Nation Artist Payton Smith, Spouse Hannah Anticipating First Child (Unique)

From the second they married again in 2021, nation artist Payton Smith and spouse Hannah at all times dreamed of elevating a household collectively — and now that dream is coming true.

“It’s extremely surreal to know that we’ll be mother and father,” exclaims Payton, 24, in an unique interview with PEOPLE from the couple’s house in Nashville. “We’re over the moon about it. It’s very surreal. It hasn’t fairly kicked in for the each of us but, however we’re tremendous excited.”

The couple, who’ve recognized one another since they had been simply teenagers, acquired the wonderful information again in June.

“I discovered really the day earlier than Father’s Day,” spouse Hannah, 24, tells PEOPLE. “Payton was out of city enjoying a present, and I simply had a intestine feeling. So, I informed him I used to be going to attend for him to take the take a look at.”

However she merely couldn’t wait. Hannah ended up taking a being pregnant take a look at that exact same day, and when she acquired the constructive end result, she determined she would go and make Father’s Day additional particular. 

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“I really ended up stunning him when he got here house with a Father’s Day present,” says Hannah, who’s due in “early 2025” and has been loving feeling the newborn transfer for the primary time. “As much as that time, I acted like I hadn’t taken the take a look at but.”

“I obtained off the highway and got here house and I had this intestine feeling, like I knew I used to be going to really feel each a part of it of discovering out I used to be going to be a dad,” provides Payton, who burst onto the nation music scene in 2019 together with his debut single, “Like I Knew You Would.” 

“However I even keep in mind pulling within the drive considering, ‘this may very well be the final time that I do not know I will be a dad.’ So, I keep in mind strolling by the door, and I used to be like, all proper, let’s discover out collectively,” he says, including with amusing, “She type of fooled me.”

After which, the tears started to movement.

“I broke down and I bawled like a child,” remembers Payton. “Nothing prepares you for that. So, I used to be an emotional wreck. I felt all of the issues. I felt like, I do not know, every part that my mother and father did made sense in 10 seconds. Each emotion that they’ve ever felt, I felt all inside that first 30 seconds of discovering out I used to be going to be a dad.”

Admittedly, the couple says that the being pregnant was “positively unplanned,” however one thing that they’ve at all times wished. 

“I believe that household is likely one of the most vital issues for each of us, and we now have actually nice mother and father and relations which have modeled that very effectively,” says Hannah. “In order that’s at all times been one thing we had been enthusiastic about however did not assume it might occur this quickly. However we’re excited.”

Nevertheless, Hannah says she has been coping with her share of morning illness. “I used to be fairly sick the entire first trimester, however now I am on the up and up, which I am very grateful for,” says Hannah, who alongside her husband will discover out the intercourse of the newborn “within the subsequent couple of weeks.”

The couple says they’ve but to begin making ready for the newborn fairly but. “We have some onesies and we have got some child Nike sneakers,” laughs Payton, who launched his album What Colours Your Wild again in 2023. “We have nonetheless obtained an extended technique to go, however we have got a room in our home that we’re all deliberate out for. We’re ready till we see whether or not it is going to be a boy or a lady earlier than we begin actually designing it. However we’re prepared. We’re prepared for it.”

There’s only one downside as “technically, the additional room is my workplace and Payton’s music room,” laughs Hannah. “So, we’re each getting kicked out of our house, fortunately although.”

Completely happy is actually the emotion for each of them each personally and professionally, particularly as Payton is having fun with fairly the upswing with regards to his music profession. 

“My life is filled with gratitude proper now with so many issues,” says Payton, who will head out on tour with “Villain” hitmaker Lily Rose come September.

Even Payton’s brand-new single “Maintain That Thought,”  has taken on an entire new that means for him since listening to he’s going to be a dad.

“After I wrote that music, it was very a lot all about eager to seize a nostalgic second for me,” he remarks. “And now after I sing it, it is a lot about soaking within the second and looking out again on huge moments that make you who you might be. There are such a lot of moments which can be going to occur throughout the subsequent eight months that I simply wish to decelerate, take all of it in, and be capable to maintain onto it.”