Meeting The President!

We had the once in a life time chance to meet The President of the Unites States last week! Even though it's an election year and opinions are very divided, no matter who you are it's an amazing experience to shake the President's hand and have him hold your baby!


We were front and center!



A lot of people behind us were mad at Jordan for being so tall. Another tall guy next to him said that tall people get the short end of the stick with airplane leg room and in return they get the benefit of seeing everything at events and concerts. So true! 





President Obama started his speech by saying “Hello, Golden! You know, this is just too pretty. I don’t know how you guys get any work done around here!”
He also joked that he wanted to try out the water slide in the Golden Rec Center but that the Secret Service said NO WAY! 





You can click on this picture to see the yellow circle were we were.



After his speech he started down the line shaking hands. When we realized that he was coming our way we frantically tried to decide if it would be appropriate to hand him Emmie. He held a couple of babies before us so we knew it was on!



We had the honor of shaking his hand. (If you were wondering... his hands were strong and surprisingly very soft...)



When he saw Emmalyn he said "Oh my this little one is brand new!"



Emmie was only half awake for the hand off.

   

He asked Callie "What's her name?" Over the noise of the crowd Callie said "It's Emmalyn!" He misheard her and then said "Emily, that's a perfect name for such a beautiful girl!"
Afterward we joked that the name "Emmalyn" had been vetoed... :)

 

He rocked her back and forth and gently held her hand.





After keeping her calm he boasted how he "still had the magic touch."

  

He said "she is precious, you should be very proud."

  

When she started to open her eyes he was kind enough to shield them from the sun with his hand.



Emmalyn will have lots of bragging rights and will win a lot of "Have You Ever" games when she is older...

 ...and in 10 years or so Drake is going to be pretty angry that he was playing Superheroes at his friends house and was not present. In our defence though we knew he would not last the hours of standing in line and in place. On top of that we did not have any idea that we would be so close or even get to meet him.
But teenagers are pretty understanding...right?