Summer in Tazewell - 2018

We took our annual summer visit to Tazewell during July this year.

Pit stop on the way there!

Super cute sign at this TN rest stop

Family selfie. The boys were SUPER excited! LOL

Tara, Matt, Leece and Madison were up that same weekend as well. When we arrived we went to Cuz's for dinner with everyone. We had a HUGE table and lots of food and all the kids were pretty well behaved (thank goodness!). 

Cousins on the pig outside of Cuz's
(notice Thomas in the background holding up Ryan)

Cousin photo sesh:

How cute are they?!?!

An evening on the porch!

Aunt Tara with the goodies!

My favorite brothers

sweethearts

On Saturday, we did fun stuff! We dropped Ryan off with Fifi and Jerry for the day because we were originally going to go tubing down the river and had lined up Fifi to watch him for us. Our tubing plans eventually changed, but we didn't want to take Ryan away from Fifi because we knew she was looking forward to spending the day with him. Plus, I don't think he would have been all that in to what we were doing! We started out the morning with a live children's play at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon. We saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was fantastic and funny! They took a slightly different approach to the story than the Disney movie, and it was very entertaining, which says a lot when you're talking about 4 young kids sitting still for longer than 5 minutes.

I had never been to Abindgon before and was very impressed. It is such a cute town. We got to briefly wander through the Martha Washington Inn before the play and it was awesome. It was so historic and had so much character, and it all tied right in to the glitzy facade. 

After the play we went to The Western Front Hotel in St. Paul, VA and had lunch at their restaurant, Milton. The food was delicious and this little boutique hotel was incredible! I loved it. The boys loved it so much, they locked themselves in! I kid, but the door to the restaurant was a jail cell door, which was pretty cool!

Locked up

Cousins at the Western Front

From there we walked over to Sugar Hill Brewery and had beers and desserts. 

LOVE!

Legit - this actually happened. They came downstairs and had
the EXACT same shirt on. We were running late so neither
of them changed. We had more than 1 set of multiples
on this outing! #twinning LOL....

All in all, I was really impressed with the little town of St. Paul. It was small but has some cool stuff to offer. I loved getting the opportunity to see some places near Tazewell that I've heard about for years but had never been to. #finally ;)

That evening we hung out at Abby's house and had BBQ out on the porch and enjoyed the pleasant mountain breeze. We got up early on Sunday and came back home. For some reason, weekends in Tazewell always seem to go by way too quickly. We never end up doing everything we planned on and wanted to do - we just always run out of time. But we love the quality time we get to spend with family and with fresh mountain air. Nothing beats it.