Happily Staff

A soccer-mad dad-to-be celebrated the news of his baby's gender by pulling off soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo's signature celebration.

A boy who was given less than a one percent chance of being born has defied doctor’s expectations by running on a treadmill for the first time. Thirteen-year-old Tom Roach was told he would never walk after his mom Jen Williams’ waters ruptured during her pregnancy with him. But despite the massive odds stacked against him, Tom has spent years slowly and methodically building his strength - and is now able to walk and run, something doctors didn’t believe he would ever achieve.

This is the emotional moment a U.S. Air Force senior airman captured his family’s extreme reactions to him returning from deployment after 10 months overseas. In every clip, Miguel Jimenez Machuca's family and friends froze in shock, looked stunned, and then cried happy tears as they were finally able to hold Miguel once more. The moments took place after Miguel had spent 10 months on rotation in Qatar, and after watching a number of military reunion videos on social media, he decided he would try his hand at doing the same.

A man who moved to the United States for a better life could not fight back tears as he returned to his California home on his birthday to discover the grandmother who raised him. David Salas had not seen his grandma Ana Belen for more than four years. David never knew his father and his mother could not raise him, so Ana, from Bogota, Colombia, took over such duties. David grew up seeing Ana as a mother, but in 2017 he decided to move to America for a better life, which his grandmother fully supported. Family is everything for David, and his fiancee Maria secretly helped arrange Ana's flights, navigated her through the airport, collected her, and went with her to buy a cake and decorations before David returned home. As soon as David, 23, saw the familiar face staring back at him, he immediately headed over to Ana, 65, for a long-await hug – a moment put on hold due to his move, building a new life and the coronavirus pandemic.

A girl stepped up to the altar at her mom's wedding to surprise her stepfather with an emotional adoption request after 2555 days.

A couple who found out they were pregnant two weeks before their wedding announced the news to stunned guests on a series of wine bottles.

A seven-year-old girl who has beaten cancer twice had an emotional surprise when her bone marrow donor asked her to be a flower girl at his wedding. Ryan Garippo, 26, from Chicago, Illinois, had secretly traveled across the U.S. to Nashville, Tennessee, to ask Arlie Wolfe for a helping hand on his big day. Arlie is a two-time cancer survivor who was able to beat the disease thanks to a donation from Ryan, who proved to be a perfect match. Donors are initially kept anonymous, but on the day of her one-year biopsy to make sure she was cancer-free, Arlie's mom, Lisa, 32, received a call from Ryan, who said he wanted to meet. It's rare for recipients to get to meet their donors, but Ryan and Arlie met for the first time in Nashville, in July 2019, and have shared an incredible bond since. So as soon as Ryan began planning his wedding with fiancee Elizabeth, he knew he wanted to have Arlie as a flower girl, setting up the surprise reveal with the help of Arlie's family.

Elementary school teacher Kali Vining burst into tears as her brother walked through the door of her classroom after almost a year away on duty running drills with NATO forces.