we surprised an adorable family at their home

in St. Charles Missouri.

And the moment we surprised them,

their day went from good to fantastic.

Take a look.

Hi.

[SCREAMING]

No!

Hi.

Are you joking me?

No!

Stop!

[INAUDIBLE]

How's it going?

What?

How are you?

I'm fantastic.

How are you?

You are beautiful.

You are so beautiful.

Oh, you're beautiful.

Let me-- who's on your lap?

Oh, oh, this is Jackson.

He's one and a half, and he's my kid.

This is fake.

I can't.

You're not real.

I think it's her.

I'm sorry.

I'm sitting on the floor.

All right, Dane, I think you should take both children

over there on your lap.

I think that's right.

She keeps forgetting she's holding one.

Today is day 11 of our 12 Days of Giveaways.

And one thing is--

we want you to stick around.

And we're going to give these guys everything

we want to give you everything that we're giving away today.

So--

No!

Yeah.

[APPLAUSE]

[INAUDIBLE], what do you say?

Dane, take that child away.

[INAUDIBLE] I'm sorry.

And also another thing, I want y'all to come because you said

you wanted to meet me.

And that's on your refrigerator.

So I want to fly y'all out here so that we can meet, OK.

No!

[INAUDIBLE]

All right, Rachelle and Dane, come on down.

[INAUDIBLE]

Hi.

Hi.

Rachelle, Dane, this is very exciting.

We gave you a few months so that you could calm down

before we invited you here.

Yeah, no, it didn't work.

But it's fine.

Yeah.

Can I just tell you something?

OK, go ahead.

You are changing this world.

And I could never express how much I appreciate everything

that you do every day because you just give so much light

and love to people.

And that is just a ripple effect.

And you affect so many people way more than you think.

And I love you so much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

That's very sweet.

This is fine.

This is normal.

This is very sweet.

OK, so how has it been at home since we got in touch?

Crazy.

I mean, overjoyed, so thankful.

I've never seen this one so excited--

Insane.

--and happy.

I mean, it's been the neatest thing ever.

And Carter saw himself on TV.

He did.

How was that?

He did.

Oh, he's jumping up and down like me.

I'm on Ellen, I'm on Ellen, I'm on TV.

Oh man, you can't put a price on that.

And I-- forever greatful.

It was a good Christmas, right?

You got-- what was your favorite of all the stuff we gave you?

Everything was amazing.

We appreciate everything so much.

But looking at you and seeing you in my living room, talking,

you said my name.

And you said it correctly.

Like that trumps everything.

That is the best thing ever.

Like you can't--

Did you realize that you had lost control of the child that

was on your lap?

Were you aware that there was a child--

it was like it was a pillow that you were shuffling around.

Yeah, I don't really think I was aware of anything.

I think I was actually outside of my body

looking at things happen.

I wasn't really--

I was focused on you.

Yeah, he's fine.

So you have two adorable children.

Yes.

So how long have y'all been married?

Well--

Not married.

Actually, we're not.

We did things backwards a little bit.

But it's totally fine.

[APPLAUSE]

[INAUDIBLE] You're my best partner, the best mother

I could possibly ask for.

Will you marry me?

Yeah, yeah.

[APPLAUSE]

I love you.

What?

What?

I love you so much.

We'll be back.

We're back with the newly engaged Rachelle and Dane.

And so we knew this was going to happen.

You didn't know this.

And you did very well.

Yeah, usually I could tell when he was lying.

And I didn't get a hint of anything.

So--

And is this--

I mean, y'all obviously had talked about getting married.

Oh, yeah.

But you didn't think I'd be part of the engagement party.

Well, no, but I also want you to be a part of the wedding.

So [INAUDIBLE]

OK, let me know when that is.

All right, and I love that you're a nurse.

And what you were just telling me during the break

that the patients that you have watch my show.

Yeah, so at work, I'll do my rounds on my patients.

Some of them have just got the worst news of their life.

And when you know that someone needs their spirit lifted,

the only thing you could do is turn on Ellen.

And so I'll leave the room.

If I don't have time to stay, come back around,

and everything's instantly lighter.

And they're smiling, happy.

And you just-- you are the best medicine

that they could get in that time.

So--

That's very sweet.

Thank you so much.

That's very sweet.

But I love that you're a nurse.

I mean, that's a wonderful thing.

And I know that you had to stop a lot.

Are you still working now?

Or, you stopped because you're taking

care of your grandmother?

So I recently stopped like a couple of weeks ago.

It feels like years.

But my grandma recently moved back from Arizona.

She'd had a stroke.

And so I really want to spend time with her.

And then I also want to get our oldest child Carter ready

for kindergarten.

So there's just a lot of family involvement.

But yeah, they're ready for me to get back.

I'm ready to go back.

And you're working a couple of jobs

right now too because she's not able to work as much?

And the fact that-- here's what makes me so happy about--

there's just hope in the world.

Whenever we look at some stuff that we

can focus on all the things that we don't agree with

or don't like.

But there's so much hope in the world

that you're raising money for my Gorilla Fund,

even though you're having a hard time.

And you're helping your patients who are aware of it.

And the fact that you're looking at other things that

need help besides yourself is a really amazing thing.

Well, I mean, [INAUDIBLE].

[APPLAUSE]

All right, well, I know that you have

a dream of getting married.

Now you're engaged.

And you want to save for a home.

So the unlimited cash back bank account from Green Dot Bank

helps save for the future.

They want to give you.

All right, never mind then.

[LAUGHTER]

OK, that's fine.

That's fine.

Not going to do it.

No.

$25,000.

[APPLAUSE]

Oh my gosh.

No.

We'll be right back.