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Year In Review
2019 was a frustrating year for us. We started the year very early, as usual making plans to add lots of new and fun things to our display. However, the amount of time it's taking us to put up the display the last few years as it's grown larger has become way more than we can afford to take off work at our regular jobs. To make it through Christmas of 2018 we took out bad loans at very high-interest rates and that buried us until August of 2019. Generally each year, our budget for new things for the display has been whatever our yearly tax refund is, but in 2019, we had no choice but to use our refund to pay down some of our debt instead. Which meant no new stuff for the first time in a while. Since we didn't have anything new to be motivated enough to do all the setup work and because it took so long to pay off the high-interest loans we made a very difficult decision in August to take the year off so we could use the time to pay down our debt and hopefully refinance our house early in 2020 so we could come back bigger and better than before without all the debt and high-interest loans hanging over our heads. That was the plan, until very late September when everything changed, our dreams finally came true, we had been trying to get our display on The Great Christmas Light Fight since 2014 and they finally selected us to compete. So we had to scramble as quickly as we could to do the best we could with our once and a lifetime opportunity. We attempted to add 800 mini strobes, 5 RGB geyser fog machines and a 12ft inflatable Santa Sleigh with a stack of twinkling presents on the roof. A 3D holographic projector, new brighter fountain floodlights and a new brighter video projector to the front of the house. 2,500 new LED lights to the bushes, and a polar & baby bear sculpture to the front yard. 15,000 new LED lights to the trees and bushes behind our house. A large inflatable sit on Santa chair/jumper and a Hot Chocolate station to the backyard. Unfortunately, we had the earliest reveal night of any of the contenders in our season of the show, so less time to get everything set up in time for the judge than anyone else in the competition and sadly we weren't able to have everything ready in time. Nevertheless, we tried to make the best of the season and we did eventually get all of those things added but frustratingly it wasn't until very late in the season for some things due to constant setbacks all season caused by more rain than we've ever experienced before. We were however honored in 2019 to be featured on CBS 8 News Now in addition to ABC 13 Action News. Plus a video of our show went viral for the first time for Viva Las Vegas.