Overview
- On January 17, Gaines shared an Instagram video compiling family memories and showing Emmie obtaining her driver’s license and driving away.
- The Sweet 16 was celebrated at home with red, white and blue decorations, an Italian dinner, and a blue cake topped with cherry-shaped candles.
- Images showed a temporary, brighter makeover of the family’s Waco farmhouse, diverging from Joanna’s usual neutral palette for the occasion.
- Gaines wrote that she already misses school drop-offs and encouraged parents to savor the “taxi driver” years because they pass quickly.
- Fans posted birthday wishes, and HGTV’s Mika Kleinschmidt commented that her own daughter just turned 16 as well.