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A woman surprised her family by sneaking a message with exciting news on top of her own birthday cake
Rachel Miller recorded her family members’ reactions when she and her husband Ben revealed the announcement
“We wanted to tell the parents in a special way, but couldn’t figure out the best way to do it,” she tells PEOPLE
A woman managed to make a cheerful birthday celebration even more joyous when she hid a special message on her own cake.
Rachel Miller and her husband Ben, both 31, learned they were expecting their first baby in December 2024. When the time came for the pair to announce their exciting news, Rachel, who works as producer and director and makes videos in her spare time, knew she wanted to record the moment she revealed her pregnancy — and when inspiration struck, she ran with it.
“We wanted to tell the parents in a special way, but couldn’t figure out the best way to do it. And so I decided, my birthday’s coming up, so nobody would expect it if we turned my birthday into the announcement,” Rachel tells PEOPLE.
The couple, who is based in Orlando, Fla., stopped by a Publix grocery store and asked an employee to write “We’re Pregnant” on a cake, which they then brought to Rachel’s birthday celebration.
“It was super easy,” says Rachel, who also runs a travel Instagram account where she and Ben post content from their trips around the globe.
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Tucking the cake into the back of the fridge behind the food, where “nobody was peeking,” Rachel even pretended to drink alcohol, appearing to sip seltzer out of an empty can to “fool” her mother-in-law, to make the reveal even more of a surprise.
When the time for the big announcement came, Ben walked into a room holding the birthday cake, which he then set down on the table.
For a few seconds, nobody seemed to notice the message written in red frosting on top, but their faces quickly changed once they realized what it said.
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Rachel Miller (left) with her husband Ben (right) and their son.
Rachel tells PEOPLE her loved ones were “happy and grateful” after the pregnancy reveal.
“They knew we were trying, but they didn’t want to ask every time they came over,” she says.
When it was time to reveal the news, Rachel recalls that she was excited, but right before, her hands couldn’t stop shaking, and she was sweating.
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Rachel Miller (left) and her husband Ben (right).
Rachel and Ben’s baby boy Camden was born on April 24. His name has a special meaning linked to the pair’s love of travel.
A couple of years ago, Rachel and Ben took a 102-mile hike through England on the Cotswold Way, which began in a town called Chipping Campden.
“We loved that trip, and we think about it all the time, and it made sense. As soon as we thought about it, we knew that was the name,” Rachel tells PEOPLE of choosing her son’s moniker.
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These days, Rachel says her son “mostly just eats and sleeps,” but she adds, “We hope to turn him into a traveler like us.”
While his parents most recently traveled to Guatemala, when Camden is old enough, Rachel and Ben hope to take him to England to ride narrowboats down the canals.
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A onesie, pregnancy test and sonogram from Rachel Miller’s pregnancy
Rachel says she has also loved watching her husband interact with their son, explaining, “You don’t know you’re missing that part of your relationship until you become a parent, and then you see somebody you’ve been doing life with, just love someone so much.”
Ben and Rachel plan to continue posting moments from their life with Camden on social media.
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Rachel Miller (left) and husband Ben (right) hiking the Cotswald Way.
“We’re okay with documenting things just because that’s kind of how we have a scrapbook of our life, making videos and sharing that. Really, how that started is we were sharing our life with our family, and then more people just found it,” she says.
The new mom, who previously shared videos throughout her pregnancy about her experience with gestational diabetes, adds that her goal is “to be educational” — not an influencer.
“That’s not what we’re looking to do. We’re just having fun and sharing that with the world,” Rachel explains.
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