David Archuleta

Every year the Mormon Tabernacle Choir does a Christmas show and there are one or two special guests who perform with them. Last year that special guest was David Archuleta (for those of you who don't know who he is, he got 2nd place on American Idol in 2006 when he was only 16 and he is a member of our church). Maya had been a huge fan of his ever since we went to that show so when I found out that David Archuleta would be signing his CDs at Deseret Book the day after Thanksgiving this year I knew we would have to be there. Kate is also a fan and the girls were SOOOOO excited. We arrived at 3pm to see him and were happy to be near the front of the line (the earliest people arrived at 1pm). David arrived at 6:30 and Maya and Kate got their turn to meet him soon afterwards.

I am glad that Maya is not so old that she is too cool for her parents to be there taking photos! We realized later that we should have had them go up one at a time so we got a better photo of Kate with him. He gave them both a high 5 and signed their album covers. Maya is wearing a one of her guitar t-shirts and she was planning on telling him that she wants to be a singer too but she got starstruck in the moment and forgot to tell him.

I think David Archuleta is a great guy for Maya to have her first crush on and I am happy for her that she was able to meet him. I am trying to think who I had a crush on at that age. Maybe Val Kilmer from the movie Willow? Or Sean Astin from The Goonies!