EAGLE, ID (CBS2) — A local family is still in disbelief after winning a new home in Avimor through a raffle last year. Derrick and Kelly Tovey, who have lived in their new home since January, shared their journey from purchasing raffle tickets to moving into their dream house.
“I told her about it, I didn’t know initially that she had bought tickets,” Derrick said. Kelly added, “We bought ten tickets.”
The couple often drove around the Avimor area, dreaming of living there. “I wanted to come up here probably about a year before we won the house,” Derrick said. Kelly recalled, “Oh, we kept driving up here, he’s like, did I show you the house they’re auctioning off at the Toys for Tots? and I go no, I haven’t seen it yet — so we drive by — I’m thinking that’s cool… you know, never thinking that it could ever happen to us…”
Their dream became a reality on New Year’s Day when Kelly received a call she initially thought was spam. “I thought it was a spam, until I got a couple emails and then I ran and told him about it and started jumping up and down… it really hit us when they wanted to interview us that we won — that’s when we realized it was a sure thing… seventeen days later we were all moved in,” Kelly said…