Snowy Capitol Hill

Most snow DC has had in about 100 years.

Kids

I'm not ready for them. All President's weekend I hung out with my youngest sister Mia. It was great I love her and she loves me. Everything was going good until Sunday morning when they brought Mia to me because she wasn't participating in Primary. I started talking to her and decided that I would just take her to relief society with me. Needless to say that as I picked her up and started walking this girl THREW UP all up and down my back. Now see my first reaction was to throw her off of me but then I just resigned myself to my fate and stood there and just let her throw up on my back and down my coat. If that's not love I don't know what love is. When she was done and I was smelling like crap I ran us into the bathroom and I set her down next to the toilet and I said if you need to throw up do it in there and than I ran to the sink and washed my hands. The conversation went a little something like this.

Nat: Mia(Gag) wash(gag) your (gag) hands (gag) ok?

I mean I could barely breathe I was gagging so bad I thought I was going to throw up myself.

Mia( who was no longer sick, miraculously): Naty!

Nat: (gag) What ? (gag)

Mia (Standing at the toilet): I don't know how to do this....

Nat: Girl me either! ( and yes I called her girl) Ok Mia you wait here. I'll be back. I'm going to clean up the throw up in the hallway.

Mia: Ok

I walk into the hallway and two seconds later I hear this horrible screaming from the bathroom. I run back in there all scared, " Mia! What?! What's wrong."

"I missed you."

I know other people would have been touched to hear this sentence but I was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Here I was trying to clean up throw up and hold her hand at the same time. I had to drive home. What if she threw up in the backseat, who was going to take care of her, would I have to pull over, who was going to make sure my siblings got home. And the whole time I just wanted to know...which dry cleaner is going to clean my coat on a Sunday!!!???

All this to show I'm not ready for kids nor all the time they require anytime soon. I need some me time and lots of it!

The culprit on Sunday morning before "The Incident"

I still love her though.

Valentine's Day

I know I missed all the hype about Valentines day because I didn't get to post that weekend! I was busy for once! I went home to see my family and was reminded how much I love them and how I could never live without them. It ended up being the best Valentine's Day I've had in a while. I woke up to a great breakfast, spent time with my family, and got three books including Lunch in Paris, Apples for Jam, and The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman . I've been wanting these for a while so I was excited. I'm finished reading Lunch in Paris but I haven't received the others in the mail yet. Bummer. Anyway, I hope everyone's day was as good as mine.

PS I was going to add pictures to this post but sadly it is not working at all...sucks.

Sweet Surprise

So not going to lie, I was laying in bed the other day thinking man, I'm missing out on all the great packages that Emily's mom sends and gosh I guess that's what happens when you don't live with her anymore. Buttttt today my roommates checked the mail (because I'm too lazy to ever go get it) and brought me back an amazing surprise! The good ol' Valentines day chocolate heart that apparently is a tradition in the James's household. All I know is I love these things. Thank youuuuu Mike and Teena!

Andi

Let me tell you about my roommate Andi. She's the youngest and when I first met her I was really worried that I would think she was annoying especially since she was in my room. That's right,MY ROOM, I was there first. You know what I'm saying? Anyway, I have since grown to love her and her sense of humor. Let me give you some background. She works for the DNC and over the weekend because of their winter convention she got to meet the President, TWICE, and hang out with Pelosi and her family for a day or so since they were snowed in! Not going to lie, the rest of us roommates snowed in at our apt were dying of jealousy. Although mostly we were jealous because she was with the Pres not necessarily that it was Obama. She is a rabid Obama fan and anything democratic lover. I would love to know how she became such a tree hugging liberal freak in the middle of Utah! Anyway we decided to get her back by hanging up all these Laura Bush posters above her bed and around the house that she hates and then we left. She came home before we did and got us back good.

We came home to this:

Needless to say I am having the time of my life with great roommates that make me laugh.

Just another day on the Hill (Capitol Hill)

So sadly I have no pictures of one of the best days in my life!!! Cameras were not allowed.

This morning I rolled out of my bed at 4 am in the morning, and I caught a cab at 4:40 in the morning with a taxi cab driver named John who quickly pointed out that he was a sinner redeemed by grace who considered himself an independent baptist who goes strictly off the old testament and who kept asking me whether I was Mormon or Christian and to whom I had to keep repeating sir...Mormons are Christian. That's why I could never be a missionary because I was getting super frustrated and angry. He wasn't listening!

Anyway, I arrived at the Capitol Hill Hilton at 5 am in the morning just in time to check my coat, miss breakfast, go through security and start ushering people in the ballroom for the National Prayer Breakfast.

The best things ever happened. Don't worry about it, I walked senate Majority leader Harry Reid to his seat... I was basically/literally brushing shoulders with Nancy Pelosi (she had to get to her seat), I was less than 50 feet from Pres. Obama, Michelle Obama, VP Joe Biden, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Madame Secy. Hillary Clinton, Tim Tebow, Chairman of the Joint Chief of staffs SGT Mullen, I mean I was in congressional/white house cabinet heaven. These people are some of the most powerful people in the world! BLOWS MY MIND.

My most favorite thing had to be Sen. Hatch's prayer. One of my roommates was talking to him later on in the day and he mentioned that he couldn't remember what he said which goes to show it wasn't scripted but rather a genuine pray directed by the spirit. I mean who would script this??

And my day got better....

I went to my first hearing at work where I learned about the budget for the Department of Commerce...crazy literally how people talk about millions of dollars and billions of dollars in a budget like I talk about tens and twenties. I can't even imagine how much money that is.

I got to go to Sen.Brown's (MA) swearing in ceremony where I watched from the gallery as Kerry, Brown and McCain and Biden all just mulled around and hung out until the actual ceremony took place.

Basically in less than a week I have seen Pres. Obama twice..more than some people will see any President their whole life time. I am so lucky and I love it. I could keep writing forever but I'll stop because I know this isn't exciting to anyone else but me really. Love you all. Ciao

P.S. The best part is that if it snows tomorrow... Snow day from work baby!!!