Living Legends Reunion

One of the highlights of our college years was performing with the Living Legends at BYU. Taber did it for 2 years and I did it with him my senior year. When we found out they were having a huge 40 year reunion we knew we had to find a way to get out there and revisit our glory days.

And speaking of the Glory days, here's a little sampling of us back when we were young, skinny and tan. (I have to say, looking at these old pictures REALLY motivated me to start burning off the baby weight. Nothing like pictures to give you that extra motivation ; )

So yes, we decided to bless Cam out in Utah so we felt a little more justified about flying our whole family out for the reunion. It worked out beautifully and even though it was an extremely packed trip, I'm glad we made it out there to be part of the Living Legends reunion.

One of the events we attended was the current Living Legends group performing at the DeJong Concert hall. My brother is in the group for his 4th and final year so I'm really glad I got to see him perform one last time. After the show they had a reception for all the alumni who came to the show.

One of Taber's old dancing pics totally made it on a poster. Look at the intensity on his face, he still gots his mojo ; )

And Cam looks pretty interested in following in his Daddy's footsteps.

It was awesome running into so many old friends who we spent many many hours practicing, traveling, and performing with.

And it's always awesome to see Janielle, the Living Legends director and Ed who coordinates all the tours and travel.

Later in the week we ran into Dusty and Chauma at the Wilk during the pow wow. Chauma and Taber were head man and woman at the 2003 Pow wow so it was fun to meet up there again 8 years later!

One of the best parts of the whole reunion was the Alumni showcase performance. They had alumni doing numbers from all 40 years of Living Legends and Taber got to dance in the native segment showcasing 2000-2005. (Someone took this picture of him practicing, pretty cool!)

The show was the same morning as Camden's blessing so it was a little stressful trying to get all the kids bathed and ready and down to provo to watch Taber dance. I was on the verge of a breakdown and at one point seriously thought we were going to miss it. Thankfully miracles do happen and we made it just as the 2000-2005 section was getting on stage. (which meant I also got to see my sister and her husband dance and they were awesome!)

Taber's dad made it down for the show too which is amazing considering everything that was going on that day. He's always been supportive like that and when we were in the group he would even fly in from Alaska to see our shows.

Taber did a great job and it was the perfect way to cap off a wonderful reunion. Here's a little video I took of him dancing with my phone. He's the really hot guy on the far left wearing white. ; ) (oh and at about 57 seconds in you can hear Teya say, "He's even wearing a dress!" kids: )