What happen in the month of May?

• Allie turned 1 month old
• Chad and Erin welcomed baby Carson
• Bradley turns 7 months old
• John and Alyssa just celebrated their first year of marriage
• Brandon and Michaella revealed their wedding date
• Erin celebrated her birthday
• Warden celebrated his birthday
• Erin celebrated her first mother's day
• Alyssa celebrated her first mother's day
• Whitney celebrated her first mother's day
• Kelly celebrated Mother's day

Countdown to wedding: First update

Welcome to our first blog for Brandon and Michaella's countdown to wedding date! We are super excited for their wedding.

The wedding is in 77 days as of today! We are super excited

Check to see our introduction blog

Carson's newborn photos

The photographer of Carson's newborn photos actually emailed me and said that she had more photos of him. We are super excited to share them with you.

family of three at last!

Carson and Erin

Carson

Carson is coming home

Carson is three days old and is coming home for the first time.

Chad and Erin are so excited for their first night with him at home.


Be sure to check out his first week of life on Thursday!

Be sure to check out our Facebook page "fan page of the Bates family" for new photos

All about Carson: Introduction

For those that have not heard but Chad and Erin have welcomed their first son on Thursday. 

For his first month, he will have weekly updates and then on June 14th, it will go monthly! 

Bradley's first fishing trip!

Bradley got to experience his first fishing trip and here is a photo!

One month to go!

The countdown is on for the new season of Bringing up Bates! We just have a little under a month to go. This season, we will get to see John and Alyssa's journey to parenthood along with Chad and Erin's journey to parenthood. We will also get to see Brandon and Michael's engagement and how they plan their wedding.

Be sure to check in on June 2nd for our first season 2 preview!

Baby's first trip to the beach!

John and Alyssa took baby Allie to the beach yesterday to celebrate the weather that God gave today for them. John and Alyssa can't believe that their daughter is now three weeks old as of yesterday.

Erin's birthday

Happy Birthday to Erin Paine! Erin is turning 24 years old today! She has been married for 18 months to Chad Paine!

We hope that you have a great birthday. Erin is almost 35 weeks pregnant with Carson! 

We will see you for her 35th week update on Monday!

Chad and Erin: 18 months later

It's hard to think that Chad and Erin got married 18 months ago today. It's really nice to think that they are so in love with each other. They are expecting their first child due in about a month.

 

More news about the wedding

We have some more news to share about the wedding!

Just two days ago, Brandon and Michaella were looking at churches and praying about dates. Michaella revealed that they will hopefully have the wedding on Bringing Up Bates. But it's not sure if it's going to be in season 2.

Mother's day cover!

We are so excited to share our Mother's day cover today with you all.

 Both Erin, Alyssa and Whitney are celebrating their first Mother's day!

Our May birthday cover!

On Monday, we announced that we were going to post our May birthday cover on Sunday. Well that day is here and here is our cover!