Mmm vomit in the purse, gotta love fur kids. Seems in our house either one of them is pooping, peeing or throwing up, I can't even imagine when kids are thrown into the mix ugh. That's a little while away though.

Lushy weekend as usual but we checked out the venue I fell in love with for our ceremony/reception. Kyle liked it too so after we got the estimate for how many people we'll probably have we talked a bit when we left and he said to let the guy at the Manor know that we wanted to book it. We got the last available date for 2012. This place is amazing, if anyone is interested it's Lord Thompson Manor. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it haha.

Fiancé is away for business part of the week so night drinks will be in order so that I can actually sleep. I can't sleep when he's not home, on top of it I"m getting sick and I never get sick so when I do, it's miserable.

In boozy news, got a fantastic recipe for a Wintery/Christmas martini from our favorite local restaurant.

1/2 plain or vanilla vodka
1/4 amaretto
1/4 Baileys
garnish with nutmeg

Soooo good!

Ooh, Kat, that sounds lovely!!

So, in addition to the vodka red bulls and beers, I also had 2 cups of sangria and a shot of raspberry vodka out of my cell phone flask. :laugh: I got the flask as a gift from my BFF at her bachelorette weekend--remember my trip to San Diego? So, as a joke, I took the flask, filled, natch, to the party. Somehow, it came out and was being passed around. Good times...

Lord Thompson Manor looks beeyooteeful. Are you still going for an October wedding?

It's even more amazing in person. I fell in love with the pictures and was sold as soon as we drove up to it and walked in the front door. They had a Maine coon cat hanging out and the cutest little Lassy pup.

The only date they had available was October 7th which is also one of my best friends/bridesmaids birthday, so I was fine with changing the date. It's still a neat date and if anything means more since I'll get to celebrate with my best friend =] of course I asked her if it was okay and she seemed more excited than me haha. So we will be getting married October 7, 2012 =D everything about Lord Thompson Manor is anything but a cookie cutter wedding/reception venue, which is exactly what I wanted. Our guests will feel their at an amazing party instead of a super formal wedding. Plus the way the dinner is set up, we eat pretty quickly and then we gather in this amazing patio and all just mingle instead of just sitting at tables all night. There are fireplaces in all the dining rooms and bedrooms plus 2 outside on the patio and a huge fire pit. I could not of found a better place and the man I've been emailing and who showed us around asked if it was our first place and I said yes and provided what Kyle says, it will be our only. I certainly don't need to look around because I know I won't find anything nearly as beautiful. He said some couple had looked at 15 places!! I just could not see myself doing that, so for us it was one and done =} AND they pretty much take care of everything, hair, make up, food, they get the bar tenders and DJ or band, they have a photographer which we'll most likely use since she'll know the good spots to take pictures and there are about 13 rooms between the manor and their sister property the cottage house that most likely our wedding party will stay in. Also since we will do the ceremony there as well there isn't any driving to different places and we can have an after party after the reception there so we can all change into comfy clothes and keep drinking and eating around the fireplaces or fire pits, of course that will be a smaller number people, probably just us and our wedding party and some other friends but that's sort of the point. I'm so over the moon that we were able to get this place and that my fiancé loved it too. I said it was up to him since he's paying but that if he liked it, I definitely didn't need to look anywhere else and when we got back to his parents he said well if she likes it then we can make it work I said well you're getting married too and you should like the place and he said he liked it a lot, having 3 bars and a pool table room downstairs didn't hurt haha.

Yay! That sounds like a great venue!!! I bet it feels good to have that part done.

Oh my gosh it does but especially since it also takes care of the music, photos, food, booze and ALL of that. Really all we have to do is talk with their planner so she can put together our "vision" which for me isn't flowers but lots of candles and plain white christmas lights =] I need to pick out a dress, I already picked out a wedding ring and know what I'm getting Kyle for his present and just need to get a cake which I already have an idea for =] More will come up but with all this being taken care of, 9 months to plan seems like cake now haha

Sydney, congrats on your son's college acceptance, that is fantastic! Cheers:drinker:

I'm celebrating. College acceptance leters have arrived for my son (along with academic scholarship money). I take full credit for them. The wine is out. if you dont see me tomorrow..you know why. :drinker:

That is soooooo cool!! Congrats!!!


BTW - Back to my lushy ways White wine on Saturday....1 Bacardi on Sunday and I ran into a bottle of red wine tonight...Ahhhh...feel better! :glasses:

No drinks tonight . I also want to come clean and admit I honestly forgot to add my lushy treats the last 2 nights. Although I have been well under my calories, (the drinks would be fine) I forgot them.
Thanks. I feel better now lol so much better, maybe I will have a drink!!!

Recap of last week:

Only made it Monday and Tuesday with no drinks, but didn't do too bad the rest of the week. Went to lunch on Sunday with my drinking buddy and I ordered a beer as usual and she ordered a water??? I was like, what r u doing??? PREGGOS!! DUH! So happy for her and actually this will probably help my weight loss efforts

This weeks goal:
Monday: 0
Tuesday: 0
Wednesday: dinner with hubs probably have some wine (lets say 12oz)
Thursday: 0
Friday: dinner with a friend so probably wine, but I will try to limit to 2 glasses
Saturday: xmas party wine and beer im sure
Sunday: 0 now that I've lost my Sunday drinking buddy

Sunday=0 drinks
Monday=0 drinks, but it was close, I had a friend over and offered him a drink and if he had said yes I would have drank too, but he said no thanks!
Tonight I should remain drink free but my one weeknight of drinking this week is Thursday, I think.

I had too much as well bgrune but it allowed me to sleep even though the fiancé is away. Having a white cranberry cosmo skinny girl but had to spice it up with some sparkling cranberry juice because it's just not so yummy on it's own. So hopefully it will allow me to sleep tonight and then Kyle will be home tomorrow =}

Wade, tell us more, tell us more!

Um...a little beer on Sunday, nothing last night and probably nothing tonight. Or maybe so. I have an open bottle of Pinot grigot that's calling my name.

LMAO!!! bow chica bow wow... totally!!!

I have been alcohol free for 11 days and counting ... trying to make it to 21 on my cleanse .... wish me luck, I almost relapsed yesterday!

Wow!! Good luck! you can do it!

I have a question for the wives or wives to be. What is the reason (if if applies to you) that you don't wear your engagement or wedding rings? To me, it's like smacking Kyle (your fiancé/husband) in the face if you don't wear the ring. I just feel like if your guy buys you a beautiful ring then you should wear it.

went out last night. lots of Miller light and 3 shots of honey turkey. ugh, I wish I was still home in bed. How does one stay within their calorie limits and still drink?? thats a tough one for me.