Recap: 'Summer of Love"

Bringing Up Bates Season 6 Premiere "Summer of Love"

• Erin takes Carlin, Tori, and Katie out to ice cream to catch up.
• Kelly gives an updates on the relationships. Tori and Bobby are courting and growing closer to each other. Carlin and Evan are not yet courting, but things could be heading that way soon.
• “Josie’s just a year behind Carlin,” says the mom of 19. It won’t be long before she’s trying to set her eyes on some fella. You better get your shotgun ready, Dad.”
• According to Erin, her brothers are picky when it comes to choosing girls. Nathan has been away at flight school, and he says he is still single but has female friends who may be prospects.  “I’m kind of scared he’s going to bring a wife back in that plane one day,” jokes Lawson.
• “Lawson, I think…he needs to wait like five or six more years,” says Erin. “He’ll be 29. That’s a good age. I think that’s good for him.”
• “I am really 100% focused on my music…but that could change any time…” responds Lawson.
• Trace is in college and is planning to attend Bible classes for one year, but he is still single. 
• Erin and Chad make a big announcement. They are having twins…twin goats! They purchase twin miniature goats for Carson to play with. 
• The Bates head to Clayton, North Carolina, for a wedding that no one saw coming. Kelly’s mom, Betty Jo (known as Meema), is getting married to a man named Tom! “This the happiest that I have seen Meema in, probably, I don’t even know how many years,” says Kelly.
• Kelly’s parents divorced when she was young, and Meema remarried, but her husband passed away.
• “I think it’s good to know that, at any age, no matter how old you are, you can still find love,” says Erin.
• Tori and Bobby will be singing "Red River Valley," a love song duet. They decide on the song at the rehearsal.
• On the day of the wedding, Meema is stunning in her glitzy blue dress. “It’s fun for me to see her that happy, especially knowing all the sorrow that she’s been through recently,” says Kelly. She and her sisters pray over their mom.
• Meema is smiling as she walks down the aisle. “It tickled us all when Meema kind of jumped the moment and kissed him before time, but it was just cute, you know, you want to see a couple in love,” says Kelly.
• When they are pronounced husband and wife, Tom and Betty Jo's kiss is long and affectionate. "I think it was so cute," says Kelly. "You want to see them a little bit frisky. That lets you know there's some affection." Gil laughs and says, "No problem there!"
• “I don’t think I can ever remember seeing my grandmother that happy,” says Erin.