Piece by piece, the Fye family built their annual holiday light display over the course of several days in late November, but Nicole Fye says she considered whether to even continue the family’s more than decade-long tradition this year.

“I think every year is that way at the beginning because it’s a lot of work, and so there’s always that question – at least for me,” said Fye.

Fye says as long as she has help from her family, she’ll continue the tradition, but she says she’s still the one calling the shots.  Her brother Matt claims he’s the one in charge. “She thinks she is,” said Matt Fye. “Our other brother would tell you the same thing – she’s not in charge anymore.”

Sibling rivalry aside, the Fye family’s holiday lights tradition started small – with just one inflatable decoration.  But it’s grown so much over the years, Fye says she had to numerically categorize more than 80 bins of lights and other decorations to keep everything organized.  And she can pull up a master plan on her phone that shows where each of those decorations go.

“At first all the neighbors made fun of me and said my OCD was really coming out, until it started helping us find which light we were looking for when I’d say hey it’s in this bin,” said Fye.  “So now everybody loves it.”

Fye studied graphic design, but she’s still a few steps away from carrying out her dream of opening up an art school.  She says in the meantime, projects like this help her express her imagination.

“Now I work in a school office, which doesn’t let me be very creative so this is my way to express that,” said Fye.

But the main reason she does this isn’t for her, it’s for all of the people young and old who look forward to seeing their display each year.

“And it’s not even just kids’ faces, it’s all the adults that come, or the 80 or 90-year-olds that are coming and their face lights up - and that just makes all the hard work worth it,” said Fye.

If you can't make it in person, you can check out the "The Fye's Crazy Christmas House" on Facebook.