Annual Gingerbread House!

Last year, we started a tradition of building a gingerbread house every year at Christmas.  I remember as a child that my grandmother used to make us a gingerbread house every year.  k, so I am definitely NOT my grandma (last year I bought a pre-assembled house) but this year I bumped it up a notch and bought the pre-baked gingerbread, but assembled the house myself.  Harder than I thought, but it came out ok in the end.  Certainly not a rival for anything my grandma ever did, but a good tribute and tradition all the same...especially since this was our first Christmas without her.  Emily liked putting on all the candies.  And sampling a few along the way as well.  Amazingly, there were enough left to decorate the house.