Signature
For Rachel Aguayo's 7th birthday, she had a birthday party. She had many things personalized for her party, including the decorations on the tables, with "R" for Rachel, and her favorite color, purple.
Establishing
Food was given at a specific time, and when it was time, everyone ate together. Rachel's mom, Veronica (the one in the purple dress), is conversing with the people who were invited, and making sure that everything is okay and that the guests are doing well.
Close-Up
The children gather around the table for everyone's favorite part of the party, the cake. This was also was made to accomadate Rachel's standards, including her favorite color purple, her name, an extra tiara, and special candles that she specifically chose herself. They also had vanilla, red velvet, and chocolate cupcakes to accompany the cake, because Rachel felt that just the cake wouldn't cover it.
Portrait
Here, Rachel posed for a photo with one of her alleged boyfriends, Carlos Flores, 3, and her sister Jaylee, who is also four. She takes gettting her photographs taken very seriously, unlike her younger sister, who likes to "ruin" pictures by making "ugly" faces. Jaylee likes to make ugly faces to "ruin" pictures because her mom disapproves of her face making. Rebel from a young age. Rock on Jaylee.
Interaction
Rachel has always liked the attention being on her, and had choreographed a dance for her to do at her party. She danced to the song "Gangnam Style" by Psy, and was unexpectedly joined by her to alledged boyfriends, (they both deny this although she is persistanly after both of them) Carlos Flores, 4 in plaid, and Isaac Barbosa, 4, in the abnormally small purple tie. She resumed dancing and ignored both of her boyfriends.
How-To
The second most anticipated part of a child's party would be the time to hit the piñata. Here, Jimena Aguayo, 4, Rachel's cousin, is taking her turn to whack the piñata in hopes that she would
break the piñata open and get all the candy out. The order of the line-up for hitting the piñata is the birthday kid
, then from youngest to oldest, letting the younger kids not get excluded, and make them feel like the contribute
to the bigger cause of breaking the piñata. Sadly Jimena didn't and the next kid's turn was there, in hopes they
would break it open, and get showered with various Mexican candies.
Clincher
Rachel had also planned out a special dance with her father at her party. It was a like a dance that a Quiñcenera would do, a special one on one dance with the focus being on them. This was the dance before the
guests did a little bit of their dancing, and actually symbolized the ending of the party that night that Rachel
wouldn't forget. That night was full of good memories, fun times, candy, cake, and presents for her, and she
said that hopefully she'll get to have another party like this for her next birthday, because it was a lot of fun.
