2022 yearly recap

 Welcome back to our yearly recap for the Bates family! This year was fun of exciting times for the Bates family. So let's get started! 

January: Gil, Michaella, Lexi, and Layla celebrated their birthdays. Up TV announced the cancellation of Bringing Up Bates right as Lawson announced his wedding date. Chad and Erin welcomed their daughter, Finley Marie into the world.

February: Trace, Jeb, Tiffany, Maci, Jackson, Bobby and Addallee celebrated their birthdays. The family celebrated their I love you date.

March: Travis, Kolter, Zoey and Everly celebrated their birthdays. Evan and Carlin welcomed their son, Zade Patrick into the world. Trace and Lydia announced their engagement. 

April: Lydia, Carlin, Allie, Chad, and Ellie celebrated their birthdays The family celebrated Easter. 

May: Erin, Carson, and Warden celebrated their birthdays. The Bates celebrated Mother's day. Bobby and Tori announced that they were expecting baby #4. Nathan and Esther announced that they were expecting baby #1. Lawson and Tiffany got married. John and Alyssa celebrated their eight wedding anniversary while Evan and Carlin celebrated their third wedding anniversary. Trace and Lydia announced their wedding date.

June: Jadon, Hazel, Kaci and Charlotte celebrated their birthdays. Nathan and Esther announced that they were expecting a girl and planning to name her Kenna. The family celebrated Father's day.

July: Kelton, Papa Bill, Willow, and Lawson celebrated their birthdays. Jackson announced that he has a special friend. 

August: Callie, Josie, Brooklyn, Nathan, and Evan celebrated their birthdays. Brandon and Michaella celebrated seven years of marriage. Bobby and Tori welcomed their daughter, Cambree Lynne on August 2nd. Travis and Katie announced that they were expecting their first child.

September: Brandon, Judson, and Whitney celebrated their birthdays. Travis and Katie announced that they were having a girl and naming her Hailey. John and Alyssa announced that they are expecting baby #5.

October: Katie, Esther, Isaiah, Kelly, and Bradley celebrated their birthdays. Nathan and Esther welcomed Kenna Joy into the world. Kelton and Josie celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary as Nathan and Esther celebrated their first wedding anniversary. Trace and Lydia got married. John and Alyssa announced that baby #5 would be a boy. 

November: Khloe, Alyssa, Kade, John and Holland celebrated their birthdays. Chad and Erin celebrated nine years of marriage. The family celebrated Thanksgiving.

December: Tori and Zach celebrated their birthdays. Travis and Katie celebrated their first year of marriage. Zach and Whitney celebrated nine years of marriage. Bobby and Tori celebrated their fifth year of marriage. Gil and Kelly celebrated their thirty-five year of marriage. The family celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve.

Questions and Answers with Trace and Lydia

Trace and Lydia are ready to close out 2022 with a little question and answers video on their Youtube channel. They just came back from Flordia helping the Paine family move into their home. We gather a few of the top questions and answers.

1. House tour? adjusting to living together? Main cook in the house? 

Lydia says that the house tour will be as soon as they clean up from Christmas. Lydia says that it's different but she has been enjoying. Trace says that it's been different since he went from having 18 siblings to 2. The couple says that it takes time to adjust and they are still figuring things out. Trace says that they are not the best cooks and they are learning.

2. What do they do for work? Police work for Trace? How did he get in construction?

Lydia does photography while Trace does construction. Both of them want to grow their businesses. Trace is still in deputy department since 2019.  Trace says that it was because of his brother-in-law, Chad, introducing him to it. He enjoys it.

3. How long was their courtship? Marrying into a big family?

Trace and Lydia both said that they would date for eight months before getting engaged. Lydia says that it's been fun to have so many people to hang out with it.

4. Plans for Baby? Waiting? 

Trace says that he and Lydia both love children. Lydia comes from six children while Trace has 18 brothers and sisters. Lydia has names picked out. They are currently enjoying their time together. They are at the point that they are not planning it out. Trace says that they are enjoying life and if God gives them a blessing then that would be great. Lydia wants it to be twins. 

5. Lydia's family and where they are from? 

Trace says that he is blessed to be married into Lydia's family. Trace reveals that Lydia is not a citizen of the US because they came over when she was ten. She does have deferred status. They do want to get her a travel visa and they currently getting that rolling. Lydia says that she has to apply for a work permit and drivers license. She says that she can't travel right now. The couple says that they will update that as soon as they can! 

6. Sibling for Maui?

Lydia says that she doesn't know if they are going to get Maui a sibling due to the fact that he is deaf.

A new photo of Jackson and Emerson

As we are getting ready to share our 2022 recap, we thought that it would be wonderful to share new photos of Jackson and Emerson.

Zach turns 34

Happy Birthday Zach! 

Grandbabies Christmas photos

 We have new photos of many of the grandbabies during Christmas time! 

Little Bates photos

Esther's sister got married the weekend of the Bates family Christmas.

Can you believe that Kenna is two months old now? 

New photo of John and Alyssa

During their Christmas post, John and Alyssa shared this new photo of themselves together. 

A new photo of Lawson and Tiffany

We have a new photo of Lawson and Tiffany Bates.

Please go check out our most recent post regarding Tiffany's health.

Bates family Christmas 2022

We are so excited to share the Bates Christmas photos with you all! 

The Balka family

The Bates family

Brandon and Michaella

Callie Bates

Lawson and Tiffany

The Stewart family

Trace and Lydia

The Webster family

Bates family Christmas party

We have new photos to share from the Bates family Christmas party on the 9th of December.

 

birthdays posts are changing

In 2023, we are making a change to our birthday blog posts. We thought that it would be wonderful to show you what we mean.

In the past few years, we had only posted one photo and now we will be combing at least two to five photos depending on how many are out there to celebrate the birthday boy or girl. 

Two grandbabies coming in 2023

 The Bates family will grow by the end of April! 

Travis and Katie will welcome their daughter, Hailey James, in early March.

John and Alyssa will welcome their first son in early April. 

New photos of the Balka children

We have two new photos of Hazel and Willow to share with you all.

Christmas photos with the Paines

Are you ready to ring in 2023?! 

We have new photos of the Paine family to share with you.

We also have new photos of the Paine children.

January birthday cover

We hope that you had a wonderful Christmas with your family members. We have our first birthday cover for 2023.

Here are their birthdays:

Gil- January 1st

Finley- January 18th

Michaella- January 23rd

Lexi- January 26th

Layla- January 31st

Babies first Christmas 2022

Four grandbabies just celebrated their first Christmas! 

Finley celebrated her first Christmas at eleven months old.

Zade celebrated his first Christmas at eight months old. He turned nine month old just a few days after Christmas.

Cambree celebrated her first Christmas at four months old.

Kenna celebrated her first Christmas at just two months old.

Christmas 2022

Merry Christmas everyone! 

Cousin's lookalike?

Many have suggested that Maci and Finley lookalike.

So we decided to create a comparison photo of the girls.

What do you think?