My wife and I are still in a honeymoon stage when it comes to our children, who are 5- and 7-years-old — they still think we’re cool.

Yes, we know it won’t last.

Still, it’s great to know every time we think of something fun to do, like going to a ballgame, attending a movie or enjoying the park, our children have a good time hanging out with their parents.

Now that we’re in the Christmas season, enjoying holiday lights is another way our family can spend quality time together.

Thankfully, there is another local family with similar ideas, only they’re supplying the lights this holiday season.

Tiffany Blystone at 1801 Acadia Drive in LaPlace is welcoming all in the surrounding community to swing by her home this evening and each evening thereafter as they unveil 30,000 sparkling lights that dance to the music played on 97.7 FM.

The loop runs for approximately 30 minutes and is active from 6 to 11 p.m. nightly.

Although all in the community can enjoy the merriment, Tiffany said the display is as much for her boys — 14-year-old Mikkal and 6-year-old Ashtyn — as anyone.

“My two boys are my inspiration,” she told me this week. “They are both autistic. The lights, they do something for them. It is just mesmerizing to them.

“It’s so much fun, because they are out here with me very often dancing. When we’re setting it up, we have to have it running, so the lights and music are going. They just love it. It is amazing. When your kids don’t want to leave your house to go and look at Christmas lights because they want to stay and watch yours, then you know you are doing it right.”

According to Tiffany, this is the third year in a row her family has tried to go big with its display. Although, she is trying to get the word out about the project more this year.

“We have so many people that actually loop around every single night,” she said. “There is a lady on a bicycle with her two kids in tow, and they watch us every single night. That is what keeps us going: To know there are people out there that are looking forward to it.”

Tiffany jokes that her husband is not her partner in crime when it comes to the lighting display, but rather her brother, Joshua Robertson is.

“Christmas lights have always been our family tradition, riding around and always looking at them,” she said. “There is not as many houses that decorate as when we were kids. We used to be just a simple house with lights on the roof, garland on the doors and some inflatables in the yard — nothing major.

“Until my brother was like, ‘What if we go bigger? I was nervous, because it is a big jump. There is a lot of technical issues with the whole computer thing that I was no where near aware of.”

The siblings made the leap and purchased a Light-O-Rama system that runs their Christmas lights to a computer. Each song is sequenced into the lights, and it takes about five hours to write a two-minute song.

“It’s a long process, and my brother stuck with me the whole way,” Tiffany said. “We have been doing it since 2013, when we bought the house. We’re trying to make it bigger every year. This is the first year that it seems to be getting pretty big.”

Tiffany encourages those who pass by to tune into 97.7 FM.

“We have about 15 songs, so it will roughly take about 30 or 45 minutes to show them all,” she said. “We love to do it. It’s part of being a Christmas tradition, and I’m so proud our house is one of them.”

Thank you Tiffany and family.

This year will be my first passing by your home, and it’s a trip I’m looking forward to sharing with my children.

Stephen Hemelt is publisher and editor of L’OBSERVATEUR. He can be reached at 985-652-9545 or stephen.hemelt@lobservateur.com.