Gingerbread House

Does any ones gingerbread house ever turn out??? Mine sure doesn't. Today we made a ginger bread house, it slowly started to fall. then five second later every ones yelling and fulling their mouths with ginger bread. not to mention it's store bought so it's not tasty anyways. Has anyone ever tried to make it nice??? It's no fun like that! throwing ginger bread around is what makes it fun!!!