The Bachelor alum Nick Viall has made a big, meaningful purchase by buying back his family's old lake house for his mother.

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Nick took to TikTok and posted a sweet video to announce that he's given his mother the ultimate gift.

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"Story time," Nick kicked off the video, showing off a tattoo on his chest of a lake house surrounded by trees with a canoe out front.

"This is a tattoo of the lake house my grandfather built in 1965 that we lost when I was nine when he died. This is the place that was always the version of heaven in my mind. I just bought it back and gave it to my mom."

Nick then shared footage of his mother reading a card that revealed the news her family's former lake house belongs to her once again.

"Surprising my mom with a card letting her know I bought her dad's house back after 32 years," Nick wrote in text over the video, which featured Nick's mom wiping a tear from her eye.

The Season 21 The Bachelor alum proceeded to show his uncle pushing his mom on a swing.

"Mom and her brother on the same swing they played on as kids," Nick wrote, before sharing more family history with his followers.

Nick captured steps that had his mother and her siblings' initials engraved into them from 1965, and he also filmed a glimpse of a birdhouse his great grandfather had built high in a tree.

"[This is now] the place we will make new memories with our kids [one day]. Finally home," the Bachelor in Paradise alum concluded.

Alongside the video, Nick wrote in the caption, "After losing the house 32 years ago, I finally brought it back in the family. I had recurring dreams my entire life since we lost the house in 1990 about somehow having the house back in our family. I always woke up. I'm living a literal dream. No more waking up from this one."

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Nick's fiancee, Natalie Joy, commented on the post, "What a JOURNEY this has been!! We will create the most beautiful memories here and our children will get to grow up enjoying the same slice of heaven their dad grew up enjoying."

Nick and Natalie just celebrated three years together, and Nick told E! News in February that they're "definitely anxious to get married."

"We definitely didn't get engaged to have a long engagement, so it's been great. It's exciting," he shared at the time, adding, "We just started talking about [the wedding]."

Nick shared how he and Natalie probably won't be having a destination wedding.

"I don't know if our goal is to have the biggest wedding of all time. I think for us, something we've talked about is it's important to involve people who know our relationship and know us. So I think that would be kind of the driving force," Nick said, hinting the pair may get married close to home in California.

And Natalie chimed in, "Also convenience. We want it to be super easy. I have a lot of older, sick family members that I want to come and I don't want anyone having to fly to Mexico. I want it to be easy for everyone."

Nick announced his engagement to Natalie in mid-January after several years of dating. He proposed marriage in Venice, CA.

"For the rest of my life, it's you," the Season 21 The Bachelor star captioned a January 13 Instagram post containing a gallery of photos from the couple's engagement shoot.

Nick and Natalie reportedly first became romantically involved in 2019 but attempted to keep their relationship private for more than a year and didn't go public until after widespread reports that they were dating surfaced in January 2021.

Nick and Natalie had been living together prior to Nick proposing marriage, and so their engagement didn't come as a big surprise to fans. The couple had openly talked about the possibility of getting married and having children together for some time.

"We're having those conversations that everyone is scared to have, but they're definitely needed," Natalie said during a joint interview with Nick on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast in June 2022.

"We talk about finances, children, where we want to live, and things like that. We are definitely opening up and talking about those things more. We're not not trying, we're not trying either. We're just living life."

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Nick also noted on the podcast how Natalie was "playful" when they discussed getting engaged and she had given him some helpful tips and hints.

"She's giving me the information I need to be successful," Nick said at the time.

"I love that for me. She was like 'Is this too much?' And it wasn't. She walked the line carefully and told me exactly what you want and where you're at."

Nick pointed out how Natalie's candidness about what ring she wanted and how she envisioned the marriage proposal going took some pressure off him.

"She wants to tell me things, but we both have a level of wanting it to be romantic and a surprise, rather than knowing today is the day," Nick said last year.

Nick reportedly even got emotional when talking about his strong feelings for Natalie and confessed that, for the first time in his life, he would "not be okay" if Natalie left him.

According to the former The Bachelor star, he had typically anticipated a breakup in each of his prior relationships but Natalie had made him feel "so safe."

During the interview, Nick also revealed he and Natalie initially met through friends but she was the one to make the first move.

"She slid into my DMs. It was very romantic," Nick recalled with a laugh, adding that he first met her when he was with some of his friends in New York.

Nick starred on Season 21 of The Bachelor in 2017 after several prior attempts to find love on The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise didn't work out for him.

After competing for Andi Dorfman's heart on The Bachelorette's tenth season in 2014 and finishing as the runner-up behind winner Josh Murray, Nick also appeared on Kaitlyn Bristowe's The Bachelorette season the following year.

Kaitlyn ended up giving her final rose and getting engaged to personal trainer Shawn Booth, whom she split from in November 2018 after three years of being together. (Kaitlyn is now engaged to The Bachelorette Season 14 alum Jason Tartick and planning their wedding).

Nick continued his search for love on reality television following his split from Kaitlyn through a stint on Bachelor in Paradise, but when a romance with Jennifer Saviano didn't work out, ABC selected him to star on The Bachelor's 2017 season.

Nick got engaged to special education teacher Vanessa Grimaldi at the end of his season, but their romance kicked off with more challenges than the average The Bachelor couple to come out of the show given Vanessa had been living in Canada and Nick preferred to stay in the United States.

Shortly after getting engaged, Nick also competed on Dancing with the Stars, which soaked up a lot of his free time and energy.

Nick and Vanessa split in August 2017 and Nick seemingly never entered another serious relationship until Natalie in 2019.

As for Vanessa, she announced her engagement to Canadian businessman Josh Wolfe in August 2020, and the couple got married on August 2021 in their hometown of Montreal, Canada.

Vanessa and Josh welcomed their first child in October 2022.

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