Christmas Crazies: The Outside

I hope you all understand my love for Christmas lights.  Like seriously, y'all.  This was the photo I put on IG on October 10th:

Home Depot had an awesome selection this year, but I promise, we did not purchase anything that day and waited until after Thanksgiving to start our decorating.  In case you're new around here, the bottom photo was our light display last year - more on that here.  
We even have too many lights inside our house... here's my post on our inside decor from last week.  Now, here's the start to the 2013 lights: icicles then windows:

Each year, we have to add to what we did the previous year.  So, this year we upgraded our Bumble, added a cardinal to our front porch, more lights around the windows, and lights around our shed.  Here what it looks like this year:

and some of our little "scenes..."

Is this excessive? Yes.  Do we love it? Yes.  It's just so much fun to put together and to watch all the people slow down when they drive by!  Finally, here's everything after last night's snow storm [the third in a week... what is going on in CT?!]:

our friends got a little buried...