Growing up

Tad Broke had been milking the cow plant so was younger than he should have been.  So I forced his birthday upon him and he ended up looking like an ok teen.

Baby brother, Rocky, was a bit neglected.

At Buck’s, his daughter, Roxie, grew to a toddler.

Roxie’s mother, Danielle, wants to live in a house like the Landgraab residence (currently empty in Bluewater) but they can’t afford it.  Danielle’s waiting for Buck’s mother to die so they can inherit and move out.

Glitch ‘n’ weddings

Another freaky glitch at Belle’s place, first of all.

Young Sky was going potty in his mother.

Meanwhile, the elder twins were getting engaged at university.

Brandon got engaged to a student called Donna.

Seal got engaged to Shayla Todd (the precocious daughter of Banshee Todd nee Pleasant).

Younger brother, Dusky, grew into a teen.

And so to the weddings.

Brandon and Donna’s.

Donna looks like she’s getting married in a school uniform.  (They hadn’t been clothes shopping yet – oops.)

Belle and Seal look on.  Then it’s party time in the small, oddly decorated, house.

Seal and Shayla had their wedding in winter and it was a small private affair.

Ocean doesn’t look too impressed with Seal’s choice of bride.

Stone and Buck

Over at Stone’s, Megan gave birth to another boy, Rocky.

Somewhere along the way, Stone must’ve studied parenting because he can check on the baby and find out what it wants.  (I don’t remember making him do that!)

Tad, meanwhile had been milking the cow plant and hasn’t aged a day.  I will have to force him to age into a teenager in another 3 Sim days.  Rocky has already become a (rather ugly) toddler.

You can’t see it properly here but his upturned nose makes him look as if he’s all nostrils.  Tad isn’t great looking either.  His nose is too close to his mouth.  Not sure why as the parents’ genetics are ok.  Will they try again to get a better-looking kid?  Will they kill off Rocky if he looks too horrendous as a boy/teen?  The cow plant in the front yard is a convenient means of murder…  Stay tuned.

At Buck’s, his wife, Danielle, was only tolerating the house shared with Buck’s mother.  She wanted something bigger and flashier.

Stone and Buck’s mother, Brittany, is now 71 and is a college dean.

Danielle gave birth to a girl, Roxie.

Skip and Belle

Skip, seen here painting a portrait of his daughter, Penny.

He hasn’t been promoted beyond architectural partner.  He seems to have difficulty finding and/or keeping friends.  His new son-in-law had no friends either (completely useless).

Penny and Bill got married at the front of the house.

Penny, still unemployed, was rather lonely when everyone was out at work, so she invited her siblings over.

They looked pretty bored.  Dawn had been making friends at university.

I think this guy is Vanni Pleasant but I can’t remember.

I think Dawn’s cousin, Seal Greenwood, is in the same dorm.

His mother, Belle, gave birth to her sixth child, Sky.

Sky grew up pretty quickly.

Now Ocean has to see his six kids married off to achieve his LTW.  Luckily he’s still young.

Brokes and Greenwoods

Penny Broke is another who left university.  She got friendly with a guy called Bill Vu.  She fell in love (even though he’s an ugly townie) and invited him to move in with her into her parents’ house.  (The twins were now at university themselves.)

Bill, unemployed, knew a good wicket when he saw one.  He took the opportunity to propose.

Penny accepted.  They’re not yet married and Bill got a job in the army.  Skip and Moonrise aren’t so enthused about the engagement.

Over at Belle’s, the twin boys went off to university as well.  Ocean is getting rather tired and hasn’t been able to work to get a promotion.

The nanny got herself stuck on the shelf above the stairs.

I don’t know how she got there.  Fed up with her moaning I put her in the ceiling where she eventually died.  Kaching!  Money for the headstone.

The Huntingdons

Nothing much happening at the big house.  Parker got promoted to partner in the architectural firm.

Here’s a family picture.

Melisande grew to a teenager.

[The graphics are a bit blocky because I turned the settings right down which is perhaps why the graphics card has been behaving itself lately.]

Buck Broke

Buck quit university and moved into an apartment block with Zeezee Tod (Banshee Pleasant’s son).  Neither of them had met anyone interesting at university (those townie Sims are so ugly!).  However, Buck decided to try for a blind date.  Buck struck lucky.  An attractive Sim with black hair fell from the sky and he fell in love with her.  Unfortunately I can’t remember her name except that her surname was Seavey.  She moved in with Buck and Zeezee.  Buck really had struck lucky.  She was a professional party guest and brought 70,000 simoleans with her.

Buck proposed.

They got married at the local park.

Meanwhile, Buck’s mother, Brittany had been promoted first to high school principal and then to senior professor.  She decided to move out of the poky little house she’d lived in with Chip and the boys, and moved into Dustin and Angela’s old house.  Dustin’s headstone was still there so that got moved to the crematorium in Bluewater.

Brittany invited Buck and his new wife to move in.  They did so, and with Buck’s wife’s money they expanded the house to fit three adults and a child.  A baby was on the way…

Over at Stone’s Tad grew to school age.

Megan got pregnant again and gave birth to another boy, Rocky.

Long time no update

Sorry about that. I’ve had trouble with the computer.  There’s not much to update because I haven’t been playing Pleasantview lately and just as I was getting into it the graphics card played up.

Anyway, over at Parker’s place, his daughter Melisande fancied herself as a ballerina.

Louis is still a toddler.

At Belle and Ocean’s place, Dusky grew to school age,

and his twin sisters grew to toddlers.

Daisy above and Rosie below.

Brandon, unfortunately, has the Pleasant nose.

At Stone’s, his son is called Tad and grew to a toddler.

Lastly, over at Nancy’s son, Joe’s.  Joe and his wife had a toddler daughter (whose name escapes me for the moment) and she appeared frozen at the back of the apartment.  Then she disappeared.  Joe’s wife reluctantly got pregnant again, thinking their daughter was lost forever.  They decided to move into a house.   Lo and behold, the toddler girl appears at the new house!  She grew into school age.

That’s Joe’s pregnant wife in the background (whose name also escapes me) and Joe’s half-brother, Cedar, is visiting.  The teenage boy is Banshee Todd’s kid (the Pleasant family).

Belle’s brood

Belle and Ocean now have 5 kids.  After the twins a boy, Dusky, was born, seen here as a toddler with Belle.

There was a bit of a glitch with feeding him in the high chair when the nanny couldn’t decide whether to leave him in the high chair or take him out.  The computer didn’t know what the hell she was doing either so here we have one toddler sitting in the floor.

Nannies are so feckin’ moronic.  (Luckily babysitters in Sims 3 have some brains.)

Brandon had a nightmare.

The twins grew up as well as Dusky.

Belle then had another set of twins – girls this time.  Their names were Daisy and Rosie.

This rare moment of peace when everyone was sleeping was taken before Dusky grew up.  The girls are in their parents’ room.

I think Belle is pregnant again to satisfy Ocean’s wish of having 6 kids (who are then supposed to marry to fulfill his dream).

Stone Broke

Stone and Megan moved to their new house.

Note the cow plant.  Megan had it in her inventory – it used to belong to her father’s wife.

Megan got pregnant and had a baby (seen here having its birthday).  Apologies but it’s been so long since I played them that I can’t remember the name. I think it’s a boy.

Worryingly, a couple of visitors to the house had tried to take the cow plant’s tempting offer of a piece of cake but luckily the cow plant teased them and didn’t let them take it.

Unfortunately that wasn’t the case for the nanny.

A nanny killed at last – yay!