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Hi Chuck.  Here's a picture of my yard and a link to a video. www.holidayexpressridingtrain.com

thanks  joel

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Merry Christmas from the Salazar's.  Hope you like our house.  We spend our vacation putting up lights.  We wouldn't have it any other way.

The Salazar's

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Happy Holidays from Omaha, Nebraska!  This is our 7th year of decorating our house for Christmas. Every year our display has grown, this year we are using 128 LOR channels and 30,000 lights. Again this year we have our display synchronized to music. More photos and information about our display can be found on our website http://www.vanekchristmas.com We wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!   Jeremy, Melissa & Anna Vanek

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This the Shuman House in Pickerington, Ohio. Usually we have a huge display in our front yard but due to the vandalism we experienced lasted year we moved most of our display to the back porch. Merry Christmas Pappy and Katie!!!

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Hi Everyone and Marry Christmas. Here is a picture of my house from 2008.  Still working on the 2009 display but that should be up and running by thanksgiving.  I set up 5 house in my neighborhood to run off LOR and have 9 16 channel boxes.  There is about 150,000 lights up on the 5 house.  I also have a Garden railroad in my front yard that I run weather permitting. Please visit my website at www.gtechdesign.com for video and more pictures.  Also fell free to sign the guest book and let me know what you think. thanks. Geoff

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MUSIC, MOTION, AND MERRIMENT - - Newport Beach, California is home of the annual "Christmas Boat Parade", known as one of the ten best Christmas viewing events in the country. This award-winning house, located on Balboa Island in the middle of the Newport Harbor, is viewed by thousands of visitors who came by car, by foot, and by boat!No wonder so many people stop to gaze at the lighted wonderland. There is animated action galore. While Christmas carols play in the background, "snow" drifts from the rooftop dispensed from a manufactured snow machine. On the rooftop, Santa waves from a chopper with rotating blades and a gingerbread man jumps on a lighted trampoline. Lighted wheels rotate on a choo-choo train; a tin soldier drums his drums; a snowman tips his hat; a gyrating Santa Claus dances; and even an illuminated Hula Dancer' wiggles back and forth!The house is anchored on one side by an eye-stopping 25 foot green blinking Christmas tree. On the other side the eight foot wide chimney is draped in a carpet of red lights inter-mixed with white lights that vertically spell "Balboa Island". Blinking candy canes, stockings, bells, and snowflakes all add to the fun. There are 24,000 light bulbs in all.Winning the admiration and gratitude of all who visit, the house has earned many prestigious awards: "1st Place Lights and Animation" and from the Newport Harbor Chamber of Commerce and "Photographer's Choice"(the sponsors of the Newport Harbor Boat Parade), and the "Best Animation" award from the Balboa Island Association. The house and its owner have also been featured in a PBS television special, numerous magazine and newspaper articles.   isit http://www.ZimChristmas.com/

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This is our house in Holland. Each year we decorated our house with Christmas lights en Santa Claus. It is not normal in our country to decorated your house as we do. We have been on television and in newspapers with it. The nutcracker you see, Is made by me, I’ve painted it and my husband made the lights on it. The candy canes are made by my husband, the used to be plastic pipes for Elektra.

Greetings Judith Seip

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Happy Holidays from James & Camille Wagoner in Edgewater, Florida.  16 channel LOR broadcast on 107.9fm. See more pics and videos at our website - jamiejames316.com

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My husband and I have decorated all of our married 20 years together and call our Display “Hyatt Extreme Christmas”.  This year for 2009 we put up 150k lights, have a Mega Christmas Tree, Huge Working Ferris Wheel of Lights, and 3 Fabulous working Windmills replicated from Disney “Small World” complete with huge tulip flowers of purple, pink and yellow. This year we added 4 new items to our Extreme Christmas Display.  A Choir of Angels singing  (got this idea from the Louisville Convention with Chuck in July) A Huge Santa Workshop complete with elves and a working train A Fabulous M&M Character Display complete with M&M’s sitting on Swings (Went to the World of M&M in Orlando for this idea) A 20’ Disney Projection Screen that runs Christmas Movies every night for everyone to enjoy.

We launched our Website this weekend and the activity we are getting is Fabulous.  Please take a moment to check it out, it is very user friendly and tells you more about “Hyatt Extreme Christmas” in detail and the Charities we support.www.HyattExtremeChristmas.com

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Hi Chuck!  Happy Holidays from our house to yours.  My husband Don starts working on the lights mid-October and by the week before Thanksgiving we’re set to go.  The neighborhood loves them as well as people who drive by with their kids, or walk by.  We’re just two big kids loving to share the holiday season with everyone! Don & Linda Neuy.  Wisconsin

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Merry Christmas from Taggs Candy Cane Lane ! This our fifth year here. Last year was our biggest year ever. With the addition of L-O-R we received A ton of traffic. We were featured in our local newspaper. We also made two of the local news channels. The traffic on our street was backed up every night. This year we added 16 more channels of  L-O-R, more peppermints ,candy canes, driveway arches and voice-overs from the Demented Elf as well as around 1000 more lights. We didn't get to add as many lights as planned ( We have twice as many lights in storage as we have on the house). Cant wait for next year. Also attached is a couple pictures of my wife's Christmas village which is on display in our home as well as three Christmas trees. Come see us at http://taggscandycanelane.com for on info on how to come check out the show. Merry Christmas from Robert , Lynette and Anthony Tagg. Mayfield Hts. Ohio

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This is my friends house in Sagamore Hills, Ohio.  She didn’t tell me I could light the house until the first week in November and I had to have it lit by Thanksgiving. I don’t think it is too bad for my first attempt with her house for the limited time and resources I had. The Candy Canes and the Star I had made myself a few years ago. I was going to use them on my house but never got to it. There are a total of 5,000 lights. 249 of them are C-9’s, there are 3 flood lights, 2 inflatable’s and the balance are the miniature lights. I know there are a lot of homes with more lights and bigger displays but this is the best in her neighborhood this year.  I hope to animate next year and switch to LED’s, and of course make it BIGGER.  Have a GREAT Holiday!  Joe Oppedisano

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Theme is "Puppy's First Christmas"  Shown are the Siberian Huskies Helping Santa by bringing toys to the girls and boys that visit our Light show.  There are puppies in Santa's bag, a pup watering down a snowman to the song Yellow Snow, a Merry Go Round   with Santa and Frosty riding atop the reindeer, another decoration of Santa climbing a Candy Cane Ladder with a puppy pulling down Santa's pants.  There are three Gemmy Light show trees (sound off) And a dozen 2 foot mini trees that weave in the three Leaping Arches.    The "Marty's Fan" decorates the left side of the yard and the Reindeer Barn is on the right, guarded by a big lighted Golden Retriever wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. The lighted North Pole fencing across the front delightfully protects visitors from the electrical components.  We used about 25,000 lights, animated with five Light-O-Rama controllers, with sequences are done by John Antoniewicz and artistry by Darlene Pino Antoniewicz.  Most of the decorations were home made With coroplast and PVC pipe, a little paint and a lot of fun doing it. This is a photo of a part of our display,  it is too large to get in one photo. With enough detail to tell what you are seeing. Darlene Pino Antoniewicz & John Antoniewicz. Albany, Georgia  31721

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   This is the Shirer Family light show display. This is the 3rd year for my setup.

    I run 24 circuits, 4200 lights for a 45 minute show, plus tons of new static lights this year.

    No web page yet, but I post videos on Youtube.....See Bachinelli. 

    Thanks Chuck and Everyone have a Merry Christmas.

Mark S Shirer

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Merry Christmas from Shannon, Drew, Tyler and Tanner of Fort Scott Kansas. Here is our new 2009 display. Have a great and Happy New year. 

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here is a picture of our house. 2nd year lighting and still growing.
please feel free to visit the website  www.nockertschristmaslights.com
 
have a blessed Christmas ,
 russell and kimberly nockerts

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Merry Christmas! We are located in Burlington, Ontario. This year we have 16000 lights spread throughout our  yard. This is my first year computerizing. We hope you enjoy this year’s display

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Nothing too exciting..

http://www.WiltonLights.com/photos/

You can click the thumbnails for larger versions.

- Phil Hilton

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We uploaded a picture in 2007 but a lot has changed since then. Hope you can upload this smilebox

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Family Fun - is our theme. We began decorating due to Troy's Dad'd tradition. Now Troy' myself (his wife Nola) and our five children begin in October to ensure that by Thanksgiving Night we can share our lights with the community.  Nola Mannino

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Merry Christmas 2009 from the Hendrix Family in Riverview, Florida ! These lites are all animated to songs a  very awesome display!

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Christmas 2009 Photos from our house in Australia Queensland.

Paul Schlatter

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Our display consists of a variety of PVC constructions and wire frames, some with tinsel overlay.  We have characters from angels to deer to dogs, even a snowman, penguin and a cow, and even a horse drawn carriage.  There is also a PVC constructed lighted candy cane display that lines our front walkway.  We have a fully constructed Nativity Scene, complete with the Bethlehem Star and starry night backdrop. and let's not forget the sleigh pulled by 8 tiny reindeer plus Rudolph leading the way.  All in all, we have a total of about 20000-21000 lights, some LED's, some minis, and even some C7/9's, as well as rope light.  There are also some strobes in there too.  We have a 12' Mega Tree, (2) 15' arches, 7 mini trees, a "Marty Fan", and a Merry Christmas sign made of red and green rope light.  The Mega Tree, Arches, Minis, Sign, and Marty Fan consist of 48 individual channels all controlled by (3) 16 channel Light O Rama controllers.  The remaining parts of our display are not included in our synchronized display, just provide a really nice backdrop for the show.  I have enclosed some photos.  Please let me know if  I need better ones.  Thanks and Merry Christmas.  And as always, as fun as this is, remember that "Jesus" is the reason for the season.  The Hill Family, Steve Hill, s8830906@msn.com