Phil & Brandi Sawyer
Welcome!
Thanks for your interest in hearing our story. There are many who know various summarized and abridged versions of our story, but few who know it in detail – and none outside our family who know it in full. While we may not tell it in full, we at least desire to tell it in detail. For that reason, this is going to entail quite a lot of writing (and reading, if you choose to follow along). Accordingly, we’ve decided to tell our story in chapters – adding new chapters as we’re able to (hopefully weekly). This approach will hopefully make it both easier for us to write it, and easier for folks to read it. Without further ado, Chapter 1 begins below.
Chapter 6 – The Accident
Now we come to one of the darkest hours of our lives. A darkest hour that gave birth to our most defining journey - a journey that is still unfolding, and is shaping our lives in an unprecedented way. Here, for a while, Phil must tell the story alone, because Brandi...
Chapter 5 – The First Year
The Honeymoon We awoke side by side for the first time. It's a memory we'll never forget, and an experience we have yet to grow tired of. It felt too good to be true. All the life that we'd been so earnestly waiting to share together: sleeping, showering, dressing,...
Chapter 4 – First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage
With internships behind us, our dating relationship had it's official commencement in May of 2010. Now, neither of us had been in a prior relationship, nor even been on a real date. This was all-new territory. But, you know what? It came naturally! The First Date It...
Chapter 3 – Phil & Brandi
Now that you've met each of us and know a little about our lives leading up to this point, it's time to begin the unfolding tale that began when our paths crossed. As has been more or less established through the previous two chapters, we met in 2009 when Brandi moved...
Chapter 2 – Brandi
Hello, I’m Brandi Sawyer. Once upon a time, I was Brandi Watts. I wasn’t born Brandi Watts, though. My life is a testimony of God’s faithfulness that began before birth. Conceived in the womb of a lost, hurting, and single woman, my life was very nearly aborted before...
Chapter 1 – Phil
My name is Phil, and this chapter will serve as a brief introduction to my life before I met Brandi and our journey together began. I was born and raised in Virginia, living most of my childhood in rural Orange county on 26 acres that my parents purchased when I was...