Wordless Wednesday No. 34
Wine, Wedding & What Not
So from our Wordless Wednesday post yesterday if you assumed we had a FUN Saturday night at our wine dinner party then your assumption was correct! 🙂
Pretty much everyone that came has already made an appearance on this blog, so if you’ve been hanging around the LIAR blog [yes, we just abbreviated our name, ha] their names might sound familiar to you!
Beth, Heidi, Teal, Kate & Mandy
Doubt we could have gotten them to pose for a picture together so we got the boys in deep discussion 🙂 L to R: Bitner, Brent, Michael, Josh & Brian (sorry it's your back) oh and cute little Meranda!
Also, please remember this was the day after our cleanse! 🙂 We had a lovely dinner with crockpot roast, twice baked potatoes, asparagus salad, a pasta dish with butternut squash and nuts. But special mention should be given to the dee-lish appetizers we started with pears & melon topped with prosciutto and a balsamic glaze and tomatoes & mozzarella topped with the same balsamic glaze. Are we making your mouth water yet?
Most of the food
It was a wonderful night of good wine, good food and great friends! Now we just need to plan the next Wine Dinner Party! If you’re a wine lover here were all the wines we had to choose from that night. Ha 🙂 Also, if you remember back in October when Teal went to Sonoma for the weeekend well then she brought the 2007 Allure Meritage from Williamson Wines and 2007 Topel Pinot Syrah both from that trip!
The wine dinner was also a perfect night for Beth to tackle another wedding item – get a flower girl! Mandy & Josh have THE most precious little girl – bias? No way! She is! Ha If it’s possible for someone to adore a child before she’s even born then that’s exactly how it was for Beth. Little Meranda was the first kid born to one of Beth’s best friends, so that probably has something to do with adoring her before she was born. But she’s going to be the cutest little flower girl in Beth’s wedding! By the time the wedding is here Meranda will be 3 years old! Oh, how time has flown by!
Beth has also asked two more ladies to be apart of her big day as Bridesmaids! Last week she sent flowers to her soon to be sis-in-law and it actually was perfect time! Lindsay had kind of had a crummy week and hopefully she meant it when she said the arrival of the flowers Friday afternoon and asking her to be apart of the wedding made her day! So lucky to be gaining an awesome sister-in-law who is the same age! Just a couple nights ago Beth asked her sister-in-law Tiffany to be a Bridesmaid. Tiffany has officially been apart of the Lynch family for not quite a year and a half, but it feels like so much longer! She just fits right in! The fun thing is that she and Beth are the same age too! Beth, her sister, Kate and Tiffany try to once a month go out for sushi and it just so happened that the sister sushi night was coming up, so Beth knew that’s when she’d ask Tiffany.
A fun fact about Tiffany is that she’s a quarter Japanese. Since fortune cookies are actually based on a Japanese cracker even though you mainly get them from a Chinese restaurant they are originally Japanese [looked it up on wikipedia, people!] Beth knew that’s how she had to ask her!
Beth's brother, Scott and sister-in-law, Tiffany
The same night as sister sushi night Beth asked if Tiffany if her oldest boy, Wesley could be the Ring Bearer. Wesley did such a good job at Scott & Tiffany’s wedding that it’s like he’s a pro already! Bridesmaid dresses have also been picked for the most part! 🙂 Are those allowed to be shown? Haha, the Bridesmaids get their choice of style and Beth picked the designer, color and fabric for each dress! You are not going to get an update on if there is or is not a caterer for the wedding because there are still 12 days left in January to work on that one. 🙂
Have you noticed we are a little obsessed with the diptic app for putting multiple pictures into one picture?
13 Things Friday
In honor of Friday the 13th here are our thirteen things:
1. Today is our LAST day of the Advocare cleanse! YAY!! Look for a recap next week.
2. Two weeks from today we leave for Austin for our weekend of volunteering for the 3M Half Marathon. Our first volunteering experience together AND we can’t wait to meet Courtney & Luke…you know IRL!
3. Tomorrow night we have a wine dinner at Beth’s house with friends both old and new – we can’t wait!
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4. This week Beth put a big check mark next to “pick Bridesmaid dresses” on her wedding to do list. Extra bonus that the 4 BMs so far are happy with the dresses!
5. In 4 weeks, Teal & Michael will be living alone for the first time in the history of their marriage. 🙂 No more roommates!
6. Six weeks until we leave for our next big race weekend – Princess Half at Disney World!!!
7. Since this month started Teal has attended 5 yoga classes and Beth has attended 10 yoga classes. Will we meet our goals??
8. Teal’s last semester of grad school starts Monday.
9. We received some Celliant samples in the mail this week that we are anxious to try out!
10. Teal is going to the doctor on Monday for her foot! Keep your fingers crossed for her pleeease!
11. We got another NEW button on our blog! You can now buy Go Sport ID’s through us just by clicking the link on the right hand side of our blogy blog!
12. We each have a secret goal of learning to swim in 2012 – you know as in be better swimmers because we know the absolute basics of swimming i.e. doggie paddling 😉
13. We are not really superstitious.
13.1 Are you superstitious? What race superstitions do you have?
Playing Catch Up: Running & Wedding
Normally we’ve kept you up to speed on our long runs and how they went. Our last two were far from awesome as far as running goes. 🙂
In early November Beth had a plan for one of our long weekend runs, but then we decided to run the DRC Half so it couldn’t be that weekend. The next weekend we ran Rock ‘n’ Roll San Antonio, so it couldn’t happen THAT weekend. The following weekend we were due to put in a 12 mile run and Beth had a little surprise for Teal staged in our first 3 miles, specifically at a gas station, which we’ve had to stop at before when starting out a long run. Beth’s fiance was in on the surprise and suppose to hide until we got close and then kind of pop out. =) I’ll just let the pictures tell the story:
Way too blurry but here we come running
And out pops Brent with the surprise!!
Haha, he literally jumped out from behind two telephone poles and scared the crap out of Teal! On and off as we kept running one of us would be chuckling about her scream when he jumped out.
I am so excited to have Teal stand up there with me on my wedding day! While it sometimes feels like just yesterday that we met and in reality it’s going on 6 years, we have been through a lot together! Especially after Sunday when we finish our first marathon together! 🙂 Thanks to Brent for helping me ask her! He’s so awesome to get up early and wait for us to run by!
Back to the running aspect of this day – Beth was excited to get to the gas station for a break – already not feeling it for the day. 🙁 But we started going again on our normal route and somewhere right around the 6th mile Beth got light headed and started to walk. Teal kept going a bit further and then came back to meet up with Beth. I don’t think either of us felt exceptionally great out there, and we talked about how we felt like our bodies where screaming at us “When are we going to start tapering??” It might not have physically been a great run, but at least it is a run we will always remember!
For a little bit more of a wedding update, the first weekend in November Beth & Brent along with some other members of their family went and scouted out wedding venues. And then that Monday booked their wedding for October 27, 2012 at the Old Red in downtown Dallas! Which will mean they will be engaged for exactly one year since he proposed October 27, 2011. That same day Beth asked her sister to be her Maid of Honor!
And of course all the things listed on the right side of that photo were purchased and put into a gift bag to go with all of that! Hopefully those items will help her to survive this year! 😉
From the first moment of ever thinking about getting married I knew my sister would be my Maid of Honor! I am pretty sure I’d be lost in life without her! I am SO truly blessed with an amazing & beautiful sister that has not only been a sister but also a friend to me!
Can you guess which one of us is older?
Two other ladies, who I have had the honor to stand up with them at their weddings, are going to get to be there for me and my big day as well! 🙂 You have probably seen us mention Mandy & Rebekah A LOT in our blog (they kind of happen to be very important & special friends to both of us). We threw Rebekah a baby shower in October along with Mandy. It was Mandy’s wedding in February that took the two of us to Puerto Vallarata. Beth met Mandy & Rebekah in college and who knew at the initital meetings of those two awesome ladies that 9 years later we would still be friends – friends forever! The three of us have done SO MUCH together! We’ve traveled to Mexico, Dominican Republic, Canada, Vegas, and some other domestic destinations. They are two ladies that I can and do turn to for everything! Somewhere back in 2005 a tradition for the 3 of us started where we would take a picture with a green drink. It came from sharing a weird green colored drink at the Star Trek bar in the Hilton in Vegas in 2005 and then green beers for St. Patty’s day in 2006. We have kept the tradition going –
Rebekah's Wedding in 2007
Mandy's Wedding in 2011
Both of these pictures were actually used in the card I sent them and underneath them on the front of the card said “Will you help me finish the collection…” and then the inside said “…and do me the honor of being a bridesmaid in my wedding?” CanNOT wait to have a green drink picture on October 27, 2012!!
Then the weekend before Thanksgiving Beth went and found her wedding dress! 🙂 And this past Saturday all four of the ladies mentioned in this blog threw Beth & Brent an engagement party! It has been a whirlwind of a month and cannot be more thankful for these ladies!