Favorite Things about Summer...

Summer...I love summer! Shay and I are pretty much packed up in our Branson cabin to move to our K2 home for 4 months! We leave for K2 on Sunday! Crazy huh! Some of ya'll, I'm sure, are so jealous because you still have 30 or so days...or more! Sorry, I'll see your cute face soon enough! I have all my plastic drawers organized and my party costumes are being created as we speak...by created, I mean ordered or bought from thrift stores. Don't forget girls if you are wondering which parties are for your term (2 weekers) you can check out www.kanakuk.com/parties and follow the link to K2 parties! Anyways, hope you are ready for summer too...finish strong with finals, school, etc. Make sure to tell your parents that I'll be blogging at least every other day about what is going on at K2 so parents can see in real time what you all are up to. It's going to be cool!

love ya'll,

kanakuk ashley robbins

ashley@kanakuk.com

P.S. I WILL BE BLOGGING IN A WEEK OR SO WHAT THE "THING" WILL BE FOR ME THIS YEAR (ex. last year was tie dye shirts everyday)...I'LL ANNOUNCE HERE AT http://www.kanakukashley.com/!

1. Of course, my favorite part about summer...KANAKUK K-2!

2. I love sunsets (this pic is one on Table Rock lake). I just feel like the Lord wanted to melt our faces off with awesomeness with sunsets!

3. Strawberries! Yummy! I love strawberries in summer!

4. The sun! I love it being 75 degrees...slight wind, perfect tannin' weather at the K2 pool fun-n-sun class!!! Oh, yeah! I call all time teacher for Pool F&S!

5. K-2 POOL. This picture is not of our pool...but I just love pools! I love the conversations I have sitting around the pool, I love making memories as tri-athlete gals give it all they have to learn those crazy flip turns...I just love the pool!

6. Our very own LAMPE Persimmon Hill Farm. Parents you gotta go here when you drop off and pick up your daughter! Oh my goodness, I am obsessed! They have this blackberry cobbler (they have blueberry, peach, etc too) that I like cannot say no to! And their blueberry muffins...and you can pick fresh blueberrys...and they have these yummy mushroom quesadilla...and also amazing barbeque!!! I'm getting hungry...that's not even pregnancy talking!

7. And finally...Nike Tempo Shorts...you girls know that I love these things! I got 2 new pairs this year on clearance...woohoo!

Panic Moment of a Future Mom...

Girls, I had a somewhat panic moment today as I sat at my desk. It was around 3:36 pm and I was quite tired. Supposedly, that's normal, but still weird because nothing has changed necessarily in my body. Anyways, so I look down at the book I had grabbed from my house out of fear that it would get tossed into a bag then tossed into storage then lost forever. My friend, Bronwyn, loaned me the book and I have barely grazed the pages. I am still somewhat wigged out that right now as I type these words there is a CHILD in my BELLY! What!!!!!! Anways, so I thought I would fill you in on my panic moment of my life right now as a clueless-what-just-happened-this-is-not-real-future mom.

Chapter 5: The 1st Month:
"By the end of the first month, your baby is a tiny, tadpole-like embryo, smaller than a grain of rice. In the next two weeks, the neural tube (which becomes the brain and spinal cord), heart, digestive tract, sensory organs, and arm and leg buds will begin to form."

MY COMMENTARY:
What are arm/leg "buds?" (please no one answer this for real, I know, just trying to give you a hearty laugh...and by "know," I mean I'll google it later...hehe!)

Chapter 6: The 2nd Month:
"By the end of the second month, the embryo is more human-looking, about 1 1/4 inches long from head to buttocks (one-third of it is they head), and weighs about 1/3 ounce. It has a beating heart, and arms and legs with the beginnings of fingers and toes. Bone starts to replace cartilage."

MY COMMENTARY:
What a funny looking kiddo? Wonder if the Lord did that just being funny? 1/3 ounce with a alien head! :)

Chapter 7: The 3rd Month: (I am presently in this month...I'm 10 Weeks along)
"By the end of the third month, this tiny human, now a fetus, is 2 1/2 to 3 inches long and weighs about 1/2 ounce. More organs are developing; circulatory and urinary systems are operating; the liver produces bile. Reproductive organs are developed, but the gender of the fetus is difficult to distinguish externally."

MY COMMENTARY:
Again, what in the world? First off, "embryo" is a child from the 1st day of conception. Second off, yuck, bile!

Well, there are my thoughts from today's panic moment!

crazy mom,
Kanakuk Ashley Robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com