Their ancestors came to Oregon in covered wagons. 
 
 They filmed their pregnancy announcement in a car. 
 
 More than 600,000 people have watched the Meeks' announcement, which the Happy Valley couple rapped to the tune of "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and posted on YouTube Easter Sunday. 
 
 The soon-to-be father is among the last descendants to carry Joseph Lafayette Meek's name. 
 
 The Oregon Territory pioneer in the 1800s was born in Washington County, Virginia, in 1810. He settled down in what is now Hillsboro, in Oregon's Washington County. Once a prominent fur trader, Meek advocated for the provisional government of Oregon Territory as a sheriff and legislator in the 1840s. He married the daughter of a Nez Perce chief, according to PBS. 
 
 His great-great-grandson, Jesse Joseph Lafayette Meek, goes by his first and last names: Jesse Meek. 
 
 Jesse Meek, 31, grew up in Happy Valley. He works as a personal trainer and corrective exercise therapist and coaches martial arts. His wife, Melissa Meek, 28, grew up in Oregon City. She's a finance specialist. 
 
 The 21st-century Meeks announced their pregnancy on YouTube last Sunday, April 5, using an abridged version of the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" theme song. 
 
 It was mostly her idea, he said. 
 
 "We love to do that kind of stuff," Jesse Meek said. "We consider ourselves goofy and fun." 
 
 After church on Easter, Jesse and Melissa Meek headed to her parents' house for dinner. 
 
 Melissa sat in the passenger seat, sporting a white trucker hat over her straight blonde hair. Jesse drove. His hat was black, but his sunglasses were white. They both wore green shirts. Unlike Will Smith, they never flipped their bills. 
 
 Jesse taped his phone to the dashboard, with the camera facing himself and his wife. They only had a few minutes to do this. 
 
 "In Happy Valley, Oregon, livin' it wed, bought our first house and started to build our homestead," Melissa rapped. "Our family and friends, who were up to no good, started asking questions about my parenthood." 
 
 The two alternated lines. 
 
 "Little did they know the plan had begun to start our own family, and man, it was fun," Jesse sang. 
 
 They thought at most, a couple hundred of their close friends and family would see the video. 
 
 After four days, the video surpassed 2,000 views. Since then, Jesse Meek has watched it spiral out of control. Between Friday and Saturday, it jumped to 100,000. 
 
 As of Monday evening, the Meeks' baby announcement had more than 600,000 views. 
 
 "It has been a lot of fun, but definitely way more than we ever expected," Jesse Meek said Monday. 
 
 The song wasn't the first unusual tool the couple used to tell people they would soon be parents. 
 
 When Melissa told her husband she was pregnant, she didn't use words. She used their dog. 
 
 To Kadence, a boxer, she attached a tag that hinted their family would grow in 9 months. 
 
 She filmed Jesse's reaction. 
 
 They told both of their parents in the same way. After the "Fresh Prince" announcement went viral, the couple decided to upload a video including all three dog-tag tellings to YouTube as well. 
 
 The pregnancy announcements are just the latest in a series of surprises that have dotted the couple's nine-year relationship. 
 
 "My wife is super creative," Meek said. "We both try to constantly top each other." 
 
 When Meek proposed to Melissa Herman, it was in front of about 2,500 people at a martial arts tournament. 
 
 The Meeks will celebrate their two-year wedding anniversary next month, on May 11. 
 
 That's around the time the couple is supposed to learn the sex of their child, Meek said. It's also close to Mother's Day. And they want to reveal whether it's a boy or a girl in another creative format, he said. 
 
 Will the Meeks preserve Joseph Lafayette's name if they have a son? 
 
 "We haven't [discussed that] yet really," Meek said. "That would be very cool. We're definitely mixing in the family heritage and the name." 
 
 -- Hannah Leone 
 
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 Before there the was the fresh Prince pregnancy announcement to the world there was the announcement to Jesse meek and our parents. With the help of our boxer Melissa surprised us all!
– Four days after Jesse and Melissa Meek posted their pregnancy announcement on YouTube on Easter Sunday, it had about 2,000 views. By Saturday, it hit 100,000; by Monday, 600,000. Currently, it's sitting pretty at more than 3 million views. Why? Because the Oregon couple decided to announce by writing their own lyrics to the Fresh Prince theme song. Sample line: "Our family and friends, who were up to no good, started asking questions about parenthood ... Little did they know the plan had begun to start our own family, and man, it was fun." The video was intended for friends and family members, and "that was the last thing we thought would happen, that it would blow up to what it had, or what it has," Melissa, 28, tells KPTV. "We love to do that kind of stuff," Jesse, 31, tells the Oregonian. "We consider ourselves goofy and fun." They filmed the video while en route to Melissa's parents' house for Easter dinner, in just five takes. Since it went viral, they've uploaded two more videos to YouTube: One of Melissa using the couple's dog to break the pregnancy news to Jesse (and then the couple also using the dog to tell the grandparents-to-be), and one of Jesse proposing to Melissa at a jiu-jitsu tournament. They celebrate their two-year wedding anniversary May 11, and will learn their baby's gender around the same time—another piece of news they plan to reveal creatively, Jesse says.