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.

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.

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).

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.

Peace and happiness?

Skip junior’s twins seemed to get on well together.

And for that matter so did Penny and her little sister.

Penny even read to Dawn while she was asleep.

All these interactions are without any direction from me.

Belle’s twins also seemed to get on.  They randomly hugged each other.

Nanny problems continued.  Both twins were over-tired but the nanny didn’t put them to bed.  Nannies are a complete pain in the arse.

The twins grew up finally.

Brandon and Seal

But then they had a big fight in the bathroom…

Dunno what brought that on.

Nothing to tell with regard to the parents.  No-one’s had a promotion or affair or anything.

The delights of parenthood

Belle’s twins were often tired and hungry.

The nanny, as usual, was absolutely useless.  While toddlers are sitting hungry in dirty nappies, the nanny decides to have a bath. 

Ocean wants six kids.  So Belle is finally pregnant again just as the twins are about to start school.

Over at Skip junior’s, his eldest daughter, Penny was not doing her homework.   I couldn’t find her damned homework so got her to study cleaning or something instead.  But then all three kids got taken away.  I hadn’t saved, so tried again.  Just before Penny was taken away I spotted where she put her homework.  There were only two books and I got all three kids to share the homework and she did extra study with cleaning or cooking.   But Penny still ended up with a D.  However, it was enough to get her to teenhood.  She made it and the other two were ok with B+ and A.  I forgot to take a pic of Penny as a teen.

More Greenwoods

Belle gave birth finally.  She’d hoped to have a girl and call her Angel after her mother, Angela.  But no…

A boy

But wait – another baby was on the way – twins!

Another boy

And she hadn’t eaten any cheesecake.  No need – there were twins on both sides of the family.  So what to name them?

Belle chose Brandon as the nearest to her grandmother’s name, Brandi.  Ocean continued the Greenwood tradition of naming after something from nature and chose Seal (which lives in the ocean, naturally).  Belle wasn’t too impressed.

Skip’s twins grow

Skip and his wife chatted at the dinner table while the kids slept.  Perhaps they talked about what to do with the small inheritance.

Check out that (un)Pleasant nose!

Storm Broke was the first twin to grow up.

Then it was Dawn’s turn, and older sister, Penny, watched.

No obvious sign of inheriting the nose.