"That was fun," Kate told Noah with a giggle as she refilled her glass from the bottle of champagne sitting in a bucket of ice on the coffee table of Noah's former apartment. He'd sublet it to his sister who was now happily sharing it with Billy Seaborn.

"Hail Dorothy!" Noah agreed toasting his sister with his glass.

"Hail Dorothy!" the others agreed as they raised their glasses to Sara as well.

Sara giggled as she sat in the arm chair across from where Noah and Kate snuggled together in a second arm chair while Matt and Jodi sat on the couch. "Let's play it again," she suggested. "I want to see the look on her face one more time."

"We've already watched it a dozen times, Sara" Matt complained. He smiled to take some of the sting from his words.

"And it gets better every time," Noah retorted gleefully.

"I have to admit, I never would have believed Mary Marsh could be behind one of those shadow corporations," Kate said. "I can't believe she managed to keep it hidden this long!"

"No one was looking for it," Sara said. "We had so many other things to hate her for."

"True," Noah admitted. "Did you send it to everyone yet?"

"Yeah," Sara answered. "Dad was watching with Ethan and Bri. They send their congratulations."

"I didn't know they'd had any run-ins with Mary Marsh," Matt said.

"Immigration," Jodi said.

"Oh!" Matt replied. "Yeah, I guess I can see that."

"Her ideas are bit..." Sara hesitated here trying to find just the right word.

"Draconian?" Noah supplied. "She wants to close the border. Stop immigration altogether!"

Jodi snorted. "You know that will never happen, Noah" she argued.

"Which just makes her ideas all the crazier," Noah muttered.

"Enough about that," Sara decreed. "We're celebrating. No shop talk for the rest of the night."

"Agreed," Matt said.

"So what does that leave us to talk about?" Kate asked.

Jodi and Sara traded a sly look before answering together, "Weddings!"

Noah kept his expression carefully blank as he suddenly found the ceiling absolutely fascinating.

Kate got a sly look in her eye as well as she replied, "I was thinking it would be wonderful to be married in the Rose Garden like our parents were."

"The Rose Garden!" Noah objected. "The election isn't for another two and a half years!"

"You don't think we could get President Robelen to let us hold it there?" she asked with feigned wide-eyed innocence.

"After what Dad said to him?" Sara asked with a snort.

"You're killing me here, Kate" Noah muttered as he set her on her feet allowing him to stand. He pressed her back into the arm chair and left the room. "I'll be right back."

"When are you going to put him out of his misery?" Jodi asked after her brother had left the room.

"Soon," Kate admitted. "I just couldn't resist though."

"That was a pretty good one," Matt agreed. "I'm glad you didn't put me through that much," he told his wife.

"I tortured you, too. Or don't you remember taking out a full page ad in the Post asking me to marry you," she reminded him.

"I got an employee discount," Matt joked. "Besides, I had to do something to top your father."

"Oh!" Sara said jumping up from her seat and running on bare feet into the bedroom she'd turned into her office. "Guess what I've got! Mom and Dad lent it to me for background for my book," she told the others as she returned to the room with a large leather-bound book in her hands. She sat on the floor beside the coffee table.

"You're kidding!" Jodi gasped as she dropped to the floor opposite her sister and cleared the glasses and bottles from the table so Sara could put the book on it. "Have you ever seen this, Matt?" she asked.

"What is it?"

"It's the book Dad had Grandma make when he proposed to Mom," Sara told him as she flipped to the last page of the book. "See," she said pointing to the elegant script on the final page.

"He tied her engagement ring to the page," Jodi said touching the ribbons.

"So what's in the rest of the book?" Matt asked.

"Pictures of them," Kate answered. "I haven't seen this in years."

Sara flipped back to the beginning of the book and began leafing through the pages. The women took turns telling stories about the infamous courtship of Josh and Donna.

"Look at that," Jodi sighed as she pointed to a picture of her parents asleep on Air Force One.

"Who's this?" Matt asked pointing to a picture of an elderly woman clearly scolding Josh while Donna stood behind her watching with a smile on her face.

"That's Mrs. Landingham," Jodi told her husband.

Matt nodded. When they'd gone through the entire album, Sara returned it to her office. She was struggling under the weight of a huge box when she returned to the living room. "Let me help," Matt ordered as he took the box from her and carried it over to the coffee table. He watched with amusement as each woman grabbed a photo album from within and began leafing through it.

"Remember this?" Sara said pointing to a picture taken at the wake following their Grandpa Leo's funeral.

"That's the day I met Grandpa Jed," Kate remembered.

Sara hesitated a moment then took the bull by the horns and asked, "Kate, what did Grandpa Jed say to you that day?"

"He said a lot of things," Kate replied. "Mostly he told me about CJ and Toby."

"There's Peanut!" Jodi crowed pointing to a picture of Sara in her first grade play dressed as a peanut.

"Burn that picture," Sara ordered to which the others just laughed.

"There's Super Billy," Jodi laughed as she pointed to a picture of a small blond boy with a cast on his arm.

"Super Billy? How'd he break his arm?" Matt asked as he flipped the page in the album he was looking at.

"Noah and I convinced him he could fly like superman," Jodi admitted with a snicker. "So he jumped out the hayloft at the farm. Aunt Ainsley and Uncle Sam wanted to murder us."

"Is that you, honey?" Matt asked his wife as he pointed to a photo of several very dirty children in a tub full of bubbles.

"Grandpa Jed took us out to the pond and showed us how to make mud pies," Sara reminisced with a laugh as she turned the album towards her.

"Grandma was so not thrilled with him," Jodi said looking at the photo as well.

"Remember Grandpa Jed teaching us to drive?" Kate asked pointing to a picture of herself behind the wheel of one of the battered pickup trucks used around the Bartlet farm. The women all laughed remembering the driving lessons on the dirt roads around the farm.

The mood in the room grew somber for a time as Kate came across a photo of Noah carrying their grandpa Jed out to the porch on the Bartlet farm sometime in the last few months of his life. The progression of his MS had been mercifully swift at the end. That summer the older grandchildren helped care for Jed knowing how he hated outsiders seeing his weakness. They used their youthful strength to carry their grandfather around the farm to places his wheelchair wouldn't allow him to go, and when he became to weak to leave the house, they would take turns sitting with him.

"Remember this?" Jodi asked pointing to a photo on the next page. Jed sat beside Abbey on the sofa watching their costumed grandchildren.

"We were performing 'Taming of the Shrew' for him," Kate murmured as a tear escaped down her cheek. "He loved Shakespeare."

"He was so weak by then," Sara whispered. "But you could tell he was enjoying it."

"What is he doing?" Kate mumbled when she realized Noah still hadn't returned. She pushed herself to her feet to go looking for him when the door to the kitchen swung open and Noah walked through.

"How does August 12th sound to you?" he asked Kate.

"For what?" she asked.

"Our Rose Garden wedding," he replied. He was literally bouncing on the balls of his feet as he smirked at her.

"You're kidding!" Kate gasped.

"You want a Rose Garden wedding. We'll have a Rose Garden wedding," Noah told her. "So August 12th?" he asked again just before he found he couldn't say another word with her lips pressed to his.

When she finally pulled back, Kate agreed, "August 12th."

Noah walked over to the vidphone and punched a button bringing the screen to life. "August 12th is perfect, ma'am" he confirmed.

"I'll expect an invitation, Noah" Mandy Hampton-Marshall told him. "Congratulations," she added before the screen went dark

"I don't know how this day could get any better," Kate sighed wrapping her arms around Noah's waist.