The ones that get on TV have so many lights that they have to ad an additional power box just for lights. The houses that are the most covered have usually been doing grand Christmas displays for years. People do everything from glorifying Clark Griswold's plan to have the biggest brightest display in town, to making a life size Nativity scene out of crash test dummies. The ones on TV are as extreme as you can get, but that doesn't mean those are the only ones out there.
My neighbors have a bold Christmas display that they have been doing for the past five years. It's more extravagant than any other house in the neighborhood, but it's not quite as extreme as the houses on TV. They have lights on the house, and trees, bridges, and Nativity's in the yard. All of the lights are synchronized to a half hour music playlist that rotates from 6:00 p.m- 9:30 p.m every night.
Cars line up and down the street to see the show. When I was in high school my friends would try to describe this "amazing" house to me. I used to laugh, because all I had to do to watch the light show was go out in my front yard, when they had to drive over, and find parking on the street. The display is extreme compared to some of the others I have seen.
When I was little we used to go up to this house in Ogden that I liked to call "The Dinosaur House," because they had 12ft tall dinosaurs pulling the Flintstones family as the center of their Christmas display. On top of the giant dinosaurs in their front yard, they had different light displays all over their acre lot. They were high on the hill in Ogden, and the display could be seen at the bottom of the hill. They had so much on their lot that you had to drive by it two or three times just to see what was in the front yard.
We drove by that house every December until the man who owned the house got too old to set the display up. We found some others that we liked, but nothing quite as grand until this year when we discovered an unbelievable house in Morgan that literally decorates one side of the mountain.
The owners of the house have been putting on the display for over 50 years, and they don't intend on stopping anytime soon. The people who started it have had their children and grandchildren help set up the display, so it will continue long after they are gone.
The display is so big that you almost have to take it in different pieces. At the top of the mountain they have a Christmas greeting that changes every year. This year it says "May you have love and charity this season." That is the star on their display tree. If you continue down the mountain to the house, you will find a statue of Jesus Christ with his arms outstretched. Then you will find a heard of deer, and a life size Nativity scene complete with a stable and animals.
Their front yard is an explosion of Christmas characters such as Santa and Rudolph. On their roof they have speakers fashioned into the shape of horns that blast Christmas music that can be heard a great distance away. Up the mountain they have signs with messages painted on them saying things such as "Come Come Ye Saints," "Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother," and "Sweet Hour of Prayer." There's so much in this yard that it should be on TV, but it's in a small town in Utah, so I don't anticipate that it will be on TV anytime soon.
Cheerful Christmas characters cover the lawn.
Hand painted 'Twas The Night Before Christmas Story.
Rudolph leading Santa's sleigh.
Horn shaped speakers that play holiday music all season.
Half of the display.
Santa hangs out inside the house and waves to visitors.
Inspirational signs going up the mountain.
Life size Nativity towards the top.
Christmas is a fun time of year, but that doesn't mean you have to go so over the top that all of your neighbors refer to you as "The Christmas Guy." Remember that Christmas is a special time of year when we have the opportunity to be around the ones that we love, and if we don't have all of the bells and whistles that everyone else has, it's okay, because being around loved ones is more impressive than any light display we could ever find.
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