I’ve been trying to drink a lot more water during this pregnancy so when Soma reached out about letting me try one of their gorgeous, modern water-filtering carafes, I jumped at the chance. I’ve been so nauseated my entire pregnancy that any funny taste in my water just about sets me over the edge (I guess I should just feel lucky that my other pregnancies have been really easy, right?). The idea of super-filtered, super clean water that didn’t come from a plastic bottle sounded amazing to me.

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I first heard about Blue Apron when we lived in the city and some our friends would use the service. One of my good friends would always order a Blue Apron box when she was having house guests or if she knew it was going to be a particularly busy week at work.

We are getting the house ready for that magazine shoot, so my mom offered to take my girls up to her house in the mountains for the week so we could focus on projects.

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I’m dreaming that my house looked like this today…

I am totally obsessed with peacock blue these days.

I hope today is absolutely wonderful and that you are surrounded by loved ones and delicious food!

I used this recipe for sweet potato casserole (adapted from Allrecipes.com) last Thanksgiving and it was so good. I think it will make an appearance again today.

INGREDIENTS

• 3 large sweet potatoes, peeled, chopped, boiled and mashed
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 2 cups mini marshmallows

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

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I think I ate at Cafe Rio something like three times a week while I was at BYU.
One of the best days of my life was when I heard that Cafe Rio was opening in Arizona (when we still lived there).

Another great day? When I finally realized I could google “Cafe Rio Chicken Salad” and that a ton of recipes would come up.
It seems like a lot of work to get this all together, but trust me – it’s worth it!

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