Rock has out done himself this year.  He made the Freedom Tower for our gingerbread house this time!  For those who don’t know, the Freedom Tower is the new World Trade Center 1 building at Ground Zero. 

(This is what it will look like when finished)

Right now it looks about like this:

Rock watched it grow bit by bit every day on his commute into NYC so now he has immortalized it in gingerbread.  Though, I guess gingerbread, by its very nature, is not immortal.  Well anyway, here was the process:

The cardboard replica.

The baking process.

The assembly:

The decorating:


They used gum for the windows.

And the finished product:

Libby called it the Ninja bread house.

We are kicking ourselves for not doing this last year when we still lived in the east where this could really be appreciated.  But hopefully the mom and kids we gave it to this year will enjoy it anyway!