Arizona Couple Wins the 2009 Taylor Morrison Dream Home Giveaway.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Kristin and Geoffrey Pierce can't remember ever winning a contest they've entered. Their luck changed on June 22 when the couple was announced as the winners of the 2009 Taylor Morrison Dream Home Giveaway.

The Queen Creek couple was chosen out of more than 147,000 entries received during the two-month nationwide contest sponsored by the Scottsdale-based homebuilder. The Pierces have chosen the Taylor Morrison community of Stratland Estates in Gilbert to build their dream home.

The Pierces were shopping for a foreclosed home when they learned they had won the contest. Kristin, who had entered the giveaway after reading about it online, later visited a Taylor Morrison community where she received a special code for 50 additional entries. But even then she tempered her enthusiasm.

"I've never won anything in my life," said Pierce, a stay-at-home mom. "That just doesn't happen to me. You hear about someone winning the lottery and you wish it was you but you never think that it really could be you."

Now the Pierces are busy picking out kitchen cabinets, flooring and interior paint colors for their new home. They visited the Taylor Morrison Design Center in Scottsdale last week to begin selecting the interior design elements and start the exciting process of building their new home.

"This is the second year that we've held the Dream Home Giveaway and I can't tell you how happy it makes us as a company to have been able in each case to award the home to such a worthy winner," said Sheryl Palmer, CEO of Taylor Morrison.

Last October, Sacramento, Calif., resident and single mother Jennifer Draa was selected as the company's first ever Dream Home winner, receiving a home inspired by the Innoventions Dream Home at the Disneyland Resort, which Taylor Morrison built in a partnership with Disneyland, Microsoft, HP and Lifeware.

This year's winners are looking forward to watching their new home being built. They hope to be able to move in by the holiday season.

"I told my mom that this year I want to have Thanksgiving at my house," Kristin said. "I've never been able to do that before."

For more information on Taylor Morrison homes and communities, visit www.taylormorrison.com.

About Taylor Morrison

Taylor Morrison, Inc., is one of the top home builders in North America, building a wide range of product for discerning home buyers across the country. With more than 200 communities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Texas, Taylor Morrison, Inc., offers first-time, mid-market and mid-to-upscale housing in both master-planned communities and urban infill neighborhoods. The company also operates under the Monarch brand in Ontario, Canada, where it builds single-family homes and high-rise condominiums. Taylor Morrison, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Taylor Wimpey plc (LON: TW), a home building company with 125 years of experience and operations in the United Kingdom, North America, Spain and Gibraltar. For more information, visit www.taylormorrison.com.