12 Miles...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, I ran 12 miles this past weekend. Ugg! I am training (training to me means I only run on Saturdays with my best friend...training to most should be doing some training during the week! But YOLO right?)

We ran 12...and we survived! Woohoo! It is comical the motivation we use to push each other! We laugh alot, chat, stop chatting to breath, realize we have to chat or we want to quit, and chat more. It's awesome!

Go get out and grab a friend for a walk, run or even a skip through a park! (a safe park not a sketchy no one can see you park)

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Write it Out...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
As I finished my time with Jesus this morning my heart just started writing in my journal...

You are my all.
  You are Savior.
    You are near.
      You are mighty and intimate.
        You hear me.
          You are in control of all things.
            You are good.
              You place desires in me.

the list could have and continues to go on with each morning. I wonder if we all took time to simply write out who God is...his character, his actions towards us, his relationship with us and of us...how differently would we see our God when trials, hardships or just plain bad days come swinging at us.

So go, write it out...

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Who is Ready for Kamp...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
The picture might be weird to some but to most of us Kamp girls we LOVE our Nike Tempos at K2! Now over the years I have tried other shorts and liked them but I must admit my drawers are still mostly filled with the good ole Tempos! I loved last season at the outlet they had some shorts that had spandex lined into them and I'm kind of obsessed with them also...kind of kicked myself I didn't buy them in every color when they were there as I haven't seen them since...but they were just plain colors with a different shade of spandex! Awesome for Triathlete Abdomination time!

But all in all I am still a tempo girl...just scored a pair for $9 the other day from the Outlet! Holler, bargain shopper!

Get the tempos out (or any other shorts for kamp!)...kamp is coming!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Great Read, Sorry, Still on Social Media Box...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, I'm sorry (sort of) that I have been on the social media kick here lately. I came across this article that is amazingly written that is a great balance in not shutting out social media but how to live healthily (not sure this is a word) in it. I LOVED the article and loved his premise of connecting and not comparing...

Here is the link. Go here but I'm also pasting it below....


I keep having the same conversation over and over. It starts like this: “I gave up Facebook for Lent, and I realized I’m a lot happier without it.” Or like this, “Pinterest makes me hate my house.” Or like this: “I stopped following a friend on Instagram, and now that I don’t see nonstop snapshots of her perfect life, I like her better.”

Yikes. This is a thing. This is coming up in conversation after conversation. The danger of the internet is that it’s very very easy to tell partial truths—to show the fabulous meal but not the mess to clean up afterward. To display the smiling couple-shot, but not the fight you had three days ago. To offer up the sparkly milestones but not the spiraling meltdowns.

I’m not anti-technology or anti-Internet, certainly, but I do think it’s important for us to remind ourselves from time to time that watching other peoples’ post-worthy moments on Facebook is always going to yield a prettier version of life than the one you’re living right now. That’s how it works.

WHEN YOU’RE WAITING FOR YOUR COFFEE TO BREW, THE MAJORITY OF YOUR FRIENDS PROBABLY AREN’T DOING ANYTHING ANY MORE SPECIAL. BUT IT ONLY TAKES ONE FRIEND AT THE EIFFEL TOWER TO MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A LOSER.

My life looks better on the Internet than it does in real life. Everyone’s life looks better on the internet than it does in real life. The Internet is partial truths—we get to decide what people see and what they don’t. That’s why it’s safer short term. And that’s why it’s much, much more dangerous long term.
Because community—the rich kind, the transforming kind, the valuable and difficult kind—doesn’t happen in partial truths and well-edited photo collections on Instagram. Community happens when we hear each other’s actual voices, when we enter one another’s actual homes, with actual messes, around actual tables telling stories that ramble on beyond 140 pithy characters.

But seeing the best possible, often-unrealistic, half-truth version of other peoples’ lives isn’t the only danger of the Internet. Our envy buttons also get pushed because we rarely check Facebook when we’re having our own peak experiences. We check it when we’re bored and when we’re lonely, and it intensifies that boredom and loneliness.

When you’re laughing at a meal with friends, are you scrolling through Pinterest? When you’re in labor with your much-prayed-for-deeply-loved child, are you checking to see what’s happening on Instagram? Of course not. We check in with our phones when it seems like nothing fun is happening in our own lives—when we’re getting our oil changed or waiting for the coffee to brew.

It makes sense, then, that anyone else’s fun or beauty or sparkle gets under our skin. It magnifies our own dissatisfaction with that moment. When you’re waiting for your coffee to brew, the majority of your friends probably aren’t doing anything any more special.

But it only takes one friend at the Eiffel Tower to make you feel like a loser.

I’m a writer. I use Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and Pinterest and my blog as part of my professional life—as a way to connect with readers and be part of a conversation that we’re creating together, a conversation about creativity and faith and writing and parenting and community and life around the table. It’s a lovely conversation, and part of my work involves reading many blogs and commenting on lots of photos and scrolling through status after status.

Some days it feels rich and multi-faceted. I learn and I’m inspired. I find recipes I want to try and stories I want to live. I feel connected and thankful to be part of such an intelligent and creative internet community.

And then on some days, I feel like I have nothing to offer, like I must be the only one who isn’t a graphic designer and hasn’t yet managed to display her entire darling life online with lots of chevron and mint accents. I feel so certain that my life is a lot less darling than other peoples’ lives.

But that’s the Internet. The nature of it. I so easily fall prey to the seduction of other people’s partial truths and heavily filtered photos, making everything look amazing. And their amazing looking lives make me feel not amazing at all.

Let’s choose community. Let’s stop comparing. Let’s start connecting.

Some days when I sit down at my laptop, instead of choosing to be an observer via Facebook, I choose to be a friend via email. Instead of scrolling through someone else’s carefully curated images, I use those few seconds to send a text to a person I really know and really love and really want to be connected to.

It’s not about technology or not. I’m not suggesting you get all old-school-pen-and-paper about it (unless that’s your thing.) It’s about connecting instead of comparing. Instead of using the computer to watch someone else’s perfectly crafted life, enter into someone’s less-than-perfect life. You can use Facebook if you want, but you might find email, Skype and phone calls work better.

USING TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF BUILDING CAREFULLY-CURATED IMAGES OF OURSELVES IS AN OPTION, AND A WORTHWHILE ONE.

The distinction I’m making is public vs. private, not in person vs. long distance. I have very close, very honest friendships that depend on phone calls and Skype dates and long wandering emails, and I’m thankful that technology allows for those connections. But I don’t think you can build transforming friendships that take place only in a public sphere like Facebook or Instagram.
For many of us, walking away from the Internet isn’t an option. But using it to connect instead of compare is an option, and a life-changing one. Using technology to build community instead of building carefully-curated images of ourselves is an option, and a worthwhile one.

And on the days when you peer into the screen of your laptop and all you see are other people’s peak experiences that highlight your lack in that moment, remember that life isn’t about the story you tell about yourself on the Internet. It’s about a million more beautiful and complex things than that, like love and faith and really listening. It’s about using what you’ve been given to craft a life of gratitude and passion and grace.

Remember that the very best things in life can’t be captured in status updates.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 


kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Why Tweet?...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Okay, I am so not on a soap box of social media...I just recently told our leadership team that I am not anti-twitter I just don't know why I would do it. Why would anyone in this world care about my 140 characters about random basic nothings of my day. It's just so odd...and then the pressure to be funny. Oh, man. I am sweating just typing it...

So I told the team that I just like telling the people I'm with when I think of something I would tweet...but I like just telling them and adding hashtags and all of us laughing. It's way more fun! Then the people I'm with, we connect. We laugh, in person. Anyways, the team had a ball with that and have given me the clear that I would do well on twitter...my response. I'm not ready...probably never will be.

If I eat my words, then so be it but for now my 140 characters will just be said out loud to my littles most of the day and dear friends.

p.s. i might not be on twitter but kanakuk is and kanakuktrish is...so follow them!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

I will Fight...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, I feel like sometimes I have a soap box on Social Media and the Effects of "Shallowing" the next generation...and by sometimes I mean I could go off about it all the time.

I am not a hater at all...hence you are reading this on a blog where you possibly clicked over from Facebook. I am a moderation, healthy user of it. My biggest fear each summer is more and more I am seeing teenage girls, YOU, not able to have healthy face to face interaction with your peers or older adults. You overshare through a keyboard but can't have a polite conversation to your elder. You twitter your opinions and heart but yet can't look someone in the eye to TALK to them.

I will always fight this. I don't want facebook to be over or twitter to be gone...I just don't want to have a generation of youth that can't or doesn't know how to function without feeling like their life is a real TV show and they are the STAR. You aren't.

So today check your heart when you add a  picture of yourself in a bikini...why? Check your healthy radar of social media when you are spending more time on twitter than you are on homework or being outside? Realize that something could be a bit off if all during dinner at your home there are beeps, dings, rings and tweet sounds that distract from a dinner table where America was built.

Side note: mommas and daddies create "cell phone free zone" at your house...do it! Maybe for you too...

Social media is not bad...but is it creating something in us that is?

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Awkward Turtle...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I found this little image above and just died laughing. I might be aging myself or most of your might not even remember but one summer (again I can't remember which) we had a saying through the girls side of K2 called the "awkward turtle." It basically was for when we are all awkward at some point in our lives...some more than others and then there is me who stays in an awkward state.

Anyways, rock on all you awkward moment rockers! Embrace them my turtle friends!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Hello...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, HELLO I'M BACK...sorry for the absence. I'm sure you were all devastated by your lack of every other day posts here at Kanakuk Ashley. Pick up those kleenexes for your tears shall be no more...a bit dramatic. Yep!

Well, it's just been a crazy month. Why was March crazy? No idea. Any ideas? None from me. Promise I won't leave again...

Be Awesome & Love Jesus,

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Love This...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friend,
Well, I mean I adore this saying...STOP THE GLORIFICATION OF BUSY. What's funny is that I never thought it would apply to you all...teenage girls. But honestly 90% of my conversations (okay, totally must fess up that I just made up that statistic! Oh well) are about how busy you are. Stop it!

I laugh at this quote because honestly I HATE being busy. I hate answering people with "Oh, just really busy." Ugg...hate it, won't do it, won't live it! Of course my personality feels too busy if we have 2 nights out of the 7 scheduled. What can I say I'm a total homebody that loves snugglin' in after the littles are all asleep with a fun show with the husband or a little crafting or just luxurious nothing time of Pinterest or blogging. So all that to say...being busy is nothing to rock your tiara too!

So stop soaking in your pride as you answer that "life is just so busy." Is that really the first answer you want to say when someone says, "hey how are you?" Think about it...busy-ness is not healthy...busy-ness is a distraction...busy-ness is stuff, not people...busy-ness is a void of just being able to be still...don't be busy...

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Settlers of Catan...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, meet our new little game night friend! It's called The Settlers of Catan and it is oh so fun! I mean so fun! It does have strategy and thinking involved but I don't love strategy and I still like it. Did that just totally throw me under the bus as a total blonde? Yes! Cool!

We have been playing it with our neighbors who we adore and it is a great game that is light and fun and you can still have conversation during it! It creates memories and is just a clean good time! Woohoo! I think you can get it online from Wal-mart but for sure Amazon!

Go play a board game!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Any Seniors Feeling Anxious...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends...specifically Seniors,
It feels like that time of year when your stress levels are a bit higher than what some might call normal. Why you ask? Well, the open ended million dollar question begins to surface about this time for seniors..."What are you doing with your life?" Now this question can come in many forms..."Where are you going to college?" or "What are you going to major in?" But the question at the core sounds like...

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE?

So the question sometimes has a quick answer for those who have a college picked out...but then worry sinks in as to your undecided major. For others you boldly claim your free spirit of not knowing where you want to go...but again inside your stomach is doing flip flops!

My advice...don't worry. Be active in pursuing your passions but don't take on anxiousness of a controlling role you don't even have...it's the God who created you and every fiber in your body who has each of your days in His Almighty hand. Rest in those hands...

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Say Hello...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I went out the other night with my husband and my best friend and her husband. It was such a fun night! We went to HuHot Grill for dinner and had a wonderful time! We then went to see a show at a theater in Springfield, MO. As I was chatting with my bestie (I don't think 30 year olds can use the word bestie without sounding like I am trying way to hard to stay relevant...oh, lets be honest I'm so over being relevant!) and looked over the crowd and my heart was saddened. You see our seats were the first row in the balcony. Which I believe are the best seats in a theatre. (Side note: seriously which way is the right way to spell theatre...oh our language!) We both looked over the crowd down below and it had to be at least 50% of people were sitting there next to friends, family, husbands and wives, daughters and dads, and yet 50% of the crowd were not talking or just being with their person but thumbing keypads or searching facebook or twitter. It was so so sad. My heart and body wanted to yell out...be here, be present, say hello to your wife, your friend, your grandpa! Say hello!! Ask a question, share a feeling, tell a story or just sit hand in hand people watching making up stories for the people around you...be with them!

So today, go say hello...not through facebook or twitter but to a real life human being. We were made for relationships and our heart will crave them. Don't fill your heart with a phone...fill it with a person!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

(The last sentence is not to promote a theological debate...obviously our hearts are full of Jesus but you know what I mean)

Can I Get an Amen...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,

Well the picture is the post for today...I am loving my recent search of typography/prints and this one was one of my favorites because of the wonderful quote from C.S. Lewis but also I love this little girl in the picture. I realize I just typed little girl and she is probably a teenager or young adult...which by the way those words are basically the same. I'm smart...don't worry.

I love the innocence of her braided hair...I love the pureness of trueness of Lewis' words. May we wake up tomorrow and rely on our Jesus evermore...

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Why Kamp?...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Today I feel my heart beating fast as I type this post. Why? Well, because I now have 3 littles that in too short of a time will be able to go to summer kamp...so today I want to tell you why Kanakuk? This isn't advertising (okay technically it is but more a mom's heart) and it's not begging...it's belief. It's belief in a place that is cherished.

Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because it's real.
Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because it's away.
Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because we see a leader in every one of you.
Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because it's a refuge.
Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because it's FUN.
Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because it's simple and chaotic.
Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because it's cool.
Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because we want you to know that you are AWESOME!
Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because it's adventure.
Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because it's not facebook, twitter or instagram...it's conversations and relationships.

Why Kanakuk Kamps? Because I believe in this place...more than ever.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Countdown Anyone...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, March just makes me think of it...SPRING BREAK! There were some years my fam and I just kicked it around the hometown and other years we headed for cold mountains or sunny beaches! It was such sweet memories with my family!

So let's start your countdown!!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Well, Hey There March...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, March is here. When did that happen? Isn't it still October of 2012...oh, it's not. Okay, moving on.

March is always a month of down time (Spring Breaks usually) and this little pull in my stomach that kamp is right around the corner. Now, don't get me wrong I love that kamp is soon but for a director it also makes us realize that is a lot to do in a very small amount of time. But let's be honest I work best under the crunch of a deadline!

March...what does it look like for you? (it's interesting to pose a question at the end of a post as I expect no replies to it but yet it seems like the only way to end this post? Odd...yes.)

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Snow Days...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, the snow/ice has come and then melted and then come and now melted. I love snow days! Here is a fun/random list of snow day activities:
1. hot cocoa...duh and done! With milk people, not hot water!
2. watch a RedBox movie (DVDONME is a code they promo that everyone can use once. not applicable online)
3. stay in pajamas all day.
4. go to www.kanakuk.com and sign up for summer kamp and dream of warmer weather.
5. dance party...as my eldest little calls it "mommy, you put on some jams."
6. craft. yep. craft something.
7. organize (oh, wait I'm starting to make my perfect day for myself...sorry)
8. play Settlers of Catan. I know it sounds weird but it's a really fun board game! You can find it on Amazon.
9. watch old home videos.
10. write your kamp friends...a real, on paper, email.

Enjoy your snow day...and if you aren't having one...well, enjoy reading this random post.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Boyfriend Talk 3...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, Boyfriend Talk Installment #3 is back! I loved this "hey girl" pic from above b/c this girl does have a obsession with owls...I just wish I had photoshop so I could crop Ryan What's-His-Name out and put the hubs on these pictures!

Okay so today is basic but a touchy one. Today I want to remind you that high school LOVE is rare. By love I mean the biblical, healthy relationship when you find the right one and marry him. I know all moms and older staff folks might read this and say "I married my high school sweetheart" and to that I would say AWESOME. I would also say that your story is so very rare to have done a high school relationship right and honoring to Jesus and to truly find each other that young. I love that that is your story but for the most part...oh, let's just make up a statistic as most statistics are made up...95.6853234591% of high school relationships are NOT THE ONE. So guard relationships and the seriousness of it while you are there. Don't do promise rings or take pictures like your engaged when you are 15 years old and only dating 3 months. Don't plan college totally around each other based off of your love for him b/c you are sleeping together. If you are walking with Jesus then nothing will deter the man He has written for you to enter your beautiful story when the time is right. So remember high school relationships...keep 'em healthy and just friendly...

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Go Talk...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Oh, teenage years...why are you so hard?!?! Today I wanted to challenge you daughters to go have conversations with your moms, your aunts, your grandmas, your adopted or foster mom, or a woman that has impacted your life. I fear the art of question asking and then listening is being lost in our generation so therefore I am fighting that fear with simply posing a question for you to ask your mom (or above all mentioned women) today...

You simply sit down, remove your cellie, iPad, and all other technology and make some hot cocoa, tea or any cold drink that  sounds yummy and ask her..."Mom, what was your favorite thing about growing up in the time period you did?" Follow up question would be to ask her, "Mom, what was the hardest time in your life growing up as a kid?"

Deep discussion begin...

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Kanakuk Staff Hiring...Check...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, this past week was hiring, paperwork, lots of calls and tons of excitement for Summer 2013! It's been an awesome week of truly letting go of our hands and allowing the Lord to direct each application to exactly where it needs to be!

K2 Kampers...seriously we have the BEST staff in the whole world! I truly truly mean that!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

The Sun is Rising...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
As I was running today (side note: I'm training for a half marathon with my best friend) I was listening to Britt Nicole's Gold Album that I a slightly obsessed with! Thanks to Caitlin Lochstampfor! I love the album!

As I finished my run this song came on and the lyrics rang so loudly for so many of you that I see and meet with all through the summer! Read them and let them linger...

When life has cut too deep and left you hurting
The future you had hoped for is now burning
And the dreams you held so tight lost their meaning
And you don't know if you'll ever find the healing

You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it
And the night can only last for so long

Whatever you're facing
If your heart is breaking
There's a promise for the ones who just hold on
Lift up your eyes and see
The sun is rising

The sun is rising

Every high and every low you're gonna go through
You don't have to be afraid I am with you
In the moments you're so weak you feel like stopping
Let the hope you have light the road you're walking

You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it
The night can only last for so long

Whatever you're facing
If your heart is breaking
There's a promise for the ones who just hold on
Lift up your eyes and see
The sun is rising

Even when you can't imagine how
How you're ever gonna find your way out
Even when you're drowning in your doubt
Just look beyond the clouds

Just look beyond the clouds

Whatever you're facing
If your heart is breaking
There's a promise for the ones who just hold on
Lift up your eyes and see
The sun is rising

The sun is rising

Even when you can't imagine how
How you're ever gonna find your way out
Even when you're drowning in your doubt
Just look beyond the clouds

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Teenage Life Back When...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I love these pictures. I mean I LOVE these pictures! Sometimes I just want to halt everything. Doesn't it feel like we are changing or evolving too fast? Technology too fast? Information too fast? Everything feels too fast. I found these pictures on Pinterest from Teenage life back in the 1940's. Wow! I love the one above as I imagine she is doing homework and listening to "tunes" of the day. The loafers, the rolled jeans, the button up and precious curled hair. The picture below just seems precious. The days of innocence that I will fight for in this day in age.

Sometimes I think it is valuable to look back. Not to dwell or linger in past guilt or junk. But to look back and remember. Remember what made it good and hold onto those things. To remember and look back to what we should learn from those times.

So look back for a bit in your life. What do you miss from the days of your innocence or simpler life? Look back and learn...

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Boyfriend Talk...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Okay, I got so stupidly excited about my genius series about boy talk with you girls that I am coming at you again with deep advice. Seriously, I think I am going to be serious. I feel like I need to warn you when that is coming as it's so very rare.

Lesson #2:
No boy...ever is worth giving up any amount of your body physically to so that you can keep, have or prove LOVE. No boy! I promise. I think each of you if you stopped and thought about your future daughters or even little sisters you would want them to hear and really KNOW that if any boy pushes to go further or uses lines of manipulation or threatens ("you will do this if you love me," "everyone goes this far," "this is what teenagers do and i love you.")  that they are NOT guarding you or your heart or your body. They are not honoring you, your body or your heart for Jesus, no matter where your walk might be with the Lord. So know and remember and set a standard in your heart and share it out loud from the forefront of a relationship that your body is yours (hence then the Lords) and for your future hottie of a husband warrior. Long to save your body for the one that the Lord is perfectly scripted YOU for.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Happy Valentines...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Happy Valentines day to you sweet friends!!! I realize in junior high and high school Valentines Day can be well, not the best at times. And for some you love love love it! I hope that wherever you fall on the LOVE/HATE relationship with Valentines Day that you know LOVE is deeper when Jesus is at the heart of it. Whether your relationship with the Lord or others around you...His love is so deep and so wide and so true and so real and so grace filled.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Boyfriend Talk...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I am sure most of you clicked on this blog post mostly because of who is in the picture above and then some of you out of plain curiosity of the title. Let me explain.

After reading through a survey of our kampers and just remembering teenage years and thinking of all the conversations I have in the summer...BOYS are a big deal. Whether you have never had a boyfriend...they are a BIG DEAL. If you have had hundreds...they are a BIG DEAL. If you think they boy in literature is your future husband...they are a BIG DEAL. If you pray no one in your high school is your future husband...they are a BIG DEAL. Summation...boys are a big topic for your teenage years.

I by no means am in any way a dating expert but I thought I would use the "hey girl" Ryan Gosling photo and start a little series of posts. They will be simple, practical and just real. So lesson 1...

Teenage boys are not Ryan Gosling from The Notebook or Zac Efron from High School Musical. Those sweet girl are movies. Not real. They are scripted and no teenage boy dances on top of a roof. Side note is there really high schools with beautiful gardens atop their roofs.

Deep, thoughtful and life changing. In the words of the Sonic guys...mind just blown.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 

kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com