The Extreme Team made their way to Columbus, Ohio to build a home for a deserving family! I wanted to badly, for years, to be apart of it. When I found out that they were headed this way in August I told Tommy that I knew what I wanted for my birthday!!!
They chose the Rhodes family on Dewey Ave at 71 & 5th Ave. "Emergency brain surgery last year saved Mikia Rhodes but forced the mother of four to move her family in with her parents. This year, the home of James and Jackie Rhodes — in a neglected East Side neighborhood — will undergo a radical procedure of its own.".
Columbus Dispatch - Aug 5th 2011
~The Rhodes~
Daddy, Me, Tommy and my friend Angie all went together. Daddy was sweet enough to drive as all after have a midnight breakfast - best scrambled eggs ever, carrot cake cupcakes and fruit! We needed it because our shift was from 2am - 8am (had to sign in at 1am)! Yea, you heard it right! This is us right before getting on the bus after signing in! See the tent?
~The boys are thrilled to be up this early!~
The team in charge would not let us keep our tags around our necks so I took a photo of it on the bus. No, not the EMHE Bus but the Shuttle bus that took us back and forth from the parking lot to job site.
Angie took this photo first and I just had to copy her - PROOF that we were up and rolling at 1am! LOL!
So we get the site only to find out that we got red t-shirts in stead of blue t-shirts because "our home" is the EMHE Christmas Episode! Ok, see if you can get this! We meet one of the building coordinators and she says I need two volunteers (one guy, one girl with a cell phone) to go stand guard of the lawn ornaments! What? Yep! The kids from the community center (that the family helps out) got to go shopping and buy Christmas decorations and decorate houses - for part of the Holiday themed episode. Guess what Tommy and I did?
I guess some kids were messing with them and trying to steal them so they needed some volunteers to guard this one and many more!
~Me&T~
Side view of the house around 7am or so. It's so much larger than the old house - as they always are! We DID get to go in after guarding the lawn decorations for 2 hours (we really wish we had brought UNO or something). Anyway, the house has an upstairs laundry room, 5 bedrooms, a patio on top of the garage, a two story living room and a large basement with two additional bedrooms! When we were leaving they were getting ready to paint. Since the four of us helped carry paint to all the designated areas we know what colors the inside will be! Let's just say if the furniture matches it is going to be one happy house!
We did a lot more than carry paint and stand guard. Daddy cleaned floors, we all carried waters and other drinks to the construction workers, constantly picked up trash and scraps! We sweated the whole time we were in the house! We'd get covered in sweat, dust and drywall, clean off our faces with our shirts, go back in and five minutes later we'd be dirty again. I also could not believe how hot it was inside. I guess I can considering that there were 35 people on the main floor at any one time. Going up and down the stairs, dodging laders, men and nail guns was interesting as well. But, the men sure were happy when we asked, "Water, Gatoraide, or Pepsi?".
One of the security officers took a photo of us at 8am before we left! I am so glad that our shirts came clean after a wash!
The bus ride from the job site to the parking lot was literally an 8 minute ride! Poor baby - So Tired! I love him in his shirt, so cute!
The 941-square-foot structure got turned into 4,000 plus home! This is stage that the house was in when we were working, right before paint and laying the floors!
As the bus rolled into town on Wednesday I was babysitting and not able to see the celebrities and reaction from the family. I CAN NOT WAIT to see the episode air in December. They even decorated the house with Christmas bulbs, bows around the windows and Christmas wreaths. They even had 50 Santas there for revil day!
There were no EMHE camera men filming while were were there so we will not make the show but I can't wait to see the reaction of the family!!!
They chose the Rhodes family on Dewey Ave at 71 & 5th Ave. "Emergency brain surgery last year saved Mikia Rhodes but forced the mother of four to move her family in with her parents. This year, the home of James and Jackie Rhodes — in a neglected East Side neighborhood — will undergo a radical procedure of its own.".Columbus Dispatch - Aug 5th 2011
~The Rhodes~
Daddy, Me, Tommy and my friend Angie all went together. Daddy was sweet enough to drive as all after have a midnight breakfast - best scrambled eggs ever, carrot cake cupcakes and fruit! We needed it because our shift was from 2am - 8am (had to sign in at 1am)! Yea, you heard it right! This is us right before getting on the bus after signing in! See the tent?
~The boys are thrilled to be up this early!~
The team in charge would not let us keep our tags around our necks so I took a photo of it on the bus. No, not the EMHE Bus but the Shuttle bus that took us back and forth from the parking lot to job site.
Angie took this photo first and I just had to copy her - PROOF that we were up and rolling at 1am! LOL!
So we get the site only to find out that we got red t-shirts in stead of blue t-shirts because "our home" is the EMHE Christmas Episode! Ok, see if you can get this! We meet one of the building coordinators and she says I need two volunteers (one guy, one girl with a cell phone) to go stand guard of the lawn ornaments! What? Yep! The kids from the community center (that the family helps out) got to go shopping and buy Christmas decorations and decorate houses - for part of the Holiday themed episode. Guess what Tommy and I did?
I guess some kids were messing with them and trying to steal them so they needed some volunteers to guard this one and many more!
~Me&T~
Side view of the house around 7am or so. It's so much larger than the old house - as they always are! We DID get to go in after guarding the lawn decorations for 2 hours (we really wish we had brought UNO or something). Anyway, the house has an upstairs laundry room, 5 bedrooms, a patio on top of the garage, a two story living room and a large basement with two additional bedrooms! When we were leaving they were getting ready to paint. Since the four of us helped carry paint to all the designated areas we know what colors the inside will be! Let's just say if the furniture matches it is going to be one happy house!
We did a lot more than carry paint and stand guard. Daddy cleaned floors, we all carried waters and other drinks to the construction workers, constantly picked up trash and scraps! We sweated the whole time we were in the house! We'd get covered in sweat, dust and drywall, clean off our faces with our shirts, go back in and five minutes later we'd be dirty again. I also could not believe how hot it was inside. I guess I can considering that there were 35 people on the main floor at any one time. Going up and down the stairs, dodging laders, men and nail guns was interesting as well. But, the men sure were happy when we asked, "Water, Gatoraide, or Pepsi?".
One of the security officers took a photo of us at 8am before we left! I am so glad that our shirts came clean after a wash!
The bus ride from the job site to the parking lot was literally an 8 minute ride! Poor baby - So Tired! I love him in his shirt, so cute!
The 941-square-foot structure got turned into 4,000 plus home! This is stage that the house was in when we were working, right before paint and laying the floors!
As the bus rolled into town on Wednesday I was babysitting and not able to see the celebrities and reaction from the family. I CAN NOT WAIT to see the episode air in December. They even decorated the house with Christmas bulbs, bows around the windows and Christmas wreaths. They even had 50 Santas there for revil day!
There were no EMHE camera men filming while were were there so we will not make the show but I can't wait to see the reaction of the family!!!
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