"It was awesome," said a very satisfied Batista regarding the home's transformation. "Having come from a humble background, I've been very fortunate in life, so being able to put a smile on somebody else's face, contribute something for a family who has had it rough…it feels so good."
Team leader Ty Pennington sent the Noyola family packing on a week-long vacation last November so that the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition design team—joined by builder Norcon Inc. and more than 500 construction workers—could spend the next seven days completely revamping a structurally unsound, rodent-infested brick house. The home had been purchased several months earlier by Geno and Melinda Noyola, active community volunteers who had spent the previous eight years raising their six children in his grandmother's attic.



