Gingerbread house

When I was 10 years old, we moved from New England to North Carolina. As a way of finding the Christmas Spirit in that Winter-less Wonderland, my mother took a class at the YMCA on making gingerbread houses, and we've been making them every year since then (I'm 26 now). Since I'm horribly lazy, and not very creative, we've been using the same pattern pieces since 1990, and they make a very neat and basic house. I've made a slight variation this year, and so you'll be seeing what I brought to