Relive Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Best Quotes About Love, Family and Parenthood

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Relive Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Best Quotes About Love, Family and Parenthood

Big, happy family! Chip Gaines and wife Joanna Gaines have their hands full with five children after welcoming their youngest son, Crew, in June 2018 — and they are happy to share their highs and lows with fans. The twosome, who wed in 2003, are also parents of Drake, Ella, Duke and Emmie. They grew to fame as the stars of HGTV’s Fixer Upper, which ran for five seasons from 2013 to 2018, but their family has always come first. “Their days are busy and hectic with homeschooling, chores and cooking, [but] Jo wouldn’t have it any other way,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2020. “She likes being busy and with five kids it’s nonstop activity. Jo’s teaching the kids about gardening and how fun it is to plant the seeds and watch them grow into vegetables. They get to harvest the bounty themselves.” In addition to raising their five kids in Waco, Texas, Chip and Joanna work side by side on all of their business ventures — including the revival of Fixer Upper: Welcome Home as part of their own Magnolia Network, which launched in July 2021. “Neither of them makes a business decision without consulting the other,” the insider told Us. “They feed off each other’s creativity and are open to try something new. Their faith keeps them grounded and grateful for the success they’ve found.” The twosome run the Magnolia Market, Magnolia Shops, Magnolia Press, Magnolia Seed + Supply, Silos Baking Co. and more at the Silos in their hometown. They’ve also opened Magnolia Table, publish Magnolia Journal and established Magnolia Reality over the years. [jwplayer Fm4XLlfB-zhNYySv2] “Jo’s proud of what she and Chip have been able to accomplish together with basically nothing but a dream,” the source added at the time. “She’s living her dream life and doing what she loves.” Throughout all of their personal and professional success, Chip and Joanna have leaned on each other — and haven’t been afraid to fail. They often share their stories with fans, including advice on parenting, love and their careers. “Chip and his family have always had this thing that Gaines never quit, so he’d say, ‘Jo, we’re not going to quit, we’re going to make it through this,’” Joanna recalled during a virtual discussion for the Salesforce Presents Stories of Resilience: A Conversation With Chip and Joanna Gaines on Finding Inspiration event in July 2020 of the couple’s choice to push through adversity. When times get tough, the We Are Gardeners author knows that focusing on her bond with Chip will help them get through it. “We would look at each other and say do we just bail and get out, that seemed so much easier than having to figure out how do we make it through this,” she continued. “We leaned on each other’s strengths in those moments of weakness where I would typically only see the glass half-empty and Chip would see the glass half-full.” Scroll down to relive their best quotes through the years: [podcast_block]

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Relive Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Best Quotes About Love, Family and Parenthood

Big, happy family! Chip Gaines and wife Joanna Gaines have their hands full with five children after welcoming their youngest son, Crew, in June 2018 — and they are happy to share their highs and lows with fans. The twosome, who wed in 2003, are also parents of Drake, Ella, Duke and Emmie. They grew to fame as the stars of HGTV’s Fixer Upper, which ran for five seasons from 2013 to 2018, but their family has always come first. “Their days are busy and hectic with homeschooling, chores and cooking, [but] Jo wouldn’t have it any other way,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2020. “She likes being busy and with five kids it’s nonstop activity. Jo’s teaching the kids about gardening and how fun it is to plant the seeds and watch them grow into vegetables. They get to harvest the bounty themselves.” In addition to raising their five kids in Waco, Texas, Chip and Joanna work side by side on all of their business ventures — including the revival of Fixer Upper: Welcome Home as part of their own Magnolia Network, which launched in July 2021. “Neither of them makes a business decision without consulting the other,” the insider told Us. “They feed off each other’s creativity and are open to try something new. Their faith keeps them grounded and grateful for the success they’ve found.” The twosome run the Magnolia Market, Magnolia Shops, Magnolia Press, Magnolia Seed + Supply, Silos Baking Co. and more at the Silos in their hometown. They’ve also opened Magnolia Table, publish Magnolia Journal and established Magnolia Reality over the years. [jwplayer Fm4XLlfB-zhNYySv2] “Jo’s proud of what she and Chip have been able to accomplish together with basically nothing but a dream,” the source added at the time. “She’s living her dream life and doing what she loves.” Throughout all of their personal and professional success, Chip and Joanna have leaned on each other — and haven’t been afraid to fail. They often share their stories with fans, including advice on parenting, love and their careers. “Chip and his family have always had this thing that Gaines never quit, so he’d say, ‘Jo, we’re not going to quit, we’re going to make it through this,’” Joanna recalled during a virtual discussion for the Salesforce Presents Stories of Resilience: A Conversation With Chip and Joanna Gaines on Finding Inspiration event in July 2020 of the couple’s choice to push through adversity. When times get tough, the We Are Gardeners author knows that focusing on her bond with Chip will help them get through it. “We would look at each other and say do we just bail and get out, that seemed so much easier than having to figure out how do we make it through this,” she continued. “We leaned on each other’s strengths in those moments of weakness where I would typically only see the glass half-empty and Chip would see the glass half-full.” Scroll down to relive their best quotes through the years: [podcast_block]

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Birthday Boy

“You make life better for all of us,” Joanna wrote via Instagram in November 2021. “Happy Birthday to the very best✨.”

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Leaning on Each Other

“Chip and his family have always had this thing that Gaines never quit, so he’d say, ‘Jo, we’re not going to quit, we’re going to make it through this,’” Joanna said during a virtual discussion in July 2020 of the couple’s road to success, noting they “leaned on each other’s strength” during moments of weakness.

The Homebody author added: “One thing we’ve always told people is even with that mentality shift, there is a lot of power in that. When you decide I’m not quitting, there isn’t a plan B, we’re going to make it through that, that shift changes the momentum of things.”

Chip chimed in saying, “There doesn’t need to be a plan B. It’s sort of like the old history lesson about the sailor or the explorer that literally decided to burn their boat so that they understood there’s no plan B, but I really learned that firsthand.”

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Full Plate

"I'm so in tune with my mind and my emotional state that [I realize], ‘Oh, I'm running low. I need to pull back [from work]. I need to get in the garden, I need to get with the kids,'" Joanna told Salesforce of balancing her career with her five children in July 2020.

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Eyes Open

“Our kids here, each one of them have a different look," Chip told Emmanuel Acho in June 2020 during a candid conversation with his children about racism and colorblindness. "Maybe it’s OK to highlight those unique [qualities].”

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Girl of My Dreams

“Everything about you has made everything about me better. And 17 years later I’m still learning from and loving on the most incredible woman in the world,” the No Pain, No Gaines author wrote via Instagram in May 2020 alongside a photo of the pair’s wedding 17 years prior. “After all these years Joanna Lea Stevens, you really are the girl of my dreams. Happy 17th sweet girl. I love you.”

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Social Distancing

"It's important to us that the kids understand what's happening outside of the farm,” Joanna said on the Today show in April 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Right now, it feels kind of protected, sheltered [since] they don't watch the news, they don't have the stuff on their phones, they don’t know what's really going on. So we’ve really sat and communicated just the seriousness of this and how we can be praying for people."

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Little Legend

“I can't stop watching this video and I wonder how it's possible that a 1-year-old is a better skier than me,” Joanna wrote via Instagram in March 2020 after a skiing trip with her youngest son, Crew.

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The More the Merrier

“When I’m 50, Chip’s going to want more kids,” Joanna told Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist in October 2019. “Just know, this is going to be the headline forever — Jo’s pregnant again. Chip with children is like business — there’s never too many. I’m like, ‘Chip I think we’ve got enough, I think we’re good!’ That’s how Chip is with children. He’s like, ‘I just think we can keep having them!’ I think Chip just loves a full plate.”

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Baby No. 6?

“I could see Crew having a little sibling and me being like, ‘I love this woman,’” Chip admitted during the same segment.

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Another One?

“There's a running joke with the people that run in our circles where any time things are going well between Joanna and I, at the end of that statement, I'll sarcastically say — used to be sarcastically — ‘No. 5, No. 5,’” the Capital Gaines author said in September 2019. “Well, now we've got five children. So now, sarcastically, I would say, ‘No. 6, No. 6,’ when things were going well.”

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Shared Values

“We’ve always been on the same page when it comes to the things that matter most: our family and our values and how we want to raise our children,” Joanna shared with Success magazine in December 2017.

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Newest Addition

“We had four babies right before the show started and then we’ve had zero babies since the show started,” Chip said to ABC News in November 2017, then expressing his interest in having another child. “For me, I’m really excited to go back and try to maybe … try to make some more babies.”

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Family First

“For us, the most important thing in the world is Jo and I’s relationship, followed very quickly by the four beautiful kids [of ours],” the Capital Gaines author told Savannah Guthrie on the Today show in October 2017. “We didn’t want to push it, to redline [our show] for so long that we woke up and realized we are at a point of no return. We wanted to take a step back and focus on what is absolutely the most important thing to us.”

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The Long Haul

“Motherhood can be difficult. It’s not an instant gratification thing all the time,” Joanna wrote in a candid essay for Motherly in 2017. “When your kiddos are just babies and you’re changing diapers or listening to whining constantly, it can feel overwhelming. But I want to encourage you, because one day you’ll be sitting around a table for your birthday breakfast and you’ll realize that their little hearts are thankful for you. And they do notice things like homemade meals.”

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Maintaining Priorities

“Our oldest [child], who’s 12, is becoming a teenager, and Jo and I just realized in our hearts that are much as we love Fixer Upper, as much as we love the honor that we have felt with this show basically introducing us to the country, if not the world, we want to make sure that we’re here for our family during really crucial, pivotal points in its journey,” the general contractor explained to Success magazine of the couple’s decision to end their show.

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Constant Communication

Joanna revealed that communication is key for her relationship with her four children, and she keeps them in the loop about almost everything. “I explain that I have to work just like they have to go to school. I also let them know that what I’m doing at work that day — whether it’s filming the show or going into the office — and what time I’ll be home,” The Magnolia Story author wrote via Instagram in April 2017. “Taking a few seconds to let them in on this other huge part of my life has really helped them understand that Mom and Da have a big job to do.