Tim & Jackie Puppe. Greetings from Rochester Minnesota. We have been adding lights every year, this year there are 11,573 lights. already planning for 2009! Love the website, thanks!

This is our 2008 Christmas display in Pawtucket R.I. indoors, and outdoors!! Usually my father decorates the inside, and I decorate the whole outside! you can see more pictures and videos at, www.freewebs.com/crazylightkid or contact me at scbcdj@yahoo.com

Merry Christmas from Royal Palm Beach, Florida. We love Christmas in our house with our four kids and have always decorated inside and outside. We discovered Light-O-Rama on the Internet last year and it was definitely for us. We have 80 channels and approximately 38,000 lights. We have created 11 musical light routines and are still working on more. In addition, we have some static lights creating our "pond" where the deer can get a drink of water. Tinkerbell highlights the back left corner of the yard sending her pixie dust up to the palm trees. We hope to be bigger and better next year. We have put our house up on You Tube, just search for Sleek Family Lights. Enjoy. Jeff and Jessi Sleek

Merry Christmas to all from the Fuller Family in Clayton, NC. This year we have 48500 lights with about ¼ of those synchronized to music on 64 LOR channels. Additionally we have numerous handmade displays and hundreds of other decorations. This is our first year using light controllers and we have challenged ourselves to create a display of lights that has a balance of synchronized lights and static lights. While the use of light controllers can create dramatic effects, we want to offer an experience that is not only dramatic but peaceful, joyful, relaxing, and one that brings back memories for adults and creates memories for children. We will be a part of a thirty minute Christmas special on NBC 17 this year and have made several local news broadcasts. For more pictures and video, please visit our site at www.valleycreeklights.com. May your wishes become reality, The Fuller Family – Blaine, Kim, Chris and Valerie.

Merry Christmas from Bloomington-Normal in IL! We have 500+ blow molds, almost 40,000 lights, 104 channels of Light-O-Rama, Leaping Arches, Mega tree, Strobes and the famous The Christmas Story Leg Lamp. Check out our website for more information and photo's of our display. http://www.freewebs.com/
centralillinoischristmasdelight

Happy Holidays From The Bustamante Family, This is my First year with LOR 32 Channel Controller. Oh what fun it is with hundreds of feet of extension cords and 14,000 lights.

Happy Holiday's from Kathie's Lancaster Lights. We are located in Lancaster, CA. We have just over 5000 lights in our new home. 80% of my display is handmade. Here is my website: Kathie's Lancaster Lights |
Kathie's Holiday Light Display. Merry Christmas!! ~Kathie

Hi Chuck, Here are some photos for your 2008 Showing Off section. Belardo Lights is located in San Diego, CA and in 2008 we proudly present an animated Christmas Display consisting of 58,000 lights, and many home-made items and decorations. We recently added Singing Reindeer, Sparkleballs, the Christmas Word Tree, the Dancing Stephen, and much more. Our display is a labor of love and provides therapy and father-son time with our two boys Brandon and Stephen. They were both diagnosed with Autism at age 2, and have made large strides with early intervention and associated therapies. The Belardo Lights display is our way of making memories for both our boys and the community. More information is available on our website at www.belardolights.com Thanks, Randy Schimka

This year's Christmas Display is 20,000 led lights sync'd to 64 channel of LOR that run nightly with 10 different songs broadcasting on 106.7fm. We are in Middletown Delaware. Be sure to visit http://www.christmas
delaware.com for directions and links to other Delaware homes.

Merry Christmas from Research, Victoria, Australia. This is our 2008 display that includes inflatables, blowmolds, animation, and sound activated items.

Here is my neighbor’s yard and won the neighborhood contest 3 years ago. His whole yard is covered in penguins.

Merry Christmas from the Zentner family in Hemet, California. 10,000 lights and getting bigger every year. Dave Zentner

ok, here's the deal for 2008.. my display (the top balcony) really didn't turn out but it's bright.. it's a much better view from inside. the neighbor below me participated.... if i knew they were going to have that "stairway" of lights happening i'da done something different with my display to accompany their work. happy holidays folks!

Merry Christmas to everyone from Plant City Florida! No snow here but lots of Christmas spirit in our neighborhood. We hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday and Happy New Year. John and Terri Carroll

Hi, where Justin n David from Saint Mary's, Pa this is a few pictures of our 2008 display including 130 blowmolds...30 + wireframes....7 inflatables....3100 lights....we wanted more but have to add more power lines.........been doing this since I was 4! I'm 25 now so theirs only room to grow! enjoy

Aaron and Kristen Jabkowski of Mesa Arizona. 13,000 lights, using 40 channels of LOR. 11 ft statue of liberty mural, 18 ft tall Times Square Building with a lighted motorized new years ball , check out the youtube video http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=TFayNtt2qZE I also have 15 ft tall world trade center tribute in light and a big apple. A few other important things are a 4 x 6 ft flag on the roof and a memorial to Andrew Peter Charles Curry Green, a relative of my wife who was lost in the terrible tragedy on September 11th 2001. Please check out the other video on youtube of the full show http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=gSesuRXFWnM MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE JABKOWSKI FAMILY

Our 2008 display with 125000 lights using wire frames mini,rope,LED,C-7 lights with computer animation More info at www.hudsonchristmas.com

James & Camille Wagoner

Edgewater, Florida

Happy Holidays Everyone!

2008 Light Estimates Total Light Count - around 15,000 Total extension cords - 60 at various lengths, (approx 3750 ft total length) Total Computerized Channels - 48 Total Amps - 90 (potential) Total Watts - TBD Total Time Involved - 2-3 hours per minute of each song (75-100 hours total for the 2008 show) Planning - all year, all the time Show Times - 5:30-10:00 pm http://Christmaslightshow.
blogspot.com Mike Cotrill

Hey Chuck, Here is my showing off..... 32 channels... Located in milford, Ma. This is our second year. Here is the link to the Youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=sDq-JBsatCE&feature
=channel_page and attached is a photo from the local newspaper. Thanks Nick

This is our third year for a synchronized display. My son and I synchronize the songs. and we have two friends help setup in November. We have over 100,000 lights which are mostly LED’s. Our show runs from December 1-31st every year and we collect donations for the local food bank. Our web address is www.christmmasinkent.com Kevin Thomas

Halina and Frank Rossi, League City Texas. 80 channels of LOR with 18,000 light. This is our first year with LOR and you can see videos at www.rossichristamsshow.com

Marty Slack's Christmas Utah is an animated display synchronized to music. The display features singing and dancing animated figures, an animated band, video, and music broadcast on FM. The show is controlled by 544 channels of Light-O-Rama. For more details visit www.christmasutah.com

My Mum & Dad Do The Lights Every Year For There 3 Grandchildren, My Sisters Two Kids Courtney Age 4, Keira Age 2, And My Son Jayden James Age 7Month, We Have Put Pics On Planet Xmas For The Last Couple Of Years! This Year Were In A New House And Every One On The Street Loves The Lights! Thanks Roxanne Halpin And My Mum Tracy & Dad John.

Pic from Chandler, Arizona. Idso Family 2008. Vintage Blowmold Heaven!

Hello Chuck and fellow PC visitors. Hereby a picture of our small balcony display. Unfortunately we don't have much more room outside our apartment. Wishing all of you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for the upcoming year. Fons, Margo & Stephanie

Max McKeever. Producer of Max's Lights. www.maxslights.com

Hello and Merry Christmas from Abingdon, Maryland. Samantha and Dave

Greetings Chuck. Here is a picture of my house for the 2008 showing off page. Now this may not look as great as so many other houses do, but what is special is that for only the 3rd time during my 50 years it snowed in central Mississippi during the Christmas Season. I have 50k lights of which 30k are in the back yard with my new 48 channels of Light-O-Rama I have a new nativity and still broadcasting on Low Power FM 107.9 "Mayton Christmas Radio". Season's Greetings to all as I begin thinking about next year. Bro. Larry. Puckett, MS www.merrychristmas
mississippi.com

Merry Christmas to Southwest Michigan!! This is our 8th year of automated lights. Our Third year using Light-O-Rama. Last year we had 80-channels this year we have 128-channels of LOR all sequenced to 5 songs with a small FM modulator with RDS. We have over 12,000 mini-lights, 50 C9 lamps, 4800 lights on 25ft Mega-tree, 12 Mini-trees, 2 10ft Leaping Arches, 3 blowups, 3 blow molds, 2 hand made wireframes with tube lights and over 300 foot of tube light on the house. Check out our videos on youtube “Lights on Bell Road 2008”

Your site is amazing. We submitted a photo back 2002. The old photo still comes up in a web search. Because of this last week we were contacted by a long lost cousin we haven’t seen in almost fifty years. WOW!! Talk about a Merry Christmas!! I just had to send in a photo of this years’ display. We have added quite a bit since 2002. Thank you for all your hard work. Jack and Donna Lotts. Titusville, FL 32796

Hello everyone! I'm from Serbia, Europe, and I loooove Christmas decorating.. :) My display has over 8.000 lights, 1.000 are ice white LEDs that I purchased from USA. I have a lighting ceremony each year, when all my friends and neighbors gather to see the show of lighting the house!!

Graham Family Christmas lights in Chillicothe, Texas welcome you to our 3rd year of animated lights. We have 112 channels controlling a 14’ diameter circle(trampoline frame), 16 mini trees, shooting star, 4 leaping arches, house lights, and a NOEL sign. Seven songs sequenced this year for your enjoyment. You can view videos from all 3 years at www.grahampage.info/
lights/lights.htm Hope you enjoy, James and Gloria Graham

Merry Christmas to everyone from the DeVan family in Powder Springs, Georgia. This is our first year synchronizing to music. Lot's to learn, LOL. Many thanks to all the generous and helpful friends at PC and LOR. We wish everyone a successful and joyous new year!

Merry Christmas! Bill Weis

Hi, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Here is our 40,000+ light static display in Bolingbrook, IL. Many of the lights on the house and in all the trees are chasing lights and give the place a sense of movement. This is our 19th year decorating. The neighboring town has 4 trolleys running every night and drive by several times a night. It's so funny to be outside and hear the people on the trolley shouting with surprise as they come around the corner. They all get out and walk around. Many have come to the door to sing Christmas Carols to us. Being on the corner gives them an opportunity to see our display from different vantage points. So many people are so thankful for what we do. They tell us stories about how they have been coming here for years with their family, how it reminds them of what Christmas is all about and for those that have had tragedy in their life have told us how our display helps them get into the spirit. To all of you -- THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO TO SPREAD THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS. Jack & Laura

Hi C.Smith. Hello from Denmark/ Europe. Glædelig Jul & godt nytår// Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Home of Olympia ,Michala & Morten at the country side of Fredensborg. This is the number 1. Christmas light display in Denmark ! There is 20.014 lights. Happy Holidays from Denmark this is our 4th year of decorating our house for Christmas. Every year our display has grown, this year we are using 20,014 lights. We wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!, We hope you enjoy this years display… We are looking forward for next year…. Julelys I røven gir varmen…// Have a nice Christmas. Marten Z. Honore

Hi, Merry Christmas, for you too! I am from Brazil and I work with recycle materials in Xmas. See my house in the photos. Bye and happy new year! Rosely

Hi Chuck, Picture of the Parcell Family display in Geneva, IL.

Happy Holidays to everyone from Marlton, NJ.... What a tough time trying to get a house that has over 100,000 lights to sit still long enough for a picture. We also had 16 fun and unique inflatables, animations, Santa Claus, fire trucks, police cars, and so much more... We had a great year this year with our Christmas Spectacular 2008. WE worked with 2 charities, the Evesham Twp Fire/Rescue and also the Yellow Ribbon Club of Marlton, NJ. What a great bunch of people who are there for the troops when they come home from overseas. We had over 200 people at the house when Channel 10 out of Phila, Pa was filming! The only thing missing was the big top, maybe next year... www.yellowribbonclub.
org. Well till next year, another six months to rest before we do it all over again!! Tom and Beth Ronketty. Marlton, NJ

Greetings from The Sweet's Family in Miami, Florida. Not much going on, but we still wanted to share our display. Thank You PlanetChristmas for allowing us to SHOWOFF in 2008. We're planning BIGGER for 2009. LOOK OUT!

www.denhamlights.webs.com

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hi I'm Chris and I'm 17 years old. this is my house in Farmingdale long island. I put up this display with my dad and my brother. this is the first year I computerized the display with 32 channels. next year I plan to make the display even bigger. I have been doing this for about 6 years and every year it grows. I am already working on new ideas for next year. new this year are the 2 Christmas trees. they switch colors from red to green and are broken up into 4 sections and are animated by 16 channels. we came up with the idea last January so we had metal frameworks made up and then in September I started wrapping the trees with lights. they have a total of 5,000 lights on them. the whole display I estimate has anywhere from 15 to 20 thousand lights. happy holidays and happy new year from the Catalano family

G-Town Christmas http://christmas.tysonh.com 32 channels of Light-O-Rama Gardner, Kansas. First year computer controlling. Tyson & Natalie Hofsommer, Gardner KS 66030

This is the first year we have gone animated, and we have a 64 channel LOR system running 15,000 lights. Although hard to tell, the mini trees have three separate colors and total 4,200 lights alone The whole family was involved in creating, building, programming, and managing the project. My 17 year old and 11 year old boys were of great help in building and they even programmed their own songs. Our oldest son’s friend also was our narrator, and programmed his own sequence. We are located in Summerville SC, and have put up a display since moving in 2003. Rob

Merry Christmas all, 100,000-110,000 estimated traditional static walk around light show here in Winter Park, Fl. is a huge success again drawing over estimated 60,000 visitors. At times just before and on Christmas Eve as many as 500 are walking in and around the walkways interacting with the display. Our show is now in it’s 15th year of providing many smiles and great adventures for the young and old at heart. Our display has grown to one of the most beloved in the Orlando area that consist of many animated sculptures, scenes, window displays, toy carnival, antique blow molds, etc all orchestrated to traditional and new age Christmas music. Indeed a great experience for us and we are so happy to make so many a very special Christmas to their family. Thanks to Chuck and this Web site for all the great things here and thanks to all for the great displays pictured here. Merry Christmas forever to all, Rob and Betty Petersen of Winter Park, FL

Hi Chuck, Here is a picture of my 2008 display. I live in Greenville, Rhode Island. This is my first year computerizing my lights to music using Light O Rama 32 Channels. Happy Holidays! Wes

Nothing but blow molds! This is Thomas and Doreen Steiner's 2008 Christmas Disney Display in Huntington, IN., located just five blocks from the Huntington County Courthouse. We have been decorating our yard with lights for 40 years. Although I don't run a computerized display and don't really plan to, there are still some elements of control to everything. We have around 2,000 lights and 50 different blow molds for this year. We cut way back on lights due to the economy this year, and just went with 2,000 mini lights, all blow molds, and a few wireframes this year. We also feature a Gemmy Ferris Wheel (new for the 2008 display) & Santa Train and Tender Car. We also cut way back on lighting for 2008 due to spending more time with our lovely granddaughter, Autumn, 5 years old and our grandson, JJ, who is 1 year old. We have 700-plus blow molds, but we don't use all 700 in our display. We change the blow molds around each season to make the display look differently. We have been doing a Christmas display for 40 years. We have been featured in The Post & Mail newspaper, Columbia City, IN and The Huntington Herald-Press newspaper, Huntington, IN. We have raised over $3,005 for the Toys For Tots Campaign for 2008.We love what we do best for the community of Huntington, IN. Please check us out on the web at www.blowmoldsrus.webs.com

This years display is up about 10% to 17,500 lights. Our third year at this location and second with LOR control of 8 songs. We try to add a few blow-ups, lights and LOR channels each year. We hope everyone had a great Christmas and are looking forward to seeing all the great displays next year. Happy New Year from the Dimmocks- Augusta GA

Dear Chuck.....I visit your website every Christmas to view the houses and get idea's for when we are decorating......this last weekend we went to Edmonton (Alberta). and viewed this house.......it is truly unbelievable......I just thought I would pass on the web-site so you could have a peek......this is his 5th year on decorating and I have never seen it on the planet Christmas website. www.maisieschristmashouse.
com. It truly is a "Magical Christmas House".......I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as my family did. Til next year..... Debbie Hollman (Camrose, Alberta, CANADA)

I have had a static display since 1997 and had my first animated display in 2007. For '07, I had 13,900 lights with 40 channels of computer control. For '08, I had just over 30,000 lights with 88 channels of computer control. I am very pleased with the way my display turned out this year, and I have received numerous compliments. I even had people coming to my door, to thank me for the display/show! Feel free to check out my website at www.madtownlights.com. And big Thank You to everyone who has given me guidance & support, without your help, I wouldn't be where I'm at today. Happy Holidays to everyone!

This year's Christmas display has two running trains, 35 foot long animated Toy Factory, and a 24 foot tall artificial Christmas tree. This is our 9th year running the bigger train pictured here. More information is available on our website at www.kindlachristmas.com Thanks, Bryce. Frisco, Texas

Season's Greetings from the "Crossroads of America" Joliet, Illinois. We have been decorating for 10 years, and have close to 200 blow molds in front, side and backyards. We have "Snoopy" overlooking Interstate 80 nightly from atop his lighted house. We setup our display is "Themes" like a full "Nativity" display, The "Snowman Convention", "Gingerbread Houses with Family and Trees", Penguin Family with Igloo", "Choirs with Steeple Church", "Santa Express Train complete with Elves", "Support Our Armed Forces Display", "Mickey and Minnie Mouse going on vacation in 1971 Winnebago", "Bear Family with baby bears going down slide and teeter tottering (1st try at animating), "Angel Choir singing in front of 10 foot lighted cross with the "Reason For The Season" and the blue and white "Rockdale Star" above it. We also have Candy Canes", " Blinking Lights", "Spiral Trees' New this year was the 10 foot cross and my wife's hand painted signs "Welcome To "Cassem's Christmas Corner" "The Reason For The Season", "God Bless America", and "Support Our Armed Forces", these signs really stand out... We light up on December 1 and shut down on January 2, lights are on from 5pm to 10pm. Outside Music from "College of St Francis" nightly. This been a real tough year with ice, snow, and high winds but we managed to come through it.......Next is the disassembly and storing it till next year! See you then! Happy Holidays to one and all from Jerry and Ruby Cassem

Welcome to the Hallum's House Of Lights 2008 Computerized Christmas Lights Display. This year we are excited to announce we won the Worldwide Computerized Display Contest on Planet Christmas. Our 2008 display includes over 155,000 lights and 224 LOR channels. This was our first year using LOR. To learn more about the display and to watch videos, you can check out our website at www.HallumsHouseOfLights.com .

My wife and I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas and will have a prosperous New Year. This Christmas, our display was seen by more people than ever before. We had a steady stream of cars and people walking by our home every night. Our entire street got in on the fun this year with lights on nearly every house. It was really something to see. The picture that is shown here is just one side of the display. Our big addition this year was a choir scene telling the story of Christmas, along with a Ferris Wheel, a Carousel, and some cute yard decorations. We want to invite everyone to come see us in Spring Hill Tennessee in 2009 and visit our street. The street name is Paradise Drive. Our theme will be "Christmas on Paradise". Merry Christmas and we that you will be blessed throughout the year. Glenn and Christina Barber

Merry Christmas from the DeLauro and Cianflone families in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, NY. We have over 12,000 lights most of which are L.E.D. Our display has it's own radio station and is controlled by 24 computer channels. Our neighborhood is known for having some of the best Christmas light displays in New York. This year we were featured on HGTV (What's with That Decked Out Christmas House), The Learning Channel (More Crazy Christmas Lights) and Treasure HD on Dish TV (Magnificent Obsessions). Come by and check us out. 1121 - 1125 71st Street Brooklyn, NY 11228. I hope to see you soon... Robert

Liquori Family Winter Wonderland 2008, Here is Michael and Rosina's Display from Glen Cove Long Island New York. We have 25000 lights 500 blowmolds 40 airblown inflatables, giant toy soldiers, candy canes and more. This is our 21st year decorating. Boy how the time has gone by. We have been featured on all the local news channels, also CNN, HGTV and we have been shown in Spain and south America, and Japan Television. This year we're honored to be a Planet Christmas Decorating Contest winner in the Blowmold category. You can learn more about the display from our website at: www.liquorilights.com

Hi Chuck. All the way from Perth, Australia. Please find attached my 2008 Christmas Lights Display. I have 27,400 lights. Each year my collection of lights grows... This year I raised over $5,000 for Canteen - Kids With Cancer. website: www.teddingtonxmaslights.
weebly.com. Thanks, MARIE

This is my house. I love to decorate it for Christmas. Thanks, Happy Holidays and a happy new year! Elaine Cardello.

This is our second year using LOR controllers. We have 144 channels this year with 28,000 lights. Videos are here http://www.youtube.com/user/chapelcreeklights Directions are here http://www.christmaslightfinder.com/
displays.php?id=323 We are located in Ft Worth Texas, come see the 2009 show, it WILL be worth the drive!!

Foghorn wishes you a Merry Christmas from Spokane, Washington. Farm-ish light show with over 66,000 lights and 392 channels of LOR. You can visit www.christmasnorthwest.com and view videos of Foghorn, Porky, Dominick, the Three Chicks, and more, singing and dancing to the music.

Hi Chuck, please review the attached information regarding our display. You can also find more information at www.lakecountrychristmas.com. Below you can see a photo from last year’s display which won a decorating contest. This year we have over 48,000 computer controlled lights synchronized to music. We have two different shows which start at the top and bottom of the hour. Each show runs between 15 and 23 minutes. The display features a 25’ mega tree, a fifteen foot mega tree, a virtual Santa and a life sized nativity. Music is broadcast on a low power FM transmitter so visitors can listen to the music while watching the lights from the comfort of their cars. Mike Mackey