Marine Stationed Overseas Finds Out the Gender of His Baby Through Wife’s Surprise Gift – IOTW Report

Marine Stationed Overseas Finds Out the Gender of His Baby Through Wife’s Surprise Gift

Breitbart: A Marine stationed overseas found out the gender of his baby through a surprise gift from his wife.

U.S. Marine commander Captain Gregory Veteto had been away from his home at Camp Pendleton in Southern California when his wife Shanelle and 16-month-old son Samuel found out that they would gain an additional member of the family, KTVU reports.

The commander’s wife decided to surprise her husband by giving him a “gift” that would reveal the baby’s gender. After some planning with a friend, she decided to send her husband a football filled with colored powder to remind him of his days as a punter for his college football team.

Shanelle’s goal was to get her husband to kick the ball so that it would explode with pink or blue powder to reveal the baby’s gender.

“I was a terrible punter,” Gregory Veteto said. “She told me, ‘don’t screw it up.’ I just didn’t want to miss the ball.”

Veteto’s fellow Marines and sailors witnessed the moment Veteto kicked the ball, causing it to explode in a sea of … MORE

9 Comments on Marine Stationed Overseas Finds Out the Gender of His Baby Through Wife’s Surprise Gift

  1. Oh man. I’m so glad this turned out to be a good story.

    On first hurried scan reading I read – Gregory Veteto had been away from home for 16 months – when Shanelle decided to send a gift revealing the sex of her bun in the oven. Which meant Shanelle had some ‘splainin to do. After the wth moment a careful rereading removed the biology math problem.

    Congrats to the Veteto family.

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