Hanging Christmas Lights at Chick-fil-A! 🎄 A DIY Family Tradition

about 200 lb worth of Christmas lights. We're on the hillside, so it is a little sketch. >> This is all tangled already. >> Why is that one tangled? >> I think it's on. >> Let me get up there. Let me get up there. >> Cuz I was impatient. You ain't figuring it out quick enough. New LED. These will be changing colored lights versus just the white ones. >> Welcome to my life. Welcome to my life. Yeah. On the bright side. Yeah. This music here [music] became my only life. Think I'm going crazy. I'm out in my right mind [music] on the bright side. Yeah. Hey. Yeah. One day they got that [music] brand new B way. Hometown asking in my repetition [music] from my chest. That's a bench press. Seeing more behind the frame. Future bright feel the sh thinking ain't nobody feel the way I do. But someone [music] got to feel the same. Yeah. On the bright side. Yeah. This music here became my only lifine. [music] Think I'm going crazy. I'm not in my right mind. Yeah. Welcome to my life. Welcome to my life. Yeah. [music] [bell] Welcome to my life. Welcome to my [music] life. Yeah. Welcome to my life. Welcome to my >> All right, G. It's that time. >> Y, >> which is what time? >> Lights at the store. >> Lights at the store. And this should go a whole lot smoother this year because we labeled everything. Like look, you can see labels. We already have it pre-cut, pre-made. It's actually a Saturday, so the store is actually operating. But we're going to hop up on the roof. We're going to do the lights up across the top. And then we'll save another day where we do the the drive-thru. Oh, look at there. Who's working today? Oindo. All right. So, container of lights is super heavy and big, so it's kind of hard to get it up here. So, we're gonna have LA feeding the lights up. Then Gavin's gonna start running them because we already have them again pre-cut, pre-installed from last time. So, we'll start running them around the building. Got all the lights on the shoulder. About 200 lb worth of Christmas lights. >> Yeah, that's a workout. All right. See if you can start kind of getting off your shoulder now. All right. >> We got them all up here. >> Has a lot of lights. >> Well, we got them up here, but unfortunately it got them all tangled up. And this magnets stick together. And so sometimes it's not necessarily tangled. It's just magnets, but it makes it a pain to undo. G and I are back at it today. >> We got the drive-thru today. So, we started already hanging the lights. Thankfully, uh these behaved themselves. They're not all tangled up, which honestly, I'm the one that got them tangled up trying to get them out. So, we started on this side. You can actually see the ones from yesterday we did. We're working our way around. You can see how windy it is. It was really, really windy out here. So, you may be getting a lot of wind in the mic. But something that's happened though, we have these little plastic clips up there. I'll show you better over here. And they're dry rotted or they're just cracked. They're plastic. And so we're having to actually tape a couple of them. Hopefully they'll last maybe this year. And we'll have to replace them probably next year. Little parts that hold it cracked and broke. So he's going to tape that bulb to the You can kind of see it maybe. What the heck? We do like five at a time. Then we have to shift the ladder over and we're on the hillside so it is a little sketch. That's going up pretty good. Doing good, G. Almost done. Going to try something new this time. I bought this little 12T LED Christmas light. We're going to try to stick it maybe on top of this AC unit. There's a flat spot up there overlooking the road. So, there's the drive-thru awning. We just got finished putting the lights up. So, let's hope this works. Well, we got the base done and kind of the pole, but it's getting a little chilly. Temperatures are dropping. We're losing a little daylight. And uh honestly, we're going to have to probably research and figure out a little bit more about this thing cuz the instructions kind of suck. Um, I think I kind of know what we're doing, but we're going to finish this another day. We got the main lights up. That's the big thing to be continued. We'll be back shortly. Gavin and I are back to finish up the Christmas lights. We ran out of time and got a little chilly on us last Sunday. We're going to finish this tree. There are a few bulbs that were out. So, Gavin's going around and finding the bulbs that were missing and out. And then we've got to finish putting up this tree, kind of building it out. So, I think the lights just kind of sit on top of this little thing that plugs in the star. >> So, how would this work? >> All right, we need to actually probably Let's undo this. We'll screw it back together. And this is where we need to make sure we're careful. Only doing like one at a time. Oh, shoot. I got the thing all twisted. You would think that would clip down on there, but I guess it just rests on it. And then [snorts] I guess we just do one string at a time. All right, here's the next group. And this is going to be the far end one. Oh, these are still >> that's going to be what Kevin be very careful. These things tangle up easy. But >> yeah, it's a good thing you just do one at a time. One little bundle at a time. And then we'll put the extensions in the pole to stretch them out. >> There. This is all tangled already. >> Why is that one tangled? >> I think it's on. >> It shouldn't be, which technically I probably could go ahead and put another couple bars in it. Shoot. That thing's leaning. All right. You want to hop up there and then let's see if we can center it up a little bit. All right. Ready? It's not on there. >> It's not sitting level, is it? >> No. >> Wonder if we put Oh, shoot. These things came undone. Of course, >> we're trying to put this thing up on the AC unit. This raised piece is not helping matters. The front edge on this and the back edge on that. >> Maybe. Well, our tree got bent a little bit, the bars, but anchoring the lights to the bottom kind of helps stabilize it. Don't know how well it is. Now, we're going to plug it up. Let's hope it works. All right, let's plug it up and see. >> It's That's >> It is. >> Yeah. >> All right. Gavin says we have lights. I can't hardly see it. >> They're blue. >> Oh, you know what? You can Yeah. Change them. I didn't bring their mode up actually and it'll dance to music. All right. All right. Well, it may be a little bit of a slanted tree, but she's a working. After we did the lights last year, I really wish I'd have done this awning, which, you know, for the first year that was fine doing all the big ones. So, this year, I'm going to run a strand from this awning. And my plan is to connect it up there to that corner. So, there'll be a strand dangling down, I guess. But, I want them all to be synchronized and plugged up out of the way. So, let's get going. G. You're going to put the first at the very corner over there. >> I don't know how to put it in. >> Uh there's multiple ways you can do it. So, kind of however you want to, I guess. >> I got to turn it side. >> No, you don't have to put it on the whole plastic. Just hook it in the the wire if you want. As long as it's kind of stable. All right. >> Oh, let me give you some bulbs. All right. Here's bulbs. Yeah, that's too loose. Here, come down. Let me see. It's got a bunch of different ways you can connect. So, >> might have to go like this. >> Yeah. This is what you can do. This is And this seems to be holding up pretty well. All right. You can look and see how I did it. >> All right, >> I'm using that back. >> Holy cow. Sean Tucker has 43 points on my bench and two of my receivers had zero points in the fourth quarter. >> All right. So, you can see how I did it. And I'm putting it on the outside to kind of keep it stretched. Man, >> you can't figure this stuff out. Boy, I'd be a problem solver. >> You said, "Let me get up there. Let me get up there." >> Cuz I was impatient. You ain't figuring it out quick enough. >> I didn't even get chance to dig her down. Let me get up there. Let me get up there. [laughter] >> Let me get up there, >> man. Let me get up there and do that. >> Lad. >> How far you going? >> I don't know where you're going. I'm >> How far can you reach? You tell me. >> I'm not reaching up for >> I want you. I can make that. >> Now you all up under. >> Well, that's cuz you moved it all up under. >> Oh, I was actually just trying to get it. It was tangled up in that >> punkelli. All right, I'm connecting these lights down there to the ones up here. All right, moment of truth, G. See if they turn on. All right, they working. >> They're all working. >> Yep. >> Yippee. and hanging our curtain lights. We're not going to do that side this year because of all the traffic that kept running into them. Hopefully, these will work again. >> I don't think it's going to work. >> Yeah, I'd cut the very first one like that. It just It's tough. You got to kind of wiggle it all the way down. Mikey Jay helping me out today. why he's home for Thanksgiving break. Redoing our lights out here. The old ones just didn't work. These are some new LED. These will be changing colored lights versus just the white ones from last time. We're not going to do the other side since so many cars ran into it. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Subscribe my man Mer Squad. Let's go. >> Let's go. Let's go. Shout out to the boys. Welcome to my life.