Drake Gaines is celebrating his 20th birthday today and leaving his teen years behind him.
The oldest son of Joanna and Chip Gaines has settled into life as a sophomore at Baylor University, where he's earned himself a place on the college baseball team.
Drake is front and center on many of the team's Instagram posts giving fans a glimpse into his passion for sport.
According to his bio: "Drake is studying business entrepreneurship at UMHB. He played four years of varsity baseball at Valor Preparatory Academy."
His stats read that Drake stands at 5ft 10 and weighs 180lbs. He is the perfect mix of his mom and dad with Joanna's dark hair and Chip's beaming smile.
While he no longer lives at home, Drake's college is in Waco where his famous family reside.
No doubt, he'll celebrate with his loved ones, including his siblings, Ella, 18, 16-year-old Duke, 15-year-old Emmie Kay, and Crew, six.
Joanna described how her firstborn leaving for college impacted her, in a personal essay for her magazine Magnolia Journal ahead of his departure.
"In the grand scheme of heartbreaking things, this one comes with a lot of gratitude and excitement," she wrote at the time, though noted: "Still, my first child is moving away, and our family dynamic will change because of it, and that can feel like a loss of its own.
"I catch glimpses now of what that life will look like and wonder if — or how many times — that might bring me to the floor."
However, she's slowly getting used to her kids growing and now four of the five are behind the wheel of a car too.
"I stalk them on the app Life360!" she told People before she noted that the popular tracking app "tells you how fast they're going."
While it is "sad" to see them leaving home one by one, Joanna is proud of them.
"They're just turning into these wonderful human beings.
"My favorite thing is seeing them hanging out in a restaurant together as friends. Because when they were younger I was always monitoring their fights, and now they’re dear friends, which is so cool."
She added: "Knowing that [the older kids] will be gone in the next few years, I've made a conscious decision to create micro-moments, to feel in the now with our family, just be really more intentional with our time together."
Baseball is a shared passion for the family as Chip was recruited to play for Baylor University, but the coach who called him up retired.
"Baseball got me in the front door at Baylor," the HGTV star told Baylor Magazine. "As God would have it, I was not destined to be the next great baseball player, but I was destined to enjoy Baylor University and the dear friends that I met there."