The Bates Family
Looks like it's been awhile since I have been on this blog, had to do some updating! A lot has changed in 8 years. So the obvious, there was a divorce, and a marriage and couple more kid additions...
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| Our Wedding Day |
Ben and I were married July 30, 2009 in Island Park... which is right by Yellowstone. We love the outdoors. Later that year we gave birth a brilliant little boy named Aiden. He has always been so smart, learning all his shapes and colors, and atleast 20 dinosaurs by age 3. In 2011 we had Ryder, our little dude with an amazing smile and dimples too!! He is wild, funny, and super fast, and is Mommies patience checker!!
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| Graduation 2015 |
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| Kyra & Aiden |
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| Kyra with Ryder |
Kyra is living with both me and her Dad. Her Dad and I get along great and always have, especially for her sake. She has worked at the same job for 3 years now and is going to school full-time. She just started her sophomore year at Salt Lake Community College. I love her dedication, and I couldn't be more proud of the young woman she has become. Also love love love what and awesome big sister she is. On a side note, she was only able to do one year of pointe, her ankles kept swelling and causing her tons of pain. So sadly after that year, she decided to stop dancing.
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| Aiden |
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| Our silly Ryder!! |
Aiden has just started 1st Grade at an awesome school, in the neighborhood we bought our house in, which was November of 2013. Another post all it's own!! His teacher started a blog, which got me back on here, and I find writing to be pretty therapeutic, so I may just keep this up. I've been wanting to get back in to journaling. Ryder is starting Kindergarten tomorrow. I'm so very nervous for our little guy... For one he is... very little, and two he can't really recognize any letters and he can just barely write his own name. But I'm hoping he picks it up fast. I need to focus on helping them out more. And do a lot more reading too!!
One of the times he was hurting!
Cosmo is still around, he is 11 now, and as crazy as ever. A couple of times he has hurt his back, and not been doing to well for days, but he has snapped out of it everytime. He is pretty amazing.
And that is a quick summary! LoL
