We, the Hernandi, have finally gotten our Christmas tree up! It took an afternoon, but it’s finally here! we have an artificial tree, so we first had to “fluff” the branches and put them on the tree’s “trunk”. Then we strung the lights. Aaron was hanging the lights, and Arianna was Aaron’s “doggy”. (A doggy is someone who follows the light-hanger with the bundles of lights.) About a minute after we strung the Christmas tree lights, while dad was putting lights in the window, the bottom string of lights went out. so we had to take out the bottom string, find one that worked, and string it up (this time Adam hung it up and Arianna was the “doggy”). After that was Arianna’s favorite part, putting on the ornaments. Arianna didn’t acually put the ornaments on the tree, she told us which ones to hang up. Once it was all up, we had to put the empty boxes back downstairs. I’m going to quote the comic strip ‘Heart of the City’ here saying: “What a bunch of trouble to go through considering we’re to take it all down in three weeks.”


Us fluffing the branches and putting them on.


Aaron strining lights, with Adam and Arianna as doggies.