Help the Todds

Hello my name is Shannon and my husband Brendon and I are unfortunately asking for help. We just purchased our dream home this September, we purchased it with some work that had to be done but willing to put in the work because this was a home we had always imagined we were meant to be in. We put in a few solid month's of work. We added new appliances because the home came with none, put up walls, added vanities, toilets, finished the floors etc. and everything was close to perfect for us with some projects in the works. We were finally at a point of being able to sit back and enjoy our hard work and be proud of what we had accomplished. This was the first time since losing our daughter Ivy that we finally felt like life was getting better.

On Saturday June 26th a very heavy rain came through causing the creek near our home to cover the road and flow down through our yard and into our house. The damages are very extreme. We now have our whole life in a 30 yard dumpster sitting in front of our garage. Everything we just put into our home thrown away. All of my children's belongings are gone. Every appliance we just purchased and still owe on.... gone. The walls we put up, insulation we put in, vanities you name it.... gone. We now have no home to live in and our family is dispersed between wonderful friends and families that are housing us , the kids, and our animals. It's hard to not all be together right now and our poor puppy is just ridden with anxiety from the separation. To top everything off NOTHING is covered by our insurance company.

We're in over our heads with this huge loss. Our belongings that held sentimental value just rotting away in a dumpster. A journal my daughter kept to write letters to her deceased sister with, bullet journals my oldest used as a calming mechanism to help with her anxiety, on top of so many other things. We are trying to remember that these are just "things" but some carried very sentimental value. Moving forward we know there's nothing that can be done to recover those sentimental items but we are also suffering from a HUGE financial loss as well. If there is anything you could donate that would not put you or your family in a tough financial position it would be appreciated beyond measurement.