The past two years Ben and I have gone away the weekend before Christmas. Most things that we end up making "tradition" start out accidentally. We decided that we were going to be purposeful and make it happen. It's a way to decompress together after the semester and be ready for Christmas. We are especially thankful we went before Christmas since our post-Christmas has been full of back injuries and stomach viruses. This year, we had a wedding in Buckhannon, WV on Saturday, so we decided to go south to Cafe Cimino in Sutton, WV. We've had several friends go there before so we decided to give it a try. We were not disappointed. We will go again. It would be a super fun place to go with friends.
Cafe Cimino is a bed and breakfast in Sutton - kind of an unlikely place. We've never stayed at a B&B before. The house is gorgeous, the food is unreal, the bar area is the cutest and the atmosphere is one of total relaxation. We have decided we are saving to go back. If you ever want to get someone a gift and you're not quite sure what to give them, a gift card to Cafe Cimino is a huge winner. It can be used for just a dinner or to stay overnight.
the main house
the dining room
our room - the annabella
Over dinner, Ben and I spent some time remembering the highlights of 2013:
- monday morning dates
- friday night family dinners
- sophie starting (and loving) kindergarten
- riding the bus to school (for them and for us)
- our whole summer
- the beach
- more time spent at the river than ever as a family
- leader placement night
- weddings: novak, shaw, moffit, williams, buda, bruck
- ben's trip to puerto rico
- cafe cimino
- dad re-doing our sunroom
- buying a new (to us) van that i LOVE
- being gifted a car
- 20th anniversary banquet of the Moutaineer Area
- beth moore simulcast
- starting YL at clay-battelle
- henry & isaac joining the family
- family that loved our kids at the river (pat, bill, karen, uncle jim, john, eugene)
- flag football
- src moving into our new building
- laura's src women's bible study
- big kick soccer camp
- meeting with college girl
- working for ben & scott
- ted & ben loving baseball together
- ted & ben appreciating sports games like madden together on xbox
- swimming lessons for the kids
- ted playing basketball, baseball & flag football & all 3 with wyatt
- ben's road trip to colorado with heath & scott
- monday night bible study
- as a whole, a very healthy year
- the kozels and the underdonks living in morgantown
- new friendships
- grace
Although it has been crazy and weird at times this year, we have this and so much more to be thankful for.
1 comment:
I hope you tried the smelt while you were there! Rob and I were there Dec17 and stayed in Annabella too.
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