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Hi PlanetChristmas! Finally December is here again and lightshow is up an running. This year I have increased a little to 16,507 lights and 80 LOR channels. Second year that I am synchronized to music and its going well. The lightshow is 9 minutes long and has 7 songs. This years news is that I decorated a 33 feet pine tree with LED's and control it with 10 channels. I also tried out to use 4 white artificial trees and decorated them with white, red and blue. They work very well. Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Best wishes to all, from Niklas Adolfsson in Sweden. Visit my site at: www.juleljus.se

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Hi

Here's a photo of my house - hope it makes the cut for the 2009 showing-off pics! Keep up the good work.

"Happy Christmas - from Milton Keynes, UK".

Andy

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My display is bigger than last year, but still small in comparison to many others. It isn't computerized, just good old fashion blowmolds! On each end of the property there are three different snowman with our sign "Merry Christmas from the Kreiders". On the right side of the driveway there is Santa's workshop with the elves loading Santa's train with presents. By the walk-in door is the 5' Santa and North Pole sign. The 17 member choir sings in front of the picture window and the tree is lit in the window behind them. Snoop, Pooh, Tigger, Minnie, Mickey, and Goofy guard the front door. The nativity is to the left of the front door and to the left of that is gingerbread men and candy canes around the tree. Santa in his sleigh and 9 reindeer are flying in the air between the large tree and the house and 18 nutcrackers surround the large pine tree. I also have some soldiers in the front yard as well as a mock pond with penguins.

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Hello, this is the Holden house in Scranton, Pennsylvania this is the 3rd year I am submitting my house. We add a few things each year. This year we have over 6,000 lights including 6 air blown inflatables, 3 animated reindeer, and a flagpole Christmas tree. Hope you like it. Enjoy and Merry Christmas!!!

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Chuck,

Here are a few pictures of our nativity for this year. The largest figure is 36" tall and the stable is to the scale of the figures.

Tony Furst

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My younger brother and I every year for the past six years have been decorating our house and each year it has got bigger and bigger, so big that my dad had to install extra outlets just for the decorations.

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Hi Chuck! Up until Friday, November 27th, I considered myself a "Newbie". But as of 5:01pm, I'm now a veteran!!!! I live in a townhome, so I will never have as impressive of a display as some others may produce. But for me, this is the best I could create in our first year. It was originally planned to surprise my Mother (who at the time was 84) to keep her spirits high following the passing of my Dad in August '08. But Mom passed away in January '09. So my dedication and time to create our show is in my Parents memory. I certainly know they're watching and smiling
in their own special way! Merry Christmas to all!!! Bill Marler, Bolingbrook, IL

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We are using 60000 lights mostly leds. All set to music by light o rama, 144 channels. Programming starts in September set up starts in October. We have a toy drive for hope for kids and have already begun collecting toys. Wishing everyone a merry Christmas from the Kramer family of Summerville, S.C.

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Hi Chuck,
My name is Arnold, My wife and I have been decorating our house for 5 years. Here is a picture of our house this year. It contains 2,250 lights. I saw your website and thought that our house should be on this website. We enjoy decorating for this wonderful holiday.

Thank you and Merry Christmas

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Hello from New Milford, NJ

We are the Kaprielian family and our house is known for always being decorated for every holiday. We are best known in town for our elaborate Halloween display, but Christmas is quickly catching up. (In fact, today I had someone tell me I was competing with myself from holiday to holiday!) I have 5 small inflatables + a large snowman, 17 blowmolded plastic figures, music, and of course, lights (this year is about 8-10 thousand, yup I lost count!) Merry Christmas! Matt Kaprielian

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Merry Christmas from Sugar Land, TX.

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This is our 4th year doing a Christmas Lights Display. This year we have just over 26,000 lights on 48 channels using Light-O-Rama. There's 3 inflatables and a "snow" machine too. For more details, see http://bretonlights.com. Mike Breton - Folsom, CA

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HI Chuck, Greetings from Plainfield, IL!!
This is our 4th year decorating our home. We added a nativity scene this year along with more lights. Our display is static right now with over 11,000 lights. Merry Christmas --- The Berndl's

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This is the Campbell X-Mas light show from Pittsburgh. I am 20 years old and love you to put on a show of Christmas lights. This is my first year doing this at my parents house. What we have new this year are LED's, Lights to Music, And a ton of new lights! We also now have a website, I love feedback tell me what you think in our guest book. www.campbellxmas.shutterfly.com We have video, pictures and much more!

Thank you Planet Christmas. Kevin Campbell

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Our holiday lights display is located at 326 Vonder Ln. Geneva, Il 60134. It consists of over 20,000 white lights, reindeer, Santa, trains, drummer boys, angels, four 15ft mega trees and much, much more…. Happy holiday’s The Yehling Family

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Merry Christmas to everyone from Roanoke, VA. This year I have about 53,000 lights controlled on 157 channels of AL controllers. This is my 4th year of animating my lights to music, but have been decorating my house for 15+ years. More information about my display can be found at www.starcitylights.com The Patterson’s

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We are from Omaha, Ne and this is our 5th year with LOR. We have 60,000 lights, and 30,000 are set to 192 channels this year. Our display just keeps growing. This years display is color corodinated with red, green, and white and next year our fan is getting a facelift with LED's to save power. Happy Holidays to all! Marc and Deb Hansen

www.twasthelightbeforechristmas.com

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Merry Christmas!! This is our 4th year submitting to PlanetChristmas and still Love it. Here is our 2009 Display located in Eastern Oregon. This year we added back a 30ft waterfall with running motion light and added a jumping fish to the scene. Everyone enjoys the return of the 10ft – 6,400 light - Christmas tree that changes between 4 colors (Red, Blue, Green and White). To view more pictures and video, visit our website at www.bowlercentral.com/christmas.htm. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Matt

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This is the Mergens Family Christmas display, a traditional display featuring nativity, Victorian toy shoppe with Carolers and a country style church. New features and buildings are added every year. The current display, which is almost 20 years old, started out in Loves Park, Illinois, was put into storage for over a decade and re-debuted 900 miles south in Purvis, Mississippi in 2008.

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Hello once again Chuck;

It's that time of year & my dad once again did an amazing job on his Christmas light display. He just went back to after taking two weeks holiday to do the actual set up (that is of course after in addition to the many, many hours it takes him to check each string of lights to make sure they are working and "tweek" anything that needs to be fixed before he actually puts them up). He does such a great job and we are all so thankful that he does it each year so that we all can enjoy his display. Not only are there over 50,000 lights, lots of characters, blowups, but to make it just a bit more special for the kids there is a walkway thru the display where he has set up lots of extra buttons to push to make even more lights go on/off and change colors. Once again a super terrific job Dad, we love you & are grateful to you for making our Christmas so special each year. To see more pictures please visit our website at www.piczo.com/xmasguyshouse. All Donations to the BC Children's Hospital.

We are having our Annual Hot Chocolate & Picture with Santa Nite on Sat Dec 19 from 7pm till 10pm - come by and enjoy complimentary hot chocolate & picture with Santa (pictures will be emailed to you). Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays. Sincerely, Carol

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Here is our 2009 Christmas display

943 Bluestem Lane

Batavia Illinois

Front yard and path to back yard and lights on shed syncd to music

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Dave Edwards, 18, from Birmingham, UK

Display set up in order to raise money for "R.O.V.E.R" - Raising Of Ventinary Expenses for Rescue - a local charity helping/rescuing sick and abused dogs.

www.lights4charity.net

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Merry Christmas from Omaha, Nebraska! This is our 3rd year decorating our house for Christmas. This year we have added to our display with 80 channels of LOR. We have more photos and information about our display on our website http://www.christmasonust.com Merry Christmas!! Richard, Brittany and Charlie Lammers

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Hello. This is the Holden house in Scranton, Pennsylvania this is the fourth year I am submitting my house. We add a few things each year. This year we have 6 airblown inflatables, 3 animated reindeer, a picture projector, a flagpole tree, and over 6,000 lights.

Hope you like it, and Merry Christmas!!!

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Kraig Porter

Yes, 'tis the holiday season, and back online for 2009 are the Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease:
http://www.komar.org/cgi-bin/christmas_webcam Once again, three live webcams and X10 technology allows web surfers to not only view the action, but also *control* 20,000+ lights. Heck, you can even inflate/deflate the giant 12' Santa, Elmo, Frosty Family, fifteen foot ballloon, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Homer Simpson - D'OH! ;-) The website is totally free (and totally fun) and is one of my zany ways of raising awareness & soliciting donations for Celiac Disease: http://www.celiaccenter.org/news_xmas.asp
my two sons have this condition, so it's personal for me. If folks are so inclined, you can make an optional donation directly
to the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research. Over $40,000 has been raised with ... holiday lights - go figure!
While people around the world (152 countries last year) enjoy seeing the lights ON, environmentalists will be happy to know that they can turn the lights OFF with a click of the mouse. Better yet, this is
the 6th year I'm using Wind Power and even though that is "clean" energy, I even did a Carbon Offset contribution for the 0.6 Tons of CO2 for the ~MegaWatt-Hour of power consumed - that's about the same as *one*
cross-country airline trip. Finally, by providing viewing via webcam, you don't need to burn fossil fuels by driving around to see Christmas lights; Al Gore would be proud! But HEY, the couple bucks a day in electrical costs are well worth the joy it brings to people (especially the kids) when they see the display in person and/or on the web. There's even a Hi-Def option, so gather your family around the large screen and open up some Eggnog as the chestnuts are roasting on an open fire. So surf on by, tell your friends, blog about it, spread the word, etc. Merry Christmas and HO-HO-HO! ;-) alek

Daniel and Mary Gromer, owners of THE LIGHTED GINGERBREAD HOUSE located at 4025 Diane Drive, Antelope, CA 95843 in the Sacramento area of N. California. See the video at www.ChristmasTyme.com Featured on TLC - The Learning Channel TV Special INVASION OF THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS on December 6, 2009. Decorated with unique whimsical rope light designs and custom signs makes this house like none other and a site not to miss. Our 6th Annual Christmas Toy and Food Drive helps needy kids and families. Donation barrels at our house and stores in the area - you can donate online on the website. Santa and Mrs. Claus here 6 - 9PM on December 13, 20, 22, 23 – check website for more info. December 24th 7PM Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - in front of house. We close down the street on December 20th for “Big Night with Santa” FUNDRAISER for the toy & food drive(Weather Permitting) with a riding train, bounce house and other festivities. SANTA & MRS. CLAUS for hire for corporate, mall and private parties with clear background checks. Contact us at 916-332-3447 Christmas Toy & Food Drive sponsored by Destiny Faith Center & Destiny City Help. Financial donations welcomed & all donations will go to support the toy and food drive. Thanks! Daniel and Mary Gromer

Nascar at the North Pole

Friendly prechristmassy greetings from Germany, first of all this does not so feel well my English. Have generated this text with a translation programme. The family Vogt has asked me to introduce her Christmas house with 400,000 lights.

I myself am the owner of the Internet site www.weihnachts-lichter.de where German Christmas houses are introduced and houses from other countries of this world. But now to the Christmas house Calle: The Christmas house Calle with his 400,000 lights is the biggest Christmas house of Germany and absolutely one biggest in Europe. Are in 1999 illuminated the family Vogt her Christmas house and every year these became more lights. If you liked to see even other pictures of the Christmas house Calle, they are able to do this exclusiv on the following Internet site http://www.weihnachts-lichter.de/weihnachtshaus/weihnachtshaus-calle/weihnachtshaus-calle.php Maybe it would be also to be taken up intressant this Christmas house in your World contest with. Must fit, unfortunately what concerns the rules because ebend my English does not so feel well. Follow translation badge on top on the right from Yahoo of Babelfish, with it the German side can be automatically translated into English. The family Vogt and I wish you to all nice Christmas weeks and days. Yours sincerely Thomas Bloch Webmaster www.weihnachts-lichter.de

Here is my first year submission. I am a PC Member (Jim Wright or James M. Wright). This is my first year dealing with animated Christmas lighting and I am having a lot of fun. This is really a time consuming hobby (or vocation if you prefer). This display is located at 9708 and 9717 Lee Blvd in Leawood, Kansas. It is very simple compared to most, but it is a start. Lights "ON" was at 6 PM on Thanksgiving, Thursday November 26, 2009. The display will remain on through the evening of Friday, January 1, 2010. Tune to FM Stereo 100.5 on your radio to hear the music. There are two houses involved in the display for our first year: Jim's at 9708 Lee Blvd and Rick & Marsha's at 9717 Lee Blvd. We have kept the design fairly simple because it is our first year. One decision that was made early on was that everything would be done in four colors (Red, White, Blue, and Green). That means that everything we do gets multiplied by 4. Both houses use Light-O-Rama (LOR) controllers and their associated software on a Windows PC for controlling the display. The interface between the PC and the two sets of controllers is via LOR's Easy Light Linker wireless network. Here are the specific systems for each house:

9708 Lee Blvd

4 each - LOR 16 channel controllers for a total of 64 channels 7 each - "Sets" of net lights (each "set" consists of 4 strands of lights, red, white, blue, green) for a total of 28 net lights and 4200 lights. 5 each - "Sets" of Icicle lights (each "set" consists of 4 strands of lights, red, white, blue, green) for a total of 20 Icicle light strands and 3000 lights. 2 each - "Sets" of light strands (each "set" consists of 4 strands of lights, red, white, blue, green) for a total of 8 strands of lights and 800 lights. 1 each - "Tune To" electronic sign. I made the sign from scratch. The directions for making this sign and the electronics to control it can be found on the "How To" page of this site. I am still working on writing up the instructions, but I will eventually get them done.

9717 Lee Blvd

5 each - LOR 16 channel controllers for a total of 80 channels 6 each - "sets" of Icicle lights (each "set consists of 4 strands of lights, red, white, blue, green) for a total of 34 Icicle light strands and 5100 lights. 12 each - "Sets" of 100 light strands (each "set" consists of 4 strands of lights, red, white, blue, green) for a total of 48 strands of lights and 3360 lights. For the stereo FM transmitter I am using an FM30B stereo transmitter that I built from a kit. I am also using the STC1C Stereo Transmitter Companion which was also built from a kit. I also built a LED electronic “Tune To” sign this year, based on the LEDTRICKs system. It works great. See all of the videos and how tos at my web site www.wrightslights.info. Merry Christmas to All Jim Wright

Merry Christmas from Randall and Kandi Roberts in Andrews, Texas. This year we added more red and green channels to the display, and passed the 550 channel mark. While our tree is only 46' tall, the tower that it's built around is 75' to accommodate our Nativity Star which projects a 100 ft. "Beam of Light" to the Manger scene across the yard. That effect is best seen in our rendition of Elvis performing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Check out our videos at www.andrewschristmas.com.

20,000 lights are 100% LED controlled by a Mr. Christmas box.. This year, I'm powering the static part of the display with SOLAR power as LED's are so energy efficient. This is our third year of having a synchronized display. We have added approx 25% more LED's than last year. .See our display 'dance' at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qro2nOUVdYI

If in Highlands Ranch Colorado, stop by, tune in to 88.5Mhz and see the show. Merry Christmas. The Castiglione's

We live in Downers Grove Illinois. At 6305 Barrett street. We love Christmas and love to decorate the inside and the outside of our house, Christmas is a big deal in our house. We really enjoy family coming over and friends and neighbors knocking at our door wishing us a Merry Christmas. From our home to yours we wish you and yours a truly merry Christmas and a safe and happy holiday season. love Trish, Ashley , Chris, and Brandon Black. Merry Christmas!!!!

dear Santa (chuck smith), here is a picture of our house in mt.juliet,tn. it is all static this year but next year we are hoping to do lor computerization. i am getting all kind of knowledge from your website thank you and please bring me lots of presents.lol,lol thanks jeff and ariana bencic

Another year getting of getting bigger. Wish I had more room. New 20 ft mega tree, Total of 12000 lights, 3 blow ups, and a couple of light up bears. Merry Christmas from Delray Beach Fl Darryl W Mauney

This was my first year going big with decorations. Last year we had a few static strings on the roof and I built a few items, then I discovered Planet Christmas... and started planning. This year we made the jump to 40 Channels of Light O'Rama, additional professional grade strings ordered online, a 14' mega tree, mini trees, twiggy trees, peppermint pinwheels, presents, snowmen, and of course my north pole and 4' tall snowflake from last year. We are broadcasting on our very own home-made FM transmitter but it's not unique, in fact most everything in our display is home-made, rescued from the curb, bought at garage sales or auctions, or built out of parts from Home-Depot or Lowes. I am proud to say that in the liberal hippie town we live in, my ENTIRE display is LED! It's something I'm proud of and have gotten a lot of supportive comments because of. My biggest and proudest addition this year was my "Mini" Arches, an idea I shared with the wonderful PC community, got lots of great feedback, prototyped, and eventually finished! I have received several great e-mails from people who were able to use the idea and it's been great seeing their versions of my original idea. It's been a lot of fun watching all the neighbors figure it out and my wife and I are enjoying the ever increasing number of cars each night. I have also formed some great friendships over the last year due to my new found hobby. Gary Martin, a fellow PC member, has been great in helping me get going and just this week I started a new relationship with another guy in town who saw my display and is interested in going animated for next year! I told him I was happy to pass along the bug. Check out our website for other pictures from last year as well as a few from this year. http://sites.google.com/site/njstreetchristmas/ Zachary Stoltenberg

Merry Christmas from Omaha, Nebraska! I'm 20 years old and I have been putting up Christmas lights since I was 10! This year I have almost 17,000 lights! I have a few controllers this year also, and tried many new things!

I start decorating Nov. 1st...just finished..the old fashioned way. We also have music with blinking lights coordinated in the grass!!

- maura http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/memberLandingPage.jsp?token=641940851407%3A1155701692

Hi Chuck,

Here is a picture of our home. This year we have approximately 45,000 lights. 25,000 of which are LED that were donated by the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund. See more at our site, www.thathouseinmilford.com

Merry Christmas, Chris

Ryan's Christmas Lights is back for its 10th year, and just like every other year it is bigger and brighter than the previous season. The 2009 display includes more than 26,000 lights, many of them energy efficient LEDs, 120 computer channels, and over 4 kilometers of electrical cable. For more photos or video clips of this year's computerised light display please visit RyansChristmasLights.com

here is our Christmas display from the Modisette's in Longmont, Co

Madison, SD - This is just a portion of Madison’s Magical Christmas. We took a 13 ft trampoline and made it part of our light show. There are 12 sets of lights along the outside that put on an amazing performance. The pink ropelight ribbon on top of the tree represents the American Cancer Society’s 2010 Relay for Life which we are taking donations. We have 64 channels and about 10,000 lights. We are putting the show on You Tube or you can get more information at www.madisonsmagicalchristmas.com

Here is our 2009 display. We started with our lights 4 years ago and just add a few things every year. This year, we added the mini trees, candy canes, and star. We should be around 7000 lights this year and are definitely the brightest house in our neighborhood. We love seeing everyone else's' displays every year! Merry Christmas to all!!

The Fatica's, Mentor, OH

Happy Holidays from Greensboro, North Carolina this is our 3rd year putting on a show in our neighborhood and we received so many compliments on how do we do it all and I'm glad to show you all at PlanetChristmas how we do our light show we have 3,250 lights and more will be going up soon including icicle lights. Merry Christmas from the Cardona's we use our vacation time putting up lights and i always do this for the kids.

Hello. Im ron duszak and not only do we raise money for St. Jude children's hospital but this year we created a "tour of lights" in the central pa and we have 4 animators all raising for them as well. More info can be found at www.duszakfamilylights.com with more info about the 4 locations on the tour and info about each of the houses on the tour. About our show: we run about 320 channels on our house with 4 leaping arches that at 10' tall by 20' wide and the small ones are about 7' tall by 14' wide. Our mega tree is 123 channels with 24 channels per color and 5 colors and 3 channels for 38 strobes. 40 mini trees and a star and 10-15,000 lights around the rest of the yard. This year wee added a pair of very hi output led r/g/b fixtures to color wash the 70' tree out back and some nights we run wireless dmx fixtures to several neighbors next to me and a couple across the street as well and everything is set in time with our show. Somewhere around 44,000 lights and 7-9 r/g/b fixtures added on some nights. That's about it. The arches use about 170 sets of lights also. Ron D. wizards in winter-http://www.vimeo.com/7972764
canon rock-http://www.vimeo.com/7973139
so this is christ

We are Charles and Janice Vinson of 2313 Cleveland Ave. Decatur Alabama 35601.

I know this is not a night time photo with the lights, but we are proud of our snow. Decatur does not usually have snow fall.

I started hanging lights every day for 2.5 weeks in November 2009. This I did by myself, the weather was good for me to 40-50 degrees most days and nights! I finished on the evening of November 29th. I have had to return to the roof 3 times to fix Santa(affixed to my chimney) and rehang the icicle lights, due to heavy winds. They are so attached now that a hurricane won't bring them down!!! I have a large yard, and not pictured are 7 air blown inflatables. My total count of lights is 11,383. Thanks for looking! Charlotte

My Dad, Leo, has been doing this for 15 years but been REALLY "dedicated" for the past 10 or so. He works on getting his lights checked & ready to be set up (he checks each string and character to make sure everything is working and fixes what needs to be fixed. He usually adds something special/interactive for the kids each year so is working on that throughout the year. Dad takes 2 weeks vacation from work each year (usually the last two weeks in Nov) to do the set up. It takes him over 120 hours to do the actual set up in those two weeks, then of course he goes out each night after that to "tweak" something or add a little something here or there. Probably the cutest story so far is one from the website that was written by someone who came to our Annual Hot Chocolate and Picture with Santa Nite last year (we have one night each year that we have Santa come & take pictures with the kids and I email the pictures to them). My whole family participates on this evening, greeting people & handing out hot chocolate to keep everyone warm. It is an evening that our family has grown to look forward to spending time together, seeing the excitement in all the children & and just making family memories. All Donations received go to the BC Children's Hospital in memory of my 1st daughter, Amanda (his 1st grand-daughter) and my grandad, George.

Attached is a photo of my 2009 Christmas Display. I have 208 channels controlling 33,846 lights this year. Included in the display are 4 arches with 3,600 lights, an 8ft 4-color LED tree with 64 channels, and the icicles, rope lights and the front wall of the house can be changed to any combination of red, blue, green or white. There are also 41 trees of various sizes that can be controlled independently. Charles Steinman, Ontario, Ohio 44906

where do I start....We started decorating our house 9 years ago but went big time 6 years ago at our current location. I'm going to give you a lot here....like a book...

Thanks Chuck! Mary, AKA Mrs. Claus,

Antelope, CA

AhwatukeeHolidays.com

Over 150,000 lights animated to music. Featuring a 50 ft mega tree with 30,000 lights, flying snow flurries, seven stars over the house and two 10'

nutcrackers. Visit the website at www.AhwatukeeHolidays.com for videos and more information.

Our home is fully decorated with primarily led lights, with 6 blow ups including an animated lifesized Santa. Here in Scranton PA we are an un-official extension of the Light Show at Nay Ag Park. Music and lights are also coordinated with a Music box....Children delight in the old fashion splendor of the Holiday here in our yard!!

- maura

Christmas 1999 Rolf Vogt visited together with his wife Nermin Vogt his son and his daughter in law in El Paso, US. Fascinated by all the decorated American houses Rolf brought back two sports-bags filled with American Christmas lights. He started decorating his house on Christmas 2000 for the first time and with each following year the decoration grew bigger and bigger. In order to keep up with the also swiftly growing electricity bill his wife started selling German bratwurst and mulled wine directly next to the decorated house. Attracting thousands of visitors every year Rolf Vogt set his own personal goal: reaching 1.000.000 lights. Setting up / tearing down: Rolf Vogt starts every year around August to set up the decoration. Solely he decorates windows, bushes, walls and climbs on top of his 46 feet high Christmas tree without any ladder. From there enjoying the view he needs more than 6 hours only to finish the Christmas tree. In one of his shacks a friend of him who works by coincidence as an electrician set up a full array of 2 power lines (2x 360 Volt) and 60 sockets. Linked with a radio frequency remote control he can now activate and deactivate the lights from anywhere in his garden. Though the limits of power supply are already reached he did not gave up and started to replace the old Christmas lights with LED energy saving lights enabling him to reach his personal goal of 1.000.000 lights without having to steal electricity from his neighbors, so his friend the electrician told him. In January when all the visitors and guests go back to their daily life, Rolf begins tearing down most of the lights he needed about 4 months to set up. Taking almost 2 months he stores boxes and crates filled over and over with lights and decorations in his cellar and his numerous shacks. The only places he doesn’t touch are the roof on the one hand and the large trees on the other hand. Hanging or lying there for round about a month the chain/rope lights become sensitive to motion or are already engulfed by the branches of the trees.

This is our home in Sienna Plantation in Missouri City, TX (South Suburb of Houston). There is also a great picture during the day as well when we got 3" of snow. This is a very rare even in Houston, TX.

Second year at this house, love the reaction from the young kids in the neighborhood. Hope everyone will put up something this year, we all could use the cheer! Merry Christmas Happy Holidays!

Larry Speckman

Gilbert, AZ 85297

Home of Sal, Maria and Michael Sciangula
82 street 18 ave, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Merry Christmas to All

700 kirkland cr dunedin FL
my dad sets up the lights every year for my kids and this year is the best so far.

Merry Christmas to Everyone from the Hrusik Family in Chilliwack, BC

This year we added a 16 foot Soldier and icicle lights on the roof line of the house. We renovated the house last summer so I had a whole new canvas to work with. It was fun figuring out where things went, but no more going on the roof. We went from a flat roof to a peaked roof and it is just to hard to get things up there.

Happy Holidays from Greensboro, North Carolina this is our 3rd year putting on a show in our neighborhood. We received so many compliments on how do we do it all and I'm glad to show you all at PlanetChristmas how we do our light show they consists of 4,140 lights and more will be going up soon including icicle or the usual C7's multi-color lights. Merry Christmas from the Cardona's we use our vacation time putting up lights and i always do this for the kids and neighborhood to enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgNfsCin1nY

Merry Christmas from the Coyle family in Lexington, Ky. Over 40,000 lights put out.

2009 display in Wainuiomata, New Zealand. The house outline, windows and doors that are shown in green actually have 3 colours – red, green and blue. They are all (except some on the lower front of the house) attached by metal staples to wood slats. The icicles are on wire mesh framing. The slats and the mesh are securely attached to the house, to withstand the strong winds we get. All of these lights, plus those on the trees and the moa and kiwi, are 110 volt LED light strings imported from USA this year, running off transformers. There is also Santa and 2 reindeer off to the left, and fireworks and 6 flowers side-on between the big tree and the moa. There is a 30 minute sequence of 13 tunes, including Rudolph, Dancing Queen, Feliz Navidad and Wizards in Winter, running on Animation Director and 8 16-channel controllers (LC16s). The flowers, fireworks, candles and Cheshire cat are animated via macros on 3 LC16s. These all run off 240 volts – the NZ standard. It took 6 months of planning, construction, programming, and testing, but the final result is well worth it. The main challenge, apart from the tedium of attaching all the house lights and icicles individually, was the big tree – about 12 feet tall, but not really a mega tree, as it is 2-dimensional, with lights attached to wire mesh on an old trampoline frame. It is held up by 4 ropes on each side, and so far has not been affected by the wind (well, not much). The show runs 9 – 11pm every night in December, so far with only minor problems. By the way, the moa is a large flightless NZ bird, now extinct. Merry Christmas!

We have over 55,000 lights (no inflatables or blow molds :) that are synchronized to music broadcast on low power FM. We are at 7877 131st Street in Apple Valley, MN. Please visit our web site at http://www.AndersonLights.com for show times, directions and sample videos! Merry Christmas from the Anderson's!

Holidays are coming…holidays are coming…holidays are coming…We are excited for everyone to see the 32,000 lights decorating our house this year. It took all year to plan and several days to set up, but we are ready! Our show this year is a synchronization of lights to seven entertaining Christmas songs (including one popular cola commercial). In addition to lights covering the house and roof, this year we have added a mega tree and arches of leaping lights that cross our yard. We are also collecting non-perishable food to help support those who feed needy families in our community. We hope everyone comes by to see the show, donate food for the needy, get a candy cane, and maybe even buy some hot chocolate from our son (on the weekends)! From KoldeChrismas to you MARRY CHRISTMAS ! Jeff

Here is nice photo of the display after a surprise morning snowfall. 10,000 LED lights, a 14 foot mega tree( with a broken star) and some homemade items thanks to Planet Christmas! enjoy Thank you so much! Joshua Shumaker

High Country Lights has a little over 101K lights synchronized to 510 channels of Light-O-Rama. The display is on nightly from 6-10p Sunday-Thursday and 6-11p Friday & Saturday. I take donations for The Solid Rock Food Closet and Willing Partners that provide food assistance for local people in the area. Display details... The Merry Christmas sign is 20 feet long and 4 feet tall with each letter individually controlled. I have two different sizes of snowflakes/ spinners. The smaller ones are 6ft diameter with 1600 lights each. They take up 8 channels. The larger one has 3200 lights, 12ft diameter and uses 32 channels. It can do any pattern your imagination can come up with. The poles/sticks have 700 lights each to a total height of 10ft with a single strobe light on top. Other things in the display are 4 mega-trees with each one having 9700 lights, a small stream with deer drinking from it, candy canes, small train, and 48 mini-trees. I use 10 20amp circuits to power everything. www.highcountrylights.com

Merry Christmas from Carbon, Alberta, Canada. We have 8700 led lights controlled from a Mr. Christmas box, 12 inflatables, 7 blowmolds and various wood cutouts throughout the yard, including Santa in his sleigh and 9 reindeer going through the yard. Jim & Kathy

Here is our first entry to Planet Christmas. Our house here in Benton, Arkansas is a neighborhood favorite and we enjoy watching people drive by each night. We have approximately 12-13,000 lights. One of our newest additions is a snowman that is roasting marshmallows. Merry Christmas to everyone out there. Mark and Debbie Weiss

Here is our display for the showing off section of PlanetChristmas 2009. Our display has been growing for 6 years now and every year it get's a few more lights and a few more visitors. Last year was the first year we started helping families out with a Donation box out front. Last year we received just over $5000 in donations for a Family whoz daughter was battling brain cancer. This year it's for a family whose 11 year old Son is battling Leukemia. The neighbors love it and every year I say that's it and every year we keep adding. Hmmmm maybe there is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". Thanks chuck. Evan

Merry Christmas from the Arlington, Washington.

Hi. This is our Christmas display all lit up. We actually run 128 channels on light o rama. Hope you enjoy it!

Chris and Stephanie Gant

I lost count when I went over 2,000 sets of lights, Mickey Mouse riding a train around the yard,6 foot Santa dancing ,lots of yard blowup decorations, lots of hand made yard decorations, and you can tuned to 87.7 and hear Christmas music from your car or hear it from speakers around the yard. This year I added a snow maker , some yard decorations and more lights to add to the festival of lights. I been doing Christmas Lights for the last 27 years and try to add something new each year. I live so close to the airport I tell everyone I have to call them when I turn the lights on so the planes don't land here. Every Friday and Sat. meet Santa and tell him what you like for Christmas. I already making plans for next year, I'm adding a laser show display and you know it more lights. The lights are on from Dec.1st to Jan.1st every night from 5:00 to 10:30. Stop Bye and See how Crazy I get with Lights @ ,Glen Burnie.Md. 21061

First year running LOR with 64 channels and approximately 10,000 lights. sequenced 9 songs and broadcasting on FM short range radio.

Chris court, Soquel, CA

Hello PlanetChristmas. Here is our Christmas Lights display located in Saugatuck Mi. My parents started this tradition about 18 yrs ago. 7 yrs ago we took it over when my father past away and started with 35,000 lights and have continued to expand over the years. We are now somewhere between 50,000 – 55,000 lights. Tom Raczok Jr

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! we have over 45,000 lights and several yard decorations. We hope to upgrade are power and add more next year. ENJOY!

We have West Memphis Festival of Christmas Lights for the past 5 years in West Memphis, Arkansas. There are 2 blocks of houses decorated with lots of lights and horse carriage rides on the weekends. Kids can make homemade smores at Worthington Park that is decorated bigtime and Christmas music plays from 5:30-10:30. Also, on the weekends, Fri and Sat nites I sing Country Christmas Carols with Woody and give out candy canes to remind them the candy cane letter is

"J" that stands for "JESUS". All the kids and adults just love it and so do we seeing the smiles on all their faces and that "JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON".

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