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.

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.

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).

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!

Brief update on (nearly) everyone

Dustin’s family

Skip Junior’s kids grew up.  Storm first:

He looked fine as a little boy but now it’s obvious he’s inherited his father’s nose.

Dawn was next:

Her nose looks ok – inherited from her mother.  Their mother, Moonrise, meanwhile, had grown into an elder.  Skip jnr’s not there yet.  The eldest, Penny, headed off to uni.

Belle had another baby boy and called it Dusky.  Her husband, Ocean, wants 6 kids.  I realised this too late – could’ve got the cheesecake out.  Next pregnancy I will (and she is).

Beau’s family

Parker’s baby son, Louis, grew to a toddler.

Parker’s mother, Veronica, was met at the front of the house by the Grim Reaper one night after work.

She was 72.  Her partner, Ethan is in his late 60s and forgets to feed himself, preferring to raid the bar instead.  It won’t be long before he carks it.

Chip’s family

Stone Broke and Megan McTavish married privately with his mother looking on (in her pyjamas).

In the background, next door, is the original Broke house, now inhabited by Moonrise’s twin brother, Starlight, and his family.

Megan’s got a bit of a chin thing happening.

Megan, quite frankly, did not like the family home – way too small and plain – so they moved out and into a larger house nearer the sea.  Sorry, forgot to take pics – next update will show the new residence.

Nancy’s family

Finally, Joe Thayer’s wife, Amanda had a baby – a girl they called Anna.  Joe and Amanda lived next door to Joe’s half-brother, Cedar Greenwood.  Cedar and wife just had a second daughter and for some reason, the baby shows up in the apartment next door.  Joe and Amanda keep wanting to pick it up.  I moved the baby so that Joe could and he went to feed it with unfortunate results.

The baby, of course, had disappeared but that didn’t stop Joe acting as if it hadn’t.  He then dutifully threw the bottle away in the rubbish bin.

Weird glitch.

It’s a bit of a pain that you get glitches from the apartment next door like the baby above (which you can’t see of course).  Sims keep showing up even though they’ve moved out.  In one of my apartments with stairs, everyone got stuck on the stairwell and no-one could go up or down.  I solved that one by moving out the Sims who were affected.  Fun.

I only played 2 Sim days of the Brokes.  I’ll try to update after a longer period so something more happens.

Stone returns home

Stone finished at uni (or rather, dropped out) and returned to his widowed mum back home.

He invited round his girlfriend he’d met at uni.

Another generation of Brokes may not be far away.

Brittany is (only just) close to becoming an elder.

Chip dies

The end of the line had come for Chip Broke.

He was a judge and would have been promoted the next day but he died, age 73.

Brittany and Buck mourned for his loss.

Stone was still at university and didn’t really register his father’s death.

So Brandi and Skip Broke’s three sons are no more.

Stone was having a hard time trying to woo a student in the dorm.  They were getting on well and then she had to go and flirt with the annoying cow.  It’s taking forever for Stone to want to flirt with her again.  Grrr.

Buck is about to go to uni, so I had Stone drop out.   He’d only just completed one semester and it was getting boring.

A day in the life of…

I’ve just been playing a day each of the families in Pleasantview to get re-acquainted after a few weeks.  Just in that short time:

Belle Broke and Ocean Greenwood got married.

Only two guests were permitted so they were Ocean’s parents.

The fathers get acquainted - Dustin and Herne

Dustin is now 71. 

I extended this family for day in order to have Belle and Ocean move into their own house.  In that time, Belle became pregnant.  Ocean wants six kids.

Belle and Ocean move in

Beau is 67 and looks close to his end.  Knowing that, he wanted to have an anniversary party.  But again only two guests were allowed (why?) so he invited his brothers.  Only Chip showed up.

Beau’s son, Parker, will be a dad.  Parker’s wife, Soleil, conceived during a thunderstorm.  Parker’s uncle, Cornelius, finally grew to an elder.

Parker, Cornelius and Soleil

 At Chip’s, unbeknownst to him, Brittany went out on a date with her ex-boyfriend, Kevin, who’s still at university.

Dustin’s grandkids grew up – Penny became school-age and the twins grew to toddlers.

Penny

 

Twins

Developments

Things are definitely not great for Dustin.

Apparently Dustin rejected a couple of advances by Angela and ever since she’s been picking on him and fighting.

These fights all happened while I just watched. 

Angela tried to tend her dying vege garden but got zapped by lightning.

She was pretty much in the red zone and didn’t eat either.  I had to get her to eat.  Dustin needed her at least for her friends so he could get promoted.  Otherwise he could have been tempted to break up with Angela.  She wasn’t doing herself any favours.

At Beau’s, Veronica wanted to win a dance contest and her first attempt was a miserable failure.

Beau had gone with her to the music place and had, meanwhile, attempted to tinker with something.

The whole outing would have been a complete failure but Veronica tried again and won a contest.

Her mother has since died, age 69, with her father close to death also.

At Chip’s, little Buck is proving to be a child prodigy.

He is potty-trained and has learned to walk and talk, with still two days before becoming school age.

Finally, at Nancy’s, her son, Joe, went to see his birth father, Forest Greenwood.

They got on well. 

The twins have since gone to uni and are in the same dorm as their half-brother, Forest’s son Cedar.  Joe and Cedar get on well but Mary hates him.