All right.
This is going to be fun.
I've done this once before.
Everybody stand up.
All right.
Stay standing if you love my Executive Producer, Andy.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Ooh!
I thought most people would sit down,
so this is going to take a while.
Stay standing if this is your first taping at my show.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
All right.
Stay standing if you're here with your best friend.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
All right.
Stay standing if this was your first flight ever
to come to my show.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
First flight ever to come to my show.
Wow.
First flight ever, we have a lot of people.
All right.
Stay standing if these are your kids.
[AWWS]
[CRYING]
Come on down here if your name is Ashley Havens.
Hi, Ashley.
Hi.
OK.
So this was your first flight ever?
Yes it was.
And where do you live?
I live in Virginia.
Yeah.
So I traveled all across the United States.
But I would have crawled, swam the ocean,
whatever, for you I'll do it.
Thank you so much for doing that.
OK.
So who are you here with?
I'm here is my best friend, Nicole, and my husband Justin.
OK your best friend, Nicole.
Yes.
Nicole, come on down here.
Have a seat.
All right.
You're pregnant, so don't go into contractions or anything
like that.
All right.
So you've been friends for a long time.
Yes.
Yeah.
OK.
And you're having fun today at the show?
Absolutely.
Good.
I'm glad.
All right.
So I know that your youngest child
was born with some issues, some health issues.
Tell everybody what's going on.
Laney, right?
Yes, Laney.
She has Down Syndrome and she was born
with a congenital heart defect.
So we spent a lot of time in hospitals.
There were many days where I was sitting in a rocking chair,
holding her and she was attached to tubes and wires.
That must have been so hard.
It was very hard.
But I had you.
I did.
And for an hour, every day, I felt
like I was able to escape that hospital room
and you brought me smiles and you inspired my whole family.
Wow.
And I felt like you, along with my family,
saved me during that time.
I just wanted to thank you for that.
[APPLAUSE]
Thank you for saying that.
Thank you so much.
[APPLAUSE]
Wow.
So look at Laney now.
She seems like she's doing better, right?
Oh, absolutely.
She's a rock star.
She's amazing.
No matter what she went through, she smiled the whole time
and she still does.
Look how happy.
I mean, that's just--
man, I just can't imagine what you went through,
what she went through.
And that's got to be the toughest thing.
And I know that your friend helped you
through all that too.
Absolutely.
Ashley, if anyone could make it through something like that,
Ashley could.
She was amazing.
And you helped her through it all.
Well I know the community kind of saved up and gave you money
to help with the expenses, all the bills.
And what did you do with that money?
Well after being in the hospital and you see the families
and we knew we were leaving.
But there were families that you could tell
were there for a long time.
So watching you and being inspired by you,
we took the money and we donated it to the families
on the floor with us.
Wow.
So you could have kept the money,
because you needed the money, but you donated the money
to other families?
Yes.
That is really incredible.
[APPLAUSE]
I heard that you're raising your kids
to learn how to pay it forward.
So they raised money and then what did they do?
They raised money by using their chore money.
They went around to our family members,
probably bugging them way too much.
But at the end of it all, they were
able to raise over $500 for the American Heart Association.
And that's what they did, they gave it to the American Heart
Association.
[APPLAUSE]
They gave it to the Heart Association.
That's so great.
Yeah.
All right.
Well I just love your story and you.
And Laney just looks so precious.
So I told our friends at Shutterfly about your story.
And they think you're both awesome,
so they want to give each of you a check for $10,000.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Here's what I fear.
My fear is that you're going to give this away.
And I don't want you to.
And I'm just going to do this.
And we don't have any more checks like this to give you.
But I'm just deciding right now that I'm going to double that.
So I want to give each another $10,000, both of you.
OK?
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Thank you so much.
$20,000 for each of you.