We just wanted to say thank you to everyone that came by to see us on Halloween.  We had a great turn out and got many positive comments on our display.  We will be gearing up for Christmas over the next month, so come back and see us in December.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Be sure to stop by and see us.  We will be giving out caramel corn this year and we have a few surprises for our guests.  Promise they are not very scary, though some younger children might not like them.  Also there will be one new song in our lineup tonight, its a surprise, so come by and see what it is.  The show starts at 6pm.

Things are gearing up for Halloween in a few days. We added some more lights to the show over the weekend and got everything ready for Halloween night. Be sure to come by and check us out. We will be giving away bags of Caramel Corn instead of candy this year.  We will attach a tag with the ingredients and where it came from for anyone who wants to know.

Also there will be some videos of the Halloween show posted soon.  I just have to finish post-processing them.  Stay tuned.

Normally this would be the point in the year when my light show would be starting for the Christmas season. However this year our family does not have a home, and we are separated by several thousand miles this year. Some how we need to raise a few thousand dollars to get into another house and be a family again, preferably before Christmas.

If anyone would like to help out a desperate family in need here is a donation button, any amount will be accepted:

I will create a page with for the people that donate to thank you.  If you would like to be includes, please include a name and optionally a URL in the comments and I will include that info on my thank you page.

Merry Christmas to all.

This is just an update to say that we now no longer have a home.  So, unless something drastic changes, there will be no light shows for Mesa Holiday Lights this year.  Our family has had to split up to survive this, and are staying with friends and family in different states.  Please concider a donation to help us get back together in a house before Christmas.

Due to the economic down turn, the fact that I can barely keep food on my own table, and unexpected increases in my cost of living; I have decided that I will have to cancel this year's light shows.  It takes a many hours of work to put these shows together and I can't even be sure I will have a place to live when the holiday season arrives.

If understand this will be a dissapointment for the people that enjoyed my shows for the last few years, my own children will be dissapointed by it, but I can't put my hobby before the needs of my family.

In case there is any interest in trying to save my shows, here is a way to donate:

After a few minor technical glitches, Mesa Holiday Lights proudly presents the 2008 Christmas light show. We will be running the show every night until the end of the year.  Come on by and watch the show.  Each night we rotate the songs we play so check the Show Schedule to what we will be playing each night.  If you need directions, stop on by the Contact Us page to get a map.  For more information about the light show, visit the 2008 Christmas page.  MP3s of several of the songs used in the show are availible for purchase from Amazon, see the 2008 Christmas page for links.

Happy Holidays!

After a very busy holiday weekend, the Mesa Holiday Lights Christmas 2008 light show is almost ready to begin. We are currently at 98% complete, I have one more build to finish before I will begin the show.

However, I will be running a few of the lights in the mean time on a simple animation, and we have Christmas music playing 24/7 on our radio station. See below for what is currently playing.

I recently suffered a major setback, one of my primary hard drives failed, and I lost a bunch of data.  Fortunately my shows were not lost, but all my videos of the 2007 Christmas display were lost.  Now I need to come up with $1,700 to recover the data, but I don't have any way to do that since my wife lost her job.  If you want to see the videos, and can help, please visit the Contact Us page and click the PayPal donate button. 

Thank you. 

I've just about finished putting the finally touches on the lights and the show schedule has now been posted.  If you are in the area and want to see the show, stop by the Contact Us section for directions.  For more info, images, and song info, see the 2008 Halloween Page.

Happy Halloween!

For a few months now, I've been putting together a new project involving animated light shows. I figure it is time to unveil it and get things moving.  Come visit the

project where I am attempting to put together a light show with, yeah, 1 million LED lights.  But I need everyone's help to do it, so I'm asking for generous people to sponsor my channels to make it happen.  Mesa Holiday Lights will not be affected by this, I concider this my personal show and it will continue regardless.  However, I needed a way to raise money to buy a new house, and this is my solution.  So come over and check it out at

Things don't always go as planned, looks like we will be moving in just under 2 weeks. Where? We don't know, but our land lord informed us that the house is being foreclosed and will be owned by the bank soon. I did have a 4th of July water show planned, but once I got wind of this, I canceled it, especially since we will probably be close to leaving next weekend.
This of course could not have been more inopportune, and we have just barely enough either rent a new place (not desirable) or buy a house, but with no down payment, assuming we can get the financing. So there might be some disruption to this site due to the move as well.
Stay tuned for more info. 

It has been a great season, and we would like to thank everyone that stopped by and watched our lights. We will not be running the lights any more (except for perhaps a special request). In the mean time we will be finishing the rest of the videos from the Christmas shows and posting them. Once those are done I hope to assemble another DVD of the light shows.
We will hope to see you back next year, we are planing to do a fourth of July event, stay tuned for more info on that. Till then things will be slow around here as we shift our focus away from the Holidays.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year from Mesa Holiday Lights.

• Animated menus
• 9 different sequences from the show
• 2 slideshows of the show, daytime and night time.
• All videos are mastered with the original sound file used for the show.
• Bonus content on disk

We got everything up and running and the show is live. Come over and see the lights.

• This year we will be running about 6,500 lights with 32 channels.
• All the Lights running would take about 30 amps
• There will be about 100 strings of light.

For 2006 we had approximately 2,500 lights in a static display.
All that will change for the Christmas 2007 display.