00:00Oh my gosh!
00:05Oh my gosh!
00:07I've talked about wanting a truck for as long as I can remember, really.
00:13She wanted her first truck to be an old school, what they call a square body Chevrolet pickup.
00:19It's hard to describe. It's one of the things that you see them, you know you like.
00:22And that may just be because of her stepdad Rusty, who she's always been inseparable from and proudly calls dad.
00:30I've always worked on trucks. I've always had some type of either mud truck or car, something to always tank her on.
00:37And from a couple years of age, she's always been right there.
00:43I'll do it.
00:44No, I'll do it.
00:47I'm the fastest one to do it.
00:49I was just out there thinking I was the best at doing it.
00:52As long as I can remember, it's always been, where's dad? Oh, he's outside working on something.
00:59But now, the plan was to work on something together, Kylie's first truck.
01:04And her parents were determined to make it happen for her 14th birthday,
01:08which would give her and Rusty just enough time to tinker on it before she would start driving.
01:14We kept saying, oh, we're going to get you a little Honda car, a little Ford Ranger, something along them lines.
01:19And after lots and lots of searching, he finally found the one
01:24and went all the way from Louisiana to Mississippi to buy it and hide it before the big birthday reveal.
01:37Where are you going?
01:38I don't know. God, leave.
01:45Oh, my gosh.
01:48It was really just like a shock and a big surprise for me, especially on my birthday.
01:59I was just really happy about it.
02:02And it just was really heartfelt and touching, I guess, just got to me.
02:09Just really felt like I did the right thing.
02:11See the smiles, the tears, the screaming and the hollering.
02:14The hug just confirmed that I did the right thing.
02:17I kind of always grew up in a family that appreciated older trucks.
02:22And I feel like it's really cool for me to kind of keep that generation alive in my generation.
02:29Everybody nowadays wants the newest truck, the newest car.
02:32For my daughter to have the same love for an older, beat up, rusted truck.
02:38I think it's very, very neat that, you know, she's into the older vehicles.
02:42It's just, it's pretty proud, you know.
02:45And she's pretty proud of him, too, for being in her life since she was two years old.
02:51He's been there since day one.
02:53You know, they always say blood is thicker than water.
02:55I've had more people in my life stick around that are not blood and just support me.
03:02Family is who you keep around and who you keep close.
03:05Sometimes people who are not blood become more like family to you.
03:09And it makes me feel good to know that I was lucky enough to grow up the way I did.
03:18Just thank you for everything and thank you for paying attention over the years.
03:22Oh my gosh.
03:23You said you wanted to be your own truck, so we found you to be your own truck.
03:28You grow up, you think a lot, especially the young years, a lot of it.
03:31Everybody thinks that, you know, everything is you, you, you.
03:34And the more you grow up and the more family you have, you realize it's not you.
03:39It's them.
03:40Yes, you have to take care of yourself.
03:41You have to do things for yourself.
03:43But, you know, your family comes first.
03:45Her, my wife, that's my number one priority.
03:49Eh, I'll get to myself later.
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