Weekend Update {InstaLOVE}

Y'all it's Monday again...boooo hissss! I hope you guys had a loverly weekend and you're ready to tackle this work week. I have an terribly insanely busy week at work but I will try my best to stay connected. Especially since all next week I will be out of town (for work, not pleasure) and you will be hearing from some lovely guest bloggers.

For now let's focus on my awesomely relaxing weekend - You can find me  here on Instagram and keep up or just search me by {nikkib918}.

Can I just go ahead and tell you that the best part of my weekend was the discovery of 2nd day hair?? OH MY GOSH WHERE HAVE I BEEN?? How did I never know the baby powder on greasy roots trick before now? My mom failed me by not teaching me this when I was in high school! I've been washing my hair every.single.day for my whole life. 2nd day hair is amazing, I'm kind of obsessed with it now. I ALMOST attempted 3rd day hair today, but decided I'm not that brave yet. I'll save that for a weekend. Thank you all who gave me great hair advice last week! I can't wait to try all them all!

Goals for this week: get my workout on at least 3x, eat clean, only wash my hair every other day, cook dinner every single night, keep it all together despite my insane work week.

My stylist gave me this Biolage conditioning treatment back in June & I hadn't used it. Used it Saturday - love it!

Me & this lazy bum took a 3 hour nap Saturday - ahh so refreshing!

Thanks to all your awesome advice last week on my how to fix damaged hair post, I attempted 2nd day hair for the first time ever. LOVE it! #babypowderup

It came hell & high water yesterday evening when I had to run errands with my 2nd day hair, but it managed to stay in tact. #winning!

My Sunday night ended with more cuddle time with this cute lil furry face. She's mama's best pal when daddy's at work.

Friday's Letters

Dear readers - thank you guys so much for your love and support on my Wedding Wednesday post! You're SOOOOO sweet to me! And thanks for the hair advice yesterday too! Dear hashtags -{#letsdothedamnthang} I sometimes forget that I'm not on twitter when I'm blogging. Oops! If you like ridiculously made up hashtags then you need to follow me on Twitter and we can do the damn thang togetha. Dear Dad - Hope you enjoyed celebrating your birthday yesterday in Jamaica! I miss you! Thanks for supplying me with this view while I was dog sitting for you.

view from my dad's front porch

Dear Google Chat or LinkUp or whatever you're called - thank you for making it possible for me to chat with my bloggy BFFs last night! My first blate! We came across 4 different time zones and made it work! We had a hott virtual date and it was SO MUCH FUN! I think we will make this a regular occurrence. I heart Taylor, Brie, Suzanne, Lauren & Sarah!

Dear everybody - Tilly says heeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyy girlzzz!

How to Fix Damaged Hair

In the summer my the ends of my hair get reeeeally tired of me bleaching them, ponytailing them, keeping them in the sun, etc. They start looking brittle and hay-like - not to mention frizzy. I have been using the Moroccan Argan Oil Penetrating Oil, which has helped. But I think maybe I am in desperate need of a deep conditioner! For about 2 weeks I have been using as little heat on my hair as I can possibly get away it. I'm only blowing it dry on weekdays when I have to work and letting it air dry on weekends. No flat iron or curling irons at all.

I apologize for the horrible quality of these pictures - they are with my iPhone. Plus, it's near impossible to snap a shot of the back of your head.

As you can see though, my ends are icky. I'm definitely trying to keep my length and I usually only get a trim every other time I get my hair colored. The texture of my hair is fine. I want it to GROOOOOOOOOW and be super long but it's just stuck at this blah phase. I've thought about taking Biotin, but I don't want to deal with a possible face breakout side effect. I have enough of that going on already.

So tell me, what are your tricks for keeping your hair healthy??

Wedding Wednesday!

Business first -My lovely little Brie from Sophistifunk is hosting a pretty awesome giveaway! Go enter that and then come back here to read my first (of probably many) Wedding Wednesday posts! I will wait, go ahead...

Oh, and by the way isn't she so sophistifunky? You can't help but just adore her!

Now on with the show...
My first Wedding Wednesday post! EEK! I feel like I am officially actually legitimately in real life going to be married now that I have booked our venue (and of course because I'm doing a Wedding Wednesday post)! It's quite exciting!

Without further adieu, I present to you Nikki & Skye's wedding venue -- Sequoyah Marina in Norris, TN. AKA our home away from home, our boat dock.

Originally, before I was ever presented with 10 million other options we wanted something on the water. We are water people, we both grew up on the lake, we spend lots and lots of hours here and it's what we love - so it made sense. We want to live here someday, hopefully in the not so distant future. So I ended up finding out perfect wedding place smack dab under my nose.

We will do our actual ceremony outside on the dock. This will not be open to the public so nobody will be walking around the dock photobombing us.

Then we will proceed upstairs for the party reception! A girl I went to high school with recently got married here, and here are a few of my favorite shots from her wedding. This is where we keep our boat so I hope we can get a boat getaway shot like they did! Love it! She and I are having lunch next week to discuss everything she loved and wanted to change about her wedding so maybe I can learn from her.



Source: These photos courtesy of KB Photography

Now I feel like the real wedding planning, the fun detailed stuff, can begin. I feel so relieved now that this part is finalized. So what do you guys think? It fits us, or what you know of us, right?

283 Days until Nikki & Skye Get Hitched!