Last night (Saturday), we had the official home lighting ceremony to kick off our 'fun, old-fashioned, family Christmas'.  We invited some of the neighbors and Jessica's family.  If I counted correctly, there were 46 people (including children) standing outside our home as I turned on our Christmas lights officially.   There was hot chocolate and donuts along with some Christmas music playing in the background.  One of my neighbors was out putting up more lights on his house and lining his driveway late last night...I think I have inspired someone.  We talked about going out early, the day after Christmas, to purchase many new lights for next year!  Anyway...

This is the video Jessica took just as I ran in to the house to begin turning on our Christmas lights.  I had two plugs in my master bathroom, I had to turn on the swamp cooler, I had three cords to plug in downstairs in the basement, one outlet behind our living room couch, and one more in the garage.  

This is a video I took just after all the lights were on and running.

For anyone interested, and I know there are at least a few, go to my lights blog where I have broken down exactly how many lights I used etc.