| New Year Birthday by Aida Loja Simbaina It was December 31st, 2016. My sister's name is Isabel if you were wondering and she turned 5 years old. My dad and mom were calling all their family so they can come to my sister's birthday. My mom and dad thought that everyone should bring food so it wouldn’t be so much work for one person. Everyone was asked to bring different types of food or drinks, like one person can be anchored on buying the cake and the other can bring champagne. The party was to be a surprise for my sister so my mom asked me to make up a story so she doesn’t know what was going to happen that day. Then my dad and my brother Javier went to decorate the nutrition club were my parents work. My mom, sister and I stayed home to make food. I helped my mom to cook and my sister was playing in my room. My mom and I were making empanadas. Empanadas are a type of bread with cheese inside the bread and it is very hard to make them. We made about 50 or more because a lot of my family would come. What my mom and I used to make empanadas was flour,oil, eggs, hot water and cheese. I had to open the cheese and break it down to little pieces and it was very hard work. It took us 5 hours to do it and it took 3 hours to cook them on the pan. My mom and I got very tired and we were sweating a lot. When we finished, my mom went to her room to rest a little. Iwent to my room to change my clothes and then I started changing my sister’s clothes. I needed to dress her very pretty because it was her birthday and it was a special day for her. I had her put on this dress that was light green and pink with flowers. She was very happy how I dressed her and then I did a beautiful braid for her that took me 30 minutes. When I finished doing my sister’s braid that she really wanted me to do, I started to do my hair, but I didn’t do a braid because I don’t like braids. I went with my hair down and wore a dress. Then I went to my parents’ room to wake up my mom to dress up so we can go to the party. She woke up and she started to dress up. She looked so pretty and I looked at myself and I said in my mind, wow. I was so surprised. When we were all ready to go my mom called my dad saying“come pick us up because we are all ready and the food is done”and my dad said “ok, I am coming”. My dad came and he brought the food to the car. Then my dad drove to his work and we got there but my sister really was not knowing what was going on. There my siblings and parents were waiting for my uncles and aunts to come and minutes were passing by and nobody came and then when I was going to the bathroom and when I opened the bathroom door to get out suddenly my aunt and uncles came and they were with presents and food. Well, the presents were for my sister. Then I ran really fast to hug my aunts and uncles and I was so happy that my whole family had come. At 9:00pm it was time to eat and everyone had to do a line because there was a lot of food. When everyone got their food my dad told me to put on a movie for everyone to watch while eating, so I did. I put on a Christian movie. My dad turned off the light and it was now very dark. When the movie finished we started to put away the food so we can do the 12 grapes and drink the champagne. When we were doing that it was 11:50. Everyone had to eat each grape but first they have to make 12 wishes and we needed to give 12 people hugs. When that was over my dad brought the cake from the refrigerator and he put it on the table. It was 11:58. My dad called everyone to gather around so we can sing Happy Birthday. Then I went to get my little sister to close her eyes so she can’t see. Then it was 12:00. I rushed to look for her and then I found her and I put her on a chair so she can sit and then I opened her eyes. She was so happy because it was a princess cake that said her name and that had a candle that said number 5 because she was turning 5 years old. We sang to her and then she had to blow the candle. Then she needed to take a bite of the cake. While she was taking a bite of the cake so she can be the first to try the cake. I put her face on the cake and when she looked at us she looked so funny and everyone was laughing and she was too. Then everyone wanted to take a picture with my sister and they did. At 12:29 it was time to break the Pinata, so my brother gave all the kids a bag to collect candy and also got me one so I can get candy. My dad got a chair and he climbed on it and he was standing on top of the chair so to be high up and everyone had to get one piece of the string and when my dad counted to 3 we had to pull the strings. I got a lot of candy; I got more than 30 candies. I was so happy but my sister was sad because she got only a little of candy so I went up to her and I gave her half of my candy and she was so happy that she hugged me and she told me that she really loves me so much. Then everyone at last gave her gifts that they bought for her. She got a Frozen book,color pencils,a coloring book of Frozen, stickers, Shopkins and she also got a jacket. The one that she most liked of her presents was SHOPKINS. She was sooooo happy. Finally it was 2:30am and everyone was so sleepy. Everyone helped clean up so the club could be clean. When we finished cleaning some of my family went to my house to sleep and some went to their own houses to sleep. When we got home we were very tired and everyone fell asleep and slept until the next morning at 11:30. We all slept well knowing that we had celebrated such a wonderful birthday. |
