April 2025 Part 4: A Little Shakespearean Sample

For their spring recital, Rachel's ballet studio put on A Mid-Summer Night's Dream. The sets and music were lovely,  but we wished that we remembered more about the story or that the program had included the scenes so we had a better idea of what we were watching. Brian did a quick Google search, and then leaned over to tell me a brief synopsis of what was going on, and it helped a lot. Rachel's class got to be birds. 

Rachel had four performances, or at least that was how many she was supposed to have. We got tickets to go on Friday night. My mom came down to watch her, and then Rachel woke up on Friday throwing up. We thought it might be something she ate, but we finally had to give up on her feeling well enough to go. Thankfully, she felt better the next day, and Brian was able to switch our tickets to Saturday night. Unfortunately, Mom and Aaron, my nephew who came down with my mom from Tremonton, were not able to see her perform. 

Here are some photos of her, taken by a professional photographer who is not me. 

We are so proud of her, and so grateful that she was feeling better, and that she only missed the one performance out of four. She was so excited that one of her friends came to watch her, two of her teachers came to watch her, and Nana and Papa were even able to watch her matinee and take her out to lunch before needing to be at Temple Square for Tabernacle Choir recordings. (Or was it a concert?) 

When we went to go pick out flowers, the selection was underwhelming, so we decided to get her Lego flowers. I think she enjoyed getting flowers that she could put together and that will never wilt.

My mom did get to see Rachel as Ophelia in her class production of Hamlet during her dress rehearsal. I needed a creative project, so I made this costume for her. 

She was beautiful and tragically died. 

She did a great job! 

Here she is with her friend, Maelynn, who played the grave digger. 

Rachel said that a little girl in the school came up to her and said that she wanted to be Ophelia someday. It was so cute. My favorite part of the play was obviously Ophelia, but the second favorite part about this play was that it was only 30 minutes long and not in iambic pentameter. Shout out to Mrs. Haskell for all her hard work!