For David Richards, the holiday season is about joy, good cheer and smashing a Guinness World Record.

The lawyer and his family strung more than a half a million bulbs around their house in the Australian capital city of Canberra to reclaim the title for lights on a residential property. In case you're wondering, that's 31 miles of lights.

Richards has been the champ before. He set the world record in 2011 with 331,038 lights, but decided not to do it again because the display took months of effort.

In 2012, the Gay family in Lagrangeville, New York, snatched away the title with a display of 346,283 lights.

(Source: CNN)