LINCOLNTON -- Ty Pennington and his gang from "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" are back in North Carolina.

On Friday, December 9 they pounced on the Friday family of Lincolnton while they were shopping at a Christmas tree farm Sunday.

Congratulations, they were told. In a week, you'll have a new house, compliments of the ABC network show and volunteer donations from the community.

Devona Friday and her husband, James, have served as foster parents to more than 30 children over the years. When she worked as a police officer, she saw the effects of child abuse and wanted to become a foster parent to provide stable situations for kids in need, she said Sunday.

In May 2010, a teenager named Chris was placed with the Fridays and their three children. On his first night, Chris showed the Fridays a video of his four brothers and sisters, separated in the foster-care system. He asked whether the Fridays would consider taking them in, too, so they could live as a family again.

"There was never a question we'd take in the whole sibling group," said James Friday, 39, an inspector for a fiber optic company. "We made Chris that promise."

But authorities said the Fridays' three-bedroom ranch home at 105 Moore St., which they bought in 2005, was too small for all of them. So they sold their van to help with expenses and renovated their carport to put in two additional bedrooms. In April 2011, they got approval to adopt all five of the children.

"We've sacrificed a great deal, but because of God we've never been in need," James Friday said.

Someone unknown to the Fridays nominated them for the show and they were interviewed by producers. In recent weeks, they had been told that location scouts would be checking out their property at certain times and they could not be home then.

Neighbors were told someone nearby might be featured on the program and to expect a week's worth of disruption.

By midday Sunday, production trailers and construction equipment clogged the neighborhood, power generators growled and the "Makeover" bus was being taped pulling up with the family.

Sunday night, the Friday family departed to Jamaica, where they will stay in a resort until they return and get to see their new home on Saturday.

Frank Hereda and Wade Miller, co-owners of Bellamy Homes and the lead contractors on the project, said the new two-story home will have eight bedrooms and about 4,000 feet of heated space, more than double the existing home.

Still, they said it should fit with the scale of the neighborhood, mostly brick ranch homes built in the 1990s.

When the old house is knocked down, Miller said, they hope to save materials like bricks that can be recycled into new projects.

The goal is to finish the project late Thursday or Friday (December 15 or 16). The move-that-bus ceremony will be Saturday (December 17), no matter what.

It will be a year until the program featuring the Lincolnton project will be seen, as it will be airing as the series' two-hour Christmas special in 2012.

Earlier this year, the team filmed and built a home for a family in Fayetteville.  The Fayetteville project served as the season 10 premiere for the show and included a visit by First Lady Michelle Obama. 

For both projects, a total of 170 jobs have been created with a direct-spend within the state in excess of $1.7 million.