Weekend with The Morgans

I just got back to Pendleton for my last week of Preceptorship in Boardman, OR.  I was lucky enough to get to spend this past weekend with the Morgans - our good friends from our time in Wymount.  They live in Boise currently, until Mike starts medical school in July.  I took advantage of being only 4 hours from there and drove out the spend the weekend with them.  I spent time playing with Katie (we got to visit them in the hospital when she was born), holding the boys (twins born 5 weeks ago) and enjoying girl time with Brittany.  Saturday we left Mike with all the kids and hit up Cafe Rio, Costco and Target.  Living in rural OR has made me really appreciate the ability to going to my favorite stores.  See the pictures below for proof of my lovely weekend. 

Mother's Day

Will and I have both been blessed with amazing mothers!  Here's a list of just a few of the things I've learned from both of them. 

Things my mom taught me:

-       how to enjoy a slow morning of “puttering” in my PJs! 

-       How to make pan cookies, yum yum cake, double fudge brownies and countless other delicious homemade treats!  Homemade beats store bought any day.

-       To love reading, how to find books I love and  that it’s ok to put down a book I’m not enjoying – too many books in world to spend time with one I’m not loving.

-       How to explore a library or bookstore and end up spending hours there

-       How special I am!  My mom is the best at making you feel amazing for being you – whether it is something small she picked up at the store because it made her think of you or waking up to a basket of 16 wrapped presents for my 16^th birthday, she’d always made sure I knew I was special.

-       Taught me that someday that brother I’d spent my childhood fighting and competing with would be one of my best friends!  She’s right!  She taught me this through her own relationship with her brother Karl. 

-       How to keep friends close and value friendship.  She still keeps up with friends from all different parts of her life. 

-       How to pack for a trip – from an early age I was in charge of setting out outfits for each day we would be gone. 

-       How to mourn & how to comfort.  Mom taught me that it’s ok to miss people and to be sad, that she doesn’t expect me to get over it in a flash

-       The importance of extended family with the many Scifres family reunions & cousin weeks that she helped plan and orchestrate. 

-       To keep meetings short– watching her as primary president and young women’s president and countless other leadership roles she taught me that everything important and vital can be covered in a hour or less.  Respect everyone’s time.  

Things my mother-in-law taught me:

-       To trust in the Lord, if you doing your part to keep your covenants then relax and trust the Lord to do his part – It’s all going to work out. 

-       To see people as individuals – I loved listening to her describe each of her children to me the day Will and I got engaged. 

-       How to throw a great party with minimal stress

-       Involve everyone in keeping the house clean. 

-       If you are good at something and enjoy it, serve others by offering to help them (organization)