Another year has begun, which means it's time to restart the Bates birthday list. The family has already checked off four in the month of January, and today is the first double. Trace is 25, and Jeb is 10. That is a big milestone for Gil and Kelly because it means that all of their 19 children are officially in the double digits. Happy birthday to Trace and Jeb!
Trace Bates with girlfriend Lydia Romeike; Papa Bill and Mama Jane
Brandon Keilen, Michael Keilen, Judson Bates, Jeb Bates, Callie Bates
Photos courtesy of @tracewbates; keilencorner.com
Happy 25th Birthday Trace and 10th Birthday Jeb!🎈🎉🎁🎂🥳 Hope you both are enjoying your double birthdays. Exciting that Trace has a girlfriend (Lydia) to celebrate his birthday with this year. Maybe by this time next year you two will be engaged or even married. Who knows but God what next year will hold.
ReplyDeleteFantasic that Michael is so involved with her family. She really is a good and modest Christian role model.
ReplyDeleteThe word modest rubs me the wrong way. Too often, it's used only to describe how a woman dresses, as if that somehow makes someone closer to God. Are her sisters not Christian role models because some of them wear jeans and shorts?
DeleteHopefully Trace and Jeb had a good birthday.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to both young men. Trace has turned into a very handsome gentlemen.
ReplyDeleteFinley was born in January too, oh you mean birthdays as finley won't celebrate hers till next year, so next year it will be Finley, Gil, Michael, Lexi and Layla, is that the month with most birthdays, no two months, as it's equal to February which has five also.
ReplyDeleteHAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY TRACE.
ReplyDeleteMarilyn,Joan and Marion
HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY JEB
ReplyDeleteMarilyn,Joan and Marion
Wow in 8 or 9 years al the childeren wil be married and out of the big house!
ReplyDeleteWho are Papa Bill/Mama Jane? Friends of the family? Strange to call them that if it's a grandparent.
ReplyDeleteThey are Gil's parents.
DeleteThey are Gill's parents. So they are the grandparents to Gill and Kelly's children. Nothing strange about what they are called. I chose granny but grandchild chose "YaYa".
DeleteMaybe it's the similar blonde hair, but I think Lydia looks like Esther, Nathan's new wife. Anyone else see this?
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