Labor Day Weekend

We had a fun Labor Day weekend here at the Leuschke House.

On Friday, our friend B came in to town to stay with her husband N, who stays with us while he's on reserve in MSP.  It was her "mom-cation" or first time away from her daughter M (6m) and son L (4y).  When I called her on my way to the liquor store, her immediate response was "wine, red".

The next morning (Saturday), we had friends over for football.  Most of James' hawkeye gear pictures are on a previous post, but here is one of Patric and James:

I love my Daddy and I love the Hawkeyes!

However, the KU gear didn't go over as well...

But I don't like the crimson and blue!

Okay, as long as we add a green binkie to the mix.  PS  - we may need a bigger size for basketball season :)

Sunday was uneventful, but Monday Patric took us to a local RC (remote control) flying field in Shakopee so he could fly his model airplanes.  It was nice to watch him working on his hobby, and it was a gorgeous day to be outside.  However, I must comment on some of the other flyers.  These two older gentleman were flying, and it's common courtesy to yell out when you are taking off or landing, so that's what I thought these guys were doing, but upon paying more attention, I realized they were doing military commentary while flying.  At one point, the first guy was doing one of those almost landing where the plane just touches the landing strip and then takes-off again and the other guy called "I'll fly cover for you!" and he flew about 10 feet over the first airplane.  I kinda stared in disbelief at them but then realized they'd probably been doing this for several years and were enjoying re-living their past military experiences.  And then I laughed because it was kind of cute.  Here are some pics of Patric, plane, and James.

Then late on Monday, we had to change outfits, so we figured we'd see if James favored any other countries besides the US:

Hm, I'm not sure yet...

YES!  I do like Australia :)  Thanks Braz!