Welcome to Silverdale Lights
The Larsen Family's Holiday Gift

Silverdale Lights was created by the Larsen Family to provide a wholesome Holiday display that can be enjoyed by the community. Longing for the days where every street was decorated with Christmas lights, Scott Larsen wanted to create a display that inspired others to celebrate the season with lights. It does not take a lot of time and you don’t have to be Christian to put up lights. There are many reasons to celebrate with lights. Most of us think of Christmas, but other religious displays can be found along with special winter wonderland displays, memorials and tributes to men and women who have served our country.

The Larsen’s display has three themes to it, Christmas, Children’s favorites and a tribute to Police Officers that have given their lives in the line of duty. While some songs might be repeated for two years, the display keeps growing and the program is modified each year. This is no easy task and it takes a lot of planning and time to organized such a technically advanced music and light display. The whole family is involved from selecting the songs and programming to installing the thousands of multi- colored light strings. The family members are difficilt to locate when it come to taking down the lights.

Scott has always decorated his house for the holidays, but in 2007 he wanted to add some motion to the display. His first automated attempt was a 15 foot tree made up of 1,600 mini-lights. It was controlled with a small four channel "garage band" type light controller. Nice, but too small for his liking. In 2008, Scott really stepped it up with a computer controlled system that had tremendous expansion opportunity. If you want to learn more about the system, see the "How to" session. In 2009, the lights jumped to 17,000 and 2010 up again to 32,000 lights. The plans for 2011 is to complete change the display. Diane said, "Even though we have added to this display, we have had the same basic show for three years. This year is all going to be new!"

The most significant addition for 2010 was the charity selection for Silverdale Lights. It has become customary for displays like Silverdale Lights to choose a charity to route any donations that are offered by the many generous visitors. The Larsen’s gift to the community is Silverdale Lights; the community’s gift back will go to the Joshua T. Miktarian Memorial Scholarship Fund. In 2010 we raise just over $3700 for these two great charities. Please visit the Project Blue Light page on this website and donate today.