How it Started

One day back in December 2006 my son was watching the Carson Williams version of Wizards in Winter on youtube.com (this is linked to My Space because You Tube blocked all TSO music) 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 tried to build my own controller which was not so hard of a project but I was having trouble spending the time needed to get this project online before Christmas 2007, so I started to search the internet and I found Light-O-Rama & Wowlights, 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.

Getting the hardware built by yourself or purchasing the controllers already assembled is the easy part, doing the sequence and laying out your display......now thats where the talent is

How the Lights Stole Christmas Story

In late November 2007 I was asked 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 my son with our new toy, he had no idea that I built the system. The wife and I took our son 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