House 006 Chapter 5 < | > House 007 Part 1 Day 1

First stop – I would check the new goals.. but this house is all weird.. so for part 1.. the goal is as follows:

House 007 Part One:
Find your sim's true love.

Okay.  So I totally paraphrased. A lot. But…. Really? Really Vi? Oh boy. I have never attempted, read, or even considered doing a bachelor/bachelorette competition in sims.. and now I get to do just that. But I stink at making new sims. So I threw a little wrench into it. More on that in a moment. For right now.. as the picture above shows.. it’s going to be like herding chickens. Or cats. Whatever your preference is. And if I’m feeling a little overwhelmed, you’ll have to forgive me. If you look closely in the above shot, Ariana looks a bit terrified too. (Close-up here:)

Second stop – checking on where our heir from house 006 is:

Ariana Drifter, our new heir and the “lucky” bachelorette. I did take her on a run through CAS, her clothes just said “teenager” to me, and now it was time for her to be all grown up…

… And due to her good trait and autonomously donating to a charity that turned out to be bogus at the very end of the last house… she starts out Sad. Joy. Perfect. *laughs to self*

Third stop – What we’ve all been waiting for: The contestant Bios. (I elected to ask fellow drifters (and my daughter) to create my contestants for me. Remember me saying how bad I am at making random-unrandom sims? They always end up looking alike. So, here they are. I reserve my opinion on them, since the challenge is supposed to be unbiased!)

Trent Wallis – created by RainyDayz179

Sean McIntyre – by misfit091376

Thomas Cardwell – made by Vihisha!

Levi Barnes – by Illusie

Neil Rocher – by Illusie

Jeffrey Boyd – by Illusie

And Last, but not least:

Vincent Porter – made by my daughter, Alex

So.. there’s our contestants. It may be a couple days before I get going on the challenge, but I wanted to post these guys for everyone to see. It should be interesting, and I definitely have to read over the rules VERY carefully, I don’t want to mess anything up!

House 006 Chapter 5 < | > House 007 Part 1 Day 1

House 006 Chapter 4 < | > House 007 Contestant Bios

Checking on the goals:

House 006 Building Goals:
350,000 value home (8 beds, one of them a double minimum) -
I chose the extreme challenge and started with 0 simoleons. -
Complete
House 006 Generational Goals:
One sim to Level Mansion Baron Aspiration - Complete
Young adult heir - Teenage now
Other Info:
After Mansion Baron aspiration is achieved, build a night club
on the blue velvet lot in willow creek. -Complete

Again.. everything is done except the aging. So here we go!

Cole working on his Angler Ace aspiration. I don’t plan on finishing it, but it gives me something to do with him other than .. well.. nothing.

And here is where the theme for this post starts. Can you figure it out? No? Well, you will!

Gardening party.. for lack of anything else to have them do. It’s good skill points for Ariana, anyway.

Ariana eating.. by the pool? The pool nobody uses? .. No idea why she’s out there, but it made for a good picture.

Mika autonomously pruning the bonsai tree.

While upstairs, un-noticed by most of the household, Taylor breathes his last.

Somehow I missed getting a final shot of his stats.. so we’ll just have to say goodbye to Taylor without them.

Remember our little Ariana’s friend from last chapter? I even thought to invite her over!

They make such cute friends!

Mika helping out with homework. Because why not.

Our very first ghost. Sniff. So sad.

Mika!!!!  No! .. Well actually, I was kind of cheering for it, because I was tired of so many sims.. but still.. I’ll miss Mika.

She didn’t do too bad for herself.

Everyone comes to this funeral…

Not Jennie too! .. Right on top of Mika. Well, at least Grim was already here on the job.

One urn..

Two urns. I’m going to make this a haunted house yet. Perhaps they’ll all terrorize the festivities in house 7 part 1…

Jennie’s stats. You know, I should have remembered to take a picture of how much lifetime happiness points they had because most of them had a LOT of points left over.

Trace being the patsy for my curiosity about what happens when you put soap in the fountain and then play in it. (Not much.. but it entertained me.)

Grim’s drinking on the job. After that double funeral, I can’t blame him.

From the look on Kelsie’s face, I think she just figured out that with nearly glowing bars on Melany’s and Trace’s trait panel means she’ll be “raising” the teens on her own for a while.

Why the dark picture?

To celebrate the fourth member of this household to max a career. (For reference, the other two got to level 9 which is not too shabby.)

Cole runs into Grim again after school the next day. Figure out the theme yet? … ?

Kelsie trying to work off some of the pounds that being a chef has rightfully earned her… with Melany’s help. (Its keeps them out of trouble!)

…Trace? You’re not supposed to be next..

But he is. In the smallest room in the house. Thanks, Trace.

Of note: I took Melany’s final stats shot before I took Trace’s.. I add them in here.. you’ll see why later.

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Trace’s final stats. Trace and Melany were the same age. Although Mel’s picture showed up first in the list? I certainly expected her to go first!

Ariana reading for her Renaissance Sim aspiration. She can’t get very far in it.. but maybe the quick skilling bonus will be helpful in her future?

Cole. Fishing again. But no Grim in sight. Least he found a pretty sim to fish with. Too bad she’s MUCH older.

Mika haunting on the first night she’s been gone. And see, Taylor’s back downstairs. What’s he off to break now?

This proves that ghosts can’t help but drink from the globe-hidden-drink-thing, either. It’s absolutely a Sim Magnet.

Oh look. A helpful ghost. At least one of them is!

Taylor.. crying over someone’s tombstone. At least he stopped breaking things. (Nope, it was just a break. He broke the hot tub three times that one night. And it was only three because I stopped fixing it after that until the next morning and he poofed away.)

See? Poofing. You come up with a better word for it. I dare you!

The end of Kelsie being regarded as the baby of the family. At least someone’s around for the kids. (Wait.. that’s two someone’s.  Melany seems to be sticking around, too.. even though her age bar is STILL full.)

Aw.. that’s putting on a brave face!

I invited Karla over again. They’re just so cute together as friends, I couldn’t help it. I had to let the story continue playing in my head.

The girls telling secrets.

And finally! Ariana has a REAL best friend. Her old one was her nanny from childhood. Eeks. I couldn’t let that stay, you know?

Mika’s back. Again.

But she’s being far less helpful this time. Don’t you know that drinks will go right through you, Mika??

Cole getting his quality TV time interrupted.

This childhood friend of Ariana’s was constantly asking to come over after school… so with stories ringing in my head.. hey maybe a future side love interest?? He’s a kind of interesting looking sim.. and I always am so monogamous with my Sim relationships.. maybe that could change?

.. Guess not. He seems more into Cole. Watch the eyes!

See?? I’m tellin’ you, he’s into Cole. So much for Ariana’s possibly cheating heart.  LOL.

Cole.. forever alone.. with his fish. Or not fish.. you have 8 skill WHY are you catching weeds?  .. Sims logic.

The cousins spending some “quality” time together.

Ah Crap. Taylor’s back.

Wait.. he’s behaving this time??

I love this shot. But seriously. Who did you steal you ungrateful aliens?!? Because this is totally the last night in this household.. and someone get’s abducted. I laughed SO hard.

..Thanks for bringing Kelsie back!

Oh so it’s Mika that’s going to cause trouble?

Kelsie heading to bed while Mika heads.. to..

.. flirtyville? You know, Mika, you COULD clean up that plate..

… instead of haunting the bonsai tree.

Cole gets to age up first….

And our heir has made it to young adult. <<Applause>>

Cole’s final trait panel

And Kelsie’s.

A smile from our heir to finish the post off….

And that’s our final family. WHY Melany survived.. I don’t know. I have to put it to her healthy physical habits.. I guess?  I didn’t think it could make them live almost a WEEK EXTRA!! Also of note in the above picture.. the final funds the family has. WHAT THE HECK. Really. Why was I so worried about not making 350k for the house. *blush* Silly me. I guess we made it, huh?

And.. since the house has been seen in SO many pictures, I’m not going to post  the individual room shots. I’ll post two overhead shots of the layout, as follows:

I think it turned out rather well. Next up.. House 007!

House 006 Chapter 4 < | > House 007 Contestant Bios

House 006 Chapter 3 < | > House 006 Chapter 5

Checking on the goals:

House 006 Building Goals:
350,000 value home (8 beds, one of them a double minimum) -
I chose the extreme challenge and started with 0 simoleons. -
Complete
House 006 Generational Goals:
One sim to Level Mansion Baron Aspiration - Complete
Young adult heir - Child age now
Other Info:
After Mansion Baron aspiration is achieved, build a night club
on the blue velvet lot in willow creek. - Complete

Basically, everything is done and we have a long time to wait. Goal for this post: catch you guys up to where I am at play-wise and get those two kids to Teen! Be warned.. this is a long post.. I had lots of pictures!

We start with Ariana meeting her first sim for her aspiration (Social Butterfly). Shortly after this, she discovers Grim’s “Dance Machine” trait.

Nothing like could gazing with Grim!

It was at about this time I finally noticed the gorgeous marina across from their front door. How I’d never noticed it or the boats before is completely unknown.. lol.. but it’s really a pretty spot for a house. (Even if the lack of people walking by is a source of constant annoyance for me. I always gotta go somewhere else for meeting new sims.)

…Like the park! This kid turned out to be the only child in the entire town. Which just wouldn’t do since Ariana had the social butterfly aspiration. After this trip to the park, I went into household management, picked some households and started adding kids. I must have added around 6-7 of them to the town in the hopes that the next trip to the park would give Ariana some new friends.

Space monster! Dead ahead.. FIRE! (bubbles come trickling out) .. Nice job, guys. You missed him.  (LOL Sorry, couldn’t resist)

Making a friend. It got pretty late, though, and it didn’t get to “BFF” levels for her aspiration. Guess that will have to happen tomorrow.

After getting Ariana back home, I realized I never bothered to upgrade the kids’ rooms to child rooms.. they both still had toddler beds and toys. I remedied this rather quickly since it was past both of their bedtimes. Here’s Cole’s room…

… And here’s Ariana’s. I just love the way they turned out. Buying the kids furniture pack was a great buy, in my opinion!

Kelsie.. who I perpetually see as the baby of the family.. finally hitting adult. She’s so much younger than everyone else (remember she was still a teen when she moved in with Melany, so I was forced by the game to move her in…) .. I often forget she’s a grown-up, too.

The next day’s trip to the park. I’ve never been so happy to see a whole bunch of kids at the park before! I squealed in joy and hubby gave me a really weird look. Hey.. friends are necessary for that social butterfly thing.. it’s SO my least favorite child aspiration.. I usually avoid it like the plague. (Hey, I did warn you I’d probably gripe.)

Meeting kid # 1 at the park. This is Karla.. who quickly put story ideas in my head and I can see Ariana growing up with a friend. She’s that PIzzazz chick’s kid from the City Living pack. I think she turned out really pretty!

…See? Aren’t they adorable as friends??

I completely forget what I named this kid… had to go look it up. This is Jordan.

More friends to be made…

… Finally. Probably the fastest I’ve ever completed that aspiration without cheating. (Yup, that’s how much I hate it.. I’ve been known to cheat my way past it in other games.)

She was just so cute sleeping I had to take a picture.

Ummm Ariana.. I don’t think that’s how makeup works…

Cole working on his Whiz kid aspiration. Both of his parents were busy so Mika got roped into helping him with his homework for the guaranteed focused moodlet.

There’s so much going on in the picture. I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people celebrating a birthday without manipulating the people into standing around the cake waiting for the age up.

Aww… Taylor makes a cute elder, don’t you think?

A picture of sleeping Mika… why?

… Because this happened.. and I realized that at some time, Mika had been the first to get this aspiration complete in one of my games. Just goes to show how much money she’s been making from her book writing!

Kelsie, cooking up a storm…

… Congrats, Kels!

Mika is the next birthday. (Note from the future.. for some reason, this cake hung around in the fridge forever. Cake is usually the first thing to get eaten out of the fridge.. but this one still had pieces in there a week after it had been used. I thought it was kind of funny.)

Aww, poor Mika. I always find them holding their aching back after aging to elder amusing.

Way to go Jennie! I hadn’t even been really trying for it, so this came as a complete surprise!

Jennie aging up after work.

She looks happy about her birthday.

… For some reason, this silly globe-drink-thing is really popular in this house. I’m always seeing one adult or another pulling out a drink from it.. and often they get left all over the house. It’s kinda funny.

Practicing comedy routines for his daily task. He always has the funniest expressions!

Melany is now “Trainer to the Stars”. Highest I’ve ever gotten in the athletic career. I’m pretty sure she’s not going to max her career before she dies, but it’s still pretty cool to get that high. Especially considering Melany and Kelsie have been my gardening guinea pigs.. always getting roped into helping.

Hi, Taylor.. what’s up? …

… My first EVER tech guru max career. Again, not really trying. He spends most of his time hacking. Hey, it keeps him out of trouble!

They are still such a cute couple! I totally <3 these two!

… Not sure when this happened.. but at least I finally noticed it.

… A very stinky Cole in a silly outfit. What’s that mean?? He’s got an A!

Which finally finishes his aspiration.

Ariana in a silly outfit, too. Musta been some fun at school today, kids!

Ariana’s got her second aspiration completed. Way to go!

Melany’s turn for elder birthday…

… Followed by Trace’s.

He seems confused. LOL Guess that happens when you get older.

Why do we have a picture of Kelsie cooking while the maid (who has been working for them for so long that she’s now an elder.. lol) cleans?

.. Because Kelsie finally maxed Gourmet cooking. Only my second or third sim ever to do that.

Mika! What’s up??

… Level ten writing. Another first for me.

Ariana got into the vanity table again. Too funny. I keep cracking up over these makeup foibles. This is just the first time I’ve caught it on camera. (I had to go back and edit this.. note from the future yelling at the past.. it’s the second time I’ve mentioned it.. and it’s not the last, either.)

About this time, I noticed how pretty the garden looks through the kitchen window. Silly me had to take a screenshot.

Jennie standing around looking proud of herself?

.. Because now she’s really rich!

I’ve been mostly following the kids around.. and then I noticed this lovely group conversation in the dining room. Too cute.

.. Not you, too, Cole!

Ariana working on aspiration #3.

I took this because he’s getting up there. I wanted to have a record of it just in case. He did pretty well for himself, I think.

Awww. Cole putting on a puppet show for his mama. (Oh yeah, if you’re looking closely you’ll see Mika and Taylor woohooing in the next room. LOL)

Mika being the first to actually play in the fountain. Adorable. (especially in high heels.. haha!)

More chess pictures.

Because she did it. Three aspirations done! I don’t think I’ll get the fourth.. but it’s still impressive.

I got a bug up my rear about creating a bit of a story/friendship with Karla, and invited her back over to work on the relationship.

Ariana is so cute. I love her facial expressions. She’s going to be one of my favorite drifter heirs, I think.

<3!!! What cuties!

I really like how this house looks in this neighborhood. It’s so peaceful!

The kids playing in the fountain.

You guys have nothing better to do than dance, huh?

.. I make them go watch a puppet show instead.

Aww!

Finally. The moment we’ve been waiting for.

Aww! She’s so pretty! I even like the short hair on her.

…Not to forget Cole…

Wow he aged up nice. Can definitely still see how much he looks like Trace, though.

.. Well. That was a long post. Hopefully worth it, though! Maybe I can get through the teen days in the next post and finish out this house. Don’t worry, I plan to do a “house tour” for this house like I did for the last one. I think it turned out pretty nice!

House 006 Chapter 3 < | > House 006 Chapter 5

House 006 Chapter 2 < | > House 006 Chapter 4

Checking on the new goals:

House 006 Building Goals:
350,000 value home (8 beds, one of them a double minimum) -
I chose the extreme challenge and started with 0 simoleons. -
at 342k now
House 006 Generational Goals:
One sim to Level Mansion Baron Aspiration
Young adult heir
Other Info:
After Mansion Baron aspiration is achieved, build a night club
on the blue velvet lot in willow creek.

When I loaded up the save this time around, everyone got their mansion baron aspiration complete, even though the house still only said 342k value. Within a couple days of loading, I had bought the expensive violin and was finished with the house to my satisfaction. Now I just have to safely get the heir to young adult and the house will be a win.

I just love the new toddlers, so expect a lot of photos! (the Feature shot is Mika and our heir, Ariana.)

Cole being cute learning to talk with his mama.

About this point I save and head over to build my new nightclub: Ice 9. (Why I called it that, I don’t know.. I guess it just seemed to fit.)

The outside (at night, because that’s when you visit night clubs!)

The inside in build mode

The downstairs bathrooms (only half of the downstairs is used)

You’ll see some more pictures of it in live mode in a bit. It is up for download under both #drifterchallenge and #thrallsdrifter.

I swear, Ariana is a “Charmer” .. but she always seems to fight parental influence. That face of rebellion is her usual expression. I think this time it was over potty training.

While Cole lives up to his “Angelic” and is SO adorable while learning his flash cards with his daddy, Trace.

Ariana finally decides potty training is okay just before bed. (Maybe she was just too tired to argue?!)

.. At least she sleeps soundly through the night.

Gardening party. Also: there’s a gardener because I finally had extra points on someone.. (after getting everyone Carefree followed by Entrepreneurial – or at least everyone that has the points for it.) As usual, Melany and Kelsie are the ones roped into the gardening chore.

Mika and Jennie are busy in their own ways, teaching the toddlers. Of Note: Ariana actually has a smile on her face and is enjoying mommy time for a change.

Said Mommy time doesn’t last long, and Ariana becomes angry and heads off to do her own thing. Cole continues being cute and cooperating.

Kelsie and Melany finish with the gardening.. and seeing Kelsie dancing again gives me an idea… I still needed to test my nightclub. So off Kelsie and Melany go.

At first they’re pretty much the only ones there, but before long, the place is packed. I like the traits I picked out for the lot, and everyone seems to be having a good time.

Kelsie and Melany meet some new people…

And Kelsie finally maxes her Dancing skill.

Even Grim seems to like the club.. and yep, he’s still chubby. (Ignore the bare half walls next to Grim, I fix them.)

Melany does me a favor and makes sure the bathrooms work.

While Kelsie shows off that I went back in and fixed the bare walls. You never know what you’ll notice on a playtest of a venue… that’s why I always test before uploading!

Back at home, Ariana is doing what she REALLY likes doing: playing by herself.

Sims Logic: the game says they’re playing together and getting communication skill as well as imagination.. and they’re looking opposite ways. Makes sense, sure. (sarcasm)

Later, Cole goes to get his groove on.

Ariana comes down to join in.. and although Taylor if facing the other way (and stinks at dancing), the game says he’s “teaching” them to dance. Personally, I think the toddlers aren’t going to be helped much by him, but you never know, right?

Ariana dances with her mom after Taylor has to run off to do more hacking for me.

Uhh.. Cole, you’re in the wrong room. At least he’s playing happily.

One of the few times I get the game to let me click the “play” interaction. (For some reason, it hardly ever shows up!)

Trace in his lovely colorful office…

Reaching Comedy level 10! WTG Trace! (I think he’s the very first sim I’ve EVER gotten to comedy 10.)

The next morning.. it’s finally time to bid goodbye to the toddlers. I miss Ariana’s caking.. but I do get a GREAT shot of her eating breakfast after:

Isn’t she the cutest?! I absolutely love her. She rolls “Good” and becomes a social butterfly. (The Aspiration I HATE for kids.. it’s such a pain! However, with where the heir is going, I think it’ll be a good thing to have the faster social skills.. so I’m going to force myself to finish it for her. Expect griping from me. LOL)

I do manage to catch the last few seconds of Cole’s toddler-hood… gosh he was so cute!!

And he ages up to look just like his dad. I tried to get them from similar angles so you can see it, but this was as close as I could get. They’re almost clones they’re so close in looks. The hairstyle doesn’t help, that looks similar too.

Up next: childhood. (I know, I’m sorry, this post was all toddler spam.. lol but I couldn’t help it, they’re just too cute!)

House 006 Chapter 2 < | > House 006 Chapter 4

House 006 Chapter 1 < | > House 006 Chapter 3

Checking on the new goals:

House 006 Building Goals:
350,000 value home (8 beds, one of them a double minimum) -
I chose the extreme challenge and started with 0 simoleons. -
at 129k now
House 006 Generational Goals:
One sim to Level Mansion Baron Aspiration
Young adult heir
Other Info:
After Mansion Baron aspiration is achieved, build a night club
on the blue velvet lot in willow creek.

I will start by saying this will be a slightly abbreviated post.. simply because I got zoned out playing so many sims that I forgot to take many screenshots (plus I just kept screenshotting the same things over and over.. that’s all they do is work and skill.) With that said.. here we go!

We’ll start with a “what is everyone doing?”…

Kelsie is skilling cooking and mixology for her career.

Jennie is done with skilling painting, so she’s skilling logic for her Master of the Real. She still paints to add to the house’s collection, but logic is important too!

Trace is writing new comedy routines and then refining them and performing them to an empty room. It’s sort of sad, really.. but it’s leveling his comedy skill, so it’s all good.

Mika and Taylor just aged up to adult. I only got the picture of one of them.. who knows why I forgot the other! Their birthday is the same day as Jennie’s, but due to work schedules the aging up process happened at wildly different times during the day. (Notice that the walls have actually been painted down here!)

Taylor is programming.. why?

Because he’s got the skills to hack lots of money into the household accounts.

Jennie’s birthday shot. She went right back to painting.. what a good girl. Half the current house value is probably due to her paintings!

Taylor at his computer again.. but this time it’s to remind me to add in this image…

Yay! He’s lucky to have one he can finish (as opposed to Jennie’s and Melany’s.)

I loved this shot of their new garden at night.. it looks so pretty! I’ll give a full house tour at the end of this house, because it’s really shaping up to be an awesome house!

… Yikes! All that work on the house hurts when you get to Monday and bills being due!

Mika is hard at work…

Being pretty much the primary breadwinner for this house. She makes over 6k PER DAY in royalties. Pretty much puts to shame any money anyone else can bring in. (Of course, we still have the garden making about that every few days, too.. they’re definitely not hurting for money.)

Finally, a shot of Melany doing what she seems to be addicted to doing.. playing basketball. I can set her to doing something else, but as soon as I turn my back.. she’s back to the hoops.

.. See?

Now that the house value is up over 200k, (and yes, the upstairs is STILL bare of anything but a few beds and a couple bathrooms and bare offices.) it’s time to make the heir. I waited so long for the heir in the fear that I wouldn’t be able to get the funds to upgrade the house.. but I clearly shouldn’t have worried about it with what Mika’s making! It just means there will be a lot of waiting around taking pictures of the kids.

Since there’s still room in the house, I’ll have to assume there’s no twins in Mika’s future.. and I allowed Trace and Jennie to get pregnant, too. Two toddlers at once should keep me busy.. and it’ll be fun to watch the two cousins grow up.

Now it’s Trace and Melany’s birthday… she’s at work during this shot, but we’ll see her later.

Mika, are you SURE you’re not having twins? You’re huge! No rest for my sims.. and no vacation days. Both pregnant women worked all the way through their pregnancy and didn’t miss a minute of work. I’m not sure how I got that to work out.. but juggling everything to keep their needs high was interesting.

The promised shot of Melany aging up to adult. She seems to have very few screenshots of her, she’s always playing basketball or being roped into gardening by me.

Jennie painted THIS while pregnant. My husband’s initial comment was “is she going to birth a little demon?!” .. and I couldn’t stop laughing. I’ve never seen this particular painting show up on an easel. It went into a place of honor in Mika’s writing office.

Oh my gosh!! Hooray! Our heir isn’t BLUE! .. But it is a girl.. AGAIN. Her name is Ariana.. and we’ll just have to wait to see how cute she is.

And here is Cole Sherwood. (I went with his dad’s last name.)

This was taken just in case.. because standing in a puddle while fixing a sparking appliance seems really safe. (haha)

Mika’s feeding the mailbox more books…

And now she’s done with her aspiration! Congrats Mika! (Back to Mansion Baron now.)

Look who grew up?? She couldn’t be any cuter! (I will make another note from the future here.. technically this is not my first drifter toddler “milestone”, since, while waiting for my new computer – you may notice the graphics quality is definitely higher on this than my old computer – it also doesn’t bug out and freeze with 8 sims in a house… luckily.. anyway, I started a second “Drifter” save, the “Travelers” (link above if you’re curious, it’s told as a story instead of commentary-style like this) – and they had a toddler before there were toddlers in this house 6.)

.. But she definitely looks like she’ll be a trouble maker with that expression. Her first day was spent saying “no” to whatever mommy Mika wanted her to do. And she’s a “charmer” .. haha!

Another cutie! Cole’s Angelic.. and likes following daddy Trace around. We’ll see how they grow up next post!

Oh yeah.. one more check of this… Almost there! (Although for some reason, she got Mansion Baron achievement when I loaded the house back up to get this screenshot. Who knows why.. but I’ll make sure the value is over 350k by the time the heir is grown.. such a LONG time to wait!) .. Oh.. and those 15k violins? I don’t have a single one in the house!

(That’s what a 342k house looks like in bills. Glad I’m not living there!)

House 006 Chapter 1 < | > House 006 Chapter 3

House 005 House Tour < | > House 006 Chapter 2

First stop – checking on the new goals:

House 006 Building Goals:
350,000 value home (8 beds, one of them a double minimum) -
I chose the extreme challenge and started with 0 simoleons.
House 006 Generational Goals:
One sim to Level Mansion Baron Aspiration
Young adult heir
Other Info:
After Mansion Baron aspiration is achieved, build a night club
on the blue velvet lot in willow creek.

Second stop – checking on where our heir from house 005 is:

Wasn’t much to change on her. I didn’t notice until this picture how much she looks like her mama at her age.

Traits designed for writing…

Skills she got on her own in the last house..

Yep.. there’s that 0 simoleons again. I guess I’m a glutton for punishment.

At least her stats started well!

I included both pictures because .. well why not. She’ll be working on both aspirations (as long as I remember to switch back and forth). Also – don’t forget, she’s destined to marry Taylor. I know, arranged marriages.. an old custom. They’ll be okay with it, I promise.

Third stop – making a new sim:

Meet Trace’s intended… Again, I started with a random sim and went from there. She wants to be a painter, hence why she’s colorful.

And Now… We can begin.

With such a big challenge I have a few priorities….

First order of business… moving in Taylor for Mika. That way he can get working on his job.. and one more hand fishing. (And yes, that’s Zachary Drifter in the background. I don’t know how he’s still alive, but aparently he is!)

Of note: after I already moved in Taylor I found out the rules had been changed from the last time I read them.. moving in past siblings is now not ok. But since I’d already moved him in, and I had plans to move in at least Trace, as well.. I voted for allowing them to stay. It used to be okay .. but a new rule – “Note:  This Challenge is not intended to Move In prior mini-challenge Household Members.  Doing so may greatly impact the challenge in negative ways” makes it not so.  My second challenge will follow this rule, this save.. will not. (But then, I’m already using a modified version of the rules – a combination of the new ones and the old ones – so I vote it’s okay. Author’s stubborn choice or something like that.

I immediately send Jennie off to collect anything that’s possible to collect this early…

.. and she finds at least a few things.

After that.. the three of them spend quite a bit of time fishing.. to lesser and greater degrees of success. Grim was with them for a while, as well, but he got bored and left by the time I thought to take a picture.

Photo spam: the first night.

Don’t they all look so cute!?! (Oh yeah, Trace isn’t moved in right away because he’s still a teen and I can’t afford another bed just yet.)

With all the sims on the lot.. one of my highest priorities (after the garden) was to enclose the bathroom. Before that, I was having to juggle which sim was allowed on the lot to use the bathroom.

Woohoo was also making things awkward, so enclosing the bedrooms came next… as well as getting rid of the revolving cooler seat. I didn’t bother with an oven just yet because .. reasons. (Read: I’m scared of them setting themselves on fire.. lol)

Oh yeah.. and speaking of woohoo… I finally got Mika and Taylor hitched. It was appropriately romantic in front of the log couch and “in” the makeshift kitchen. (laughs)

House version 2.0.. they even have their fancy front door. Gardening is taking up most of Mika’s time, as opposed to her writing.. I need to get someone else in to work on the gardening after the plants get grafted to make them dragonfruitys.

Invited over the siblings (Since Trace is finally all grown up and ready to marry Jennie.) Aren’t they a cute couple? I have the hardest time getting blond sims in my game, so here they are. Melany is behind Jennie in the photo, but I still hadn’t decided whether to bring both her and Kelsie in yet. Their same hairstyle was getting on my nerves, though, and eventually tipped the balance in favor of moving them in so I could fix Melany and “un-twin” them.

Oh.. and I also finally was able to afford something important.

They are officially allowed to have a stove now. (laughs!)

And here.. is where I decided I’d gone completely crazy. I forgot how much work this many CONTROLLABLE sims is. But I was so worried at how slow things are happening, I wanted the insurance of extra sims. It’s still really not an advantage.. at least not yet.. because they all have so far to go to really be making decent money.. and one is still a teen. (Couldn’t move in Melany without Kelsie since she is just a teen… so we brought her along. She can help garden.)

Next: a series of photos to show the house’s growing. I rearranged things quite a bit as soon as I had money after moving in the other two siblings. No windows yet.. but getting the furnishings on the inside that they need to make money and live well is a higher priority.

(This just reminds me how crappy their beds still are.. that’s gotta be a top priority…)

… Does anyone else have the problem with their sims where they won’t sit down to watch TV unless you specifically tell them to? It’s really annoying. I hate seeing them just standing there when there’s perfectly good sofas available. GRR. I know they USED to sit down just fine.. but lately.. they never do.

Sitting.. because I made them. Notice the starter TV still .. they live like poor people!

The “Inspiration corner” as I like to call it. It’s a place for doing things that need inspiration!

Kelsie doing her homework all by herself. I put the “focusing corner” (although it’s not really a corner) near the dining table for now, so it reminded her to do her homework (something I tend to forget.. I usually have her out working on the gardening instead.)

The last surviving Drifter other than the two in this household… and it looks like Grim is stalking him. Poor Addison.. I wonder if aliens get a longer life than normal sims, because he’s been around for AGES.

Another house shot.. this one with some outside decor… and finally, a foundation.

A quick shot of the value/aspiration. I feel like things are moving SOOOO slow in this house! Most of their cash is still going for living upgrades and random work to the outside of the house.

Breakfast time. Note the new TV and the “focusing corner” in the background. Off to the right (out of shot) is the downstairs bathroom.

Kelsie dancing for her dance machine trait. She kept getting bored without getting her dance on, so I bought her a stereo. In the background is Trace skilling guitar and Mika writing her newest novel.

Melany, our athletic sim out jogging yet again. I really need to buy her some athletic skilling objects back at home.

The minuscule focusing corner and Taylor doing his best to hack funds into the bank.

The seemingly never ending job of gardening/evolving plants is finally starting to net some money.

In progress house shot. It was at about this point that I got fed up with piecemeal-ing the house together and “borrowed” 20k from the “bank” to finish getting the house into “shell” form. Basically, I used 20 “kaching” cheats with the intention of paying the bank back once they had 20k cash on hand. I *think* there’s enough time to pay back the bank as well as furnish the house in what they have left. Mika and Taylor are 8 days from adult at this point.

Here’s the result. I wasn’t altogether sure how it would turn out.. but it looks pretty cool even without painting. I know we don’t have cars in sims 4, but I just wanted to give them a driveway (partly for the basketball goal there in the front right of the picture).. and partly because there was so much room on the lot, it seemed a good idea to use some space up.

Yep.. I’m still sending random sims out to grab the local collectibles. Melany or Trace seem to be the usual victims since their career skills don’t make money. (Melany is in the body building career, Trace in entertainment.)

A rare shot with most of the Drifter’s and Sherwood’s in the same area of the house. Shortly after this shot, the stairs (cutaway on the left by the bathroom) were moved in favor of a door to the back patio. The stairs were put into the front “foyer” room.. which I need to get a shot of, it’s pretty impressive.

The outside of the house. Loan is now paid off, and the bonus was I had enough left over to “finish” the outside shell of the house with decor items. The inside is still very bare, but at least the outside is looking like a real home. Next on the list is some landscaping (which I am really quite terrible at) for the aspiration.

The new “playful corner” for Trace’s comedy work. (See? No wallpaper.. lol.)

Yet another shot of Jennie painting.. but this one was taken for a reason…

Yay Jennie! I’ve been keeping all the masterpieces no matter what they look like and just haphazardly throwing them up on the bare walls. Eventually, they’ll be distributed throughout the house… if I ever get the wallpaper/painting done.

And now, I’ll leave this first post with some house shots.

The first floor (can be clicked on for a bigger pic)

Second floor (clickable, too)

The promised shot of the front foyer

And a shot of the back. The pool will (hopefully) be bigger, and I’ll probably also add a “poolhouse” with a sauna in the “back” of the house.

Lot value check… doing ok. Mika and Taylor are 2 days from adult, and Kelsie finally aged to young adult. To get this house done, I will probably be waiting until very late to have the heir.. or at least, until I can see probably getting it done. I have no idea how I’m going to get 350k value (I’ve NEVER had a house worth that much that I built.. so this could get interesting..) A good half of that value is probably the masterpieces that are rambling over the walls inside the house. And yes.. I just now noticed I never set lot traits. Oops.

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I’m just going to go ahead and post the pictures all in a row.

The first “house” shown is the Sherwood’s (Lacee and family)

Front Entrance

Living room

Living Room

Kitchen

Dining Room

Upstairs hall

Kid’s room

Kid’s room

Teen room

Teen room

Master bedroom

Master bath

Ignore the puddles.. lol.. upstairs full bathroom

Next House is Kayla’s house.

Front Entrance

living room

living room

kitchen

dining room

downstairs bathroom

kid’s room

kid’s room

teen room

teen room

master bedroom

master bathroom

upstairs hallway

upstairs bathroom (again, don’t mind the puddles)

studio floor 1 (painting)

painting studio towards the door

photography studio

photography studio

And, last but not least, the house is uploaded under #thrallsdrifter and #drifterchallenge. I uploaded two versions.. this one with the photographs (which makes it flagged for CC), and one without so it’s not flagged CC.

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House 005 Chapter 4 < | > House 005 House Tour

Checking up on goals:

House 005 Building Goals:
100,000 value home (3 bedroom, 2 bath min)
(6 br, 6.5 baths - complete, at around 200k)
House 005 Generational Goals:
One sim to Level 10 Master of the Real painter career
One sim to Level 10 Patron of the Arts painter career
(Complete on both)
One sim to level 5 Photography (Complete)
Photography Treasure Hunt (Complete)
Young adult heir (teenage now)

All complete except for some time….. So let’s get to it, eh?

Oh yeah.. once again, I left you with a nooboo on the way. Meet the youngest Sherwood, Kelsie.

Right after giving birth, Lacee ran out of the room and aged up in the hallway. Poor girl got the “forgotten birthday” moodlet… but she’ll live. (At least for a little while longer!)

This is Trace and Melany, the two kids at the moment, playing dolls with the nanny (yet again..!)

Not nice, Kayla. Playing the whole switcharoo game on your daughter while teaching her to play chess. (Don’t worry, Mika got her mom back a time or two, as well.) Why am I taking this painstaking way of teaching Mika some skills?

For this, of course.. she can’t get an A in school without a level 3 skill.. and since the garden has long since been sold off (without Justice tending it the whole garden was going to pot.. lol) … I had to choose the next best thing.

Bonus: Kayla got level 10 logic while teaching.

The next couple of days were spent on teaching Taylor.

.. Who also got his required level 3 skill.. and then I let him go off on his merry way.

While concentrating on Taylor, I spy a little pink munchkin trying to sneak past the camera.. who is it but little Melany who came home with an A! (Trace is still at a B in school, he hasn’t gotten a level 4 skill yet.. lol he seems to be the little trouble maker in the family and doesn’t like to sleep nights, either.)

..See? I guess it’s a good thing he’s up because it’s the only way he’s going to get to know his dad. (How sad!) This photo was very carefully taken to show the broken plumbing behind this cute conversation.. evidently Justice has his priorities straight…. he ALWAYS breaks everything he can in that particular bathroom before he disappears in the morning. (Case in point.. right after taking this photo, he went back in there to break the shower since he hadn’t done that, yet.)

Umm… boys? You’re in the way.. unless you guys want to change the dirty diaper you’re blocking. (Spoiler: they didn’t. I eventually got them to move.)

A sorta cute – sorta creepy photo of Trace being sweet with his dad. The creepy part is being able to see through dad…

This is actually the first time Kayla has seen Justice since his death.. they had just a couple minutes before Justice headed back into his headstone. (That sounds weird, doesn’t it? But I can’t think of another way to word it!)

Trace, dear.. you’re supposed to do your homework before school, yes.. but not at the breakfast table. Ahh, I guess I should just be happy he’s doing it, right?

The newest Sherwood, all grown up into her Neat trait.

Now here’s where I admit I gave her the neat trait for one reason… so she could clean up these puddles on the front lawn that have been blocking me building landscaping out front. The garden has been gone for at least a couple of sim weeks and yet the puddles remained bugged out. So poor Kelsie got to be the guinea pig for the neat trait to mop them up. Yes, it’s cheating to make her do it.. but it was solving a bugged issue, so I’m not going to count it. She was quite happy cleaning up the puddle and even happier when I sent her off to do her own things. (Immediately heading towards that dollhouse, obviously!)

Oh! Yeah! I built a hedge maze. Tried to get the game to register it as a room so I could upload it separately (you’d be amazed at how few hedge maze rooms are out there – exactly three – I looked. And none of them fit on their lawn..)  .. but I couldn’t get it to be a “room” without a foundation. How annoying. I spent forever building it (off a maze generator I found online) and I wasn’t about to rebuild the thing just to make it be on top of a foundation for the game to recognize it as a room.

Kelsie being cute with her dad… Although the backlighting makes this picture hard to see.

Mika and Melany doing homework.

Taylor, too.. only he actually found his own desk!

Why the weird picture of Lacee talking to herself in their tiny bathroom mirror?

… Because. Way to go, Lacee! (I had to give the girls something new to do or I was going to lose my marbles just following people around the house for 13 days before Mika turns YA.)

Trace and Melany’s birthday. Trace goes first…

… And doesn’t seem impressed with the whole process.

Melany’s turn next…

… And didn’t she turn out pretty!

Some family time… in the wrong living room, but that’s okay.

Oh no! Lacee has to make a run for the bathroom.

… While Brayan actually helps out and puts out the fire (and everyone else panics, of course.)

.. Taylor, don’t you dare set the house on fire again! (And yes, this picture was a just-in-case kind of thing.)

Most of the simmies all congregating in their favorite place, Kayla’s living room.

Melany chatting with little Kelsie (who won’t even have time to get out of child age before this challenge is over).

Brayan gets older.

… And Kayla gets abducted. Clearly the aliens want to know how she makes so much money.

Mika and Trace having breakfast.

And Taylor and his sister, Melany have breakfast later.

Two golden oldies having some breakfast before putting in some more time painting.

After school free time playing sims.

Trace watching TV.

Ohhhhh NO! Not Kayla! I had a feeling she would go before this challenge was over, and it looks like I was right.

Just checking.. yep.. Grimm’s still fat. Too funny. A couple days before this I took a screen capture of her stats so you could see them..

I don’t think she did too bad for herself, considering how much time and effort went into work and painting.

RIP Kayla, you will be missed. I put her right by Justice on the back lawn. Hopefully she will be the last death in this challenge!

Justice visiting. I wonder if he’s sad because of Kayla dying? Being sad didn’t stop him from breaking everything in his favorite bathroom, though.

The boys catching up.

Just an ordinary breakfast…

Or NOT. NO! I thought she’d make it.. there’s only one day left!

Grimm shows up…

And I suddenly remember we’re allowed to plead for a sim’s life.

It worked! Lacee will have at least one day, and that’s plenty of time to get the cake(s) baked for Taylor and Mika’s birthday the next day.

She seems pleased with herself for getting to come back!

Kayla’s back for a happy haunting!

… And she decides to cook? This turns into Almond Macarons, apparently.. a recipe I’ve never seen any time except when cooked up by a ghost.. I wonder if only they can make it??

Taylor goes first this time just so he’ll have time to age up and still be the same age as Mika.

… And… drumroll… Mika’s turning into a young adult!

Yay for Mika and me! Challenge complete! Now: Lacee’s stats (taken a day or two before she passed away as insurance.)

Again, not too bad. My girls did pretty well for themselves!

Final funds.. and proof that she was saved from death. *grin*

The house’s final value. Being that this post is already pretty long, I’ll do a full house tour in the next one. See you then!

House 005 Chapter 4 < | > House 005 House Tour

House 005 Chapter 3 < | > House 005 Chapter 5

Checking up on goals:

House 005 Building Goals:
100,000 value home (3 bedroom, 2 bath min)
(Currently at around 80k)
House 005 Generational Goals:
One sim to Level 10 Master of the Real painter career
One sim to Level 10 Patron of the Arts painter career
(lvl 9 currently for both)
One sim to level 5 Photography (Level 2 currently)
Photography Treasure Hunt (Complete)
Young adult heir (child age now)

I’m not sure when this check was done exactly, so we’ll stick it here… (this is a longish post, so lots of pictures incoming!!)

And we start this chapter up with nooboos!! (since I left you hanging while Lacee was in labor and Justice had just died..)

Welcome Melany!

And shortly afterward.. Welcome Trace, a non blue baby boy. Doesn’t it just figure! Sorry, Trace, you missed out on being the heir!

With Justice being gone, it’s nice that Brayan seems to really enjoy stepping in to help out with Trace.

Lacee working on her photography skill: (I couldn’t pick just one photo of Mika and Taylor.. they are so destined for each other!)

Love that last shot. Hehe @ Mika’s face.

A shot of Lacee with the ever-present nanny. She’s been such a lifesaver while Lacee is busy working on her photography. (She’s now at level 3)

Oh… and.. drumroll…

Yay Kayla!

Look who’s back!? .. And apparently angry for some reason.

.. And as we all know.. Angry ghosts are NEVER good. He spent quite a while breaking everything in sight..

Then went to the backyard and haunted his own gravestone..

…And mourning himself. Repeatedly. It was really quite funny. My husband’s comment was that I had a narcissist ghost.

Brayan’s new favorite place.. the new computer in Kayla’s house’s living room.

Happy birthday Brayan!

Finally Lacee catches up.

There’s little Trace all grown up and looking cute. (How I managed to miss photographing Melany until later, I’m not sure.. I apologize, but you’ll have to wait a few photos for her.)

Mika and her little brother.. guys WHY must you be cute in the hardest room to photograph??

…There that’s better. A good shot of cuteness as well as the new living room.

With the house mostly furnished now (All six bedrooms and 6,5 bathrooms, plus the other rooms..

It should end up being more than that because I’m adding to it as I go.

Mika is so good at doing her homework.. despite being a creative sim.

Taylor.. not as much.. despite the fact that he’s a genius. He just takes longer to get it done.

Mika and her little brother, Trace.

Taylor finally does his homework, prompting Trace to do his, too.

Taylor really likes playing chess, I see.. and I’m working on logic again on Kayla, simply because she doesn’t have anything else that needs doing.. we’re not hurting for money, that’s for sure.

Finally! The promised picture of Melany, with her older brother, Taylor. She’s a cutie.. but probably relegated to keeping this house full instead of helping on the next house.. but we will see.

And now, a group of photos from another run at photography.. I picked out some of the best ones for here (and deleted lots of other ones).

A shot of the other house in the neighborhood, an earlier Drifter house. (house 3)

The view from the front door of the house

Taylor chasing after his mom to see what she’s doing.. a neat shot of the doors opening up into the studio.

A shot of the house from street level.. you can also see a bit of the landscaping I’ve added.

More landscaping.. this time out back.

Way to go, Lacee! That’s the last goal other than the young adult heir.. and we’re working on that. Yet again, I’m left with all these empty days while waiting for the heir. .. but then, it’s better than running out of time!

An aerial shot of the back yard now that I’ve added landscaping and a gazebo. Better shot of it from ground level later…

Melany playing chess with Kayla. Jumping in on Kayla’s games seems to be a household favorite thing to do. I don’t mind as it means she can chat while skilling!

The boys watching TV..

…While Brayan leaves his favorite spot long enough for Mika to get in a couple games of Blicblock.

.. Can you tell I just love this kitchen?

Mika and Melany outside on the new monkey bars. Glad they finally found it!

Taylor finally found one of the many desks in the house.. it’s not his.. but at least it’s a desk! (Point of fact.. it’s Mika’s.)

Melany, on the other hand, finds her own desk. Good job! (I think she’s just trying to win brownie points with me to try to get invited to the next house.. lol)

Brayan FINALLY finds the workout machine I bought just for him.. but he doesn’t play long before …

… he’s back to cleaning house. For a non-neat sim, he sure spends a lot of time cleaning.

What’s that weird outfit mean?… Mika got an A at school!! Way to go, Mika!

Kayla’s sick.. and spotty. So I buy her medicine (that supposedly helps.)

Glitchy photo to remind me that Lacee and Brayan were trying for a nooboo. I decided to try to get her pregnant one more time to hopefully let her stick around longer for while Mika is growing up.

… Because this is happening. Dear Kayla is now an elder, before even Mika is a teenager. (Dum-dum-dum.. yep that means Mika will have some days alone without Kayla before being able to take over the family.)

A nice shot of Trace’s room. The kids rooms, I confess, are just the EA standard rooms with some tweaks. I was running out of ideas, and since I don’t have the Kid’s stuff pack yet, decorating for kids and teens is terribly boring!

Taylor playing dolls with his little sister, Melany.

And yep.. that’s a baby bump! Nooboo sighting confirmed. *wink*

.. Justice visiting again. He was apparently embarrassed, so he was in Trace’s bed hiding.

Kayla’s cooking.. again. These days she always seems to be cooking..

…see?

Why did I take a picture of Lacee and Brayan on the front doorstep?

.. Because Lacee just got a raise! Way to go Lacee!

And Mika’s now a teen! Isn’t she gorgeous? She reminds me very much of her mom.. but has a different chin (I think)

..See? .. Maybe I’m just hoping she’s not a complete clone like I think she is. Oh yeah.. and Kayla is sick.. AGAIN. She just can’t seem to get over this cold. (Although if I had spots like that I certainly wouldn’t be just calling it a “cold” like the game does.. lol)

And Taylor’s turn…

… I see.. you’re the dark, brooding, handsome type. Definitely genetic potential there, though!

.. The promised Gazebo picture..

..Times two.

Now, before we wrap up this post.. some pictures of the upstairs photo studio.

I like the way it turned out. Checking on our house value shows it up around the 200k mark.. which I’m not entirely surprised at because it is, in effect, two full houses plus the studio. I’m just glad money was coming in fast enough to get it done. In fact, my concerns about money are so trivial I would probably have had enough to furnish the three story idea this house originally was.. which I find funny.

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Checking up on goals:

House 005 Building Goals:
100,000 value home (3 bedroom, 2 bath min)
(Value Complete, need more bedrooms)
House 005 Generational Goals:
One sim to Level 10 Master of the Real painter career
One sim to Level 10 Patron of the Arts painter career
(level 7 currently for both)
One sim to level 5 Photography (Level 2 currently)
Photography Treasure Hunt (Complete)
Young adult heir

Not much more done than last time.. still trying to wait for heir to be born until level 8 of careers.

Finally.. some furnishings in Kayla’s side of the house.. here’s the kitchen.

It still looks pretty bare at the moment, though.

Lacee working on Charisma while Brayan is sound asleep.

And… drumroll please…

Heir incoming! Yes, that means both girls finally made it to level 8 in their careers. There is light at the end of this tunnel!

… And why all the confetti…?

Lacee is expecting, as well!

.. Must be hard to paint with that big ol’ tummy, though.

Pregnancy break-fast time.. they both are feeling a little sick this morning.

… And a quick pick-me-up before work for Lacee. Now that both have both of the traits I was going for (Carefree and Entrepreneurial) I can spend the points on potions to make things easier.

Painting for career daily task… again, working around the baby bump.

Justice decides to help Kayla with her logic skilling.

.. And later, Brayan takes a turn at the chess table.

The newest drifter, a baby girl – Mika (named by my daughter because the random names were just not good enough.) I was hoping for more of Justice in the baby, but no luck.. another blue baby! No word yet on whether she’s a true alien or not yet.

And this.. is where my heart skipped a beat. I was just checking to see why the boys were suddenly tense while the girls were both at work. I suddenly am grateful I added the sprinklers, and start hoping they work…. soon. (The plumbbob still in the photo just shows how rattled I was.. I didn’t even think to remove it until the next photo)

Shown here.  It seemed like forever until the sprinklers finally started working.. putting out Brayan and the fire quite handily.

Why does he look like a werewolf from sims 3 now? LoL

The mess leftover. I fix it pretty fast after the girls get home.

Justice taking care of the baby while the girls are still gone. He actually even got her to stop crying!

The two couples congregating in the only functioning living room so far.

Finally! I caught it on photo.. Justice has apparently made keeping the garden watered his personal mission.. I haven’t had to water it once since the first or second time I roped him into helping with group… he now does it on his own. I thought it might have been him watering it, but I never caught him at it until this photo.

Baby Taylor is born to the Sherwoods. What a cutie. He will definitely make an appearance in the next house.

(Note from the future here. With the new rules, moving in past household members is no longer okay. I waived that rule for this household, because I had so many plans already made.. and the fact that I officially started this save with the old rule-set. Also, at this point, I didn’t know it was banned… so there.)

More babies on the way! Both moms are pregnant again… Lacee again then Kayla .

Mika is so cute! Too bad there doesn’t seem to be any of her father in her.. guess I’m stuck with another generation of blue sims! (And by the way, she’s not a “true” alien – no option for disguises.)

Getting so close.. that’s level 9 for Kayla!

The new dining room on Kayla’s side of the house.

Mika playing dolls in her new bedroom.

Taylor all grown up.. and the picture is incredibly dark even though he’s quite literally standing next to a lamp?

How have I never noticed how cute the “play with dolls” interaction is? There’s even a little horsey that they bring out for the little corral on the side of the dollhouse.

Breakfast time before school…

Both of them playing after school with the nanny chatting with them. The moms were busy, as usual.. so I hired a nanny to come keep the kids company.

Ohh… no, not Justice. He didn’t make it to see his second baby born.

I did think it was funny, though, that I got these three messages in quick succession:

Not sure why I thought it was funny, but I did. Babies and death at the same time.

It was during Death’s visit that I got curious what he looks at on his tablet while reaping. .. if you’ve ever been curious:

A sims 3 gravestone..

…sims 3 mummy..

.. himself…

and.. I THINK that’s a sims 3 ghost, but I’m not 100% sure.

Those pages appear to be in Simlish and repeating themselves over and over for as long as he’s reaping. And yes, my Grimm is still apparently fat. My daughter and I had to laugh at that.. isn’t he supposed to be a skeleton under those robes? Apparently not in my game!

Taylor doing his homework.

And Mika doing hers.

This is as good a place to stop as any.. so we’ll see you in a few at the next chapter with a nooboo or two!

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