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LEXINGTON, N.C. -
After a week-long vacation in Disney World, the Creasey family finally gets to move into their new home.
ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition unveiled the new house to the family Tuesday, Nov. 17. The family spent Wednesday moving into their new home.
Show host Ty Pennington, his team of designers, a local contractor and about a thousand volunteers began working on the Creaseys' Allred St. home Wednesday morning. They first destroyed the old home and rebuilt it on the same plot of land.
The community had more gifts for the family Wednesday, including free food, cable and homeowners insurance for a year. The girls were most excited by tickets to see a Miley Cyrus concert at Greensboro Coliseum. Local colleges also visited the family Thursday to present scholarships to the Creasey's three girls.
The Creaseys were selected for the show, in part, because Tricia Creasey, a seventh-grade teacher, was diagnosed with colon cancer three years ago and refused to stop teaching while undergoing chemotherapy and surgery. She receives weekly treatments that cost the family $1,400 a month after insurance.
The Creaseys bought their house as a fixer-upper, but didn't have the time or money for the necessary repairs.
The house had only one bathroom and numerous structural problems, including holes in the floor, cracks in the foundation, lack of insulation and extensive water damage from a leaking roof.
ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition unveiled the new house to the family Tuesday, Nov. 17. The family spent Wednesday moving into their new home.
Show host Ty Pennington, his team of designers, a local contractor and about a thousand volunteers began working on the Creaseys' Allred St. home Wednesday morning. They first destroyed the old home and rebuilt it on the same plot of land.
The community had more gifts for the family Wednesday, including free food, cable and homeowners insurance for a year. The girls were most excited by tickets to see a Miley Cyrus concert at Greensboro Coliseum. Local colleges also visited the family Thursday to present scholarships to the Creasey's three girls.
The Creaseys were selected for the show, in part, because Tricia Creasey, a seventh-grade teacher, was diagnosed with colon cancer three years ago and refused to stop teaching while undergoing chemotherapy and surgery. She receives weekly treatments that cost the family $1,400 a month after insurance.
The Creaseys bought their house as a fixer-upper, but didn't have the time or money for the necessary repairs.
The house had only one bathroom and numerous structural problems, including holes in the floor, cracks in the foundation, lack of insulation and extensive water damage from a leaking roof.
