Brief update (as always)

Parker is now school age.

Nothing much happening with Dustin or Chip.  Chip’s half-sister, Jeanette is raising puppies.  Two were born.

Here they are with their father.  They’ve now grown to adult and look like their mother – a wire-haired terrier.

Jeanette’s sister, Nancy, is living alone in the old Broke house.  There may be romance on the horizon.

Beau’s family

Veronica gave birth to a boy – Parker.

He grew into a toddler.

Puppies but no babies?

 

I hadn’t played the Brokes for a while because Angela, married to Dustin, was older than her sister, Lilith.  I got Lilith to the same age so started playing again.  Angela got promoted to Counter Intelligence.  The kids grew up on the same day.  Skip junior became a teen.

Belle grew to school age.

I didn’t play Beau because he was the same age as Dustin and should be younger.  Over at Chip’s, Jeanette’s puppies grew to dogdom.

Spodge is a big male (above) and Spinky is a small female terrier.

Chip got them to try for puppies.  Spinky is now pregnant.  Chip doesn’t have a girlfriend and Jeanette doesn’t have a boyfriend or even knows any males but she wants her first kiss.  Sister, Nancy, is alone at the family home.  She doesn’t have any male friends either.  They may all die without offspring.

Brandi dies

 

Brandi died, age 76.  Her live-in toyboy, Clay didn’t survive much longer.  As he mourned for Brandi, and went crazy, he forgot about some food in the oven.

After his ‘treatment’ he was so tired he went to bed.  When he woke up again, the kitchen was no more:

Clay subsequently starved to death.  Just as he collapsed a pop-up said he had the day off.  What a relief.

Nancy dropped out of university and headed back home.  Clay had swept up the ashes as he starved, so Nancy just had to replace everything in the kitchen.

Her half-brother, Johnny Random, headed back home to his mother, Charlotte (nothing eventful had happened to her so no update there).

No update as yet on Nancy’s other brothers and sister.

Brief update

Nothing much happening with Brandi who’s smitten with her toyboy.  Jeanette is still living with Chip and adopted two puppies – Spinky and Spodge. 

At Beau’s place, Veronica is pregnant.

At Dustin’s, Angela gave birth to a girl and called her Belle.

I can’t recall if I’d already mentioned her but she’s now a toddler.

She looks quite different to my usual toddlers.  The update on Angela’s sister, Lilith, is over at the Pleasantview Sims link.

Puppies

Jeanette returned home from uni.  She has small eyes so now wears glasses.  I don’t have a pic.  She didn’t really like being back home because her mother had gone absolutely nuts and invited her black boyfriend home to live (the same guy she got caught flirting with by Willy).

He’s like less than half her age and he’s already nicked one of her possessions.  Jeanette couldn’t stand him so she moved out but first she adopted a puppy.

Her LTW is to raise 20 puppies and I figured later that this probably meant breeding them instead of adopting them.  Oh well.  Jeanette moved in with Chip which has more room to raise dogs.  I wonder what Chip will think.

Another wedding

 

Nothing happening in the now quiet house of Brandi and her remaining daughter.

Dustin and Angela had another child – a girl they named Belle.

 

Beau invited Veronica Huntingdon around to get closer.

A bit of close dancing…

The time was right to propose.

Veronica accepted!  Seems she didn’t mind being associated with the Broke family.  Beau is a scientist though.

She refused, of course, to live in Beau’s hovel and she didn’t want to move back home from uni.  So mummy and daddy bought a house for them as a wedding gift.

They moved in and had the wedding in the back yard.  (Chip was now alone in Beau’s hovel.)

Veronica was impatient for the guests to be seated.

Brandi recognises her youngest son, Chip while Dustin waits to talk to her.

Pictured guests are Giles Huntingdon, Angela Broke, Dirk Dreamer, Cornelius Huntingdon and Agatha Huntingdon.  Everyone appears to be thinking of Chip.

Rings exchanged, looked on by Beau’s brothers.

Veronica did not want to be Mrs Broke.  So Beau became Beau Huntingdon.

Veronica’s parents applaud.

A bit o’ cake to celebrate.

Tragedy

 

It was still chaos at Brandi’s place with just the three teens complaining all the time.  They couldn’t seem to do anything for themselves.  I had to direct them to go to the toilet, eat, etc.  The main problem was the cockroaches outside.  They all wanted to go outside and stomp on them.  The rubbish bin was knocked over and rubbish spilled everywhere.  The maid cleaned it up every day but…  I was looking at it just after the maid cleaned it up and Joelene came out and kicked it over.  That was the last straw.  I was sick of her – the worst complainer and horrible to everyone.  I put her in the sleepout, locked the door and deposited a fridge and a barbecue and told her to grill some hotdogs or something.  (Evil laugh here.)

It took a while.  She collapsed and looked like she might be consumed.

But she woke up and danced around a bit more.  Finally she died and the Grim Reaper took her away.  I unlocked the door where Brandi and Noelene were sobbing.  Noelene walked in – there was still a small fire in front of the fridge.  For some unimaginable reason she walked through the fire to the fridge and caught fire herself.  I watched in shock of her stupidity.  I tried to direct her to run away but she died quickly.  Unbelievable.  So I unintentionally killed Noelene off as well.  From four daughters to two in one night.  That left the uglier Nancy (Noelene was better looking) and Jeanette still at university.

Dustin registered the deaths in his memory but he didn’t really know them.  He danced with Skip junior.

Skip junior grew into a child.

Over at Beau’s and Chip’s, Chip flirted with Beau’s potential girlfriend, Veronica.

I can’t imagine why he thinks he has a chance…

The Brokes breaking up

 

First a few family pics.

Joelene complains, as usual, while her sister, Jeanette, plays with Brandi.

The teens at the dinner table.  Jeanette went off to university shortly after, leaving three girls and Chip.

Nancy’s like her sister, Joelene – always complaining – they even look alike.  Noelene is more like Jeanette and wants to do homework.

Maybe she’ll be a ballerina.  A drama major at uni?

Anyway, like the older twins, Noelene and Nancy didn’t get on.

Shortly after that they grew into teens.

Nancy above and Noelene below:

Joelene and Chip did their homework.

Chip grew into an adult at last.

He moved out and moved in with his brother, Beau.  Now that just left three girls.

Beau, meanwhile, is getting friendlier with Veronica Huntingdon.

Dustin’s son, Skip Jnr, is now a toddler.

Willy was about to become an elder, so he decided on one last fling with Charlotte Random.  They went on a date to the Love Maze (whatever it’s called) and woohooed in the photo booth.

Now he’d had his fling he could devote his elderhood to Brandi.  That was the plan anyway.

Willy with Charlotte’s rose.  Does the future look bleak?  The house will soon be empty of noisy kids.  Willy had built a second story on his painting shed and bought a desk and computer.  Only he had access to both rooms. Perhaps he’d write his memoirs? 

But Brandi put paid to his plans.  He rounded the corner of the house after doing some painting and found Brandi flirting with a passing neighbour.  A fair bit of slapping went on.  But even so, Willy was prepared to forgive her and carry on.  But somehow their relationship just went downhill.

They broke up and Willy moved out (taking his computer and easel with him and demolishing the shed).  Chip now hated him and I think the girls were not too pleased.  They were at school at the time so they came home to a house with just Brandi, sobbing.  Willy moved in with Tyler.  Brandi is alone again with three kids.

Joelene Broke

 

Well, she’s the only one I have pictures of, for some reason.

I didn’t think her father was ugly, but I can’t get over how unattractive she is.

Here she is amusing herself while school “friends” Apple Pai and Theophile Charvat talk and play together.

Even when Apple leaves and Theophile wants to talk or play, she ignores him.  Not the most sociable of creatures.

Anyway, it was time for the older twins to grow into teens.  Thankfully, Joelene lost some of her ugliness.

The toddler twins had already grown into school-age kids.  On the left is Nancy with Brandi. In the foreground is Noelene.  Or is it the other way around?  Jeanette is in front of (blocked by) Willy and is about to grow into a teen.  Joelene is the one in orange, with Chip standing behind her.  Chip can’t get into uni or get a job because he’s failing and concentrates on the girls’ homework instead so they’re not all taken away (Joelene never did her homework.) I think I’ll make Joelene do the younger twins’ homework.