It's our second installment of this year's "Home of the Week" as we continue our tours around Chicagoland, we look in on the home of The Parcell Family in Geneva, IL and there display:

"Twas The Night Before"

For Geneva residents, a year without this house would be like a year without the great poem...only this show starts set up the first week of November, taking over 70-to-80 hours in all to set up with an estimated total of 12,000-to-15,000 people visiting the display during the season. The home itself, located at 813 Cheever Avenue in Geneva, which has been computer-synchronized to music since 2002, comes to you via the frequency of 88.5fm in your car.

We caught up with display-guru Greg Parcell to ask what inspires his display.

Q&A with Greg Parcell

K3 Lights: "So how did this all start?"

GP: "Like most families with extensive (large, over the top, pick your favorite adjective) Christmas displays, we started very small and gradually grew over many years. In 1991, while living in a different house in Geneva, we built a storage shed that resembled a small cottage - it had a front window with a flower box, a cross-buck front door and pointed roof. That Christmas, we purchased a blowmold Santa Claus and placed him inside the shed in front of the window, outlined the shed with large multi-colored lights and made a sign that said "Santa's Workshop". Every year we added a few more lights, some candy canes, a few blowmold elves and other decorations. While not a large display, it became the foundation of how we decorate today.  In 1996, we moved to our present home. The new house did not have a storage shed like our old home and we didn't have the need to build one. Ethan, our youngest son, had just turned 4 years old. Ethan was very concerned that we wouldn't have a Santa's Workshop at our new home for Christmas. Not wanting to disappoint Ethan in that first Christmas in our new home, we built a free standing Santa's Workshop and placed it in our side yard. Every year, we again followed our earlier tradition and added more lights and other decorations. It's hard to imagine that once 4 year old Ethan is now studying music composition and living in Boston - but Santa's Workshop is still part of our display.  In 1999, we began to focus on more of a North Pole theme. That year, Janice and the boys went to our local Menard's and literally bought every penguin and polar bear they could find - filling up multiple shopping carts and filling up our van. This was probably the first time that we started to realize our display was a bit unique. We then added other structures like the Polar Bear Cafe and Santa's Skate Park (using a skateboarding half-pipe we had built for the boys) along with inflatable polar bears and snowmen."

K3 Lights: "So when did you start to broadcast your home with music?"

GP: "It wasn't until 2002, we added computerized control to the display. We control all aspects of the display from multiple computers including the synchronization of the lights to music being broadcast on a low power FM transmitter. We also have streaming video cameras in order for people all across the world to see (and listen to) the display over the Internet. One of the most popular features of the display is our Virtual Santa that appears in one of our windows every night."

K3 Lights: "What do you think is the oldest decoration of the bunch?"

GP: "Our Santa's Workshop was the first and still a centerpiece along with the Polar Bear Cafe. We also were one of the first displays to use the Virtual Santa --I think 2011 is our 9th year with that."

K3 Lights: "Have you made the LED "switch" as they are calling it yet?"

GP: "Yes, in fact since 2006 we've been gradually incorporating them into the display. I think now it's all completely LED based. The power required to run our display has dropped dramatically over the years. I also like the LED's for their durability."

K3 Lights: "What time does your display start each evening?"

GP: "5pm to 10pm, Nov 27th to Dec 31st"

K3 Lights: "You work with a charity right? Could you tell us a little more about that?"

GP: Yes, we've been a official drop off location for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign for several years. In fact, every year we're fortunate to have donated several hundreds of toys. Since we do generate a lot of traffic, I thought it would be a perfect chance to promote a great Christmas charity. It's become one of our most fun activities of the season"

Special thanks to Greg Parcell and the Parcell family for participating in the Home of the Week! Be sure to check out their home live for yourself, and if you can't take a look in on the show from their live webcam here, and be sure to check in NEXT FRIDAY for another, "Home of the Week" right here on K3Lights.com.