Ellen Surprises Military Mom and Daughter

Okay, we set up some hidden cameras backstage right now we're watching Ellie and her mom Vanessa, they have no idea they're going to be our next guests so I'll say hello to them right now. Hi, Ellie, Vanessa, hi, I'm Ellen, hi. Hello how are you? Hello YouTube, how are you? Hello, I saw your video and I wanted to meet you both. Hey, let's take a look at the video. I want to show everyone the video you sent. How does it look? Daddy, yeah, can I show you something cool? Yeah, okay, can you press here? Oh my God, okay, Andy, bring it.

Goodbye, you want all that and you want to hold this. Hello, I know it's a surprise that you didn't know you were. was going to be here I had no idea you thought you were going to do something completely different, oh my gosh, okay, hi, hi, that was a really cute little video, so that was your dad's voice, yeah, and why did you give him that bear? he joined them, he joined the army and, um, they're best friends, he never spent a day away from her so I knew she wasn't going to be here for her birthday so I went and we planned it so how can he feel like he's really here?

How long has it been since you've seen him? Uh, September 17th. So how do you stay in touch? Oh, we write letters every day. That's great every day because he can't tell you. where is he or contact him, yes, okay, and your relationship is very close with your father, right, yes, very, very close, it is a very special relationship, so you can hear his voice all the time, yes , okay, so you send letters and uh, he can't be here obviously, as we know, but we thought maybe we could talk to him right now, so David, are you there?

Hi, yes I'm here, how are you? Baby, I love you, I love you so much. I miss you so, so much, I miss you too baby, I miss you too, I miss you, I want to thank Owen so much for having us on the show, Ellen, thank you so much, we love you so much, I love you too and thank you for everything you what are you doing for our country thank you for being there yes ma'am yes ma'am I love you so much we're so hot I love you too oh my god our baby looks so beautiful look at her you look so beautiful Okay baby how are you?

Oh what a baby, look at that study. That's fine now. Dad says: How are you? How are you? I'm fine, yeah, yeah, oh, that's my good girl, look at her, you know, I love you. the moon and the back baby yeah i know she knows and vanessa anything you want to tell him right now besides that you love him and miss him yeah a little sad I love you so much baby I can't I can't wait. see you or talk about it all the time i would write to you every day i hope you get my letters i can't wait to see you every day baby i love you so im really crazy so we surprised vanessa and ellie with david who is in basic training and So what do you want to do when you grow up?

I want to do something that is so cool and so fun that you want to do, that it's a great goal to do something. good luck, we all want to do something so cool and fun, do you have any idea what kind of job it would be? Yeah, oh what is it? The job is I love to play in my playground and I love to do things like that okay again good luck okay I don't know how much that pays but anyway it will be a good goal for you maybe someday it will be a job, okay, so we want to do something for you because I know one.

One of the reasons David went to basic training is because there is a lot of debt and that's why he went into the army so you don't have to fight anymore. Shutterfly Vanessa Shutterfly wants to help you celebrate this moment and give you a check for 25 thousand. dollars, okay, that's all, thank you very much, thank you very much, David, it's my pleasure, it's my pleasure, uh, David, thank you very much, and since it's your birthday, we missed your birthday and I know you wanted an American doll, right? that's right, ellie. Yeah, okay, so look what we have for you, let's walk over here, look at that happy birthday for you.