A couple came up with an ingenious way to surprise their friends and family with their pregnancy news – by altering the restaurant menu items to include baby-based clues. Nicole Runyan, from San Diego, California, discovered she was pregnant ahead of husband Jay's birthday in August, providing him with the perfect present by announcing the new arrival on Jay’s big day itself. After the initial excitement, Jay, 41, and Nicole, 32, started working on ideas for how to surprise their friends and family. Rather than copy previous trends from social media, Jay and Nicole wanted to come up with something totally original – which led Jay to think of modifying menus at a restaurant. Jay's initial idea involved putting Nicole's ultrasound picture on the menus themselves – but Nicole decided to take things one step further.
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00:00 (laughing)
00:02 - Did it for birthday?
00:05 - We had already been like thinking of trying
00:10 for the past year and so we just didn't know
00:13 exactly what was gonna happen.
00:15 - It ended up happening a little bit before Jay's birthday.
00:19 - I had no symptoms so I wasn't sure
00:22 if it was going to be something where
00:23 the test was actually gonna show up positive, but it did.
00:29 (laughing)
00:31 - Really?
00:33 - Yeah.
00:34 I found out yesterday.
00:36 - And they wanted to share the news in a unique way.
00:42 - I came up with the idea of,
00:43 hey if we go to a restaurant we should change the menu.
00:46 - Things like bun in the oven and time to spill the beans
00:51 were just some of the changes that were actually clues
00:54 for their loved ones.
00:56 - The titles are crazy.
00:58 - I know, is this your new re-recognition?
01:01 - The vehicle is coming, new tax collection.
01:04 - They're all in.
01:06 - More laundry coming soon.
01:07 What is going on with this menu?
01:10 More laundry coming soon.
01:11 - These might be the new ones that we have to bring home.
01:16 Nine months and counting.
01:19 I like big lumps and I cannot.
01:20 (laughing)
01:23 - Why are the names like this?
01:25 - It's kind of cool.
01:26 (laughing)
01:27 - I don't know, we can ask him.
01:29 - They don't do anything for,
01:30 he's like a region of like, I know that.
01:32 - Should we ask him?
01:33 - Is this your?
01:33 (laughing)
01:36 - Oh my God, I'm so pregnant.
01:38 This is a dream.
01:41 - Then it was time for Nicole's mom and sister
01:46 to try their luck with the fake menus.
01:49 - Okay, why is everything in 40/40?
01:51 What is that?
01:51 - Because April 20th is their due date.
01:55 - We had a normal menu.
01:57 - What makes the belly go round?
02:00 - What is that supposed to mean?
02:02 (laughing)
02:04 - We just got a new menu.
02:05 - What is all of this?
02:06 (laughing)
02:09 - The names are so,
02:09 - How are we supposed to know what we're eating?
02:13 I feel like it's pretty strange.
02:15 - You know, what is best, red, red, red, blue, blue,
02:17 or the one you chose?
02:19 (laughing)
02:21 - What is that?
02:23 - I don't know.
02:24 (laughing)
02:25 - That's fine.
02:26 - No, we're gonna be ordering?
02:27 - Yeah.
02:28 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:29 - We have to order something from it.
02:30 - What?
02:31 - It was a moment of half like,
02:33 this is hilarious and half disappointed.
02:36 Where I was like, man, you guys haven't got this yet?
02:39 Like, pretty obvious.
02:41 - I think this one's my favorite.
02:44 (gasping)
02:48 - This is your birthday?
02:49 (laughing)
02:51 - What?
02:52 - Yeah.
02:53 (cheering)
02:55 - Oh my God.
02:59 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:03 - And everyone is really looking forward
03:06 to meeting the little one soon.
03:08 - We have a miniature baby coming out.
03:11 (cheering)
03:13 - Just be, I think everyone's pretty excited
03:15 'cause both me and Nicole are kind of alpha personalities.
03:19 So I assume they think our baby's going to be
03:22 ruling the world within like 10 or 15 years.
03:25 So we're just pretty excited on that front.
03:29 Just get started.
03:30 Hopefully everything goes well
03:31 and then we have a great time.
03:34 Baby comes out fine
03:35 and then we can take the adventure from there.