Building A Gingerbread House

I don't think I've ever shared a post of Rudy and I building a gingerbread house. This isn't necessarily a tradition of ours, and we purchased a gingerbread house kit spontaneously. The last time we even built one was back in 2016, so three years ago! This year for whatever reason Rudy and I have been in the Holiday spirit since November began, and we want to try and squeeze in as many festive activities as we possibly can until Christmas. A few weeks back we picked up a gingerbread house kit and we finally had time to build it a couple of weeks ago. Today I'm so pleased to finally share some of the photos we took of each other and the house during the process. Now let's dig in!

Rudy and I picked up this gingerbread house from Target. They had quite a few different houses to choose from that ranged from traditional gingerbread houses, chocolate cookie house kit, mini villages, footed PJs, ugly sweaters, and I even saw a Grinch themed one which I now wish I also picked up. We decided to go with this Holiday gingerbread pre-built house from Wondershop. This was this first year we opted for a pre-built house and it honestly made the whole building/decorating a lot easier.

Normally, building a gingerbread house is something Rudy is all about. He usually takes over while I help him out here and there. This year I did a lot of the decorating and even though it gets kind of stressful because I'm not the best at the icing part, it was so much fun to do. We each took turns on the decorating, and I'm surprised at how good Rudy is at decorating with the icing. I often found myself handing the icing over to him.

Look at him go! I try to have more of a theme going on and I wanted to try and stick with more of the reds and whites for this house. It was a bit of a challenge since the candies that were provided in this kit filled with rainbow colors. I think it would be really cool if we would have purchased some of our own candy and really personalized the house.

The peppermint candy and pink gumballs on the roof were one of my favorite touches of the house. It was so exciting the closer we got to completing the house and getting to see how the decorating was coming together. I also added a cute mistletoe to the top of the front door. It was a bit of a struggle since the candy was a little heavy for the frosting to hold and I didn't think it was going to work out. Luckily, once the frosting dried up a bit it kept the mistletoe in its place!

I had this small Christmas tree and deer sitting with all of the other decors we have on the tv stand. Since they were just the right size I decided to put them with our completed Gingerbread House. This was the perfect final touches our precious house needy to make it feel even more welcoming.

Thank you so much for joining me in today's post. Now tell me, do you tend to build a gingerbread house? Let me know what other holiday-related posts you'd like to see from me this month!