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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- The Mountain Shadows community showed off their progress Wednesday to a group of elected officials and other community members.

The neighborhood is working on rebuilding after the Waldo Canyon Fire destroyed 347 homes.

So far 133 permits have been issued to rebuild.

In just nine months 20 homes have already been completed.

Gloria Horne's home is one of those.

"I just got out of bed knowing that I would rebuild because I had just bought the place," Horne said.

Horne had just moved into the neighborhood 22 days before the fire hit.

"We came through it. We had some hard times but yeah it's been an interesting nine months that's for sure," she said.

Wednesday Horne showed off her new house. Though it looks different from the home she bought reminders of what used to be can still be found.

Some of the furniture is made from trees that used to be on her property.

"A beetle grub came out of this hole here yesterday. Something from before the fire that still is here and also has something still alive in it it, I mean that's amazing," Horne said.

Horne was just getting to know her neighbors and said the fire helped to bring the entire community together.

"The connection that I have to this neighborhood now would not have happened."

Each new home that is built in the area brings with it new hope and a reassurance that the community will bounce back.

"It's going to be an outstanding neighborhood, it is an outstanding neighborhood, it was an outstanding neighborhood," Horne said.