Family with sextuplets re-creates famous photo 6 years later
It's
the photo seen around the world — re-created six years later. The
Ohio-based McGhee family, who welcomed sextuplets in 2010, recently
posed for an updated version of their famous photo, and it's clear a lot
has changed.
For starters, those babies aren't so tiny anymore.
Siblings
Elijah, Issac, Josiah, Madison, Olivia and Rozonno Jr., who turned 6
years old, huddled around their mom and dad for the photo, which was
shot by Brian and Janine Killian of Peters Photography, the same
photographers who took the original image.
"We knew that one was
special," Brian Killian told TODAY of the first time he photographed the
McGhees. "I think people still remember seeing it six years ago. To
have six little babies asleep on their dad — that's a unique portrait
Stranger soothes baby on a plane so pregnant mom can rest
Frederick Callison had been using his piece of prime real estate outside a Sacramento, California, grocery store to actively seek work for the past two years — when it finally paid off, with a little help from one man who brought attention to the effort.
Michael Marteen noticed Callison while shopping at a Smart & Final store with his fiancee, Sandra Canto, and two sons, Adrian, 9, and Santi, 1. Accustomed to seeing homeless people ask for food or money, Marteen found it refreshing to witness someone making an effort to find work despite difficult circumstances.
Callison had been sitting on a sleeping bag with multiple resumes neatly laid out, along with a sign that read "need work and food.” He also had his food handler's certificate, Social Security card and ID on hand to show that he was serious about finding work.
"When I asked if I could see his resume, he hopped right up to hand one to me and then started telling me all about his experience as if it were an interview," Marteen, 25, told TODAY. "I've been in situations where I had nothing and had to bust my butt to get work, and there he was doing that, so I have a lot of respect for him
Couple receives mysterious wedding gift — and finally opens it 9 years later
Kathy and Brandon Gunn had never opened one of the gifts from their wedding: a mysterious box marked “Do not open until first disagreement.”
The package was from Kathy Gunn’s great-aunt Alison, a “surrogate grandmother” figure to whom Gunn is quite close.
Since Alison and her husband, Bill, had been married nearly half a century until he passed away in 2004, the Gunns assumed the box held some sort of profound secret — perhaps a heartfelt letter about struggles the older couple had faced and how they had overcome. “We didn’t want to ruin the importance of taking that in by opening it after a silly fight,” Kathy Gunn told TODAY.
Fast forward to that May 2016 brainstorming session. “We were talking about the gifts we had cherished … I looked at my husband and said, ‘We still have that box,’” recalled Gunn. “He said, ‘If we’ve made it this far, I don’t think we need the box to save us.’”
They decided to open it ... and burst out laughing when they saw what was inside.
Couple creates humongous bed so they can sleep comfortably with 8 rescue dogs
For Chris and Mariesa Hughes, it wasn't a question of should their dogs sleep with them — it was how to fit all eight pooches on the bed.
So they decided to create a humongous bed, the likes of which had never been seen before.
"At nighttime all of the dogs want to sleep on the bed and sometimes it becomes too cluttered, and we end up being pushed off of the bed or sleeping on the couch," Chris Hughes told TODAY. "So we built the megabed."
And what a thing to behold! The megabed takes two mattresses — a king up top and a full turned sideways below. It's is a hair shy of 14 feet long, and 7 feet wide. The headboard is 6 feet tall.
Strangers surprise man who walks 16 miles to 2 jobs with a new car
Kyle Bigler walked a combined six hours a day to get to his two minimum-wage jobs for about a year — until one woman shared his story.
The 25-year-old has been walking a combined 16 miles a day to two minimum-wage jobs, where he often works 20-hour shifts. He tried looking for a job in his town of Gilford, New Hampshire, but establishments like McDonald's and Taco Bell wouldn't hire him.
Bigler has a learning disability and severe speech impediment that make it hard to find work.
"No places close to me would hire me and Dunkin' Donuts in Belmont did, so I took it and said I'd walk to work and work for them every day," he told TODAY. And for one year, Bigler quietly undertook the grueling commute, racking up miles each day — going largely unnoticed. But all that changed about one month ago, when customer Joanna Griffiths pieced together Bigler’s efforts after encountering him three times in one day.
Target cashier’s patience with elderly customer inspires others
A Target cashier's simple act of kindness has shown that, sometimes, just slowing down and showing patience can make all the difference.
Ishmael Gilbert, 19, was working at a Target in the Glendale section of Indianapolis on Jan. 12 when his kind gesture toward an elderly woman caught the eye of a mom in line with her children.
In a widely-shared Facebook post, Sarah Owen Bigler admitted she was initially frustrated when she saw the woman counting coins for her payment — until she saw the care Gilbert was taking in helping her out.
"I watched him help her count her change, ever so tenderly taking it from her shaking hands,'' Bigler wrote. "I listened to him repeatedly saying 'yes, mam' to her. When she asked if she had enough to buy a reusable bag, he told her she did and went two lines over to get one for her and then repackaged her items. Never once did this employee huff, gruff or roll his eyes. He was nothing but patient and kind."
6year-old boy has tear-jerking reunion with missing dog in Lubbock, Texas
A mother captured the tender moment when her 6-year-old son reunited with his beloved dog who had gone missing for over a month.
Paula Williams from Lubbock, Texas, said that Kahne had been heartbroken ever since the family dog, Kase, went missing. It wasn’t until a chance encounter a month later that Williams spotted the dog with a family who had taken him in.
What followed was the tear-jerking moment — captured by Williams on her phone — showing the 6-year-old sobbing with joy after reuniting with his beloved pet. "I missed you," says Kahne as he hugs his furry friend. The dog seems just as excited, licking his young owner on the face
For Nicholas and Rafaela Ordaz, romance runs in the family.
The Tracy, California, couple celebrated 82 years of marriage last week, hot on the heels of Nicholas’ 102nd birthday. Rafaela turned 100 last October.
“Their parents lived to be 112 and 108, and they were also happily married. Divorce isn’t really something our family has experienced,” Leticia Ordaz, one of the couple’s many grandchildren, told TODAY. “Nurturing those relationships is a huge part of our culture.”
She added, “They’re still so in love. It’s quite remarkable. In every picture, they’re holding hands or trying to kiss each other
When Paula Schultz and her husband decided they'd had one too many
drinks while dining out at Original Joe's restaurant in Alberta, Canada,
they made a sensible decision to call an Uber home.
But when Schultz came back to retrieve the car from the parking lot, there was something attached to the windshield. A ticket? A nasty note?
Nope! It was a letter congratulating her for doing the right thing (i.e. not drinking and driving) and a voucher for chicken wings at Original Joe's! Schultz told TODAY that the voucher was "the last thing I expected
A series of chants, grunts and stomps from some wedding guests, along
with chest thumps and tongue wagging, recently drove one New Zealand
bride to tears.
It also prompted her and the groom to join their loved ones in the rousing ritual.
A large group of guests, led by the best man and groom’s brother, performed a traditional Maori haka at the recent wedding of Aaliyah and Benjamin Armstrong. The passion and emotion expressed during the dance moved the couple, who, along with the bride’s best friend and bridesmaid, joined in at the end.
“I wasn’t expecting to see so many men jump in. Just to see their love and their respect for us was quite overwhelming,” Aaliyah told TODAY. “That’s why we jumped in at the end to show our love and respect back
A pregnant mom traveling with her young son on a recent flight got some unexpected help from the man sitting next to her.
"It
was so uplifting," one passenger, Andrea Byrd, told TODAY. She snapped a
photo of the man carrying the baby up and down the aisle and posted it
on Facebook, where it's since gone viral.
The mom, Monica Nelson,
who is pregnant, told TODAY she had been nervous about traveling alone
with her 20-month-old son, Luke. When he grew fussy and wouldn't rest,
the man seated next to them surprised her by offering to help, she said.
He walked up and down the aisle holding the boy, soothing him to sleep.
Homeless man hands out resumes instead of asking for money — and lands a job
Frederick Callison had been using his piece of prime real estate outside a Sacramento, California, grocery store to actively seek work for the past two years — when it finally paid off, with a little help from one man who brought attention to the effort.
Michael Marteen noticed Callison while shopping at a Smart & Final store with his fiancee, Sandra Canto, and two sons, Adrian, 9, and Santi, 1. Accustomed to seeing homeless people ask for food or money, Marteen found it refreshing to witness someone making an effort to find work despite difficult circumstances.
Callison had been sitting on a sleeping bag with multiple resumes neatly laid out, along with a sign that read "need work and food.” He also had his food handler's certificate, Social Security card and ID on hand to show that he was serious about finding work.
"When I asked if I could see his resume, he hopped right up to hand one to me and then started telling me all about his experience as if it were an interview," Marteen, 25, told TODAY. "I've been in situations where I had nothing and had to bust my butt to get work, and there he was doing that, so I have a lot of respect for him
Couple receives mysterious wedding gift — and finally opens it 9 years later
Kathy and Brandon Gunn had never opened one of the gifts from their wedding: a mysterious box marked “Do not open until first disagreement.”
The package was from Kathy Gunn’s great-aunt Alison, a “surrogate grandmother” figure to whom Gunn is quite close.
Since Alison and her husband, Bill, had been married nearly half a century until he passed away in 2004, the Gunns assumed the box held some sort of profound secret — perhaps a heartfelt letter about struggles the older couple had faced and how they had overcome. “We didn’t want to ruin the importance of taking that in by opening it after a silly fight,” Kathy Gunn told TODAY.
Fast forward to that May 2016 brainstorming session. “We were talking about the gifts we had cherished … I looked at my husband and said, ‘We still have that box,’” recalled Gunn. “He said, ‘If we’ve made it this far, I don’t think we need the box to save us.’”
They decided to open it ... and burst out laughing when they saw what was inside.
Couple creates humongous bed so they can sleep comfortably with 8 rescue dogs
For Chris and Mariesa Hughes, it wasn't a question of should their dogs sleep with them — it was how to fit all eight pooches on the bed.
So they decided to create a humongous bed, the likes of which had never been seen before.
"At nighttime all of the dogs want to sleep on the bed and sometimes it becomes too cluttered, and we end up being pushed off of the bed or sleeping on the couch," Chris Hughes told TODAY. "So we built the megabed."
And what a thing to behold! The megabed takes two mattresses — a king up top and a full turned sideways below. It's is a hair shy of 14 feet long, and 7 feet wide. The headboard is 6 feet tall.
Strangers surprise man who walks 16 miles to 2 jobs with a new car
Kyle Bigler walked a combined six hours a day to get to his two minimum-wage jobs for about a year — until one woman shared his story.
The 25-year-old has been walking a combined 16 miles a day to two minimum-wage jobs, where he often works 20-hour shifts. He tried looking for a job in his town of Gilford, New Hampshire, but establishments like McDonald's and Taco Bell wouldn't hire him.
Bigler has a learning disability and severe speech impediment that make it hard to find work.
"No places close to me would hire me and Dunkin' Donuts in Belmont did, so I took it and said I'd walk to work and work for them every day," he told TODAY. And for one year, Bigler quietly undertook the grueling commute, racking up miles each day — going largely unnoticed. But all that changed about one month ago, when customer Joanna Griffiths pieced together Bigler’s efforts after encountering him three times in one day.
Target cashier’s patience with elderly customer inspires others
A Target cashier's simple act of kindness has shown that, sometimes, just slowing down and showing patience can make all the difference.
Ishmael Gilbert, 19, was working at a Target in the Glendale section of Indianapolis on Jan. 12 when his kind gesture toward an elderly woman caught the eye of a mom in line with her children.
In a widely-shared Facebook post, Sarah Owen Bigler admitted she was initially frustrated when she saw the woman counting coins for her payment — until she saw the care Gilbert was taking in helping her out.
"I watched him help her count her change, ever so tenderly taking it from her shaking hands,'' Bigler wrote. "I listened to him repeatedly saying 'yes, mam' to her. When she asked if she had enough to buy a reusable bag, he told her she did and went two lines over to get one for her and then repackaged her items. Never once did this employee huff, gruff or roll his eyes. He was nothing but patient and kind."
6year-old boy has tear-jerking reunion with missing dog in Lubbock, Texas
A mother captured the tender moment when her 6-year-old son reunited with his beloved dog who had gone missing for over a month.
Paula Williams from Lubbock, Texas, said that Kahne had been heartbroken ever since the family dog, Kase, went missing. It wasn’t until a chance encounter a month later that Williams spotted the dog with a family who had taken him in.
What followed was the tear-jerking moment — captured by Williams on her phone — showing the 6-year-old sobbing with joy after reuniting with his beloved pet. "I missed you," says Kahne as he hugs his furry friend. The dog seems just as excited, licking his young owner on the face
Couple spills secrets to their 82-year-long marriage
The Tracy, California, couple celebrated 82 years of marriage last week, hot on the heels of Nicholas’ 102nd birthday. Rafaela turned 100 last October.
“Their parents lived to be 112 and 108, and they were also happily married. Divorce isn’t really something our family has experienced,” Leticia Ordaz, one of the couple’s many grandchildren, told TODAY. “Nurturing those relationships is a huge part of our culture.”
She added, “They’re still so in love. It’s quite remarkable. In every picture, they’re holding hands or trying to kiss each other
Tipsy patron leaves car at restaurant, returns to a surprise from the manager
But when Schultz came back to retrieve the car from the parking lot, there was something attached to the windshield. A ticket? A nasty note?
Nope! It was a letter congratulating her for doing the right thing (i.e. not drinking and driving) and a voucher for chicken wings at Original Joe's! Schultz told TODAY that the voucher was "the last thing I expected
Emotional wedding haka brings New Zealand bride to tears
It also prompted her and the groom to join their loved ones in the rousing ritual.
A large group of guests, led by the best man and groom’s brother, performed a traditional Maori haka at the recent wedding of Aaliyah and Benjamin Armstrong. The passion and emotion expressed during the dance moved the couple, who, along with the bride’s best friend and bridesmaid, joined in at the end.
“I wasn’t expecting to see so many men jump in. Just to see their love and their respect for us was quite overwhelming,” Aaliyah told TODAY. “That’s why we jumped in at the end to show our love and respect back
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