird.  But, good weird.  It's a lot, but it sure is happy.  However, it sure was sad to say goodbye to my mama who came to visit for a week and a half. She was so tremendously helpful and I'm so so glad that she came. 

T minus... how many days?

The Wellness Center is now projected to open on March 31st.  Construction was slightly delayed again, but we have updated the announcement forms and plan to send them out this week.  We are supposed to move into our new building next Monday with computers and internet scheduled for Tuesday.  It is getting close and we are getting excited!  (By excited I mean: eager, nervous, a little anxious, and having to pee a lot.) Of course, it is important to balance one's work with pleasure, which is why we have enjoyed ourselves on the weekends in the last month. In February, we spent a crystal clear day at Crater Lake, stomping around in snowshoes.  (This wasn't really necessary as the snow is dismal this year at the lake, but I got these snowshoes for Christmas and dang it, I will wear them!) Is it any wonder this is a national park? Expert snowshoer. And then we went to Portland for an MPH reunion.  The conversation was geeky.  The food was delicious.  The pol