Christmas display raises money for a cause

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - After working with veterans who have recently returned from war, an engineer at Sandia Labs decided he wanted to do even more to help.
    
So he created a unique way to raise money for our wounded warriors.
    
The dynamic Christmas light show is set to music.
    
It's the brain-child of John Gronager.

“It was just something i got interested in and the neighbors were very encouraging every year they were saying how wonderful it was and how it added to their Christmas,” Gronager said.
    
The house off Lomas in the foothills has been lit up for years during the holidays.

The family says the tradition started about 30 years ago with a single string of lights and things just grew from there.

“You know I can't even count how many there are there's tens of thousands of lights here,” Gronager said.
    
Each year the display changes and gets bigger and bigger.

“My wife has said I think we're done adding right? I said who knows,” Gronager said. “This year the luminarias are all different colors so they change colors something no one's done before.
    
There's also this new tradition added this year.

Gronager added a security camera after hearing about what happened to the Speake family's famous display near La Cueva.
    
Vandals destroyed their light show.
    
Gronager says he's been targeted too. Someone swiped his guest book last week.
    
They were able to get it back and people from all over the u-s are leaving comments.
    
They're also welcome to leave donations, which go to the Wounded Warrior Project.
    
Gronager chose the cause after working with a wounded vet at Sandia National Labs. 

“We’re not giving enough help there so I thought this would really help us out,” Gronager said.    
 
It takes Gronager two full days to set up the show and even he's not sure how many lights there are.
    
He says he's raised $1,000 already for the Wounded Warrior Project.    
    
The show runs until 10 p.m. and  the display will be up through New Year's Eve.