Holiday Festival of Lights.

Fun times as we ALL piled into the

car and drove to Hidden Valley

Country Club's Festival of Lights.

The homes are older ranch style

homes and many of them go

to great lengths to put on a

wonderful CHRISTmas light display.

We laughed and joked and had SO MUCH

fun cramped in the back seat of

Grampa's truck!

The trees are old and tall and many

of the homes had lights all the

way up in trees that are over

fifty feet tall.

Tonight was the competition, so all

of the homes pulled out the stops.

We were excited to see lots of

Nativity scenes.

Santa and Mrs. Claus were on

display EVERYWHERE!

We sure missed Tim, we could

have crammed him in also.

Looking at lights is one of my

very favorite CHRISTmas memories

even as a little girl.

In fact, some of our very favorite

homes had the big lights from

when I was little.

We were so glad to find this home

that boldly proclaimed that

"Jesus is Lord". The roof had a

large cross on it as well.

We were laughing the entire night saying

that we were looking for "the glow". Zach

thought that we said we were looking for

"the globe". Yep, there was a globe alright!

Many of us love the homes with

just the plain white lights.

CHRISTmas memories. That is what

it is ALL about. We love, love, love

making CHRISTmas memories.