 After weeks of collecting donations, the Bemidji Best Christmas Ever team was able to provide thousands of dollars worth of gifts to a local family. Reporter Cheryl Moore takes us into their holiday surprise. For the third year in a row, a family in Bemidji who has recently fallen on hard times will be having an extra Merry Christmas, thanks in part to the Bemidji Best Christmas Ever team. Thank you guys, thank you guys, all of you guys. I'm like so happy right now I can't stop smiling. The Hunter family came on rough times earlier this year when daughter Caitlyn was diagnosed with cancer. They've been making trips to hospitals down in the cities ever since. In August at the time we found out about the diagnosis is you know you almost thought that your life stopped at that point. Other than that it's been you know really a very testing year for the other children. It's like it's been really hard on us kids because we haven't had our parents home lately. Family was nominated by Kaley's teacher Jacqueline Stoffel. I had Kaley in class and a lot of times as this was going on she would come and sit by me during class and talk to me about what's going on and at the time and so I got to know the family just through her and I thought this would be something wonderful for their family. The best Christmas Ever surprise is a huge plus for the family but another thing that's making their holidays extra special is that Caitlyn is finally home. I was totally shocked that everyone came here just wish a merry Christmas to my cousin Caitlyn. I love my sister coming home. It was just a surprise that my sister's coming home and staying home for a while till Christmas. Final numbers are still being tallied but overall the community was able to raise around $7,000 worth of gifts and donations for the family. Aside you know from what you might see on TV there truly are still good people in this world and I don't care what anybody says and I've learned that a lot through this process and there's a lot of times that you would never make it through without people like this. Reporting in Bemidji, Tralmore, Lakeland News. In the future the best Christmas Ever team hopes to get to a point where they can help out more than one family in the Bemidji area for the holidays.