Merry Christmas Eve everybody! I’ve got some time to kill before I go over to my grandma’s house for pierogies and presents so I thought I’d do a quick post and share the results of Christmas-themed video contest. But it turns out that most Christmas-themed video contests are kinda lame so I’m just going to post a video that features the winners of USA Today’s annual Holiday Lights Contest. Contestants had to send in a photo of their Christmas Holiday lights and the house with the craziest display will get $5,000. Here’s some info about the family that won:
Over the past 20 years, what began as a way for Buck Bottoms to make his children smile during the holidays has turned into a lifestyle for Hunter, 27, his wife, Emily, brother Jonathan, 25, and sister Ashley, 24. And Hunter Bottoms has in many ways taken over as the ringleader of the family’s holiday display.
He says each year they reunite to decorate their parents’ Midlothian, Va., home.
“We start putting the display together in September and try to have it up by Thanksgiving,” Bottoms says. “We have 178,000 lights so it’s a process and we have to manage things all year.”
The Bottoms house is located in a suburb of Richmond where holiday light tours are a staple of the season. For the past 10 years, the Bottoms home has been a part of the Richmond Tacky Lights tour with limos and buses of people showing up on the weekends.
Ok, it’s now officially pierogi time so I am outta here. Have a great holiday everybody!
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