The first thing you will probably notice is the name change! If you’re familiar with our display, then you will recognize our former name ‘Vaderville’. For more on the name change, please see About Providence Christmas.

Our display has grown bigger and better every year and now encompasses four neighboring homes all synchronized to unique arrangements of classic holiday tunes. This is our fourth year of running a computer controlled light show and we’ve nearly doubled the size of the show once again for 2009. This year our display will include over 70,000 lights, 60 strobe lights, a few virtual snow machines, a virtual Santa Claus, red and green flood backdrops, a 20′ ‘mega tree’, video synchronization, and a couple of very cool LED scanners and other special effects. Oh yeah, and don’t forget that Santa will make live appearances as we get closer to the big day!

With 128 channels of animation, a couple hundred feet of cat5 and a couple wireless networking devices to get the signal to the house across the street – this will be fantastic!

The show is synchronized to a variety of unique holiday tunes and can be heard by tuning your car stereo to 107.3 FM.

Happy Holidays!

From the Shucks, the Vaders and the McKims, we hope your holiday dreams have come true. We hope that you are blessed, healthy, happy and enjoying not only this season, but all of the days of the year. We wish you and yours the merriest of merry Christmas’ and the most propsperous of all new years!

I spent saturday night in ICU. Started mondya morning being told I would be starting Chemo next week and ended Tuesday with the Oncologist telling me there, in fact, is no cancer in my blood – and the infectious disease specialist telling me I didn’t have Lymphoma, rather a very unique and rare form of… Mono.

So, we’re still waiting for the FINAL results. I spent Saturday night and Sunday in ICU. It’s been an emotional roller coaster. And We really still don’t have a 100% answer, but it looks more like a weird form of Mono at this point. I still feel miserable and have a handful of drugs to take. My spleen is twice it’s normal size and all of the incisions from the biopsy and other testing have made me very sore – so it’s difficult to get around.

I have my first follow up and should have final results from the biopsy sometime next week.

In the end, I am blessed to be able to spend the holiday with my family. I am blessed to have the family, friends and neighbors that I have. I want to offer my sincerest gratitude to all of our great neighbors here in Providence Village. I always knew we had it good here, but it’s times like these that the absolute beauty of true community shines through in all it’s glory. THANK YOU TO YOU ALL! You will never know how much your support has meant to us over the past couple of weeks and as we continue to sort through my health issues.

I sure it hope it all dries out before tomorrow night since Santa is supposed to come visit us tomorrow. But please be aware that if the show doesn’t run, Santa won’t be making an appearance either.

Stay Tuned!

What can I say…

Santa will be available from about 7pm until 8pm or until all the kiddos have had a chance to chat!

HO HO HO!

Suddenly, the Shuck’s, McKim’s and I noticed that the line of cars waiting to see out display went all the down to the lake near our model homes and beyond. That’s probably about 1/4-1/2 a mile. And – there were cars creating a very problematic ‘third lane’ right down the middle of the road between cars parked along both sides of the street in each direction.

2 thoughts went through our heads:

1. Cool! Look what we did!
2. Dear God please don’t let anyone do anything stupid!