Chip and Joanna Gaines share a glimpse of their New Year’s Eve celebration.Photo:Joanna Gaines Instagram
Joanna Gaines Instagram
Chip and Joanna Gainesrang in the new year with a bang!
On Sunday, Joanna shared photos and videos on Instagram of a very colorful holiday featuring lots of fireworks. Posts documenting the family’s festive celebrations included theFixer Uppercouple’s kids: Drake, 18, Ella, 17, Duke, 15, Emmie, 13, and Crew, 5.
The first video showed the kids lighting roman candle fireworks around a fire pit. Later in the video, a full fireworks show took place in the sky above the Gaines' heads.
Chip and Joanna Gaines and their kids celebrate New Year’s Eve with fireworks.Joanna Gaines Instagram
Joanna set the whole scene to the 10,000 Maniacs song “These Are Days.” She also posted a photo of the moment, capturing her spending quality time around the fire pit. “Happpppppy New Year!#2024,” she wrote.
As for Chip, the family patriarch shared a hometown-y snap of a local fireworks stand. “Who could resist,” he captioned the image. Joanna shared the same pic on her own Instagram feed with a cheeky note: “The ‘Buy 1 get 5 free’ gets him every time.”
The Gaines family has long been known for gathering together, and for honoring long-held traditions. InMagnolia Journal’s winter issue, Joanna highlighted a special ritual that her mother-in-law Gayle keeps up with every holiday season.
She added: “We savor favorite foods, unpack childhood ornaments, replay nostalgic records. We hold our rituals close, but we hold our people even closer.”
In their most recent PEOPLE cover story, Chip and Joanna, who have been married for 20 years,opened up about their family bondand the next phase of their relationship.
“I would say, as we’re getting older, I’m shifting and I’m more like Chip, and Chip is more like me,” Joanna said of her husband.
“Jo and I are in this beautiful moment. We’re evolving into each other,” Chip added. “It’s the second part of our marriage.”
For Chip, 49, it’s taking things a little easier and helping his wife shine. “I want to be her biggest cheerleader,” he said. “I’m like, ‘Hey, you go do whatever. My knees are killing me.’ ”
Joanna joked about chalking up the role reversal to a “midlife crisis,” but at 45, she said, “we just see life differently now.”
Chip Gaines Instagram
Their kids, who range in age from 5 to 18, have shaped the couple’s current outlook.
Having Crew at home has been a meaningful counter to that emptiness.
“The greatest gift of having a kid go off to college and having a 5-year-old is that perspective,” she added. “It’s not here forever. We don’t want to waste these moments.”
source: people.com
