A holiday tradition for a Hales Corners family not only brightens the neighborhood at night, it provides music, too.“Our front yard has become a Vegas show in Hales Corners. It's simply lights set to music of the season,” Lana Stachowski said.Stachowski is no amateur when it comes to putting up Christmas lights at her home near 123rd Street and Parkview Lane.She and her husband almost have it down to a science.“It typically takes about a month. That could include making each and every cable you need,” Stachowski said. “This (year it) took five hours. These are LED lights. They're called pixels, and you tell it which color you want it to be.”Then they sync the lights to music through software, and this year, she couldn't resist the phenomenon of the movie "Frozen."“We wanted to add something new to get all the little girls excited,” Stachowski said.It's one thing to drive up and watch the 30-minute show, but WISN 12 News reporter Hillary Mintz had to ask, “What do the neighbors think?”“People seem to enjoy it. It's hard to keep up with them, and I'm jealous, especially because I couldn't put anything out this year,” neighbor Wayne Trapp said.The family's been doing this since 2007, and it has no plans to stop any time soon. If anyone decides to stop by, the family is also taking donations for the American Cancer Society.So far the family has helped raise $8,000 from its light show, which runs every night from 5 to 10 pm.

A holiday tradition for a Hales Corners family not only brightens the neighborhood at night, it provides music, too.

“Our front yard has become a Vegas show in Hales Corners. It's simply lights set to music of the season,” Lana Stachowski said.


Stachowski is no amateur when it comes to putting up Christmas lights at her home near 123rd Street and Parkview Lane.

She and her husband almost have it down to a science.

“It typically takes about a month. That could include making each and every cable you need,” Stachowski said. “This (year it) took five hours. These are LED lights. They're called pixels, and you tell it which color you want it to be.”



Then they sync the lights to music through software, and this year, she couldn't resist the phenomenon of the movie "Frozen."

“We wanted to add something new to get all the little girls excited,” Stachowski said.



It's one thing to drive up and watch the 30-minute show, but WISN 12 News reporter Hillary Mintz had to ask, “What do the neighbors think?”



“People seem to enjoy it. It's hard to keep up with them, and I'm jealous, especially because I couldn't put anything out this year,” neighbor Wayne Trapp said.



The family's been doing this since 2007, and it has no plans to stop any time soon.



If anyone decides to stop by, the family is also taking donations for the American Cancer Society.



So far the family has helped raise $8,000 from its light show, which runs every night from 5 to 10 pm.





