Layla turns 2

Happy birthday Layla

We will have her 24-month-old update in early February

Three May weddings

On January 18th, Lawson and Tiffany announced their wedding date to be May 12, 2022. We shared the news on January 19th.

John and Alyssa were the first to get married in May 2014 followed by Evan and Carlin in May 2019.

February birthday cover

Now that Chad and Erin have welcomed their daughter into the world. We can shard our newest birthday cover with you all.

New photos of Kaci, Khloe, and Jadon

We have new photos of Khloe, Kaci and Jadon to share with you all.

Kaci was the only June birthday until her mother and aunts welcomed three little ones in June 2020.

We have this new photo of Khloe taken by Lydia which is adorable. 

Jadon is currently the youngest grandson of Gil and Kelly until Evan and Carlin welcome their baby boy in March/April.

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Lexi turns 5

Happy birthday 

Snow picture of the Balka family

We have a new photo of the Balka family enjoying the snow.

All about Charlotte: 8 months old

 Charlotte is now eight months old.

She just celebrated her first Christmas and New Years with her family

Michaella turns 32

Happy birthday 

Future of this blog

As we quickly approach our tenth anniversary blogging for the Bates family, we have been asked many times what is the future of our website for the Bates family. 

Over the past ten years, we have celebrated birthdays, courtships, engagements, weddings, pregnancy announcements, birth announcements. 

We have also shared recaps from both Bringing Up Bates and United Bates of America. So when the news of Bringing Up Bates surprising cancelation, we have put alot of thought about if we want to continue to share the Bates family news. 

The answer is yes. We hope and pray that you will continue to read about the Bates family. 

Updated January cover

 Now that Chad and Erin have welcomed their baby girl, Finley Marie, into the world. We have updated our January birthday cover. 

Next weekend, we will be releasing our February birthday cover. 

New photos of Josie and the girls

We know that you are waiting for our release of our February birthday cover. We are just waiting to see Finley to make her arrival before releasing it. As we wait, we thought that we would share two new photos of Josie with her daughters.

We just love these photos of Hazel, Willow and Josie together.

All about Finley: Introduction

 Finley is almost a week old and it's time to share her birth information with you all. 

Finley was born 4:51am on January 18, 2022. She weighed 5lbs and 4oz.

last photo of family of six

We were hoping to share this photo before Finley Marie was born.

New photo of Finley and grandma

We have a new photo of Finley with Kelly to share with you all.

New photos of the Bates with Kelly's mom

We promised that these are the last photos from December that we want to share with you all. Today's post will be all about the Bates visit with Kelly's mom

The first photo is of Judson and his grandma

The second photo is with Kelly and her mother

The third photo is with Callie and Judson with their grandma.

Lawson and Tiffany's wedding date

We have some more big news to share following the arrival of Finley Marie and the news about Bringing Up Bates. 

The couple has announced their wedding date and its May 12th! 

New photo of the Bates Boys

Zach and Whitney shared this new photo of the boys on Christmas day, and we have been saving it for almost a month now. 

Bates official statement

 Last night, we sadly shared the news of the Bringing Up Bates. We do have more information about it to share.

Gil and Kelly revealed that their contract with UpTv had not been renewed. 

To read their full statement on people magazine by clicking this link 

Bringing Up Bates news

On Tuesday, January 18th, the network announced that the show will not be returning on February 10th like they originally planned. 

We will keep you updated with any news regarding the Bates family and their TV show. 

Here is uptv official statement regarding season 11.

First photo of Finley

We are so excited to share a new photo now that Chad and Erin have welcomed their baby girl.

Finley is here

 Chad and Erin have announced that they have welcomed their fifth child 

Baby Finley update

Chad and Erin are currently at the hospital.

we will update as soon as we can.

New photo of Bobby and Tori

We have a new photo of Bobby and Tori to share with you all. 

New photo of Smith family

In honor of Tori's birthday, Gil and Kelly released new photos of the family. This photo looks like it was taken back when Bobby and Tori welcomed their daughter into the world.

Double dates

We hope that you are having a wonderful weekend. We have two new photos to share with you. Up first is a new photo of Layla, Trace, Erin and Chad having a double date before the arrival of Finley Marie.

Up second is a new photo of Carlin, Evan, Zach and Whitney as they talk about the business and just enjoy one another.

All about Hazel: Seven months old

 Hazel is now seven months old! 

Hazel recently celebrated her first Christmas and New Years with her family.

New photo of Charlotte

In honor of Tori's birthday, Gil and Kelly released new photos of Charlotte, Bobby and Tori Smith that we would love to share with you all

New photos of Webster girls

We have a few more photos from Christmas time to share with you all. Today's post is featuring the Webster girls. 

Up first is Maci Jo.

Second is Zoey

Third is Lexi and last is Allie 

Season 11 coming soon

 Yesterday we marked one month until bringing Up Bates returns. 

New photo of the Webster family

We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas. We also hope that you have been enjoying the Christmas photos that we have been sharing.

All about Maci: 11 months old

In just one month, John and Alyssa will have a one-year-old daughter. We can't believe she is about to turn one. It feels like yesterday that we were announcing her birth.

In the past month, she celebrated her first Christmas and New Years! 

New photo of Layla

We have a new photo of Layla to share with you all. Now this photo is from Christmas 2021.

It's hard to believe that she will be two in just a few short weeks. 

All about Jadon: Seven months old

 Jadon is now seven months old so let's recap all that happen during his six to seven months of life.

A few days after his six months of life post, His parents celebrated their wedding anniversary. He also celebrated his first Christmas. On December 30th, he celebrated his father's birthday Just a few days ago, he celebrated his first New Years with his family.

We recently posted his first Christmas pictures with himself and his sibling. We also celebrated a new photo of Jadon.

Posts mentioned:

• All about Jadon: Six months old
• Zach and Whitney celebrate eight years
• Maci, Jadon, Hazel's first Christmas
• Zach's Birthday
• Bates family Christmas part 1

family pictures part 2

We have recently shared part one of the Bates family Christmas on Tuesday. You can click here to see part 1 that features Zach/Whit's children, Nathan and Esther, Lawson and Tiffany, and Chad and Erin's family. Today we are sharing some more with you all.

Following his courtship announcement, this marks the first Christmas that Trace and Lydia are spending together.

Travis and Katie shared this cute photo of them together with their dog.

We love this photo of Brandon and Michaella together.

Evan and Carlin shared this new photo of their growing family. We will be sharing a new photo of Layla on Saturday.

Kelton and Josie shared a new photo of their first Christmas as a family of four. We have many new photos from Christmas and looks like we are going into next week with sharing them. 

New photo of Erin

With the new baby about to be here, we have a new photo of Erin to share with you all.

We can't wait to meet baby Finley.