"I'd had a couple of drinks, but I was not intoxicated."
I've always found that when people pull the "I wasn't drunk/intoxicated" but preface it with, "I had a couple of drinks" that "a couple" is usually more than a 2-3 and more often then not they were drunk.
Also in that family portrait her one son looks like a sad version of a combination of young Johnathon Taylor Thomas and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (from around his Angels in the Outfield days).