Holiday Lights of Woodbury

01/01/2025

I was planning on running the display through Jan1 but pulled the plug Monday and started packing it away. With colder temps and cloudiness in the forecast, thought i would get onto the porch roof while it was just wet and not frosty. Everything is down on the house but will plug away on the yard props the rest of the week.

12/23/2024

This is why I keep doing the light display. Just got a postcard from Calvin, giving me his vote as the best Christmas lights. How cool is that.

12/21/2024

I thought I would re-share this short video from 2 years ago. The local KSTP5 Eyewitness news used it several times during their 5 and 6pm newscasts.

Interesting that nobody came to the door to let me know that they filmed the display and to be watching for it during their newscast. If not for my son calling to tell me I was on the news, I'd never known it.

8846 Glacier RD Woodbury

12/16/2024

In the past, I have shared display videos for the majority of the songs in my Christmas display. I thought I would re-share a few of them over the next few weeks. For many more Halloween and Christmas songs, check out my video library.

FB - Holiday Lights of Woodbury
8846 Glacier RD Woodbury MN

12/12/2024

Looking for Christmas light displays to visit, check out the 8th annual Minnesota Holiday Lights Display Guide. Includes fee based commercial and free residential displays which are organized by city.

Find information for 150 Christmas light displays in Minnesota and Wisconsin, presented by Sam's Christmas Village and Light Tour.

12/08/2024

Just showed the FOX9 morning show visit/interview video to my 2 granddaughters, age 10 and 11. They both want to be on TV the next time. One of them told me to tell them, that she help me with the Halloween display and should have been included in the interview. Also have a 5 year old grandson and being a "pa-pa" is one of the great treasures in life.

12/05/2024

Here's 1 of the 2 recorded interviews that FOX9 aired during their morning show last week. There was also a live interview which I'll try to share later.

12/03/2024

We will again be accepting cash donations curbside, for the Open Cupboard food shelf in Oakdale MN. , serving the east metro area. They greatly appreciated the $450 donation they received last year. Much appreciation to all of you that have donated over the past several years. .

Btw, I have a lock on the donation box and is cabled to a light pole. Several years ago, I found the donation stand on the side of the street after someone tried to take off with it.

11/26/2024

I had a pleasant morning. Fox9 morning show reporter Shayne and her cameraman Greg, visited to highlight my Christmas light display. There was a live interview in their 6:00 hour and two recorded interviews in their 7:00 and 8:00 hours. So 9 minutes of fame. It was interesting to see the behind the scenes process of what's live and recorded for shows like this.

Once I gain access to these segments, I will share them, most likely early next week.

11/25/2024

It's showtime. The Christmas light display will run from Nov 27 thru Jan 1, nightly from 5 to 10pm. Curbside sign shows the FM station to tune your radio to. There's also a speaker in the yard if you want to get out of the car and walk around. The address which is also listed in the top page photo is,

8846 Glacier RD Woodbury MN

11/15/2024

I had my first smile of the Christmas light display season. I was just wrapping up, putting up all of the inflatables, when I heard 2 little ones, running from up the street to me, all excited. They thanked me for doing the lights and how much they liked it. We chatted about the inflatable for awhile and then off they went.

11/10/2024

Everything for the Christmas light display is up and working, other than the inflatables which I'll put up later. Anew 12ft animated Grinch was planned for the front right corner of the yard but it's just too windy by the street. Instead it will go in the middle of the yard, back away from the street. Moving the 8ft white tree off of the left corner of porch, down too the right front corner space. Mounted 2 of the 4ft color changing tree that were in the space, to the light pole. This will give this front corner some height which I think will look good.

11/04/2024

Saturday, I got the Halloween props stored away, Sunday I started pulling out Christmas item and started setting it up Monday. Looks like I will have to dodge rain this week but should have all the Christmas props in the yard up by end of this week.

Halloween night, guessing we had 100 kids, up from 50 in 2023, but down from 200 in 2022. I spent all night in front of the garage, welcoming kids to go into the garage where most of my animated props were. .

10/31/2024

I setup 5 animated props in the garage for Halloween night. If it quits raining, several more will go up outside. The large ghoul trio inflatable is already up . The light show, inflatable and props will be up and running by 6 tonight. Based on a suggestion/request, I will have everything running Friday night, from 6 to 7pm because of today's weather..

10/30/2024

In technical terms, looks like the weather for Halloween is going to be crappy. For the 2nd year in a row, might have to setup all the animated props in the garage. We have kicked around the idea of doing a garage haunted house so we wouldn't have to be a slave to weather every year. We could do a lot more scene decorating which my wife would really enjoy.

10/29/2024

Looks like I will have my 2 minutes of fame. A reporter with the FOX9 Morning Show, reached out to me about being interviewed Halloween morning. Assuming they will show a clip of my light display and then talk about it.

Since the lights won't be on that time of day, I think I will go ahead and setup some of the animated props the day before, just so there's some sense of Halloween.

10/21/2024

I bought a large Halloween inflatable last winter but never set it up. Grandkids spent the weekend and we did a test inflate on the driveway. Everyone thought it was pretty cool. It will go up Halloween day, middle of yard near the street. Here's a YouTube video of this Ghoul Trio which is over 9 ft tall. .