JLo and Marc: Talk about a birthday!

Marc Anthony not only celebrated his lifetime achievement award at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s (CHCI) 32nd Annual Awards Gala on Wednesday, but his 41st birthday (hardly a “lifetime”) which featured some very A-list stops, fetes and food.

 

Anthony, along with wife Jennifer Lopez, had a full day supporting several political causes, but somehow managed to make the time to celebrate his big day.

 

Their day in Washington started off meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi to discuss education for Latino youth and college affordability.

 

Later that afternoon, the Latino power couple met with Washington’s top power couple – President Obama and Michelle – for a private tour with their one-year old twins and a meeting in the Oval Office.  We hear they discussed education and children while trying to control their young son Max, who was running around a bit crazily. And before heading out to the awards gala, Yeas & Nays learned that they filmed six PSAs on behalf of — wait for it — swine flu! Jennifer filmed three with Max; Anthony three with daughter Emme.

 

Following the White House, the couple headed across the street to their hotel room at the W.  Clearly having to fuel up before the main event, they had Morton’s Steakhouse deliver a private meal, complete with a vanilla lemon butter cream birthday cake to celebrate Marc’s 41, as well Caesar and chopped salads, New York srips, Morton’s Chicken Christopher, baked potatoes, broccoli and spinach, all of which had to be eaten quickly so Lopez could squeeze into her long flowy black dress and  work the red carpet outside the Convention Center.

 

John Leguizamo kicked the night off with this week’s most popular pop-culture joke: “Nobody pull a Kanye and pull the mic from me. … Nobody pull a Joe Wilson and suddenly get tourette’s and yell at me ‘cause I won’t be listening.”

 

And after all that, the celebrating didn’t stop, as Lopez throw an official birthday party for her husband at the W Hotel’s rooftop P.O.V. restaurant.  About 40 of their friends enjoyed the open bar and open space at the private party, where Lopez and Anthony spent most of the evening cuddled up on a banquette behind a velvet rope.  We spotted Lopez in a new, more party-friendly, dress – short, sparkling, silver – that showed off her killer legs and famous derriere. Anthony and Lopez left around midnight out the kitchen door before they opened the bar up to the public, but not before telling Yeas & Nays how “awesome” their meeting with Michelle Obama was.

-Additional reporting by Julia Fruchtl