If my wife sees this, you are in big trouble. :)
I really need to post a 2008 version. I never got around to the 2007 version.
I’ve gone a different route since 2006. My two large trees both died (the blue one was already dead, but the green/red one was taken out by a parasite).
So now I put artificial trees around the yard. I also have a penguin family with a pet Polar Bear, to go along with my family of deer in the left side yard (the families match my family). I added some glitter trees as well.
But I have fewer lights total, just because the big tree had almost 4000 lights, and I just don’t have any place to put up 4000 lights without the big tree.
I’m about 2/3rds done this year.
I should also post a few pictures of our halloween walk-through haunted pathway. It is turning into a big production and it means I’m already burned out before I start putting up christmas lights.