St. Jude Dream Home winners see their Desert Hot Springs Home for the 1st time
A month after being notified that they won the St. Jude Dream Home, Jose Gonzalez and Mary Gonzalez of La Quinta saw their home for the first time.
"Brings chills, you know, and it's just unimaginable to win a home like this," said Jose.
The Gonzalez family walked through the doors for the first time of their new home in awe, expressing how blessed they have felt and how they cannot wait to officially move in.
The Gonzalez family knows what it’s like to shift everything for a medical hardship. Their daughter had cancer during college.
"It caused him to leave a career in the Navy," Mary said. "So to go back home and take care of her, but she's absolutely okay. She made it and she's a grown woman now and off during the great things that she does."
The five bedroom, three bath home will see its new owners move in soon. The Gonzalezes have said they are ready to give their La Quinta home to their daughter and move themselves into their Desert Hot Springs dream home.
"It's all been tremendous and kind of hard there and overwhelmed to see all this happened to us. But we always thank God for what we can do," said Mary.
Leslie Stiles, the project manager for the builder of the Dream Home GHA Companies, said her group collaborated with a number of vendors, who all donated materials and labor, to bring awareness to St. Jude’s mission.
"They have a great mission with fighting and curing children's cancer," said Stiles. "And they've done great work over the years".
