PlanetChristmas Showing Off 2006

Here are some pictures of my house located in Orange County, New York ( Monroe).  This years display is not finished yet will have more than 90,000 lights.  I also raise money for the Make A Wish Foundation last year the total was just over $3,000.

Anthony Volpe

The Fowee's in Fairfield, Ohio.  We put up over 70,000 lights. We decorate all sides of the house and our play set out back. This is our 13 year. Merry Christmas.

Hello Planet Christmas,

On Christmas Eve we blockade the street and have over 200 candle lanterns in the gutters.  The local kids enjoy running along lighting the candles and standing back to see a "Candle Lit" landing strip runway for Santa to arrive...  People donate money as they enter our street and all the money goes towards to Cancer Council of Australia. Over the past 4 years we have raised over $20,000.00 for this great cause.  And without saying many, many smiling faces being lit up with happiness, friendship and goodwill.....  I have attached a few pictures... Although they are dated 2004, they are the best pictures i had since discovering your web site.  This year, if you are interested I will obtain some more recent and clearer pickies The 1st is a picture of Santa trailing on a Holden FJ Ute behind 6 white Boomers.
 

The display stretches 20 metres between Two gum trees in our Avenue. Each Boomer (Kangaroo) is 6 metres of steel rod.  I would challenge that this is the only display of its type in the world?? We love it dearly   We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hopefully hear from you during the New year   Thanks & Best Wishes   Greg Young

This image is from Ballston commons in Vienna, Virginia.

 

Of course as you understand these pictures don't do the display justice.

 

More to come of my stuff later.

 

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This is of my home in Tucson, AZ. I just found this wonderful site.  Happy Holidays!

This is my second year submitting my display. I hope to keep expanding as the years go by.  If the rain ever stops I still have a few plans for the rest of the lights I picked up last year on sale. MERRY CHRISTMAS ,  Bob and Lynette Mayfield Hts. Ohio

Here is our house in Batavia Illinois. I will still be adding lights this year so I can pay more on the electric bill.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

This is our 2nd Christmas in our home in Ulster County New York.  We are working on doing a little more and more each year.  We are located off Route 300 which is at a higher elevation so it makes for a nice view while passing by.  This year we have about 25,000 lights on our home.  We do it for the kids, but I think I get a bigger kick out of it than they do!

 

I've been replacing all my minis with LEDs, I really like the way they show, almost neon. Have so more work to do, but getting there.

 

Merry Christmas, Ted Hebert, Lafayette, La

This is a picture of our house in Waukesha, WI. ( Near Milwaukee ) Lots of C-9’s and ice lights; plus two extra 20 amp circuits. The snoopy dog house gets a lot of interest ~ and the porch nutcrackers as well. Last year we were even featured on TV! We have the neighborhood Griswold Trophy nine years running.  Merry Christmas!

 

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This is a picture of our home for the 2006 season.  This year we added a lot of color and many new songs.  We are proud uses of Animated Lighting’s Computer products.  Ken & Terri Good   Tyler, Texas

Happy Holidays from our family to yours! Due to unforeseen circumstances our holiday display this year ended up being completed a little later than originally planned.  Wasn’t certain it would make it up at all this year, due to the loss of my loving grandmother. As you can imagine the family kept busy and this all had to be placed on the back burner. This is the second year we have had my father’s very first eighteen wheeler as the center piece for our families Christmas display. Our local area has already nicknamed this display as the “Christmas Express” last year.   Using the open belly of the trailer, we placed a sled and reindeer with many snowflakes which appear to falling around the holiday scene. You will also see a jolly Santa Claus, a Snowman holding his hat held high for all the world to see, Christmas trees, bells, stockings, ornaments, and two Merry Christmas Signs. My goal was to use rope lights to outline and still show that it is in fact a real tractor trailer. There is even one of Santa’s helpers which made his home in the passenger side seat of the tractor, an Elf who watches all drive by! And this year we even have Santa inside of the cab too! It certainly seems to be a big hit within our local area, just wish it could be shared with more families for the up and soon coming holidays!  Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday season, Charles, Doris Redmond and Christopher, Kristen Gillespie – Ijamsville, Maryland.

I would like to dedicate this year’s holiday display, In Loving Memory of four very special people who always believed in everything I wanted to achieve, Jack Alden and Shirley Hone Gillespie and George Albert and Doris Larue Savage.

Hello,  Here is my 2006 Christmas light display in a small town in eastern Oregon.  This year’s display contains a theme of life at the North Pole.  Of course we have Santa in his house next to a Christmas tree with presents.  The house is surrounded by lollipops, candy cane lane, a Toy Soldier, A polar bear in front of an Ice burg, and a 7ft candy cane arch with a Snow Man next to a 6ft Christmas tree. New this year is a pond scene with a gathering of deer spread out around the pond, a church, a fish coming out of the water, and a set of 3 motion horse and sleigh with a chaser control box, gliding by the pond. To compliment everything is a Santa’s Sleigh and reindeer in a snow storm with a teddy bear.  To finish it all off is a 25 foot motion train made out of lights. Enjoy our detailed pictures and new this year video of the display at http://www.bowlercentral.com/christmas.htm Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  Matt Schilling

This is the Holden House in Scranton Pennsylvania. This is the first year I am putting my holiday house on this website. I think it is a very cool way to see people's great holiday houses. My house has about 4000 lights, 2 animated reindeer, 5 airblown inflatables, and a projector. We have been decorating big for the last 10 years and we grow a little bit more each year. Enjoy.  MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Merry Christmas from the Meyers in Thornton Colorado home of Rocky mountain Christmas lights.  The display is controlled by 3 LOR boards and has approximately 5000 lights. The house is a gingerbread theme. This is the 1st year for the gingerbread theme. The theme décor is made entirely out of corrugated plastic. it turned out awesome!! The manger is all hand made from old barn wood from Michigan.  The nativity is synced to the Christmas story.  The lights in the frosting  and the candy canes are LED!!   you can read more about my display and see more pictures at http://rockymountainlights.spaces.live.com/  Merry Christmas!!  Scot Meyers  http://rockymountainlights.spaces.msn.com   

God said "let there be light"  so I had to decorate my house!!

The Rice Family is located in Troy, Illinois, just east of St. Louis, Missouri. We kicked it up a notch this year and added many new pieces.  My wife and I like to make our own decorations.  Last year we built a 10’ Ferris Wheel.  This year we added a carousel, which features Wonder Horse spring horses from the early 60’s. Each horse was hand painted by my wife.  Since we are running out of yard space we went “up on the rooftop” with a 12 foot wireframe  Hot Air Balloon with a waving Santa. The Balloon is animated with 22 channels of LOR.  Also on the roof is a 12 foot Radio Tower which flashes the call letters of our Christmas radio station K-O-L-D.  The display is animated to music, but our feature pieces are left lit during the show.  In the yard we have  “Toyland”, “Candy Land”, “The North Pole” and our Nativity scene which are made up of wireframes, blowmolds and inflatables…we have such a variety of pieces there is something for everyone.  We will be appearing on the HGTV show “What’s with that Christmas House” along with some other PC members.  We are really excited to be on the show.  Each year we accept donations to support a not-for-profit charitable organization.  This year we are collecting for a local no-kill animal shelter. On December 15-16th Santa will visit. All the neighbors and other visitors will stop by for hot cocoa and a quick visit with Santa.  Thanks to everyone on PC for trading ideas and inspiration.  Merry Christmas   The Rice Family

12th Annual Schrimp Family Display.

 

Too many items to fit into just one photo. Thousands of lights, numerous animated characters, many hand made, thru out the yard. Huge interactive animated garage display, along with candy canes and falling snow every night. 31142 Via Cristal, San Juan Capistrano, CA.

Here's a picture of my small decorations in Covina ,CA.

 

Merry Christmas to all.

 

The Aclans

Merry Christmas from Northwest Georgia.  Every year we decorate the house with lots of lights, but the last two years the number of lights has grown.  Although small compared to all the other wonderful displays on PlanetChristmas so far, our display features 7000 mini lights and a new addition this year, a Santa blow mold.  There are also lights to the left of the house and on the mailbox not visible in the picture.  I had to install a new 20 amp outlet in the front (last year the light total was only about 3300) and an outlet in the soffit for the lights around the windows.  My hope is to double the size of the display every year.  -The Woodsides

Kelly & Richard Moore

201 Ash Drive, Gatesville, Texas

This is our 1st year with an animated lighting display.  We committed to the project very late and thus are starting off small.  We have 16 channels via Light-O-Rama driving 5564 lights.  We are in Folsom, CA.  Here is a photo with all lights on.  We should have a live web cam up this weekend and I'll post the URL.  Cars are already stopping to look.  I'm hooked!  Merry Christmas!

 

-Mike Breton

Lumberton, NJ.  First year decorating, have approximately 8000 lights up this year.  Just purchased a 32 channel Light O Rama controller for next year.  Looking to hit the 25,000 light mark next year.  Merry Christmas!

 

DS

Merry Christmas from the Arizona desert, Still wishing for a white Christmas :-) . My display includes 29,000 lights, and computer animation with animated lighting and fm music transmission. 80% of this years display is energy efficient led lights. Merry Christmas everyone. For more pictures and videos check out www.andersonholidaylighting.com.

 

Michael Anderson

Hi There Every one. Welcome from Down Under I've been busy again for the third year building up my lights and working on the mega display. This is the house in 2005 but working on a home brew designed computer controlled display just finishing off the software although I may go out and buy a few LOR kits next year. This years display will be a 64 output extravaganza. Anyway I love the site.  Wombat, Sydney Australia.

Here is Michael and Rosina Liquori's display for 2006. Located in Glen Cove NY. There are 1000's of lights 450 blow molds and 20 air blown inflatables. This year we have been featured on HGTV's Christmas special. "What's with that Christmas House", to be aired on December 10th. This years display is the largest its ever been. We have been featured in all the local papers and TV stations, and last year on CNN. The house has truly become an institution in the city of Glen Cove, over the years. This is our 18th year decorating., and more is in the works for next season.  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Liquori family. www.mikeliquori.com

We have been doing this for quite a few years but each year is a little  different. This year we did red white and blue to show support for our troops.  Seabrook, NH

Molly McKinney

This is my brothers house in Omaha, Nebraska. When we sold him the house we told him that he must continue to decorate it and he has come through. We love looking at our old house! Merry Christmas. 

 

Deb and Marc Hansen  www.twasthelightbeforechristmas.com

Enjoy,  James & Carri Kiehl

Merry Christmas, the picture i attached is of my front yard Christmas Light Display. My name is Bill and I’m 16 years old. I’ve been decorating since I was 5 and my display gets bigger every year. You can see all of the pictures I have of my display at http://www.billhartelectric.com/photo.html I update these pictures frequently. Also, you can look under the links page for links to websites that have my display on them. You can view the article from the Pittsburgh Pose Gazette about my lights there too. I hope you enjoy them!

 

Bill Hart, 947 Saxonburg Blvd.,  Pittsburgh, PA 15223

I wanted to share our latest display with everyone.  Our home is located in Vermillion SD.  It is a three story Victorian with the peaks at about 37 feet.  I got every peak and roofline done all the way around it this year.  There are way too many hours involved to count and at least 20,000 lights.  What you can’t see are the 13 Christmas trees inside and about another 300 feet of lighted garland.  It has been a project both I and my fiancé have worked hard on and thoroughly enjoy doing every year.  Merry Christmas everyone! 

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Merry Christmas to all from Denmark.

 

Greetings from Jankowski Family

DENMARK

Mousseau and Roy Display 2006.  Located in Hudson,NH.  This is our 5th year lighting our home with thousands of lights This year we scaled back to 110,000 lights and are using a circus theme for the 2006 lighting season. 48 computer controlled channels .  34 mini trees.  6400 light mega tree.  Several new wire frames were also added this year to include a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, hot air balloon and several new circus animals to just name a few. You can see more photos and info at www.hudsonchristmas.com

Chuck,  I'm just another one of the lovers of you web site.... Thanks so much.  ere are a couple of pictures of our display at 1188 Clubhouse Drive, Broomfield. CO.   For Owner’s Kim Weibert and Kevin Hart, Christmas is a time for Family, and their display is a family affair.  The decorating starts in late September, and gets very busy after Halloween.  The display highlights the custom built Candy Cane Express Christmas train, that chugs around on an elevated, oval track through the front lawn.  The train was built by Kevin’s father Marvin Hart, of St. John USVI.  The train track circles a 35’ tall tree that is decorated with over 400 lighted candy canes and is complete with assorted packages under the tree.  The display continues with a beautiful custom built carousel in the picture window of the home and observers will even hear very unique Christmas carousel music throughout the yard.  An eight foot tall Nutcracker greats visitors to the entry way, and even Mickey and Minnie Mouse have made a special guest appearance in the yard.  Rudolf and his eight other friends and a sleigh, complete with packages decorates the roof, along with multiple snow flakes that twinkle like new fallen snow.  Looking in the front picture window you will see that Santa has made it down the chimney and is waving to everyone.  The arches over the driveway dance, flash, and sparkle courtesy of a computerized lighting system.  New in 2006 is a 10’ tall Ferris wheel, built by the owner’s fathers.  Each chair is decorated in a different theme.  Look for Snoopy, Santa Claus, Pooh, and Tiger too. This classic Ferris wheel has it’s own light show that is fascinating to watch.  Another addition this year is the scene of Santa’s Workshop on the double garage door which was created by a graphic designer here in Denver.  The huge outdoor Christmas tree has over 4500 lights and lots of over sized ornaments reminding us that Christmas is just around the corner.  Look for Kim’s dad John Weibert outside every weekend handing out candy canes and giving everyone a personal tour of the display.  Guests are welcome to take an up close and personal look every night till 10 PM.  The entire family enjoys in the creation of this annual display – especially when it is enjoyed by the children and neighbors.  Come on by and see for yourself.

Hi Chuck.  This is my 1st year at PC and I would like to share my pics.  Christmas In Shirley.  www.ChristmasInShirley.com  This year we have over 13,000 lights and 108 channels of control utilizing 2 64 port Olsen 595 boards controlled by Vixen light control software.

 

Thank You,  Brian

Greetings from Midland, Texas!  This is Ricky and Lucy Thames’ 2006 Christmas Display.  This is my 8th year of decorating and my forth year on Planet Christmas.  Below are a few statistics of this year’s display: Lights – 34,274; Amps – 156.46; Installation time – 132 hours; Designing, planning and building – 200 hours; 20 amp dedicated circuits – 18; Extension cords – 148; Length of extension cords – 3,529; Watts – 18,776, Timers – 18; Three-way taps – 54, Spot lights – 4.  I started putting out the lights on October 16 and had the grand lighting on Thanksgiving night in beautiful 70 degree weather.  I’m finally up to 48 channels of LOR that I used on my new 20’ “Mega Tree” and 9 mini-trees.  Also new in my display this year is a 101” train, Light storm, new arches over my walkway, garage door banners, polar bear, church, angel and an abominable snowman.  We have a lot of traffic every night looking at our display and taking pictures and video.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 

This year we have 72,000 lights 48 channels of computer control.  We also accept donations for children's hospital.  You can listen to the music on 88.7 fm

 

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Merry Christmas from James and Camille Wagoner in Edgewater, Florida

www.jamiejames316.com

This is our display for 2006. We have about 20,000 lights. 64 channels of Light o Rama control and we are transmitting on 88.5fm.  On the roof is Santa Flying a 30 foot diameter landing pattern. This is our 9th and best year for our display. We live in Livonia, Michigan   Have A Merry Christmas

Here is our display for 2006 in Deltona, Florida. I completed my goal of 50,085 lights this year.  My roof cutouts and my wall of lights are our favorites. Along with 2 - 15 foot mega trees, we found a way to use purple mini's they mix well with Blue and Gold, works out nice!  Next year LOR and a major sub electric panel upgrade, storage solutions, and bringing my home web page up and running!  Any questions private message me through the PlanetChristmas chatroom " Deltona "  (http://cr.planetchristmas.com).  Wishing you all a " Merry Christmas " and a " Happy New Year "  Deltona

This is our "first year" display in San Diego called "Belardo Lights".  It features 220 channels of LOR, over 38,000 lights, 12,000 feet of wire used, and a lot of fun to design and build.  The inspiration for this display came from our 9 year old son Brandon, who has Autism.  Last year at this time, we were driving around looking at different displays, and Brandon really enjoyed them for the first time.  So I asked him if he'd like to work with me to help build our own Christmas display, and it was off to the races after that.  We're broadcasting on 89.7 FM, and have been featured by a local television station and the local newspaper.  We've received great comments from folks driving and walking by, and plan to expand the display next year and also do some fundraising for local Autism charities.  Thanks to all the fine folks at PlanetChristmas, I was able to learn a lot about this great hobby / obsession, and produce a display that has been called pretty amazing for a beginner.  We'll be back again next year bigger and better than ever...  Randy, Belardo Lights, San Diego, CA 

Merry Christmas...From Troy, Michigan  Our second year submitting to Planet Christmas.  This year we put 5,000 lights on our large tree, it's a real eye catcher. All together we have six 20amp and three 15amp circuits running the lights, running at around 17,000 watts. Lots of animation, chasers, faders and controllers, but no computerization...yet! Maybe next year we'll add the computer...until then, Merry Christmas...From Mike & Margaret

 

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Merry Christmas from Christmas In The Grove.  We are located at 810 Power St, China Grove, NC.  We’ve been decorating our House for the last three years. This is our biggest display so far. Our display this years has 12000+ lights, 60 blowmolds, 2 inflatables and  a Mr Christmas Light Show machine. You can see more pictures of Christmas In The Grove here.

Below is the link to our 2006 Dancing Waters Holiday Decorations:

 

http://www.xmasdancingwaters.com 

 

Happy Holidays,

Bill Vanderslice

This is our first year decorating!  I'm an official newbie!  We are using Animated Lighting with 63 of our 64 available channels in use, and around 9000 lights. 

Danielle Earl

Simi Valley, CA

www.danielleslightshow.com

This took me about 3 weeks in November to put up and I have roughly 3000 lights in the display, maybe a little more. I have nearly tripled my display from last year (#178 on 2005 pg. 4) Next year I am doing the same display but adding more icicles and lawn displays, and maybe something on the roof. This display is powered through 3 outlets. One outlet that controls the front portion comes on at dusk and shuts off 6 hours later, the next 2 portions both are controlled with a remote that has a 50 foot range. If anyone has any questions or would like to see more pictures feel free to e-mail me at worthchristmasdisplay@yahoo.com.  Merry Christmas from Upstate NY 

we just wanted everyone to see our Christmas spirit........i don't know how many lights there are but i know everything was made not bought.......it took a while but they look really great this year..............

debbie and john savage, md

This is a pictures of our Santa toyshop.  it is 30 ft long,10ft tall & 6ft deep.  it is made of all wood, with close to 80 animated figures,24 in & life-size. there is a life-size animated Mr. & Mrs. Claus, elves & snowmen.  there is 6 large windows with animated Disney, peanuts, Looney tunes, elves,& carolers characters. there is 2 large double doors which house Mr. & Mrs. Claus we are located at 14338 Funston ave. Norwalk, California so if your in the area, please stop by and look at our display.  open every night until after new years.  merry Christmas from the Veloz family.

We are Mark and Tina Bolt, and we have a 2 1/2 year old daughter named Emily.  We live in Billings, MT.  Our display contains 24,000 lights this year, which uses about 195 amps.  We live down in a valley called Alkali Creek valley, so we always go with a theme of "Light up the Valley".  This Christmas season we also want to remind people that Jesus is the reason we do all this stuff.  We may light up our little valley, but He is the light of the world.  Merry Christmas from the Bolts in Montana.

Hi Chuck, 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!  From the Bromley’s located in Shrewsbury, Pa.

This a photo of our 2006 Display in Greencastle, Indiana. Visit us at www.freewebs.com/hillsdalechristmas for more pictures. While viewing our display you can listen to our Christmas station. We began setting up our display the weekend after Halloween. We have about 9,000 lights used in the display. The new major addition to this years display was the Nativity Scene, but there were also several other small improvements. We hope that you get a chance to come by, but if you can't we hope that you enjoy the pictures of our display.

 

Merry Christmas, Justin (Hillsdale Ave. Christmas)

Hi everyone, Here is the photo of our Home this year. Hope you all enjoy.

 

Happy Holidays

The Deweil Family

My display is very simple. I put lights all over a very old mesquite tree at the front of my house near downtown Tucson. In fact, the house was designed around the tree when it was built 15 years ago. While not as flashy as some, it shows off the shape of this amazing mesquite tree. Happy Holidays!  John Laswick,  560 S. Samaniego Street,  Tucson, AZ  85701

This is my fraternity (Phi Kappa Psi) house at the University of Illinois. This year we purchased 17,000 lights. We took second in the campus decorating contest. The coolest part is Santa on the roof. Next year we look forward to saving for a light controller and a very tall ladder!  Merry Christmas...  DOUG McDonald

My first year of Christmas decorating - with musical lights.

Skagit County, Washington

Randi

http://www.freewebs.com/azparadise/
christmaslights.htm  Aaron & Kristen Jabkowski 

 

Sincerely,  Jim Hardesty, 3313 Wolfe Court, Plano, Texas 75025

This is our house in Ellicott City Maryland this year.  There are approximately 25,000 lights.  New additions this year are the NOEL, 2 - 6' drummer soldiers at the driveway entrance,  a north pole candy cane, Mickey Mouse Santa blow up, Snowboarding Reindeer Blow up and two angles.  This year is a tribute to my wife Wendy, who was the artistic director of the display in the past.  She passed away in February after a 2  year battle with ovarian cancer.   Hope everyone has a happy holiday season.  Jon Fiedler    p.s.  Thanks Chuck, I was chosen to be one of the featured houses on HGTV for next years "What's up with this Christmas House". 

This is our small display, we are in Nottinghamshire UK

have a great Christmas

from Tony & Angie

Welcome to the Wullkotte's 2006 Christmas display. This will be our 4th year decorating the house and it gets bigger and better every year. Classic Christmas music plays nightly and this display is sure to put a smile on your face. Unfortunately the other side of the yard could not be fully captured, but you get an idea of what the display looks like. We had to add an extra circuit this year due to it being overloaded and next year we hope to have the whole display synchronized to music. We have one of the larger displays in Ohio and put more emphasis on things in the yard than lights on the house. New additions this year include a Santa stop here sign, large light up holiday banner, Nativity scene, extra ice cycle lights, extra candy canes and more.  Seasons Greetings,  Noah Wullkotte

Cincinnati, OH

CHUCK:  HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM OUR HOUSE IN JACKSON NJ. THIS YEAR WE ADDED SOME ROPE LIGHTING, THE ROOF, AND THE LAWN LIGHTS.  WE ALSO ADDED A FEW YARD DECORATIONS AND THE “NOEL” INFLATABLE.  WE REALLY ENJOY THE WEBSITE AND ALL THE THINGS GOING ON HERE. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE     FRED & TRISH HELFRICH   JACKSON NJ

This is our second Christmas in our home and our first time submitting our house on this site. We want to add more next year. Decorating our home is something we really enjoy and our kids love helping us. Hope everyone enjoys our home and Happy Holidays.

James, Mande and Kids. Mentor-On-The-Lake, Ohio.

Hello. I'm am located in Middleton Nova Scotia. With over 15,000 lights and over 35 years experience Our 120 foot frontage yard is seen by hundreds every night from December 1st to January 5th.  Merry Christmas  Eddie and Sue O'Connor

Hello there and a merry Christmas and a happy new year from Mike and Maryellen from Boston here is a little something I whipped up this year and would like to dedicate this year to my father who has just passed away  and will not be with us this year as we are all trying to cope with both Christmas and a passing as I also have more pictures as I hope the gentlemen will help me post them like last year  merry Christmas to all