I am equally excited to have found this holiday forum, been here about a week but unable to make post's now hopefully it has been reset? we'll see if this one works. My dh and I are so into the Christmas decorating inside and out, you can not believe it! this year we won 1st. prize in the first annual Xmas lighting contest in our development of almost 4,000 homes, and we did not even know there was a contest going on... :smilegifts: Our home when done can be seen for miles literally. I take lot's of pics. make slideshows etc. We are retired and this is what we enjoy, the outside is for others to enjoy, the inside is just for us to enjoy! We add to our display each year, and have already purchased things for next Christmas. No blow ups or junk ours is beautiful, and tastefully done and we have hundreds of folks drive by even a few tour busses. I look forward to showing ya'll. Here's one pic. I took this year just the front, we decorate all four sides of our home.