Tisha Beauchmin, a Las Vegas bingo cashier and mother of five, felt there could only be one conceivable response when her neighbour Audrey requested her and her husband Kevin to be the legal guardians of her three children. Audrey, a single mother of three, was diagnosed with esophageal and stomach cancer and was anxious for someone to look after her children. Tisha, who grew up in an orphanage, was not about to leave Audrey’s children without a place to live. As a result, the family of seven rapidly expanded to a family of ten.
Audrey needed to go to the hospital for some tests, so she asked her neighbour Tisha if her three kids could spend the night at Tisha and Kevin’s home. The couple agreed to take the kids for the night, never expecting the arrangement to last. When Audrey was diagnosed with stage 2 esophageal and stomach cancer, she requested Tisha to be the legal guardian of her children if she died from the sickness.
Tisha and Kevin volunteered to look after Audrey’s children despite having little room in their house due to their own five children. Audrey’s cancer, sadly, advanced quickly, reaching stage 4 in a few of weeks. Audrey felt she had a year to live, but she died abruptly not long after her diagnosis. Tisha and Kevin maintained their commitment to Audrey despite the fact that adding three more individuals to their family would be difficult.
They couldn’t readily accommodate a large family of ten living under the same roof. Their living accommodations were tiny, with some of the youngsters sleeping on recliners in the living room and in homemade beds crammed into whatever available area. Sadly, this provided Tisha and Kevin with an unexpected dilemma. The couple’s adoption of the kids would be denied unless the youngsters had actual bedrooms.
Elizabeth Thames, a neighbor of the two families, was aware of the Beauchmins’ living situation and determined that action was required. Unable to aid the family personally, Elizabeth submitted a letter recommending them for the Fox5 Surprise Squad. The story of how the two families came together moved the Surprise Squad, which made the decision to go to the Las Vegas residence.
She does not want them to have to go through anything she went through as a child, since children deserve to be children. They’ve gone through a lot. They deserve a loving family and a place to call home, Tisha said before showing the Surprise Squad around the residence. She can’t afford to lose these kids, and she may not have had them in her belly, but she has them in her heart, Tisha said, adding that it was her intention to keep the family of ten together forever. Fox 5 went to work after hearing her plight and discovering how the family was faring.
The crew took over the home after meeting Tisha, Kevin, and the kids at the casino where Tisha worked and telling them they were going to build a wall to make a bedroom for her sons. They did, however, do much more than merely build a wall. They extensively rebuilt the house. The Fox5 Surprise Squad completed 6 weeks of work in 4 days with the assistance of various community partners, just in time for the family to return home and witness how different their house looked.
The Beauchmins’ house was entirely renovated both inside and out in one of the Surprise Squad’s largest projects ever, providing the children with the bedroom space they needed and much more. In addition to establishing the ideal environment for each of the children, Tisha’s eldest son, Chad, was given $1500 to assist him in obtaining his own flat, something he had previously struggled to get. In addition, the family received a year’s worth of free food and a brand new automobile.
It’s just really unbelievable that someone would do this for her and her family, and Tisha expressed her appreciation. She didn’t accomplish anything really noteworthy. She did what any other person in her situation would have done, the modest mother concluded through tears. However, most people understand that this is not what everyone would have done. Tisha and Kevin went above and beyond what most neighbors would do in a time of need for another family.
The Beauchmins welcomed Audrey’s children into their hearts and homes, loving them as if they were their own, no matter how tough the task. While many neighbors are willing to lend a helping hand, few would give up their whole lives to assist another. Tisha and Kevin may not believe they accomplished anything extraordinary, but their acts of generosity and selflessness demonstrate that they are true angels who motivated people to band together and work together so that they might enjoy a well-deserved surprise.
