Insta{LOVE} Weekend Recap

Howdy! I hope that nobody stroked out from the heat this past weekend. I think we officially broke a record here on Saturday and made it to 105. With 90% humidity that just feels like sweaty death. Luckily, I was at the lake so I kept myself in the water! 

First item of business for the day is that I'm guest posting today for Megan at Second Floor Living. Megan lives in South Africa - how awesome is that?? That's just one of the reasons I love her though. She's started this really neat series for the summer called Owning Your City. I'm over there today talking about how I own Knoxville. Well, not really, but I'm giving some cool insider tips about what you should check out if you visit here. My personal favs. Check out my post and be sure to support her series all summer long!

My weekend was awesome! Skye was off, and he has taken several weekends off this summer so we could spend more lake time together. I am going to be spoiled by this and probably will cry the next full weekend he has to work. We got to spend time with old friends who we don't get to see very often and watch fireworks to celebrate America. The 4th of July is probably my favorite holiday. I love the summer time, the cookouts, all the patriotic talk and of course the fireworks! We used to have a big 4th of July party at our house every year. We would shoot off our own fireworks (yes we are rednecks) and a friend of ours has even been known to stick bottle rockets in his butt cheeks and fire them off (if that doesn't say redneck then I don't know what does!). I wish I had a picture to show you of that, but sadly I don't. It was so much fun! This will be the 2nd year in a row that we have not had the party - makes me sad!

I digress... Ready for my weekend recap in pictures??? Of course you are! Who isn't ready to see more pictures of the lake that I am always blabbing about? If you follow me on Instagram {nikkib918} then you already saw most of these lovelies. If you don't follow me on Instagram then get with it! :)

My boo -Yes, I know his cop mustache is out of control. I have tried time and time again to rebel againist it, but I'm losing that battle.

My beautiful friend Casey - I think the appropriate caption here is "We're just like you, only prettier" Thank you Miranda Lambert for providing me with such a fitting caption.

Before the fireworks

I love the gold ones!

My best friend (& soon to be maid of honor) was in town from Nashville! LOVE her and miss her so much!

Bless my little red faced heart! The sun beat me up! And yes, those are drunk eyes.

I hope you all had a great weekend too! Is everyone off for the 4th on Wednesday? I'm off but Skye has to work so if you have a pool and would like to invite me over then go right ahead! (Also, for some reason my spell check isn't working in Blogger today so please forgive any horribly misspelled words.)