Get to know Luke Bryan’s two sons: Thomas “Bo” Boyer and Tatum “Tate” Christopher

Luke Bryan is in the “brilliant years” of parenthood.

The country artist is the glad dad of two young men — Thomas “Bo” Boyer Bryan, 16, and Tatum “Tate” Christopher Bryan, 13 — whom he imparts to his significant other Caroline Bryan. As per Luke, this ongoing stage with his children is ending up one of the most energizing up until this point.

“As they grow older, it’s easier to let them tag along,” Luke told PEOPLE in July 2021. “They become little men and they become functional little microcosms of me. Their personalities are really different … They become your buddies. I mean, they’re still your kids, you still have to do the discipline and you still have to teach them the right and wrongs of life, but they really morph into your buddies.”

The American Idol judge continued, “And I’m certainly in the golden years. I mean, it’s like the sweet spot of being a dad right now and you can let them tag along.”

In January 2024, Luke opened up about a bucket list trip he’s hoping to take with his sons while appearing on Audacy’s Rob + Holly podcast.

“I’ve done an Amazon Peacock Bass fishing trip. My children know that I’ve done it, and they want to go do it,” he said. “It’s all about including the family on these things too. I’ve got a lot of crazy little things that we’ll try to check off the list as a family. I’ve done a really, really great job of brainwashing [my] children into doing exactly what I like to do.”

Notwithstanding Thomas and Tatum, Luke and Caroline additionally helped raise their nephew, Tilden Cheshire, and nieces, Jordan and Kris Cheshire, following their folks’ demises. Luke’s sister, Kelly Bryan Cheshire, passed on from unsure causes in 2007; after seven years, his brother by marriage Ben Cheshire passed on from a coronary episode. Tilden went to live with Luke and Caroline and their family, and keeping in mind that their nieces didn’t live with the Bryans full-time, they turned into a nearer part of the family.

“We get to live with Kelly through her children, and we see so many things in her children that remind us of her,” Luke told PEOPLE in 2021. He added, “As a family, we really try to do good to just remember the beauty of the people we lost and not dwell on the fact that they’re not in our lives daily.”

Keep reading to learn more about Luke Bryan’s kids.

Thomas “Bo” Boyer Bryan, 16

Luke and Caroline welcomed their first son, Thomas “Bo” Boyer Bryan, on March 18, 2008, in Nashville. Thomas is his father’s first name (Luke’s full name is Thomas Luther Bryan) and Boyer is his mom Caroline’s maiden name.

“I’m over the moon! Everyone is doing great! My fishing buddy is finally here! I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world. There is no way I would have missed this for anything,” the “Play It Again” singer shared in a statement at the time.

Bo has always had a close relationship with his older cousin Tilden. When the Bryan family took Til in after his parents’ deaths, the two grew even closer with Luke remarking that a then-6-year-old Bo became Til’s mini-me and a “nagging little brother.”

In 2018, Luke was asked what he was most pleased with when it came to his children while going to the iHeartRadio Live event. “How [they’ve cut a] way toward being men of honor and polite young men,” he told journalists.

He likewise said his children were “unique” than he was at their age.

“They get back home and plunk down, they get their work done and I’m as, ‘I didn’t do that when I was a youngster.’ They’re simply balanced kids,” he made sense of. “Learning ranch life and how to live on a homestead and do outside things, yet they’ve likewise accompanied me and been on set of American Symbol and to these enormous urban communities and watched me do Dodgers Arena and [have seen] the entire world and have a decent view of it.”

Notwithstanding, their father’s popularity doesn’t “fluster” them. “I wouldn’t agree that it gives me any more cool focuses. However long I can play with them in the yard or grapple with them on the floor, that is essentially all they’re worried about,” Luke once told Individuals.

On Bo’s fifteenth birthday celebration, his mother shared a sweet birthday recognition on Instagram. She shared a selfie of the mother-child couple, a legacy photograph of Bo as a youngster and a video of Luke cleverly awakening Bo in bed by hopping on him while playing birthday music. She inscribed the post: “My once little child is authoritatively 15!!! I could should be sedated this one year from now training him to drive. 😬 We love you sweet Bo!!! ❤️.”

During a June 2023 appearance on Audacy’s Katie and Company digital broadcast, Luke talked about showing Bo how to drive.

“He’s exceptionally disappointed right now since he assumes he knows how to drive, yet he has no clue about the thing he’s doing,” he made sense of. “He thinks since he can work a 4-wheeler or Polaris that he is very capable, yet he isn’t, I guarantee you.”

Tatum “Tate” Christopher Bryan, 13

The couple welcomed their second son, Tatum “Tate” Christopher Bryan, on Aug. 11, 2010, in Nashville.

The proud dad confirmed the happy news to PEOPLE and said in a statement: “All I ever hoped for was one boy and to have two, it’s going to be fun. I’ve already got new fishing spots picked out for us.” He also said that Tate looked “pretty much like a carbon copy of Bo.”

Of his second son’s moniker, Luke previously told The Boot in 2010, “Tatum is a guy from my hometown, and then my brother’s name was Chris. So then we’ll have Bo and Tate — sounds like two little rednecks!” Luke’s brother Chris died at age 26 in a car crash.

Like his older Bo, Tate grew close with his older cousin Tilden when Luke and Caroline took him in. “Tate sleeps with Til every night,” Bryan told PEOPLE in 2021. Tate was just 4 years old when he and Bo “woke up and they had a big brother.”

Alongside his sibling, Tate has delighted in a lot of father-child fishing trips with his father throughout the long term, similarly as expected. In February 2022, Tate got his initial 10 lb fish, an achievement that took his father 45 years to do. Luke shared the specific second they gauged the fish and found out on Instagram, and Tate should be visible bouncing around in fervor.

Tate likewise seems to have a saucy comical inclination. On his twelfth birthday in August 2022, Caroline shared a progression of photographs of her most youthful, including a few shots of Tate making senseless countenances. She inscribed the recognition: “My child. He’s 12 today… .he put the “ass” in mockery… .no big surprise he’s my shadow. He’s my Thunder Mate and acts very much like me… Sorry you got my qualities Tate! I love you! Cheerful birthday Child!”.