Extreme Home Makeover Edition In Toledo

We have some excitement going on in Toledo these days. EHME is building a house in Toledo, just over the border. It is actually 2 miles from my Forest Valley house. My friend, Lisa, and I went there last night. Her grandmother lives on the street behind the house and we parked there and walked over to the neighbors and saw the back of the house. We were told we couldn't get in the front, so don't even bother. Lisa's sister lives a block over and hears them working all night long. A good friend of Lisa's, Dan, is on the crew that is building the house. He is in the pictures below. Behind Dan you can see all the people working on the garage (if you haven't figured it out Lisa knows most of Toledo and southeast Michigan - she is related to half of them :) The garage was nothing when we got there and almost done when we left. They said one hour on these houses is like one week on a regular building site. In the pictures is the house, the memorial pond, Dan, Lisa and I, and Lisa's Mom (Diana) and Aunt Kathy all with Dan. If you want to learn more about the house you can go to www.13ABC.com in Toledo and they have regular updates of the contruction site on the website. The Frisch family is in Florida (Disney) right now. The Dad is a Toledo fireman and they have 11 boys, 3 natural and 8 adopted. Most of the adopted boys are from Haiti. I was talking to a friend of mine at the site last night and she goes to church with the Frischs. She told me that they also have a foster daughter but they can't talk about her on the show because she isn't adopted yet and there are legal issues. They also have an adult adopted daughter that doesn't live at home anymore. It helps to know people to get the whole story. The house will be revealed on Sunday and it will be on the show in November. It was exciting to see. I'd love to be there for the "Move That Bus!" but I don't know how to get tickets for it. We have Dan checking into it but he doesn't have a clue either. I think it is an elite group that will be there for that one. Maybe we can be in the backyard for it like we were yesterday. At least we can see some of it.