Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

From the Youngest Daughter :)

Well, here's the promised post! This was from the second night of work, I believe. As you can see, they were working on the basement. 

 It was so exciting! It was nighttime, but the floodlights made it very bright. And everywhere we looked were machines, all of them rumbling and beeping, and people wearing blue t-shirts and white hard hats.

Security was everywhere!

 Caution tape, too. :)
By the third night they were finishing the floor, putting in studs and stuff. Everything was on ground level. TWENTY FOUR HOURS later, EVERY wall was up and they were shingling the house! I kid you not. It was bananas. I heard someone say that the crew did a month of work every day in order to get it done in a week (!).
The next pictures were from the day they revealed the house! There were THOUSANDS of people. As you can see, some resorted to standing on roofs to get a good veiw. :)

 The boy in the wheelchair and blue shirt is from the family who got the house.

The director (in the straw cowboy hat) would jump up and down and wave with his assistant every time he wanted the crowd to cheer. The crowd was *ahem* VERY obliging.  Oof. Loud. :-D

 It's Ty Pennington and the family!!!!
Btw, at this point I was on my brothers back taking pictures. It was the only way to see ANYTHING! There were at least four or five solid rows of people in front of us. Before I got on his back, I couldn't even see the house because of all the people. Sheesh.

 Going in to see the house! As soon as the mother of the family (in black) walked in, she put her hands over her mouth and took a few steps back out! And then she just stood there, staring. It was so cool! :-D   

                       

See what I mean about all the people?! 

Afterwards there was so much traffic it was ridiculous. Not that I minded or anything. :) It was soooo fabulous to see the whole thing! I LOVED it. A lot. :)