Season of BUSY

Hey Everyone - we have reached that time of year again where everything in our lives moves into hyper-speed for a while. In the next month, we have our 8th anniversary, Fields' first birthday, Intern Training for 53 young men and women who will comprise our intern staff this year, The first Wesley service of the new school year, my last final ever for seminary, the results of Deborah's licensure process, and much, much, more!

As you can see from the pictures down below, this season is making us T-I-R-E-D!! We would LOVE your prayers for grace and strength!

Thanks,

Clay for the Kirklands

this is the process of Fields waking up from a late morning nap!!!!!!!!!!!!

Drum roll please...

And the verdict is:

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!!!

Due date is 12.5.09 and everything looked perfectly perfect on the ultrasound today!

clay for the growing kirkland family

BIG week for us...

This Thursday, we will hopefully be able to tell whether we are having a boy or a girl this winter! We actually were planning to find out a few weeks ago, but our doctor had two women go into labor while we were waiting for him to see us! So, we rescheduled for this Thursday - we will certainly post the results when we have them...

In other news, we attended the Madison Sunflower Festival this weekend, and it was the first mini-horse ride for Fields! He is really, really close to walking - he can stand alone but gets pretty shaky when he tries to move forward. Usually, he just plops down without trying!

Below are some pics from the festival....Enjoy!

clay for the Kirklands