Happily Staff

A girl wiped away tears from her dad's eyes as he read through a customized storybook about the support he would give her as she grows up.

An elementary school pupil stopped in his tracks when he came around the corner of his school's hallway and discovered his military father, who he had not seen for nine months.

An emotional groom who opted to do a wedding day first-look shoot with his stepdaughter was brought to happy tears when he turned around and she asked him to adopt her.

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.