Inside Joanna Gaines, Chip Gaines’ Private Family World With 5 Kids

Are you ready to see what Joanna Gaines and Chip Gaines have been up to since closing the door on HGTV‘s Fixer Upper?

Not that the parents of five went anywhere other than to their own network, which is just one facet of their perennially blooming Magnolia brand. But it’s been almost a decade since the couple restructured their priorities, starting with the decision to end their flagship show in 2018, and life in Waco, Texas, is sweeter than ever.

Though it’s also a little bittersweet now that son Drake, 21, and daughter Ella, 19, are away at college most of the year, though Duke, 17, Emmie, 16, Crew, 8, remain in the nest.

“These days, summer for me looks a bit different,” Joanna wrote in a May Magnolia Journal post. “It’s my kids coming home, or staying home, and settling back in. It still involves a lot of ordinary days stacked on top of one another, but instead of spinning my wheels wondering where we should go, this year I’m also asking, ‘What do we need?'”