Chip and Joanna Gaines Celebrate New Year's Eve with Cozy Family Gathering Complete with Fireworks

The 'Fixer Upper' couple and their kids closed out 2023 with comfort and joy — and a whole lot of colorful fun

Chip and Joanna Gaines rang 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 the Fixer Upper couple'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.

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.

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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. In Magnolia Journal’s winter issue, Joanna highlighted a special ritual that her mother-in-law Gayle keeps up with every holiday season.

“Like clockwork, we repeat rituals and recreate memories: the morning we pack up the kids and venture to the Christmas tree farm,” Joanna recalled in the issue’s Editor’s Letter. “Thanksgiving Day, when Chip’s mom gives each of us a new ornament to mark the year.”

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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 bond and 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 Joanna, that means facing lifelong fears — including her two new hobbies of horseback riding and beekeeping — and allowing herself to live more in the moment and be emotional, even if it's sometimes painful. "It's definitely a more real way to live, and so I'm thankful for that," she said.

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.”

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Their kids, who range in age from 5 to 18, have shaped the couple's current outlook.

Saying goodbye to Drake, who started college in September, was a particularly difficult moment. “It’s this tension of joy and pain, all in one breath,” Joanna recalled of the emotional dropoff. “Even now, when I’m setting the table, I have to consciously go, ‘Oh, there’s only six here.’ ”

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.”

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