For the past three years, Darren and Chelsea have gone to Swainfest, another annual family gathering at Chelsea Aunt Dee Dee and Uncle Rick's house in Liberty, NC. On June 27, 2025, after several days of 4 wheeling, fishing, eating, and spending time with family, Chelsea decided she wanted to take advantage of the beautiful scenery to get some new family photos.
Darren, Chelsea and the kids got cleaned up, snagged Brad as the photographer, hopped in a golf cart and headed to the big pond to get some updated family photos.
After getting pictures of each of the kids and the kids together, the sky started spitting rain so they hurried to get to the family photo. Darren requested the first picture be organized by height. While Brad feverishly snapped pictures, Darren stepped away, got down on one knee, and asked Chelsea to marry him. Without hesitation, she said yes!
The children didn't notice the excitement for a while, due their years of training to look at the camera and smile, lest you ruin the opportunity for the perfect picture. But once they realized what was happening, they were as overjoyed to make Darren officially part of the family.
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