I thought I’d share a few photos of our weekend. I wasn’t inspired to try to make these beautiful, so you just get ‘real life’ here.
Above: what Levi did/does instead of emptying the dishwasher.
Below: Russ took the boys to our hole-in-the-wall, local, rural, red-neck diner for breakfast on Saturday morning.
Now that I look at the pictures, I can’t believe we eat here. Hmmm. Maybe this is why I didn’t tag along this weekend.
They do have delicious, HUGE pancakes, though.
Yard work. Lots. With little helpers. 
And this is what happens when you make two loaves of banana bread and then leave them on the counter to cool while you work outside and little boys come and go:
Unfortunately, my whole house looked like that by the end of Saturday. Sigh.