My Happy Place - Quad Cities

12/28/2025

12/28/2025

William’s room makeover is complete! 🥳🏠
Williams SB journey

Check out his reaction! 😍 He loves his room! We’re so so grateful for the opportunity to make this happen! 🫶🏻

Thank you so much to our wonderful volunteers—Daniel Turnmeyer, Heather Regene, Sadie Turnmeyer, Bella Turnmeyer, Ryan Meighan, Keith Judickas, Jordan Dennison, Kirk Dennison & Damien Heimbeck. You made it all come together! 👏🏼

Home2 Suites Bettendorf Quad Cities 🏨
Bettendorf Sherwin-Williams 🎨
Judy Vail Smith & Benny’s Pizza in Milan 🍕

And thank you so much to all who donated & supported My Happy Place at our golf event this past fall! 💚

William will be having intensive surgeries in a couple weeks, so we hope his new room will be the perfect place to heal & find joy. Please keep him in your prayers. 💛

12/23/2025

William’s room makeover is this weekend! Woohoo! 🎉🏠

Meet Liam Doxsee Meet our brave friend, Liam, a 10 year old boy with SCID (Severe Combined Immune Deficiency.) Liam has been fighting illnesses his entire life. Despite his battles, he spreads joy to all and makes friends everywhere he goes! He has been so thrilled sharing all his wishes for his new...

12/12/2025

We have our next recipient on the books! 🥳

Meet our new friend, William! 🫶🏻

William is an amazing eight-year-old who has been fighting big medical battles since before he was born. He has Spina Bifida, hypertension, kidney disease, and more. William has already been through more than forty surgeries since birth. Even with all of that, William stays strong, funny, and full of heart.

His journey started at 25 weeks, he had intrauterine surgery while still in the womb. His family likes to say he has two birthdays: the day of that surgery and the day he was officially born.

William’s life includes a lot of doctor visits, surgeries, daily medications, and challenges that most kids never have to face. But he handles it all with courage. He loves having a space where he feels comfortable and safe, and giving him a room that supports his needs means the world to him and his family.

Through everything, William continues to show what true strength looks like. He’s a kid who has been through so much and still wakes up each day ready to keep going.

(Written by his mom & shared with permission)

Can’t wait to create William’s Happy Place in just a few weeks! 12/26-12/27 with the reveal on Sunday morning, 12/28! 🥳

Ways you can help:
⭐️ Volunteer your time building furniture
⭐️ Supply lunch on Saturday for volunteers
⭐️ Supply treats for reveal celebration
⭐️ Offer ideas or decor with Sonic, Ninja Turtles, video games and/or reptiles (his favorite things!)

Thank you for the support! 💚

09/25/2025

PUTT FOR THE KIDS 2025 ⛳️ was another wonderful success! 🥳

We can’t thank you all enough for your support for QCA kids & families! 💛

We’re looking forward to our next room design through My Happy Place & our design lab event with Project Outrun Iowa & University of Iowa Dance Marathon in November! 💚👟

We got to honor Olivia this year! 💛
We missed our friends that weren’t able to be there in person, but we were thinking of you—Gavin, Hudson, Mason, Austin & Liam! 🫶🏻

Can’t wait to see everyone again next year! 👏🏼 o

09/17/2025

FYI, if you’ve tried to send in an application. Thank you for your patience!

We recently discovered a technical issue with the My Happy Place website forms. Unfortunately, it appears that submissions, most importantly, applications, have not been coming through as expected.

Our website developer is working to resolve the problem. In the meantime, if you have submitted an application and have not received a response, please contact me directly. I will send you a form via email to ensure your application is received. Email: [email protected]

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your understanding as we work to correct the issue.

08/25/2025

Our hearts are shattered for the Dangelser family as we share that our friend, Owen, passed away yesterday. We are truly honored that we had the opportunity to meet him & create a happy place for him. He was an incredible kid & will be missed beyond measure. Please continue praying for his mom, Melissa & dad, his sister Emma & brother Jase & all who love Owen. As a way to honor his memory, please play a 90’s rock song & think of Owen’s sweet soul & bravery. Thank you. 💛🙏🏼

08/06/2025

Grateful we got to share our heart & our mission with the Bettendorf Rotary Club! 🫶🏻

If you'd like to visit our club, please email [email protected] and let us know you're planning to visit. www.BettendorfRotary.com

05/25/2025

05/25/2025

ANOTHER “HAPPY PLACE” IS IN THE BOOKS! 🥳🫶🏻🏠

Liam came home to a brand new bedroom, uniquely designed just for him! 💙

Our wonderful team of volunteers worked their magic & made the room come to life! ✨

His reaction says it all—“it’s a bazillion-gazillion times better” than his old room! 😄

Our work is only possible because of the generous hearts of our volunteers & donors—THANK YOU SO MUCH! 💛

Sherwin-Williams Davenport for wall paint! 🎨

Frontier Hospitality Group Home2 Suites Bettendorf Quad Cities for a comfortable & super welcoming stay for Liam & his family! 🏠

Judy Smith for providing lunch for the volunteers & treats & balloons for the reveal!🧁🎈

Daniel Turnmeyer, his wife Heather, & their girls for building, painting, creating vision & babysitting! 🫶🏻

Andrew Martin for his painting skills!

Sarah Reese for her vision & design!

Ryan Meighan for his fish 🐠 tank & tech skills!

Jordan Denison for his building skills! 🛏️

Kirk Denison for lawn care & building! 🪑

Chip for his door hanging skills! 🚪

Bob for his sensory swing hanging skills!

Monetary Donations—Thank you so much!
Christine Fear, Kandy Kelly, Jan Fawcett, Matt Ballesteros

More photos to come! 💛