Thanks to everybody that showed up to share their thoughts and took some of their Christmas Holiday watching the Lights, It makes all the hard work involved worth the while. I have many new ideas for the 2009 season

If you missed the live show, most of all the videos are in the 2008 Videos page of this website.

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Again,

Thanks for a Great 2008 Light Season,

Paul Carroll

1/18/09

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Welcome to the Carroll's website for the 2009 Christmas Season. We are located in Wheeling WV on Wheeling Island. and I will detail more on the next pages of this website of how and why I'm doing this.

How it Started

One day back in December 2006 my son Michael was watching the Carson Williams version of Wizards in Winter on youtube.com and he looked up at me smiled and said....."You can do that Dad, can't you?" I replied it would take me some time to research and build it. well..that was what I did. I purchased most of my equipment from wowlights.com by late 2007 I was ready for my 1st attempt. I was happy with the results so happy with it, I left them on way after New Years and Linda was asking me in early February to put my toys away. and with that I did. And all winter, spring and summer I was thinking on how I was going to make 2008 even better.

How the Lights Stole Christmas Story

In late November 2007 Linda asked me what I needed for the Christmas lights for the season she had no idea that I built the system and I told her I needed 30-100 strands of mini-white lights, 10-100 bulb in Red, Blue, Green and 20-100 bulb Multi's and 16 50ft extension cords and...at this time she looked at me like I was nuts and I took her outside and explained what I did and she said, "Oh, great....We're the Griswold's" I explained in detail how it works and that weekend as I was installing the system Linda was "coming on board" with the concept and gave many suggestions and helped install the system, all this without Michael knowing what we were doing

The Early Surprise

We were ready to surprise Michael with our new toy, he had no idea that I built the system. Linda and I took Michael out to dinner and when we got close enough to home to pick up the music from the lights he heard Wizards in Winter on the radio and said....Hey, turn that up..and while he was jammin' we got in front of the house and he looked up and saw the house jammin' in its own special way. the look on his face made all the work...and money worth it. I will never forget the expression on his face.

thanks,

Paul Carroll

Updated: January 18th 2009 (check or click this  How it's Done page for details)

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Always Proud to be American,

A thank you and God Bless to the Men and Women of our Military who served and still are serving this great country of ours so we have the ability to worship, achive, vote and even do things like this light system.

"Everybody wants in but nobody wants to go"