Narrative Essay About My Birthday

The sky was always blue holding sunshine rays in her world. Her name was Rosaline Deponte, my great-grandma. The continuous smile that she showed on her face reminded us how precious life is and to not take things for granted. Cold wood floors that could easily freeze toes, single-walled construction, shut rows of jalousie windows, and the smell of warm sweet bread on the counter 24/7, that was Rosaline’s house.

This year I turned fifteen and I had a quinceñera. At my quinceñera I wore a big, long, blue silky but puff dress, I had my quinceñera at a salon because I have a big family. For my quinceñera the waiters served this warm barbacoa which is a type of meat that is not spicy but on the side it comes with a somewhat spicy sauce if you want it to be spicy. They served that with steaming rice and nice warm beans and crunchy chips also so warm but smooth tortillas. I saw everyone enjoying the nice warm food, the food was delicious. Once everyone was done eating I saw that the band came in with their drums, trumpets, and more. The band played loud music and people got up and started to dance as well as me. Once everyone was done it time was time for the father daughter dance. My dad and I started to dance to a slow song I saw everyone taking out their phones and started to record us, I began to cry tears of joy. Once that was done everyone started to dance again. While everyone was dancing I went to go cut my two layer rectangular cake, my cake flavor was a fluffy red velvet cake with blue fondant and white frosting for some swirl designs. I had a lot of fun at my quinceñera and I hope every Mexican follows the tradition of doing one because they'll have fun and you only turn fifteen

My fifteenth birthday was fast approaching, and this day was brought to me through patience. I waited this long, held the memory that happened all those years ago. so why wait any longer to to tell her? To remind her? Because I would not allow my dedication to be spent on a cheap occurrence. That would invite recklessness, and recklessness leads to ignorance, killing the discipline it took to remember for all these years. We were here, my mother took me to red lobster for my birthday. We were left to our seats; Then, knowing the time right, “My fifteenth birthday is fast approaching” slyness lining my voice. My mother’s face was twisted between recognition and horror and my grin fast followed, she knew.

I put on a pair of jeans and walk downstairs into the dining room, there was a plate with frijoles, chorizo and tortillas waiting for me. My grandmother brings me my favorite drink, homemade chocolate milk. I sit down and across from me is my cousin Lesly. She was bored, she always was.

Sitting in the back of the car with my younger brother and sister memories started coming back. I could hear the water from the river in mexico in my head. The voice of my cousin yelling and the laughter of my uncle. The crying of my baby cousin and the sound of cooking food. Then the funny feeling came back. I missed mexico, the air was fresh, the water was clear and the weather was nice. The shining sun reflecting off the water and the warm fresh air running across the flesh of people's bodies . The

As the next day went by, we went to go see my family where they lived in a town called “El Rincon”. It was an hour drive from where we were staying in. The hotel we were staying in, was located in Aguadilla. As we were driving to El

After standing by for few minutes for mom and dad to get supper, I ate the McDonalds they got pretty quickly. I was so tired that by the time I found a place to sleep I laid down reflecting on the longest day of my life so far, “but hey, at least tomorrow we get to swim in a huge pool and go down that huge water slide,” After all that was only thing I could look forward to at the

I whined and went downstairs as my 10-year-old cousin, Caitlin, followed me. My big brother and sister were already to go, and were waiting for me. I went to gather all my belongings and went to put my old and worn out shoes on. I walked down the hallway, into the garage, where I picked up a foul smell of gasoline. I got my shoes and put them on, with my little cousin, Caitlin, still following me. On my way out, I picked up a piece of chocolate, and ate it while chugging down a cup of milk as well.

June 17,2014 it was a day when I went to Mexico. That morning I went to the airport of savannah. My plane was at 7:30, I left my house at 5:45 to go to the airport with my family. I got in a red truck, inside the truck had leather seats, black carpets, three seats in the front, and three seats in the back. My uncle was driving, my dad was in the passenger seat, and my mom was in the back with me and my brother Justin. My aunt was driving in her own car. Her car is a van, the color of the van is tan, two seats in the front, two seats in the middle, in the middle of the two seats there was a path so the people can go to the back, and at the back there was three seats. My cousin lindsey and my other cousin joseph were in the car too.

Then the night started to get dark and as the time grew closer and closer my hands got sweaty, my heart started pounding out of my chest, and my mind wizzed with thoughts. Than when I got the call that they were almost there. Then fifteen minutes later we heard the sound of motorcycles pulling up a gravel road. My heart pounding out of my chest with nervousness and happiness. That's when everyone was looking around confused. They all pulled up and got of their bikes and I went up and hugged everyone and told my thank yous for coming. Everyone had gathered around and my dad told his story as Nabour held the envelope with the money it. Veronica and I stood up in the front and as they were talking I kept looking from Veronica to my dad and Nabour with tears pouring out of my eyes. Then the words finally poured out of Nabour’s mouth “I would like to present you with a thousand dollars, happy birthday!” She looked over to me with both of us tears pouring out of our eyes. Her face in shock she came up to me and gave me a hugged and thanked me for it multiple times. I think that was a birthday party well

People been asking if they can bring their horses and I can train them. I said “Yes you can and how much are you paying me?”. They said “maybe three thousand dollars. I was like “wow!! That’s a great cost, I asked whe they are coming”. One of them said “tomorrow in the afternoon”. So, I got everything ready for the horse training for one horse tomorrow. I made dinner for my mom, my two grandmas, and my grandpa. We had Indian tacos and chicken salad. We all got done with dinner and watched a movie with pajamas on. The movie is called The Maze Runner. When the movie was over we all went to bed. The beautiful mourning was so peaceful and quiet. Mom and I made breakfast pizza for

On a Saturday morning, I woke up to the rising sun with its orange glow filling the sky. The birds were chirping, and I was ecstatic for this weekend. I finished my morning routine, and got on my computer to complete my homework before I start playing. Just as I was beginning to work, my mom strolled into my room.

The morning sunshine seeped through the cracks between my shutters, lighting up my room. I could hear the clock ticking and the rays of sunlight bouncing off of my eyelids. I barely got any sleep last night because I was ecstatic that tomorrow was, my birthday! I jumped up out of bed, how could I have forgotten that it was my birthday? Suddenly all of my drowsiness turned it into excitement and I jumped up, throwing the red gradient quilt off of my bed. I slowly walked out of my room, making very little noise, checking to see if anyone else was awake. I peeked through the intricate staircase railings and tried to spot anyone downstairs, no one was in sight. I tiptoed down the cream coloured stairs, reached the bottom and got startled when my mom yelled, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”, her voice bouncing off the walls of house. A grin so big spread across my face, I couldn’t believe I was turning four years old!

“Wow, what a beautiful sunset. “ everybody said excited looking at the sunset while being swallowed by the ocean. We were all sitting in the cold wet sand together enjoying the view as a whole family. “We made a great choice coming to the beach before the sun set” said my dad. We all agreed with him. After looking at the sunset we all went to go eat dinner at a Mexican restaurant because everybody was craving Mexican food. I ordered a burrito with steak and rice inside. My parents both ordered the same thing as always which was steak fajitas. My cousins also got a burrito but they got pulled pork burritos. And my brother and sister got flautas which are tacos but they come in a hard-shell tortilla. After we finished eating, we all headed to my cousin’s place to have a small welcome party because we didn’t have a welcome party the day the we got to California the day that we came. Later we all slept at their place because everybody was really tired and we didn’t want to go find a hotel to stay in so we stayed in my cousin’s place.

It is April 4th. It is my 21 birthday.21 years ago I was born and got named Thea. My mom Emily, dad James, sister Maddison, and brother Liam are coming over to celebrate my birthday. There are a few things I must do before they come.