LAKE DELTON, Wis. -- Tim and Liz Fromm have allowed WISC-TV to follow their life after the Lake Delton breach in June,from the day they lost their lake home to their attempt to regain some type of normalcy.

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Now more than ever, this family is realizing it’s the little things people end up missing the most. It has already suffered a big loss.

"This is really the only stuff that survived," said Tim Fromm, looking at a pair of children's skis.

Fromm and his family are now recovering items from their dream home, which was washed into the Wisconsin River when Lake Delton breached.

The Fromms' 9-year-old daughter, Amber, has her princess locker back.

"The guy that found it -- Craig Van Wormer -- said it was empty but he filled it up with change,” Tim Fromm said. “Just to see the little girl's eyes light up was really cool because it was a birthday gift."

They are gifts and memories of their life on Lake Delton.

"These were the skis that all our girls learned to ski on, or two of them," said Tim Fromm.

As the Wisconsin River swept his home of two years away, Tim Fromm couldn’t help but think of the dining room table flowing down the river with all of the family’s belongings.

"One of the last things that I remember when I left my house at 5 a.m. that morning on June 9, is I looked over at this table and we had all of my daughter's birthday presents on it," he said.

It was all but lost to the raging waters, but three days later, Tim Fromm got a call with some unlikely news.

"We weren't sure if it was our table right away," he said.

The 300-pound custom table with a map of Lake Delton and the Fromms' home engraved in it had been recovered 7 miles down river.

"I said, 'Is it in one piece?’ 'Everything but the legs,' and, I mean, we were ecstatic," said Tim Fromm.

So was the table’s creator, Jim Engel.

"I was just amazed,” said Engel, the owner of Redbone Creations Log Furniture in Adams. “Things work in mysterious ways, you know."

And that’s not all: A coffee table, eight chairs and a buffet table were also recovered.

"Exactly how you're looking at it is how he found it in the river,” said Tim Fromm.

While it’s not known where the Fromms will live, one thing they do know is that their favorite piece of furniture engraved into their hearts will go with them.

"The fact that we had such a great time on Lake Delton with our family and it was, you know, our dream home, at least now we have something that will remind us of it," said Tim Fromm.

The state granted Tim Fromm and his family $358,000 based on the home’s taxable assessed value. That money went straight to the mortgage, with a little left over for the family to start over. Tim Fromm and his family are moving to Chicago on Friday to stay with family until they figure out where they will live.

To make donations to the family, click here: Fromm Family.