Hampton family extreme makeover home edition

After a two-hour rain delay, the family got its "wake-up call" from ABC show host Ty Pennington just before 11 a. Both parents say the reality hasn't yet sunk in: The family is vacating their one-bedroom home, where the three girls sleep in bunk beds in the former utility closet and the boys bunk in the dining room, for more spacious digs. The plan now is for the team from Millstone Custom Homes and hundreds of local construction workers and volunteers - an estimated 3, during the course of the project - to transform the site in less than a week.

Day 2 - Wednesday, July 15 The hectic pace and excitement of the first day of shooting at the Ash Grove site was matched on Day 2 by the waiting and anticipation. The show's producers decided to demolish the home in the manner best suited for the job.

They blew it up. It could have been done the old-fashioned way with wrecking balls and bulldozers, but they chose dynamite. This is, after all, television. Photographers and videographers were set up just across the street to capture the moments - until the show's director approached us. We were informed that once the crew was ready to start wiring the home, everyone would be moved back feet for safety.

We were free to leave our video cameras closer to the house, but no guarantees for their survival. The demolition actually happened in three phases - a small shed went first followed by a barn and then the home. Even the hardened show staff, staying behind its foot safety barrier with the rest of the spectators and media, was surprised by the power of the blasts.

Day 3 - Thursday, July 16 What a difference a day makes. At midafternoon July 15, the old one-bedroom house of Chris and Niki Hampton was still standing, and the family's barn had just been demolished. By midafternoon today, the foundation for the new home is down, concrete is set and walls are going up. The site has transformed from an atmosphere of waiting and anticipation to a beehive of activity - volunteers in blue shirts scurrying back and forth, hammering walls, guiding beams into place and looking for more to do.

Workers from hundreds of companies and organizations that have donated time, materials and services trudged on through some rain. Day 4 - Friday, July 17 Amazing. That's the word volunteers at the site kept using today. They're amazed at the speed with which the home has seemingly sprung from the dirt.

Editorial video. The original family of four doubled in size not long ago after a fateful phone call from a social services agency. Chris and Niki Hampton were told they had just one hour to decide if they would take in their four nieces and nephews or let them go to foster care.

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The show built Devonda and James Friday a new 8-bedroom, 3,square-foot house in December , and the episode aired a year later. All five children took on Friday as their last name. The family converted an unheated carport into a home for the siblings and implored Extreme Makeover to help them. Some 3, volunteers turned up to help transform the house, according to a press release at the time. I loved them like they were my real parents.

How can they get [into] that much trouble where they have to kick them out? Chris and Kamaya allege their adoptions were motivated by money, and as a hook to get on the show. Chris says he was sent to a group home because of a bad attitude a few months after recording the show, but Devonda and James said it was temporary.