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The Miller Lights

5400 Santa Teresa Ave, Santa Rosa

The Show

Lights and snow synchronized to the music on 94.3 FM.

The house lit for the show

The house wakes up.

  1. The music starts, and the house moves with every beat, from the star at the top on down.

  2. Then the whole yard joins in, all of it synchronized to the music on your radio.

Please be safe and courteous

While watching the light show, we ask that you think of safety first and the experience of others.

  • Keep the street and driveways clear
  • Use your parking lights
  • Keep your radio volume at a reasonable level
The tree of lights in blue, star at the top
Santa in the window of the red shed
The house lit in red, white and green

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The tree of lights in white and gold

Snow

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Snow falling on families at the show
A mother and child catching the snow
A girl catching snow with a glowing wand
Snow falling over a candy cane and an arch
A girl holding out her hands for snow
Children laughing in the falling snow
A boy looking up into the snow
Families standing in the falling snow

Come See It

When
Hours
Where
5400 Santa Teresa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Parking
The show faces Rinaldo St, around the corner. For the best view, park on the west side of Rinaldo, across the street from the house. The house side works too, and there are no driveways to block on Rinaldo.
Sound
Tune your car radio to 94.3 FM. It reaches about a block from the house.
Snow
Through the show
Cost
Free. Every dollar you give goes to the Redwood Empire Food Bank.

The show is at 5400 Santa Teresa Ave, Santa Rosa.

A night at the Miller Lights

  1. The whole display from across the street
  2. Visitors along the sidewalk on a show night
  3. The house lit, visitors along the sidewalk
  4. Families and cars gathered for the show
  5. The crowd and the cars from above
  6. The megatree and the yard in blue
  7. Snow blowing across the street corner
  8. Families on the corner in the snow
  9. Families walking up the street to the show
  10. Snow falling over the front garden
  11. The front yard lit, visitors watching
  12. The megatree, the star and the candy canes
  13. The house in red, white and gold

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          Help Us Raise Money For The Redwood Empire Food Bank

          $15,000 raised for the food bank last December.

          This started with neighbors leaving cash in our mailbox for the electric bill. That kindness deserved a better home than our power bill, so we passed it along to a local kids' charity. Today every donation goes to the Redwood Empire Food Bank, which turns every $1 it receives into $3 of healthy food.

          Feel the spirit of giving? Drop something in the red box in front of the house, or give without leaving the car. It doesn't matter if it's a sprinkle or a sleigh-load. Every bit goes into making a family's holiday season merry and bright.

          Give To The Food Bank About the food bank
          A child reaching for the lights
          The yard sign asking visitors to support the food bank

          Community Night

          , . Free.

          Come out for our community night helping to support the Redwood Empire Food Bank. Come together and celebrate the season, watch the show, and stand in the snow. We have hot chocolate, cookies, popcorn, face painting, Santa for pics (and he also gives away small gifts to the kids) and all of it is free.

          Families at the show on community night
          Cookies and hot chocolate on Community Night
          Santa greeting families on Community Night
          The crowd and the inflatables on community night

          In The News

          High Tech Holiday Light Display

          Christi Warren, The Press Democrat, December 14, 2016.

          The Miller family in front of the display on Vallejo Street, 2016

          This is the story as it ran in 2016, when the show was on Vallejo Street, played on 88.9 FM and raised money for Hearts for Happiness. In 2020 the show moved to 5400 Santa Teresa Ave and 94.3 FM, and since then every dollar has gone to the Redwood Empire Food Bank.

          It’s snowed every night since Dec. 2 in Santa Rosa. You just have to know where to find it.

          The Millers, a family of four who deck out their Vallejo Street home to the nines — heck, to the 10s — every year, have outdone themselves this year with the addition of a snow machine, and three-times the density of lights than in years past.

          Theirs is one of dozens of Sonoma County homes elaborately festooned with seasonal lights and displays, turning yards into blazingly bright holiday tableaus.

          The Millers’ home is not your typical set of holiday lights. Their home is uniquely high-tech, with an LED light show choreographed to a set of 13 songs that Nathan Miller, 41, has programmed himself. Each song takes 36 hours to program to the corresponding light show, he said, and each year the list of songs continues to grow.

          “In the beginning, the little tiny idea I thought that was going to not take very much time turned into a big idea that took a lot of time,” said Nathan’s wife, Melissa, laughing.

          The couple has two little girls: Sawyer, 7, and Sloane, 6. When Nathan Miller first started putting up lights back in 2012, the girls were just babies.

          “It was harder … I was like a single mom for a couple of months,” Melissa said. “But now that the girls are older, they’ve been able to help a lot. I’ve been able to help a lot. And it’s creating such fun memories for the girls.

          “Every year they get super excited about when the light show is going to start. … Now, we can go out there any night and run around in the snow.”

          From the street, viewers can watch as Santa Claus, created purely from LED lights, dances along to “Uptown Funk.” Schroeder plays the piano throughout “Linus and Lucy” and during a medley of “Frozen” songs, Anna talks to Elsa through her bedroom door, trying to convince her to build a snowman.

          While watching, viewers can tune into an unused radio station — 88.9 FM, to be specific — and listen to the playlist of songs with accompanying light show. Watchers are also prompted to text to a service Miller set up that displays text messages on a light board — after they’re run through a profanity filter. “Merry Christmas!” “Happy Holidays!” and messages of thanks and love frequently seen scroll across the side of the house, just to the right of Santa’s Workshop, where a video display shows a real person, dressed in a Santa suit, frantically moving about his workshop.

          The display looks so realistic, the Millers’ dog, Wrigley, even barked at it.

          But it’s not all just fun and reindeer games. The Millers are on a mission, too, to raise funds for Hearts for Happiness, a local charity started by Sierra Duarte, a sixth-grade teacher at Sequoia Elementary School.

          The partnership with Hearts for Happiness, a group of elementary school students who focus on random acts of kindness — like handing out hearts on the street, placing flowers on cars windshields, and reading to people at nursing homes — began in 2015.

          The idea to get involved with a charity came after strangers started leaving checks and cash for the Millers in their mailbox and against their door, often with notes explaining the money was to help with their utilities.

          “I can handle the electric bill going up $100 or $150 a month,” Nathan Miller said. “I said, ‘Let’s put this money back into the community. Let’s give it back.’ ”

          In 2015, the family raised $1,500 for the charity.

          Since he first put the lights up on their Santa Rosa home in 2012, it’s gotten ever more elaborate. The show now has a steady stream of regulars.

          One of them, Steve Breazeale, 43, was there Tuesday night with his 4-year-old daughter Jane. She wanted him to bring her to what she calls “the Nutcracker house” for the second night in a row.

          Breazeale greeted Nathan with a warm handshake. The two have become friends after so many visits. Breazeale has donated to Hearts for Happiness, and is planning on creating his own elaborate light display. As for Nathan Miller, he’s already thinking about 2017.

          “It’s a full-time job,” he said.

          Read it at pressdemocrat.com

          Giants Of Generosity

          Scholastic DynaMath, Vol. 36, No. 4, December 2017 / January 2018.

          The cover of Scholastic DynaMath, December 2017 / January 2018 The Giants of Generosity page, with the Miller family in front of the lights

          This ran in the 2017 season, when the show was on Vallejo Street and raised money for Hearts for Happiness. In 2020 the show moved to 5400 Santa Teresa Ave and 94.3 FM, and since then every dollar has gone to the Redwood Empire Food Bank. One thing the magazine got backwards: the music is the show's own, sent to your car radio.

          Whole Number Division. Giants of Generosity. Meet inspiring people who give back during the holiday season and beyond.

          Holiday Hearts. “My girls love that we are the Christmas lights family,” says Nathan Miller of his two daughters. For the past four years, he has covered their home in Santa Rosa, California, with holiday lights. He has even programmed the lights to flash in sync with holiday music from a local radio station.

          Neighbors and visitors were impressed. They began leaving money in the family’s mailbox. The Millers donate the funds to Hearts for Happiness. The organization promotes random acts of kindness in the area.

          Miller has spent 468 hours programming the light display to twinkle to the music of 13 songs. Say he spent the same amount of time on each song. Label the following division equation with the correct vocabulary. How much time does it take to program 1 song?

          468 ÷ 13 = 36. Word bank: divisor, dividend, quotient.

          Christmas Lights For A Cause

          Kate Larsen, ABC 7 News, December 17, 2018.

          This is the segment and story as they ran in 2018, when the show was on Vallejo Street and raised money for Hearts for Happiness. In 2020 the show moved to 5400 Santa Teresa Ave and 94.3 FM, and since then every dollar has gone to the Redwood Empire Food Bank.

          SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KGO) — 100,000 synchronized lights, a video Santa display and snow that you can set your watch to! It sounds like the set of a Hollywood Christmas movie, but it’s just a regular home in Santa Rosa owned by a family with extra big hearts.

          “The music, the tree, everything here, it’s so amazing,” said six-year-old, Everett Smith, who loves to make “snowballs” out of the sudsy snow mix and smear them all over his Dad, Jarod Smith, who brings his family to the Miller’s house every year to enjoy the light display.

          “This house is the most amazing house every year. There’s nothing like it.”

          The lights are on every night from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. until New Year’s Day and every 10 minutes, there’s a scented snow flurry, made from a mixture of Mr. Bubble, water, alcohol (to prevent slipping) and Christmas scent.

          “It takes about two months to set up total and now this year I had a Halloween show as well, started in September,” said Nathan Miller, who has been hosting the light show at his house on Vallejo Street for the past eight years.

          The show is free, but Miller says people wanted to pay, “the first year we did this, we had people coming up to us and giving us $100 bills saying– this is for your electric bill.”

          Miller says his electric bill does get expensive, increasing by about a thousand dollars every January, but he’s happy to take on that cost. So, Nathan and his family decided to pay the donations forward to a Santa Rosa charity, called Hearts for Happiness, which just like the Millers, spreads happiness through random acts of kindness. The Millers expect to raise about $6,000 this year for the charity.

          On Saturday, Dec. 22, the Millers and Hearts for Happiness are hosting a free fundraising party at their house from 6-9 p.m. There will be photos with Santa, face painting and all sorts of holiday treats.

          Read it at abc7news.com

          KZST Morning Show With Brent Farris

          KZST, 2018.

          We were lucky to have been invited by Brent Farris for a spot on his morning show. It was originally supposed to be a short, less than 20 min spot, and it ended up going for an hour. We had such a great time and cannot thank him and his staff enough for welcoming us and helping to spread the word about our light show and how we’re using it to spread joy, not only with the light and music, but in our partnership with Hearts for Happiness!

          Here is the complete interview of Nathan Miller and Sierra Keith (Hearts for Happiness). It’s in three primary parts and the close. I’ve also included our KZST commercial which played multiple times leading up to the charity events!

          1. Part 14:36
          2. Part 26:21
          3. Part 35:42
          4. The Close1:56
          5. The KZST Commercial0:59

          Recorded for the 2018 season, when the show was on Vallejo Street and raised money for Hearts for Happiness. In 2020 the show moved to 5400 Santa Teresa Ave and 94.3 FM, and since then every dollar has gone to the Redwood Empire Food Bank.

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          The Miller family with their two little girls in front of the lights on Vallejo Street
          Where it all started. Vallejo Street, 2016.

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