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A photo of the Stockdale family hangs over the family piano - just one of two items brought from their old home into the new Extreme Makeover home

MIDDLETON - It has been more than four months since Extreme Makeover: Home Edition swooped in and built a new home for Ryan and Karia Stockdale and their family in Middleton.

The episode featuring their home recently aired. Now, for the first time since the reveal - our cameras were allowed inside.

The Stockdales say not only has the makeover been extreme for their home - but for their lives as well.

For them – it is what dreams are truly made of.

For Ryan and Karia , along with their four children Kayden, Jetty, Baylee and McKinnon - seeing their new home for the first time is a memory they'll never forget.

“You get out of the limo and there’s just a sea of people,” Ryan said.

“It's been a whirlwind the last four months - just a huge miracle,” Karia said.

In addition to receiving a new home - the Stockdales say they got a new lease on life.

“It really brings up that childhood feeling that anything's possible,” Ryan said. “There's not any moment where there's no hope.”

They say the attention has been overwhelming at times, from phone calls to people knocking on their door.

“At first we’d get people in the windows and I'd be in my bathrobe,” Karia said.

But they say a lot of good has come from it as well like creating awareness of the disease. 

“Parents that have kids with that same disease are just so grateful to bring it out there and bring awareness,” Karia said.

That disease is called eosinophilic enteropathy - a disorder that prevents the children from digesting food properly, and all four of Ryan and Karia's  children suffer from it.

“Sometimes their body does ok,” Karia said.

But a new sterile kitchen and a ventilation system which provides hospital quality clean air - has made a noticeable difference in their lives.

Rooms featuring cowgirls - Abe Lincoln - Pooh Bear and Jedi knights don’t hurt either.

As for the thousands of volunteers who helped create their new home - the Stockdales say there are not enough words to express their gratitude.

“We can't thank everybody enough,” Karia said. “We don't know how.”

“There's not a big enough thank you card to send  out,” Ryan said.

The Stockdales said they are looking forward to relaxing from all of the excitement during the holidays. 

They mentioned they are just trying to take things one day at a time - with hope to find a cure for this disease. 

Ryan and Karia say the children have never tasted most foods - and have to be nourished mostly through IV tubes.

They say they do experiment with food trials and right now the kids are testing their response to eating potatoes.   

They learned of the disease when their second child jetty was diagnosed at the age of two.