Neighbors in the town of Westlake came together to turn one North Texas family’s front yard into a winter wonderland, all for a very deserving little boy.
Sawyer Davidson, 8-years-old on Monday, has been battling a rare form of brain cancer called medulloblastoma for the last 16 months. Recently, doctors told his parents Kim and John Davidson that Sawyer likely has weeks, maybe days to live.
Through all of the chemotherapy and radiation, Kim Davidson said Sawyer has never once complained.
“Not one complaint,” she said. “His only comment to me was last week, ‘Why do I have to have cancer? I’m just a kid.’”
A kid who loves Christmas lights.
The Davidson’s had bought lights to put up, but between hospitals and treatments, they just didn’t have the time. So neighbors on their street decided to do the decorating for them.
The neighbors pooled their money together and called a Plano-based company named Year-Round Christmas Lights to see what possibly could be done.
Stefanie Wacker, who works at the business that is in the middle of its busiest time of the year, happened to answer the phone.
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“You get so caught up in your 12-hour days and getting stuff done, and then you get a call like that and you stop in your tracks and you realize what’s important,” Wacker said.
So Wacker rallied the troops on Sunday, their only day off – even getting one of the bosses to dress up like Santa Claus – to come and deck out the Davidsons’ front yard full of twinkling Christmas lights for Sawyer.
The gesture brought tears to mom Kim’s eyes – and put a smile on Sawyer’s face.
“We spend our time in the house now, he’s on hospice care,” Kim Davidson said. “So we’re going to look out every night and see the beautiful lights.”
Ten thousand lights are strung on more than 30 trees, bringing a little light to the family’s darkest hours.
