Chip and Joanna Gaines live a seemingly charmed life, and not just because they’re rich and famous.
Many people aspire to have fame and fortune, but the Gaines' biggest accomplishment is their family.
Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about their adorable family.
Chip fell for Joanna at first sight
A happy home often starts with an epic love story.
Chip and Joanna were clearly destined to be together.
The two finally met when Chip was back in the shop to have his brakes fixed.
Joanna was working in the shop’s office that day.
“We met in the waiting area and hit it off immediately,” she said.
“He was genuinely engaging and he had such a sincere smile.”
They’re a multiracial family
Many fans don’t know that Joanna is half Korean.
Her parents have their own inspiring love story, which Joanna sharedin an Instagram post.
“Forgot what it was like decorating with a baby!!”
she wrote in the caption.
“I miss it!
I wonder if my sister will let me keep him for a while.”
“I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes,” he said.
“Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I’m not real crazy about.”
Interestingly enough, Joanna ended up being less strict than she had expected.
“I want my kids to date, I want them to go out,” he said.
“I just remember great experiences as a kid, you know?
All those were little milestones to some extent.”
The family doesn’t even have a television at home.
“So they don’t really understand that we have a show,” Joanna toldPeople.
“They don’t get it.”
Chip and Joanna are determined to give their kids a normal childhood and keep them out of the limelight.
“We are thankful for our success,” Chip toldPeople.
In an interview withPeople,the couple admitted that their grueling production schedule was hard on their family.
“They would ask, ‘Mom and Dad, do you guys have to film again today?
When is this going to be over?'”
“I look at life as the more the better,” Joanna toldPeopleback in 2016.
“If I found out we were having another baby, I would be really excited.
We like a full plate.
That’s just how Chip and I operate.”
Just a few months later, the coupleannounced that their family was growing.
Joanna toldPeoplethat when Drake was a baby she left him with Chip to “take a short run.”
“I walked in and discovered Chip had prepared an elaborate breakfast for me,” she said.
“I sat down to eat, and I looked over at Drake.
He was sound asleep in his swing, still wearing nothing but his diaper.”
Joanna was understandably “freaked out” that their baby had been left home alone.
“I wanted butterflies by the girl’s [sic] windows that they could see and enjoy.
I never told them about the bush and honestly I forgot about it over the years.
My little hummingbird comes every morning mom!'”
“It’s hard not to think this is a lot like parenting,” she wrote.
Be encouraged today to keep pressing in and tending to their hearts.
It will be worth it."
