♪ (soft piano music) ♪
- A part of him is in you.
- (React) Recently, you guys provided us with some of your family's
old black and white photos. - Mm-hmm.
- (React) Are you ready to see what we've done with them?
- Yes!
- I know everything about his life,
so I'm excited for this.
- Aw! (laughs) - That's you!
When, when was that?
- Oh my lord. (laughs) 1978.
We had a capping ceremony, and they had to,
we started our nursing duties, so we had to have the cap on.
- That's me! Chunker, chunker!
In Panama, I had that rocking chair forever.
I remember that rocking chair,
up to my teenage years, we had it around the house.
- (gasps) That's me!
- Which, oh... - I'm on the right.
My younger sister. - Oh my...
- Sitting on our front steps.
- Wow.
- That was our apartment before we had our house.
- That is a really, really, old photo.
- She has passed, so I don't, that sister's not here.
- Mm-hmm.
- So that makes it even a little bit more special.
Yep.
- Aunt Jen really was the best. - The very best.
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh my, I was 18 years old.
It was the Sadie Hawkins dance in Minnesota,
when I was an exchange student.
I was invited by one of the most beautiful girls in high school.
She invited me like a month before the party.
- I love your outfits, so cute!
- Yeah, we had to, some costumes for farming,
or something like this, I didn't understand very well.
- (React) Are you ready to see what we've done with it?
- Yeah.
- Woah! - Oh, really?
I didn't know that you could do that!
- Woah! - Oh wow!
Can I have that?
(Jayka laughs)
- Oh my God! - Wow!
I was so fat then. - No! (laughs)
Growing up, we always had like the rounder little apple faces.
I think that's what's cute about us, mama,
you're not fat.
- Aww.
My grandbabies are gonna look like that.
(both laugh) I hope!
I hope, oh my God. I am cute.
- You were cute. - Look at that!
- Look at that chic polka dot bikini.
- Woo!
That's so pretty in color, I like it!
So young, oh my God.
- You're still young. - Ugh.
- Aw, look.
We came to life, we're like baby dolls.
(both laugh)
- Wow, wow! - Yeah.
Isn't that something?
- That is so, that is really cool.
I really like that. - That is cool, I do too.
My mother sewed all of our clothes.
- Really?
- She made everything.
- I didn't know that either. Wow!
- She made everything up until college,
when I went to college.
- Oh, you brought colors.
That's very nice! - Oh my God!
- That's very nice.
- That's so sweet. - I want that photo.
I want that photo for me. Yeah.
- Was it actually that color, did they get it right?
- No, it was black and white. It was black and white.
- No no no, I mean, like your outfit, dad.
- Oh yeah! That's pretty nice.
The memories are still coming back even better.
(both scream)
- This is scary! I'm scared!
- Oh, you can do that?
- Oh my God, oh my God! - Oh my lord!
Wow!
- That's your 18 year old self.
- Yes, I was 18.
- Oh my God, I'm moving. - Yeah.
- Oh shoot. (Lucas laughs)
Oh my God, how cute.
- You were a very cute baby. - Oh my God.
- Wow!
- (gasps) There's your dad. - Mm-hmm.
- And there's Grandpa Chris, oh my God.
- There's baby Chris too. - Baby Chris!
- You looked fabulous. - Oh yeah. (laughs)
Chris had the funniest hair.
He had these little tiny hairs, that when he walked,
it just went like that, like feathers.
- Hmm, I can see it there too. - (laughs) That's how he did,
it was like feathers.
- Fun fact, he had a whole Beanie Baby collection.
A whole Beanie Baby collection.
- Giant. - Ugh, my gosh.
- They had more fun collecting those Beanie Babies.
- Is Uncle Chris's stuff made for him?
His clothes. - No, no.
I discovered stores. (both laugh)
- Ooh, that's my mom.
You've seen that photo before. - Yeah.
- I have it in the house. That's my mommy.
(whispers) Yeah.
She died when she was, oh my God,
I wanna say 84.
I don't like her hair in that photo.
It looks like so stiff.
- That is very pretty.
- I'm becoming my mom in a lot of ways, really.
- I've never seen her... - Honestly.
- (both) Aw!
- Oh my gosh, this is gonna make her cry for sure.
This is Lola Taborsha, and what's Lolo's name?
- Pedro. - (laughs) Lolo Pedro.
We like worship these two in our family,
'cause they're the two who like really started it all, right?
That's your mom's... - Mom.
- Mom and dad. - My grandma.
- Aw. - Oh, that's my mother.
She was so beautiful.
That's me in my one year old.
She has blue eyes like Paulina.
- Yeah, I got her blue eyes. - Yeah, she was so beautiful.
- She kinda looks like me a little bit.
- She was very protective.
We were five kids,
and she did a great job protecting five kids.
- Oh.
- Ugh, I was not expecting his shirt to be red.
- Oh, that is so sweet.
Such a fabulous memory.
- That looks so nice.
- Yes, there we were. The little family.
- That is, wow. - What a sweet little family.
We stopped at two. (laughs)
- She's beautiful.
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
Don't like that hair on her. (Lucas laughs)
- This is like one of the only few pictures we have of them.
(gasps)
Oh wow, that's so crazy! - Wow!
Oh my goodness, if my cousins will see this,
they'll flip, they'll flip! - Oh my God.
Like, every year... - This is awesome!
- We have family reunions. - Reunion.
- And our shirts say like the Taborsha clan,
like the group of the... - It's her, yeah.
- Yeah. - It's in memory of her.
Oh my lord, that's so beautiful. - Anything like this.
What, her outfit is a slay.
Was it just a picture or were they going somewhere?
- No, she really, her clothes are all like that.
- Yeah, I have to hold my emotion, every time that I see her,
I feel so sorry, she was 69 when she died.
She went a wedding on Saturday, she woke up on Sunday feeling bad.
She went to the hospital Monday, she died on Tuesday.
- I never got to meet my grandma.
So seeing her in color, it's like she's really here.
And it's nice having her eyes,
'cause it's like she's seeing herself through me.
- You know what?
She always said she was going to be an actress.
She always said that.
- Ah, oh my God! She's alive!
Oh my lord, she's alive!
- That's so crazy!
- Oh my God, and she's smiling too!
- Oh my gosh.
- (both) Aw!
- I've never seen my grandpa, because he died earlier,
so I've never seen him.
- Wow.
- How can you do this?
- Oh my God. - Look at that!
Wow! - Wow!
- Honestly, that creeps me out.
- What did you do, what?
- Oh now I'm, look, I can blink!
(laughs)
- Wow. - I'm moving.
- Oh, look at daddy.
- He does not wanna be there. He does not wanna be!
(both laugh)
- Oh, look at grandpa. - Holy...
I haven't seen Grandpa Chris in so long.
- Well, he is gone. (laughs)
- Well, I know that, I'm just, I'm saying, 'cause like,
seeing him move, that's weird. - Yeah.
- Is that what you look like?
- I guess, well yeah! (both laugh)
- Oh my God. I was 15 years old in Brazil.
I was coming back from school, and I took my shirt off,
because it was very hot.
And I was just passing by, and I grabbed my younger brother,
and I pulled him up, and somebody took a picture.
- Oh! - Aw.
- Okay, I can't name all of these people here,
but these are like all of my aunts, that's...
- Standing, from the right. - Yeah, that's you, that's you.
- Yes.
- Oh, that's my dad and my mom.
He enjoyed life, my father enjoyed life so much.
- Oh my God! - That's your mom?
- Yes, that's my mom! That's your great grandma!
- I don't know what she looks like.
Now I'm shocked. - Oh!
- Oh my gosh, all the colors on these outfits.
I love, love, love it.
- That's really the color of her dress!
- Seeing them when they're young is so crazy to me!
- We always say that part of him is in you.
He has his same personality,
and the love of dance, and music.
He had a massive stroke out of the blue,
coming from a farmer's market with my sister.
- Oh my God! - Ooh, that's very nice.
You gave me a good tan, huh? - Yeah!
- Can I say something that's not very happy?
I remember my mother.
Every time that I see a picture in the past,
I remember that she was there.
Like in two minutes, I was go inside,
and I was going to see her and have lunch with her.
You see her eyes?
She cries all the time, when I talk about grandma.
- Every time he mentions her, I cry.
- Yeah, she's like that.
Okay, let's change the picture, fast.
- Yes, ooh. - Fast, fast!
- Oh. - Is that...
- That's my dad and my mom. - Oh again, okay.
- My brother looks just like my dad.
I mean, his eyes, and...
- Oh, that's a pretty. I love that picture.
He looks so nice in that!
- I have something to tell you about this picture.
I was known by them as Superman.
I had a teacher in my high school, and she always called me Superman,
because that's the way I was in college,
with these glasses. - (Paulina) Oh!
- Aw! - Oh!
- I have never seen this picture before,
and she's the one who showed it to me
and brought it to me.
Where was this, mama?
- I was in sixth grade. That's my graduation.
- Oh my gosh. That's so cute.
- I was on honor roll, by the way.
(both laugh)
- She's had to plug that she was in honor roll.
- Aw, I love that picture!
- He was so tall. - He was so tall.
- And yeah, and I'm so short. - And that's my mom with heels.
- Aw, that's so nice!
- Yeah, I like it much better with color.
- He looks the same. Maybe a little older, but,
I feel like this captivates his law vibes.
- Wow! - Oh!
- Oh my gosh. - Wow!
The colors of the flowers, that's the color.
- Gosh, I like this picture. - Very accurate.
Aw, that's me!
Oh my God! - You were so little, mama!
- So innocent! - So little!
- Oh my God, my eyes! (both laugh)
- I love seeing the old photos.
It brings back a lot of good memories.
- I think it's important for the kids to know.
Family is everything, I think, your culture, your history.
- So just being able to see all these,
like just my great, great, great,
I don't even know how many great grandparents,
like come to life on a screen
is actually so crazy. - Happiness.
- I like the fact that you can digitalize your pictures nowadays,
and like get a lot of pictures, so you're not lacking,
but I feel like it kinda takes away from the value.
- Just the movement, that was a whole nother level
that I wasn't expecting, and I don't think you were expecting.
- Well, I wasn't expecting.
I thought they wanted to know what I looked like in a black and white.
- Hmm. - I don't know. (laughs)
- Thank you guys for taking a trip down memory lane with us.
- Who would you want to do this experience with?
Let us know in the comments below.
- What did you guys think
of seeing these photos being brought back to life?
What did you think, grandma?
- I loved it. I loved seeing everybody.
Young, healthy, and pretty. (both laugh)
- Bye! - Bye.
- Bye! - See you soon.