VIDALIA — Holiday decorations make the day more immediate, more immersive and more fun.

But they are not for everyone. It can be time consuming to put them up, frivolous to buy them and difficult to find storage for them during the other 364 days of the year.

For Heather and Stuart Boykin, that is not even an afterthought.

“We just love to decorate and we have a lot of fun doing it,” Heather said.

When The Dart landed on Plum Street in Vidalia on Sunday, Heather was intricately placing skeletons at a table and Stuart was figuring out how to get their inflatable pumpkin to stand up. They were just getting started.

“It usually takes us a whole week to get it all done,” Stuart said. “We place things, and then we decide we don’t like it there, so we keep moving them around.”

Heather picked up the hobby when she was living in Connecticut.

“I had this neighbor that went all out and had a yard full of stuff,” she said. “It looked like so much fun and people really enjoyed it.”

“So I started and when I got married to him (Stuart), I got him into it.”

The couple has only lived on Plum Street for two years, but their decorations for Halloween and Christmas have already caught the attention of the neighborhood children.

“People don’t know us,” Heather said. “But they know that we will have a lot of decorations up.”

In fact, while the Boykins were preparing their yard they were swarmed by five or six children.

They were giving high fives to the skeletons and moving their plastic jaw bones up and down.

Khali Lucas, 8, who lives across the street from the Boykins, took it upon himself to name them.

“That one is Quaveon, because that’s my brother’s name,” he said. “And that one is Fred.”

While the appearance of the children slowed Heather and Stuart’s progress. Heather was not fazed, she played along and asked them their names.

“We do it for them,” she said.