September

Both Phil and I celebrated our birthdays this month and I was not too thrilled about turning 30, but I got over it.

We visited our family in Salt Lake City over Labor Day weekend. It always feels like too short of a visit since there are so many family members, and so little time! We had fun meeting up with some of our family at Hogle Zoo and having a bbq at Jenny and Dan's new house.

Here are some pictures from the trip. All the pictures were taken by Dad Johnson. Phil got me this really nice camera for my birthday, but I didn't remember to put the memory card in before taking it to SLC.

It was a great way to see all the kids and check out all the animals too.

The guys went out to play golf after the zoo.

The next day, we got to visit Jen and Dan's brand new house. You can't see through the big window, but if you could, you would see the golf course.
We had a bbq dinner and celebrated our birthdays.

We came back to Denver to find out that Gator had struggled a little bit again while we were gone. He apparently started to have bloody diarrhea at his babysitter's house. My co-worker told me to give him some canned pumpkin and that really did the trick. No vet visit this time. Yeah!
This is happy Gator, chewing on his raw hide. Can you see the little dry red spot on the top of his nose? We think he might have been dehydrated while we were gone. It took about two weeks for this spot to completely disappear.

Every Saturday, we faithfully wore our Gator prefernalia and cheered for the Gator's victory. Everywhere we went, we attracted Gator fans. We are very surprised to see so many Gator fans are here in Denver.

We also had our first snow this month. It started to rain early in the morning and then turned into snow flurries by mid morning. I called my parents to tell them of this strange phenomenon that I had never encountered before. Snow in September? no way.

Last, of the three series of golf tournaments, was held in September. Troy was able to fly out to play on our scramble team. The tournament was held at my favorite golf course, the Ridge at Castle Pines.

We played really well and came in at 11 under par, but still could not bring home the trophy.

We found out that there was a Dachshund race at the October Fest in our neighborhood. We got our kiddies all dressed up in matching outfits, but when we got there, they told us that they took the last participant's registration right before us. We were very disappointed on not being able to do the race, but we watched and took mental notes to prepare us for next year's event.


Phil celebrated his birthday on the 26th. We went to one of our newest favorite restaurants called, J. Alexanders. To this day, Phil would say that he had the best steak ever on his birthday.

We leave you with a picture of our cutest little kiddies. I wonder if they really are that cute, or it's because they are ours?