Spending two weeks away for Thanksgiving was really nice. It's great to be back in Minneapolis, though. I never realized how quickly Rob and I would just fall into life here, or how much it would feel like home in just four months. The snowy city was a wonderful site from my airplane window last night, especially after three and a half hours of delays.

Just taking a moment today to pause and say hi from Virginia in something other than a pre-scheduled post. I got in on Thursday afternoon and my schedule has been jam-packed since I landed in Roanoke. I'll be here until December 4th, doing some wedding things, seeing so many friends, working out at CrossFit with my mom, loving on my sweet dog, and cooking for Thanksgiving.

On Friday night, my brother and I watched Les Miserables after dinner and then this weekend I had two of my college roommates over for a reunion sleepover. It's been a really fun few days. Feel free to follow along with me on Instagram if you're interested!

I hope you're all having a great week--Thanksgiving is just around the corner!

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday--mostly because of the food--so it was not without a bit of anxiety that I experienced my first Paleo Thanksgiving a few years ago. My mom has always done a fantastic job coming up with Paleo-friendly Thanksgiving alternatives, so this year I used her as inspiration when Relay Foods asked me to make them a Paleo Thanksgiving-themed dish. It's full of sweet potatoes and sausage and love.

Happy Thanksgiving! I love this holiday so much; I think it might even be my favorite.

My best friend Patrick comes home with his fiance, Chad, and Rob comes home, and my cousin Brendan comes to visit, and Sean is always already home for break (oh, college!). We eat all weekend long and we make delicious cocktails and in the morning we run the Thanksgiving 5K downtown before heading back home to do more eating and cocktail drinking.

Anyway, I wrote a piece about Thanksgiving for The Equals Record and I hope you might read it right here.

On this Monday morning of Thanksgiving week, in which I am extra sleepy from getting home too late from New York last night and falling, exhausted, into bed without so much as editing a photo, I thought I would make a list of things which make me feel grateful.

One cousin, one brother, one boyfriend, two parents, two neighbors, two dogs, three different cocktails, a three point one mile race, twenty-five pounds of turkey and more food than we knew what to do with. It doesn't get much better than that.