My Dad with Grandma
Grandma's personality shining through!
One of her favorite things to do with grandchildren and great grandchildren...read to them.
This was Sawyer Family Christmas 2007
My Grandma Sawyer as gone home today to be with her Father. This is something she has been looking forward to in the last several months. I'm so excited for her that she is sitting with her Father and talking about everything He did for her and everything she did for His Kingdom in her lifetime. She was also greeted by her husband of over 50 years of marriage along with many other family members.
A while back while some of her children were working on going through her stuff at her apartment, they ran across a very special journal. Several years ago I read the Purpose Driven Life and spoke to Grandma about it. Later that same year, I found out she had decided to read it. Along with reading it, she decided to do the journal that comes with it. Her children ran onto the journal as they were sorting through things and decided that I should have it. A month ago when we were in Kansas, we visited Grandma in the hospital and I made sure to tell her the journal was with me and it wouldn't be going anywhere. She sat up and told me to hold on to that because God's word is all we've got to survive. I don't know how many of you have heard of or read the Purpose Driven Life but I thought it was fitting to share with you an insert that my Grandma Sawyer had written in her journal. It reads, "Our time on earth and our energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships and resources are all gifts from God. We are stewards of whatever God has given us. We must recognize that God is the owner of everything and everyone on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we are here. You just get to enjoy it for a while. The more God gives you, the more responsible He expects you to be. At the end of our life on earth, we will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well we handled what God entrusted to us. This world is not my home-I'm only passing through-these words are part of a song I have known most of my life. My identity is in eternity and my homeland is heaven."
A day in the life of Avery...building the biggest tower she can with the blocks we've got, making cheesy faces, laughing at everything and then knocking down the biggest tower. Avery loves building with our blocks. And it's very good at it if I don't say so myself. While she builds with all of these blocks she talks to them, me and herself the entire time. Most of the time cracking herself up. Avery is such a ham. I feel sorry for her first teacher because she is going to try and be the class clown. 
This is our dog, Sport. We aren't forsure that he realizes he's just a dog because he enjoys spending time in window seals and sliding under our fence in the backyard. He's a great dog with A LOT of character and energy. Sport is great with our kids and loves on them when he's not running around the house like a mad man. Sport is also as smart as a whip. Tripp has been able to teach him many tricks including to sign please when he wants to eat one of Tripp's grapes or peaches. That's right folks...our dog is a healthy eater. ;-) We don't know forsure where the eating of fruits came from but as soon as Tripp pulls them out of the refridgerator Sport starts to whine and comes and sits on the couch where he knows Tripp is heading to eat. We are so glad Santa brought Sport into our lives last Christmas. At first we thought Santa was crazy, but now we wouldn't know what to do without our Sport.
During our trip we had some fun with hats!!!
