I want to thank you all for your wonderful reviews and your continuing support of this freakin long fic (65 pages in word). I also want to thank my friends Sara (OnTheSparrow'sWing) and Kristi for helping me and reading what I had written as I was writing it lol.

8 review on Christmas I think is pretty good sooo you get the epilogue today too!

For those of you who didn't remember, the IM convo from the last chapter – Mer was talking to Sarah who is one of Derek's sisters.

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Derek stood on his deck and looked around at everyone in his back yard. A lot had changed in five years. For one all the interns were at the end of their residency and had specialties. Cristina went into cardiothoracic; George decided to go with general surgery. Meredith, or course, went with neuro. Alex and Izzie both took after Addison and went into OB/GYN.

Three months after Emily was born he and Meredith got married, Richard gave Meredith away. Hannah had been invited to the wedding as promised and she and Derek's niece Kaylie became really good friends.

Mark and Addison ended up having twins - a boy and a girl named Aiden Michael and Megan Elizabeth Sloan who are now four years old. They both had Addison's red hair and Mark's attitude.

Addison had made it clear to Mark that she didn't want to get married – not yet anyway so they are together and just happy like that.

George, with the help of Derek and Burke, proposed to Callie when Emily was a little over a year old. They got married a couple months later and they now have a three year old daughter named Catrina Ashley O'Malley who has her mother's beautiful hair and has overcome her shyness she inherited from her father thanks to Emily's outgoing personality.

Around the time Catrina was born Meredith got pregnant with their second child Jacob Richard Shepherd. Jacob was Derek's father's name and Richard after the man who was more of a father to Meredith than Thatcher was and is like a grandfather to their children. Jake looks just like Meredith and his sister is the spitting image of Derek. A few months after Meredith found out she was pregnant with Jake Izzie discovered she was pregnant and she and Alex had a daughter – Samantha Lauren Karev – a beautiful blonde ball of energy. Alex and Izzie got married a year before Samantha was born and both Samantha and Jake are two years old now.

The youngest of the children is Cristina and Burke's one year old son named Conner Joseph Burke. Conner looks more like Cristina than Burke and much to Cristina's chagrin that little boy made her soft – only at home though. Never soft at work.

Everyone was at Derek and Meredith's house for their Emily's fifth birthday party. All of the kids and some of her friends, minus Conner, were running around playing games and exciting the dog – a one year old yellow lab named Scotch. Meredith reasoned that since the cat was named after her favorite drink, the dog should be named after Derek's – of course the kids were told it was short for Butterscotch. At the long table on the grass near the deck there was the birthday cake with Emily's name on it and presents.

Derek saw Alex, Izzie and Cristina playing with Conner on the grass. Meredith and Addison were talking with Callie at the cake/present table. Burke, George, and 'Grandpa Richard' were managing the barbeque at the other side of the deck. Mark came up and stood next to Derek and sipped his beer.

"Ever think this was how everything would end up?" Mark asked over the playful screams of the kids running around.

Meredith looked over at Derek and smiled. She had told him earlier that day that Addison told her she was pregnant again but they decided to wait a little while to tell everyone else. He smiled back the McDreamy smile.

"Nope," he took Mark's beer and drank some, "It's so much better."

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Cristina's specialty was sort of a request from Cinny72 in her review from chapter 11. Not that Cristina would do anything else but Cinny's review sparked the entire paragraph of the intern's specialties.

Look out for my sequel called Seattle Christmas. It takes place 15 years from the epilogue and it's in Emily's point of view. It will be up either tomorrow or the day after.

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Love, Aly