Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Goodbye November...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
November...you have been a beautiful awesome month. You're great. I'm very thankful for you...see what I did there?

Hello December...posts I'm brainstorming about...
1. wisdom on coming back home to high school friends when you are not the same person for Christmas break. wow, need to work on title.
2. do you know what Christmas means.
3. my favs...christmas gifts idea.
4. funny christmas pictures.
5. best hot cocoa machine tribute.
6. to snow or not to snow.
7. Christmas spirit.
8. elf.
9. games to play with your family.
10. funny stocking stuffers.
11. christmas movies.
12. my handmade advent calendar. oh, maybe i'll blog about each of my activities from our families advent calendar...hmm...maybe.

Just some thoughts...

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Monday, November 28, 2011

I'm Dreaming...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Just what I'm thinking and humming today...have fun days!

Be awesome & Love Jesus,




kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com


Saturday, November 26, 2011

100 Ways to Make a Difference...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, after Thanksgiving I always have moments of thinking of children that are starving and we sit down to a meal big enough to serve a small country. Please don't get me wrong. I am not saying we shouldn't have Thanksgiving or the blessings the Lord has given to each of you and me. BUT I am saying do we think of others, of our world, of our neighbors under the bridge enough if any at all...I found this great site of 100 Ways For Your Family to Make a Difference. It's a great resource. Grab your friends or your family or both and decide to make a difference.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! Sure thankful for this ministry that has somehow connected us all!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 




kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

2 Days...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Yep! It's 2 days from the most epic parade of all times...besides Cabot, Arkansas Homecoming parade 1999. Obviously! MACY'S Thanksgiving Day Parade is on in 2 days...I'm sure you all knew that b/c you all have a countdown on your fridge. I'm sure of it!

Don't forget to watch...my momma and I will be...with 2 little extras this year. (oh, wait those two were here last year too...so it's their 2nd annual parade.)

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Monday, November 21, 2011

Taylor Swift Interview...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I know I usually blog every other day but I heard so much about this interview today I had to post about it. I am so cautious when it comes to celebrities and I have no idea if Taylor knows Jesus and has a personal relationship with Him...but I do know she seems cool. She seems like she understands that she is a role model.

Click here to read the interview transcript.

This is the quote that just makes me adore her more...

Lesley Stahl: You're a role model and you know it.
Taylor Swift: I think it's my responsibility to know it, and to be conscious of it. And it would be really easy to say-- you know, I'm-- I'm 21 now. I do what I want. You raise your kids. But it's, that's not the truth of it. The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.
Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Favorite Thanksgiving Food...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Oh the delicious food that is coming in a mere week. I can't wait! I was dreaming of this magical food  and overstuffed meal that is coming our way soon and I just wondered if I had to pick a favorite which one it would be...yeah, it's a deep question.

1. Green Bean Casserole. Kind of weird I know but it's my favorite. Then...
2. Rolls. Then...
3. Apple Pie with LOTS of ice cream.

What about you? What's your favorite?

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Friday, November 18, 2011

Family...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Family. What does that word mean to you? For some of you it immediately makes you think of your mom, your dad and siblings. For others it makes you think of your grandparents who are raising you. Or for some family is a word you feel when you are with certain friends who truly get you. Family is a word that should be treasured and cherished.

Family...how do you treat yours?

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Thankful Jar...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
How have I let 4 days go by...so sorry. Today is about the Robbins' thankful jar. Shay and I started this at the beginning of the month but I must admit I stole the idea from Young House Love. We write on some paper each day something we are thankful for. We don't read each others and at the end of the month we will go through them together. I can't wait! I know one of the hubs said "beef" one day...he loves his meat!

So go start a thankful jar of your own. Go, go, go...I'm thankful for this ministry...Kanakuk Kamps!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Friday, November 11, 2011

Listen Up...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I am super super obsessed with this print from....ETSY. Did anyone gasp out of surprise!? No, okay. I typed in listen and this was one of the first things to pop up. I think it is so relevant (a word I don't necessarily want or try to be) for you all's generation. It looks real...

I, in no way, am being disrespectful to think that the voice of God is as simple as headphones so please don't get theological on me. I just like the idea of her being quiet and listening. We sometimes, well a lot of times, need to silence the world's opinions and listen to His gentle and strong voice in our lives...

Are you listening?

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Staple Gun Wins...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, I had the brilliant idea to recover these "poofs" I bought at a garage sale a few weekends ago. I talked to my professional sewer (a fellow kamp director) and we decided to cut circles and then sew elastic on. Well, if my professional sewer would have done them they, I'm sure, would be perfect with elastic perfectly fitted around the poofs. But it's me we are talking (typing) about...so what did I do?

I tried the elastic and when it failed, I flipped those poofs over and just started stapling. I figure if I ever want to change the fabric I chose I just yank out those staples and do it all over again. At the end of the night I must confess that those staple guns are hard work. The hand was definitely a bit sore...okay, I was super whiney about it to the hubs! He mocked with love and we have 2 awesome poofs in our home now.

This post has no reason to influence your life. Just a random story. You're welcome.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com


Monday, November 7, 2011

To Do...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Sorry that I am a bit behind in blogging. Goodness, time out for me. Just kidding! I feel like today I have like 1,000 to do lists running through my head...one for the garage projects, house projects, girls clothes to reorganize and work. It's just too many lists for my blonde head (please, fellow blondies let's not take offense but simply embrace it).

So this is my new to do list for this moment. I'm off to go put on a scarf now...check that off!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com


Thursday, November 3, 2011

What's Next?...

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 Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, you all are aware, if you have been following this blog for long, that social media is not my favorite (which is pretty hypocritical considering I am blogging). But I just want to quit facebook so bad as I just feel to "out there" to the world. It feels awkward to read about what people ate at lunch and that they are ready for a nap after studying for 6 hours. It's just weird, to me, and probably just to me. Anyways, that is for another post...(don't be the person that reads this and gets all passionate about social media. I get it, I embrace it, and am a part of it. I just still want the option to not love it in my heart.)

So I was thinking today as I was checking my messages on facebook. What is going to be next? I mean twitter is big. I'm not on it b/c it feels like you have to always be funny. Alas, I don't want that kind of pressure. But what will be the next like big deal in this crazy connected world...

Just wondering and wanting you to wonder with me...
Be awesome & Love Jesus,




kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Wisdom on Sorority Life...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, the "Wisdom to Pass Down" post was pretty successful (it went viral...haha, kidding!) so as I replied on Facebook to my sorority 10 year reunion (don't do any math to figure out my age...just kidding, I don't get the whole don't ask women there age...I'm 30! Woo!) I thought about how special of a time it was. It is like no other time in life. I am not the person that looks back to college and says, "it was the best years of my life." If that were true, I would still be like a 13th year senior. It was an amazing time but I do pray I always love the exact stage of where I am TODAY.

I know a bit of folks that WERE campers are now in college so thought this could be helpful...or maybe not at all but you will get to laugh at me and find out where to buy the ADORABLE sorority prints from Etsy. 

Anyways, as I looked through the girls from my pledge class that had responded to the get together I was once again taken back to those days. The days when I was surrounded by 250 girls that were all at different points in their journey with the Lord. I was never super close to any of them as I rushed as a junior and therefore asked to not to have to live in the house but they are still connected to my heart. I know for me as I look back there are some little nuggets I just wish I would have realized more...

1. Picking a sorority is not about YOU or "go where you feel comfortable." This is the extreme opposite of being a believer is about. When you go through rush (and yes, rush is a big game) you need to not think "oh, where am I most comfortable," but "Lord where do you want to uncomfortably use my life to bring You glory?"

2. Be bold. Girls always tell me they started drinking b/c of the sorority life, pledging or what have you. Girls, if you tell the house you don't drink and won't drink they cannot force you to. If they do, it's not a good sorority. Put your foot down from the beginning. The first night after pledge day we all spent the night at the house. It was so awkward as I was so out of my comfort zone (I rushed as a junior literally b/c the Lord told me to in a communication class one day...random!) and we were all told to bring something that means a lot to us. (this story is not to toot my horn but to show you an example) So I brought my Bible. I knew it was a way for me to be very clear whose I was and what life I want to live. It would give people a glimpse of not just luke-warm christianity but this is the single most important thing in my life. So I was scared and shaky but I shared with each girl that my salvation in Jesus Christ was the most important thing to me. I think they knew from that point on that there would be no crazy hazing for that pledge, but yet I didn't miss out on anything. 

3. Look around & See Past the Front. I do wish I would have been more intentional with people in my house in college. I was so busy building a stupid resume filled with meaningless successes that I missed just loving the girls that surrounded me. Just seeing the stories, hurts and hangups that needed Jesus or just encouragement. I didn't look past the perfect dresses for chapter nights or all the girls looking like they had a blast at the frat party or the girls that gossip about each other until that person would walk up...I so wish I would have looked past that and not ran from it but pressed into it to see the heart. 

4. Make Memories. As a christian it does not mean you can't be in a sorority and do it right and well. You can. Study nights...take a cupcake break. Be the girl at the house on Friday night if someone needs a ride. Go get her. Go write your pledge trainer a note saying thanks and that you are praying for her. Ask girls you eat with every day at the house...how can I be praying for you? Be silly during Rush Work Week...keep perspective for the house. Make an 80's dance party in the 16 girl room in the house. 
5. Bite your tongue and leave your judge hammer at home. Jesus was about love and grace. Let's say that you have that figured out and live life for the Lord. I hate to tell you but there might be those around you who it takes a bit to figure it out. I am not telling you "don't be bold" or to be lukewarm. But don't walk into your sorority house with tracks flying out your pants and your Bible smashin on their faces. Bite your tongue by not gossiping...how would you look any different if you are gossiping about others in your house? And don't judge, just love them with Jesus' love.

6. Share the gospel when the door is open. The hubs had a leadership guy that got to speak at this fraternity recruiting night #1. He was supposed to speak on the character of the house and the religious aspect (I'm guessing they wanted him to mention they have Bible studies for those interested). Well, this fellow ended up sharing the gospel and infusing Jesus to every recruit that walked in. When asked to maybe tone it down on the "Jesus" stuff, he answered no, he couldn't, and the leader who respects this guy said "okay." 

7. Be fun. Be silly. Don't be all hoity toity stuck up weirdo judgy christian girl. Be joyful, be patient, be kind, be loving...Be Jesus. (although I am fully aware you AND I mess up tons...it's okay. own that and change)

8. Be involved. Help with things when asked. When a gal heading a committee needs volunteers...do it. Don't just sign up for the banner which is fun to make but help with something that shows your support of other girls in your house.

9. Really celebrate your sisters' accomplishments. I remember feeling in the room when we would all celebrate something in our chapter meetings but you could feel just jealously oozing from folks. Yuck. Be a girl that hugs a girl for getting best pledge or president or pledge trainer. Write them a note later to tell them congrats and that you will be praying for them. Rejoice...

10. Don't lose you! Don't go out on week 1 to the frat house knowing it's not a good situation. If you do, learn and get involved in a small group outside your house. Get accountability. Don't think you have to be the world driven "sorority girl." Be you, be different. 

Well that's all my wisdom...and even those 10 things I'm sure not everyone would agree with. But there ya go. Take what you want and ignore the rest if you want. 

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 


kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com