Thursday night will be the first night Renee Wilson and her four grandchildren spend in their new "Extreme Makeover" home: a house nearly eight times bigger than the trailer the family shared for more than two years.
Renee Wilson, surrounded by her four grandchildren and other relatives and friends, wept, giggled and praised God on Sunday night from the sofa of her new home while watching "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."
It was a day of more gift-giving for the Wilson family, who spent Friday doing wrap-up interviews and shooting scenes inside their new home with the production crew of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."
Overcome with emotion upon seeing her new house for the first time, Renee Wilson embraced Ty Pennington of "Extreme Makeover" and then bolted 15 feet down a rain-soaked dirt road before collapsing to her knees.
A small white tent across the road from Renee Wilson's new house was the hot spot for tired, sore construction workers and volunteers Tuesday.
Neither bone-chilling wind gusts nor frigid temperatures Monday could keep spectators away or hamper work on Renee Wilson's house.
Seival Goings nearly has a front-row seat of the action unfolding on the set of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."
Germaine Hill fought back tears as a track hoe, gripping a giant fabricated golf club made of a telephone pole and metal head, ripped through her sister's mobile home, flattening it and nearby storage sheds in less than 10 minutes.
The sharp smell of freshly cut wild onions and the aroma of turned earth permeated the air around the set of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" on Friday as workers smoothed the land for new construction.
Renee Wilson never believed "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and the show's star, Ty Pennington, would one day show up on her doorstep.
