The Chapin Family

Before her home makeover, Connie Chapin, an avid swimmer and a single mother of four, was eking out a living the best way she knew how. Raising her family in the house she grew up in, Connie taught swimming lessons in the same backyard pool where she learned how to swim. But Connie's homegrown business, Angelfish Swimming, does more than generate much-needed income. It teaches more than 250 children a week the important swimming and aquatic skills they need to enjoy life near Washington State's Puget Sound.

As her business was taking off, however, city inspectors told Connie that her facility was not up to code and would need to be closed down if certain repairs weren't made. Despite working hard for two years to make the improvements, the problems became too great for her to handle on her own. See more...