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Last year, Oak Cliff couple Jamey B OO zer and Steven Hamm O nd created a Christmas lights show in the front yard of their e lmwood home, and it was spectacular. d ubbed “Christmas in the OC”, there were thousands of lights, musical coordination over a radio frequency and a “fireworks palm tree”. t he show was so successful that they decided to get really serious. t his year’s show will feature about 100 L ed snowflake tubes, 500 channels of lights (compared to 64 last year) and lots of other stuff they’ve been working on all year. Boozer and Hammond have a website devoted to their lights display at occhristmas.com, and their address is 1603 South m ontreal.

So, tell me about what’s new with your Christmas lights display this year.

Boozer: We’re going to have a reindeer jumping from our house to our neighbor’s house. And we’ve got these LED snowflake tubes, which we purchased directly from a manufacturer in China. They’re my current obsession because I think these are going to be the next hot thing for all of us Christmas crazies — they make it look like snow is falling. I discovered them around March, and I really wanted them. We also have DMX lighting, so we can wash one wall of the house all in teal, for example.

How did you guys get so into all of this stuff?

Hammond: Well, I’m a techie [he’s an IT analyst], so this is all fun for me. And we’ve both always been really in to Christmas. When you see the expressions on people’s faces, it just warms your heart.

Boozer: At first, we wanted this thing called ‘Lights and Sounds of Christmas’ (which retails for about $100), and it’s an easy way to create a light display. So we waited until after Christmas and bought it at half price. But we’ve outgrown that. And