Tuesday, January 31, 2012

S'more Bars...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, I'm missing kamp a bit today and s'mores ALWAYS makes me think of kamp...ALWAYS! So here is a little recipe for ya...go ahead and go make 'em!


S'more Cookie Bars

1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs (approximately 7 full graham crackers)
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 super-sized (5 oz.) dark chocolate bars (e.g. Hershey’s)
1 1/2 cups marshmallow creme/fluff (not melted marshmallows)

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.

In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg and vanilla.
In a small bowl, whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture and mix at a low speed until combined. Divide dough in half and press half of dough into an even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan. Place chocolate bars over dough. Two 5 oz. Hershey’s bars should fit perfectly side by side, but break the chocolate (if necessary) to get it to fit in a single layer no more than 1/4 inch thick. Spread marshmallow fluff evenly over the chocolate layer.

Place remaining dough in a single layer on top of the fluff. This is most easily done by putting the second half of the dough in a gallon size freezer bag. Use your palms to flatten it out, and then use scissors to cut down both long sides of the bag, so it will open up book-style. Open it up carefully, and the dough will stick on one side of the bag. Then place the bag, dough side down, on the other three layers. From there peel the bag up ad spread the dough where it is uneven.

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool completely before cutting into bars

Makes 16 cookie bars.


I'm headed to the store today to get these ingredients! I'm salivating just thinking about them!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com
 (source: S'mores Bar Recipe)

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Let's Go to the Beach...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Today, it's a bit cold and cold. So today I wanted to go here. What is it about a beach that just takes you away? What is it about the sound of waves that just calm my heart and make me hear the beat of my Creator more?

We must find a way to hear those waves in the chaos of our lives. To sit on our seashores and to calmly listen to Jesus. I pray I do that...every day.

Be with Jesus, even if you don't have a beach out your backdoor.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Friday, January 27, 2012

Read Anything Good Lately?...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I have a dear friend who reads like she is a librarian...but a super fun, cute one. She reads ALL the time. I have realized I have stopped reading...so 2012...let's read? Mmmkay?

So what books are out there that need to be read by me?...(here is my list so far)
1. The Help
2. War Horse
3. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
4. Through My Eyes (Tim Tebow book)
5. One Thousand Gifts
6. The Hunger Games

Okay, thoughts...I don't know a lot about these books but have just heard good things. Thoughts?

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Courageous...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
1. slow and a bit cheesy.
2. did.NOT.see.that.coming.
3. why am i crying hysterically when 10 minutes ago i couldn't get past the cheesiness of this movie.
4. still crying and totally entrenched in the film.
5. LOVE LOVE LOVE the movie.

I am sold! I know sometimes the christian entertainment industry can be rather, well, cheesy. I am very well aware. I have liked the other Sherwood pictures they have put out and love that they are getting out to the masses and proclaiming truth. The hubs and I watched this movie a few nights ago and were in tears the last half of the movie (I was, the hubs was a bit teary eyed). I couldn't get the word RESOLVE out of my head. As the movie ended here were my thoughts:

1. Dads are so important.
2. Loving your wife is the first step to being a great dad. (after loving Jesus more than anything)
3. Dance...always dance with your spouse and kids.
4. Don't grow up on kids...meet them where they are (i.e. running, crafting, singing elmo songs for 2 hours)
5. I want our home to be filled with the authentic name and power of Jesus. I want the hubs and I to kneel before our Lord together and show our kids God's love and raise the next generation to love Jesus with all abandonment.

As the movie ended I loved that I looked at my husband and said, "I am so thankful you are already a man that is courageous and has a heart of resolve in this home." It's worth the wait girls...I promise!


Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Monday, January 23, 2012

Oh, man...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, it's Monday. The hubs is on the road for kamp and the littles and I are home. Sickness has been hanging out at our house for a bit and the smell of one little's throw up has been perfume for me the past week. All that to say as I kissed the hubs by today, I curled up into our bed to sleep.

There's no point to this post except to say one thing...resting is good.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Remember...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Oh, how sweet the Lord was as He has been reminding me of this TRUTH. Remember His promises. Remember His character. Remember.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 




kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Lovely Headbands...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I think this summer I will once again be wearing a headband each day because of several reasons...
1. It means I don't really have to "fix" my mop of hair.
2. They are a bit of femininity (spelling??) when I am usually sweaty, stinky and more sweaty.

So if you want one (I am obsessed with them and love making them) head on over to

www.lovelyheadbands.blogspot.com and you will see how to order. Let your obsession begin. Whether for little girls, teens with your messy buns or moms who just need a way to hide that they maybe haven't showered in a few days...these are awesome and just $12. Steal!




Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Be Silly...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, the hubs and I had a wedding reception a few weekends ago and we had such a fun dancin' night. I know to some of you that weirds you out...us old folks with 2 kids dancing like teenagers (correction: not like teenagers on MTV...the teenagers like that are silly and wacky). We danced funny, silly, twirly, goofy and every other crazy adjective! We had a blast! I had never heard half of the songs but it was so fun!

So today, I beg you to be SILLY! Go laugh like a kid while you wrestle your dad. Go twirl around in an apron as you and your mom eat whip cream out of the can. Just go be silly. Our seriousness or "grown-upness" is so boring. Go be silly...appropriately so.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 




kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Teenage Memory...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
I'm sure all of you would NEVER be so silly, girl girly as to have THAT crush that you doodle everywhere, journal each day, and think up your own movie in your head which usually ends with the crush fighting the whole world to get to you and to tell you that you are the perfect girl and he loves you.

Anyone? No one really wanting to admit it. Okay. Well, I thought today I would think back to being a teenager. Back meaning around 15 years ago. Yep, I'm 31. So me as a 16 year old. I want to simply validate your thoughts but also speak into them...not that you will listen but maybe, just maybe you will remember 1 line that could change your decisions.

The print above is so true of life as a teenage girl. Why do you think the Twilight series is an obsession of most teenage girls? Why do you think Justin Bieber is a gazillionaire? We love to dream up this story, our very own team edward vs. team jacob and we have the whole movie in our mind about the guy in the locker next to us and he barely knows our name. Oh how I remember this.

Lesson: It's not real. The normal, great kid 16 year old boy will never have a monologue to you that is like Justin Bieber's latest hit. It's not real and I believe the Lord did this for a reason. It's not time to awaken your heart to that boy. It's time to lock down your heart to Jesus and your daddy that the Lord has put in charge of your heart till it's time to for the changing of the guard. Most likely at 16 when your dream world is in overdrive is not going to be the time. So protect your heart. Know that movies are great. Fun. Great. But not reality. Crushing on boys is fun, talking with your mom till midnight about your crush is great...but allowing it to consume your heart so that reality is blurry is not good. So hang in there and some day your doodling of a boys' name will be real. Wait for Jesus to write that in...it's the best movie ever.

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Friday, January 13, 2012

Lord, When I'm Older...

Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
The saying, "I'll live for the Lord when I'm older" is a statement that drives me bonkers. Now, I'm aware of my own junk and my desperate need of a Savior so no judgements here...BUT truth will be here.

Why do you say that statement? If you truly grasp salvation and the gospel then you would never wait to walk with Jesus. Ever. On Sunday our pastor knocked the hubs and I to the ground...he said we, as marriage partners, should see the gospel being lived out in each other. WOW! You don't have to be married for that to mean something...

Does your life exhibit the gospel lived out?

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

A Blank Mind is...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Well, I'm sitting here and I am quite blank today...blogging ideas??? I can do random stuff...I can always do random stuff but I just have no awecrepic ideas rushing to my blonde brain today. (please take no offense if you are a blonde. I personally embrace blonde moments).

I am going to stay calm and just write our blog...

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com


Monday, January 9, 2012

Passion 2012...


Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
42,000 college students.
$3.1 million to stop human traffic in Nepal and more.
1 God that can awaken souls.

"Jesus has come on the scene and he has stretched out his hand to the funeral procession to awaken you to the reality that God can do anything and everything," Giglio said. "The day that happens is when you declare the power and mystery of the Gospel. That's why you're alive."


These 42,000 could radically change this nation, this world. Don't let this simply be a 4 day conference. Live it. 


Be awesome & Love Jesus, 




kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Resolutions...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
Resolutions...to do them or not to do them or to write them but not really do them? Which category do you fall into? I am in the speak of them but they are broad (like continue to balance family and "stuff"). The husband and I speak of them to each other but again, ours are broad...big picture things.

Okay, fess up...do you write them down but only last like 2 days? Admit it, c'mon, there is freedom here. haha!

Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Hey 2012...

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Hey K2 Kanakuk Friends,
It feels odd to type "I'm back!" I don't really know why but it does. So let's just say "what up" instead? Mmmkay? Perf!

How was Christmas? New Years? Break? I type these questions very much knowing they are rhetorical (is that how you spell that. I don't want to do spell check today. here goes it to the masses). Our break was great. We had a very long road trip, 2 very sick little ones, great family time, lots of pj days, sweet conversations between hubs and wife about life as we are listening to "Kisses from Katie" book, and lots of sliding (little ones got a little slide) and lots of tea parties (little ones got a tea set). It was so glorious!! Family time as our little 4 (plus aunts and grandparents) is soooooo good.

I have been surrounded by medicine like I am a pharmacist...it actually made me think of my college roomie who I adore and don't ever see who is a pharmacist (that was just a random thought that I typed and I probably should delete b/c it has nothing to do with your life but I don't want to). Prayerfully the littles will get better...soon. They are so snuggly when they are all sick and snotty. YOU, grown up teenage girls, were sick and snotty at some point and your parents sat and snuggled you and your blankie and watched mickey mouse clubhouse for 3 hours straight too...memories!

Happy New Year everyone (let's all pretend it's not January 5th but January 1st). Perf!


Be awesome & Love Jesus, 



kanakuk ashley robbins
ashley@kanakuk.com