La Familia Hernandez

See my multi-lingual abilities? Before I get into today's update, I got to show a better picture of Damien. I didn't realize the one I had put up of him and Breanna was so small.

Quick picture update for Kendra Wilson's household. Finally got a picture of Tyrell as a baby. Of course he's adorable...there's no way to go wrong until you look at him as a toddler and wonder what happened to his eyes. Tanya grew to a toddler with blonde hair and black eyebrows...why? Apparently some glitch that should be taken care of by the newest patch from sims2.com. I don't know how it affects current sims though.

Recently, I've been playing the Hernandez family (House #4 on the list). Miguela grew into a teen on the first night in. First thing she did was call Tyrone over.

He checked her out, she checked him out...

And at the rate things are going, they'll probably be married as soon as legally old enough. Here's a close up of Miguela's current look:

Miguel became a child, right after Jose, yup baby Jose was finally born. in the middle of his party. Talk about a crasher but Miguel took it all in strides and was happy when he got cake.

Pedro was working on becoming a professional party guest but he has a long way to go and he hasn't seen Kimberly in awhile.

Roberto and Felicia have been working on setting up a business. (More like it was a reminder for me as to how to works). At first, they sold water wigglers, clothes and grocery...talk about variety. It sold pretty well, so I decided to see what else they could sell. I had Felica work on her flower making skills...she's up to a wild flower bouquet and they are selling like hotcakes. Roberto was making kites and fire trucks. They went okay but no one gaga over them like the flowers. So now it will be a corner store that sells primarily flowers. They've hired one employee named Nolan...something or other. And guess what? According to his sizzling hearts flying above his head, he finds Angela Umgabi quite attractive and he really doesn't like Kendra Wilson...everyone likes Kendra, in every sense of the word but not him...I wonder if he's a family sim?

He's Finally Gone!

Okey, so I cheated to get that result but I made sure the inheritance was passed down. I'm not sorry to say that the great annoyance of Garrett Cho has passed (YES!) Do I seem a tad bit elated because of this news? I figured that he had been working in the cafeteria of Truth U. He must have been there for awhile, and then he moved in with Kendra, so he had to be ancient. Why was he still around? So I aged him as high as I could, which turned out to be 108 days and the grim reaper came and took him.

Of course, Kendra was a bit sad but improved her mood by the next night with a date. Tyrone was devestated, especially seeing another old guy moving in; Jay the gym coach from Truth U.

He came with a good amount of money as well. But he died not too long afterwards as well...Tyrone could care less but he soon found out that Kendra was pregant again. What is with this woman? How is this romance sim so fertile? Tyrone because a decent looking teen with his mother's eyes and father's lips (unfortunetly) and became a fortune sim.

He's kinda broody and spends a lot of time by himself. He talks to his bestfriends on the phone, Derek and Miguela but not anyone else. The rest of his free time is taking up by paining or taking care of his siblings, Tyrell and Tanya. Yeah, Kendra had twins and for some reason, I only have a picture of Tanya.

I could have sworn I had a picture of Tyrell but it went missing. I hope they get some decent features because Jay's face was kinda harsh.

Finally got a handle on house #2 and #3

After the small at home ceremony of the last wedding and the bust of my last wedding, I finally managed to do one right! WooHoo! But alas, let me go in order of what happened first before I delve into the wedding.

I finished playing the Schlel House (Ven, Sandy and Andrea), everything was going quite nicely. Andrea grew up to a child and to look just like her dad. Made an icon of her too. I think I'm gonna end up making icons of everyone at this rate, house by house.

Ain't she cute? She's a very bright child. She managed to get 7 Logic points before she became a child. She never seemed to want to play with any other toy. Sandy's also pregnant again but I won't see if it's a boy or a girl until the next time I play the house again....there are 13 houses that I have to go through before I even see them again, unless someone, namely Sandy, decides to make those random "visits" like she actually lives in the house. Ven is doing pretty good at his job as well and from his last bonus and raise, we built a little off shoot of the house with a hottub and glass walls. It's also where Sandy goes to meditate while she's pregnant. And onto the other house...

Yup. they got hitched and this wedding went beautifully. And a few pics of the event:

I however did make one mistake. I thought I had sent Breanna to make salmon for dinner for all the guests. When she finished, I just saw fish on a plate, I didn't look for details and I just dumped it in her inventory to be served after the wedding. So during the reception, she pulls it out and begins to serve and this is what I see:

So for dinner, everyone had fish and chips instead of salmon. Ah well! No one complained and no one went home hungry.

The wedding party was a complete success and they got a rating of:

Quite happy about that. And after the wedding, they both ran off to the limo, Breanna got in, Damien seemed to disappear to go use the washroom after all that toasting...and while Breanna was waiting in the limo, he decided to have a nice long bubble bath and the limo went without him. Well Breanna had a lovely time by herself doing...whatever and Damien slept in his nice comefy bed

Now onto the rest of their personal lives. Maybe I was influenced by JadeEliott's last entry on her blog regarding The Island of Thyme, who knows (you know I completely ran with the idea as soon as I saw it)? Anywho, Truth does need a bit of crime and considering both Damien and his sister Teneesha both got the LTW to become Crimminal Masterminds, then what better family to do it with? Damien is starting out small first, because honestly, he needs the capital to be "convincing" and I didn't want to use money cheats for him. But I can use Random Occurance Scenarios (from Island of Thyme as well) so that anyone who needs to pay off a loan with some serious instrest, goes through him. Currently, Damien is in the Business Track as CEO and Breanna is Vice-President. He will be quitting soon and going into Crime full time while his wife Breanna (LTW: $100,000) will keep the front of the legitimate business alive. Teneesha will start working on the family business when she gets to Truth U. This will be fun =)

Next house on the list...Kendra, Terrance, and the one who won't die, Garrett Cho. Next entry. Good-night

That was a bust

It was horrible! I thought I was doing everything right but apparently I really have to rethink the method of community weddings.

I downloaded this nice looking communty lot that was a church (because I wanted quite a few more than 2 people to be there). It had mirror to change apperance, a locker to change clothes, a home phone to invite guests and most importantly, there was a wedding arch to get married. Well, the problem started at home.

I was going to get Keely and Davnus married on the Friday but Davnus got a promotion that would have him working from 10 AM-5 PM on Saturdays, hardly enough time to throw a decent daytime wedding (I should have done it in their backyard). So right after they took those lovely family pics, I decided that they could load up the twins in the car and get married at the church. I don't know why it didn't occur to me that the twin toddlers couldn't go to a community lot. Boo! I thought they should be able to be there for their parents' wedding.

I reach to the community lot, it's looking nice. I send Keely over to the mirror to get her hair and make-up done (downloaded a lovely hair do from Raonjena Sims). I then send her over to the locker to pick out her formal dress from vuittonboi1989 at Mod The Sims 2 The Sims 2, the black and white one...it's not working. The game will not let me click on the locker on a community lot...not happy. So I wonder to myself, whether or not I had selected it as the formal I wanted, so maybe I would get lucky and she would wear it once she reached under the wedding arch...nope, ugly green Maxis dress with flats...can I tell you I hate formal wear with flats?

I had Keely invite her family and Trisha Hamilton over...Keely doesn't really know Trisha so that didn't work. That wasn't too bad but Keely only managed to get 1 family member to come to her wedding; 1 family member, Dru. and Sandy Andrews who's always walking by (who apparently decided she wanted to play the piano for the wedding). Quite interest to see considering she looked like she was going to pop any minute. For Davnus, everything was fine. I was lucky he didn't default to the powder blue tux.

The twins grew up into kids but I didn't take any pictures of them. Blaise is still quite cute...Blake is still...there but this time Davnus was able to make it to their little schindig. Have a cute little family pic, not much detail and they're just eating dinner.

I had to move onto the next household, Venkat and Sandy's Home. Venkat and Sandy decided not to mess with the whole community wedding and just did a quick and quiet ceremony at home. Venkat got a job in the Art field and is raking in the dough. So much so, that Sandy feels comfortable being a stay-at-home mom. Considering they want at least 6 kids, someone better than the nanny is going to have to raise those kids. Ven makes over $2,000 per day of work, and also just got a bonus for $50,000 and both Ven and Sandy are quite thrifty, so in less than a week, their net worth is already over $100,000. Quite good, I say.

They had a baby girl and named her Andrea:

Cute kid, features seem to be decent and not much of a cryer. Andrea is the first kid that I've raised to a toddler without the parent being completely stressed out and with only one parent taking care of them. It's still only Thursday Nite for this household so let's see how things go by Monday Morning.

I took another shot of Truth from a different angle. I love it so much:

Davnus and Keely with their little brood

The Seavey-Hamilton family have just posed for their first family pictures. You already know Keely-Ann and Davnus (who still haven't tied the knot but will be doing that this weekend at the new Truth Community Chapel) and their twins Blake and Blaise, who have become toddlers. Those 2 are the most precious kids ever (yeah, I say that with just about every set of kids that get born in my game.). I even aged Blaise up from a toddler just to see what she would look like.

She turns out quite gorgeous and I can't wait. Blake on the other hand, looks very generic so I didn't take any pics of him as an adult. Blake and Blaise learned almost all their skills within 24 hours (they apparently take after their mother in that regard). And I still don't know why Blaise even got red hair from. Both of her parents were born with black hair and since I created Davnus in BodyShop, there's no way for him to have any other hair colour. Both of Keely's parents had black hair, unless Brian was lying from before I even saw him at Truth U. But I kinda like Blaise's hair colour so she gets to keep it.

Stevie is slowly coming around to Keely again, it could be because of her newest and only grandchildren, but Keely is taking it wherever she can. Keely even got her parents to show up for a small birthday party for the kids. Grandpa Brian even came and helped Blake blow out his candles. Davnus was at work at the time but came home as soon as he could so he could spend quality time with the birthday kids.

Sandy Andrews is becoming one of those people who let's themselves into your house without your knowledge and start to take care of the kids...I'm really going to have to find out what's going on with my game because that's 3 sims that do that now and it's kinda getting annoying. But that's it for my update. Next time, Davnus and Keely's wedding.

Wow, Truth U seems kinda empty

They've graduated! All my girls from Kenisa Sor. have graduated and have already moved back to Truth. Once Felicia, Angelica and Em were certain that there would be someone to continue Kenisa on campus, they kissed their Kenisa Sor. Sisters good-bye and hoped a cab to go find a new place to live in Truth. Trisha was prepared to graduate but stayed a bit longer, not rushing, in order to induct Theresa Taylor (a uni townie) into Kenisa Sor.

Once Theresa joined at moved in at the behest of Trisha, Trisha and Dru worked hard to finish up their studies. After their final exams, the spent a couple more days on campus, seeing to the end of things. Theresa got engaged to Dalhousie. That was her big, grad surprise. Dru spent a lot of time on the phone, fielding calls of her sister Keely and mother Stevie. Stevie was not happy about Keely's situation (the baby on the way before the ring on the finger) and didn't want to talk to her. Dru was starting to become sick of being the family answering machine but tried her best to keep the family peace.

On a more personal note for Dru, on her last date with Jace (which was a smashing success), she asked Jace if he wanted to move in with her after grad. He smiled but didn't really question as to where they were going to live. Maybe he should have. He was quite surprised when the taxi cab pulled up to her old house and all their stuff was being unloaded. Dru declared that she wasn't actually leaving home and that this was where they were going to live. Jace asked if there was another house on the property, like a pool house or something. Dru shook her head and said he'd being staying in Keely's old room, which became the guest room. Jace's eyebrow nearly got lost in his hairline.

"I'm sleeping in your sister's old room?" he questioned. "Not with you?"
"Well I only have a single bed and there's a double bed in the guest room. Keely had her stuff shipped over to her and Davnus' place," said Dru. Jace wanting to make sure what he assumed would be correct, continued to ask more questions.
"So you'll be sleeping..." began Jace.
"In my old room, silly," said Dru with a grin as she ran up to her old room. Jace stood in the foyer looking at the house that hadn't changed since he and Dru left for Truth U. He froze as he saw her father, Brian Seavey, come out of the kitchen, with a non too happy look on his face.
"Dru didn't tell me you were coming back with her," said Brian. Jace winced.
"I didn't know that Mr. Seavey," said Jace, silently cursing Dru vehemently in his head.

Jace got on the phone as soon as he could, trying to call Damien. Jace complained after he explained. Damien listened and only said "uhh-hunhh" since Jace wasn't really giving him the chance to say much more. When Jace finally took a breath, Damien tried to knock some sense into him.

"When I left Truth U, you said you were going to propose, right?" asked Damien.
"Yeah," replied Jace.
"You haven't done that yet, have you?"
"No," said Jace sheeplishly (is that even a word?).
"A good way to find favor in the parents of the girlfriend's eyes is to ask for her hand in marriage from the said parents, propose and keep out of her room until after the wedding," said Damien.
"Great idea!" exclaimed Jace with a grin on his face. "I'm gonna go do that now." Damien rolled his eyes, hung up the phone and hoped that any kids Jace and Dru would have would have a lot more common sense then those 2.

Needless to say, Jace proposed, Dru said yes, the parents are off his back for now but he's still not allowed in her room. Not long after the proposal though, the call came in. Keely and Davnus had the babies...yup! Babies apparently twins really run in the family. They had a boy and a girl named Blake and Blaise (respectively). Both Dru and Trisha are the happy aunties and are ready to spoil the twins rotten. Stevie has finally come around but keeps giving hints that Keely and Davnus should get married. Davnus decided to have a heart to heart with Keely's father, Brian, explaining that he did want to marry Keely but she wanted to lose the baby weight first and wait until Jace and Dru had their wedding. Brian was happy with the response and went home, wondering how he was going to tell his wife the good news.

Felicia, Angelica and Em, each bought their own little home in different parts of town. Trisha and Dalhousie scrounged together as much money as they could and bought a shop with a residential part for them to live in. Trisha is thinking of opening a shop to sell art. The house itself has a large backyard (which desperately need to be cleaned up), and a basement for more living.

This neighbourhood will take quite awhile to get through but at least it's no more University for me for quite awhile and as of yet, there are only 3 teens to send anyways but there will be a large baby boom soon and I didn't even realize it. Keely and Davnus just had their twins, Sandy and Ven will be having their baby soon, Felicia Hernandez (just realized that I have 2 Felicia's in my neighbourhood) is about to pop any day now. Plus there are still all the children and teens that need to get ready for University. This should be fun. =)

Nothing happened in Truth today but I wanted to show off

So as mentioned in my title, really nothing happened today because I haven't played yet but I really liked that banner I made yesterday so I decided to make some icons to go along with it (including an animated one).

And the animated:

Kenisa vs. Roschlel

From Left to Right: Felicia Goodman, Angelica Umgabi, Dru Seavey, Moorehouse (Em) Moore, Trisha Hamilon

Finally have some good shots of the girls of Kenisa Sor. (after I built them a photostudio in the basement). And I am also almost finished with University for this generation...do you know how tiresome and repetitive it can be? Anyways, let's go on with what happened to the girls now that Felicia's in charge.

Felicia started to freak out a bit because for awhile, it was only her. As far as she was concerned, she knew nothing about people management but luckily for her, she soon had a visit from Sandy who helped her get on her feet. Sandy gave Felicia tips on how and why pledges are asked to join and told her to make sure she explains the benefits of being a member of Kenisa Sor. (the $10,000 upon grad is a good incentive but try not to mention the pregnancies and photobooth). Felicia decided to invite Angelica Umgabi to join. She was only to happy to do so (hoping this also meant she could find a man by the time of graduation). Felicia decided it would be best to get the sister of a sister of Kenisa Sor. She called Dru Seavey who decided it was time to start looking for a new place to live, considering her sister had fast-tracked her way out of University upon discovering her pregnancy and her boyfriend, Jace had moved out of the dorms to run Roschlel with Dalhousie. Dru loved the sisterhood and especially Felicia when she finally found something decent to do with Dru's hair. Dru hated her cheeks so much but decided she wasn't going to go the way of her twin with plastic surgery. With 3 members in Kenisa Sor., Angelica decided to call her old dorm-mate, Em, to see if she would like to join as well. Em wasted no time and quickly called her brother Dalhousie's girlfriend Trisha. The 2 of them had become as close as sisters (Em was secretly hoping that Trisha was the one for Dalhousie). In no time flat, Trisha joined Kenisa as well bringing the membership up to 5.

Felicia, Angelica and Trisha are almost ready to graduate and Dru and Em are not too far behind, meaning they have to start recruiting new members already, namely one of Sandy's old cheersquad buddies who's name escapes me right now.

Angelica has gotten a record worse than Ven. And I think she's starting to get depressed. She tried Dalhousie from 1st year and we know how well that turned out. She tried with both Davnus and Damien, neither of them actually noticed her. She never saw anyone run as fast as Ven to get away from her. She thought she had finally found someone in on of the newest member of Roschlel, Marcel Vu. He sounded so nice on the phone and oh so friendly. Em even told her he was pretty decent looking, not as fine as Damien, but not disgustingly ugly either. Angelica thought she finally had her chance. They became friends really quickly and then she tried to ask him out on a date. Marcel didn't try to be nice about it and he was quite direct in what he was trying to say. A clear resounding "NO" nearly deafened Angelica. She tried to hold back her tears when she then asked if he wanted to come over and hang out at Kenisa as just friends...this was the answer she got:

Rude no?

Angelica decided she would not give up hope and tried talking to a guy who looked like a Star Wars fanatic who was always walking by...he was just too strange to her. What kind of person walked around talking like Yoda all the time without being small and green?

Em tried to cheer her up as best she could but there was really nothing she could do for her bestfriend. Em already made up her mind that she wanted to be single and fancy free. Maybe one day she'd adopt a kid or something but she wasn't going to put herself through the rejection that Angelica was going through.

At Roschlel Frat., you already heard that the jerk Marcel joined...I don't think that Jace and Dalhousie would have allowed him to pledge. But on a somewhat better note, they got a Secret Society Member, Corey Fancey to join. Roschlel Frat. is set and ready to have Jace and Dal graduate and have the frat left in the capable hands of Corey. Hopefully, Marcel will not be so...cruel.

Graduates, Homes and Babies! Oh My!

A lot of students have graduated (with the help of a hack that allows them to go to their final exam whenever I want them to...saves so much real-life time) but before I go into the details and show pictures of these students (about time someone else got to see them) I have to confess something...

As much as I love Keely-Ann Seavey, her lower jaw was bothering me to no end. I couldn't take it anymore and I caved...I gave her reconstructive surgery. I can't really feel too bad about it because she's not the heir anyways...so here's Keely before and after:

Now on to the other graduates and their problems (none of which can be fixed with surgery). My goodness, these guys love to pair up. Keely and Davnus paired up from quite awhile ago, so that was really no big surprise. Dru went to Truth U with her boyfriend but everyone else at Truth U were still single and they were supposed to be eduation oriented...well let's see how things went, shall we?

Ven and Damien finally got their fraternity started:

It took a lot of hard work, sweat, good grades, the InSiminator (sp?) and Monique's hacked computer from MTS to get it done. Since I really don't like sitting there for hours on end playing 1 sim through University, there was no way I was going to do that for about 5-7 houses of sims at Truth U, so I kinda cheated. They actually had to earn their grade, mind you, but they never ate, slept, went potty etc. All of the sims went through the same rigorous training:

1. get the required skills to get a 4.0
2. write their own term paper
3. research with all free time, breaking only to go to class
4. when grade bar is filled, move the final exam up to the next 2 hours
5. come back home after exams, cheer for your good grade and rinse and repeat

Only the sorority and fraternity house did things a little bit differently. After their grade bar was filled, they were to spend all extra time working from home writing articles with Monique's hacked computer. This also helped raise their skill points while making the necessary cash to keep their sorority and fraternity going, and to give the graduates from Kenisa and Roschlel (yes, that is what I named the fraternity) a $10,000 bonus upon graduation to help them start up. Now onto their actual lives.

As Roschlel was begining, Damien saw Breanna Nott (from Kenisa) walking by (makes sense considering Kenisa is right next door). He liked what he saw and raced down the stairs as fast as his shoes could carry him...she smiled, he smiled, Venkat realized he was the only one doing work and became slightly miffed. Didn't take too long before they started dating. He proposed right before graduation...it was hard to do because all of her friends wanted to get a good look and this....man who was dating the current president of Kenisa. Damien managed to sail through them quite well and got a "yes" to his proposal.

Venkat on the other hand, kept on striking out with every girl he met...he was starting to wonder what was wrong with him. He saw the new and improved Keely. She smiled, he smiled, he tried to flirt, and got informed that her boyfriend, Davnus, was the new pledge...crash and burn Ven, crash and burn. Ven saw another girl who piqued his interest, Angelica Umgabi...until she opened her mouth. Ven pivoted on his heel and quickly ran back into Roschlel. He met Dalhousie's sister, Em/Moorehouse. She didn't even bother to smile. She just sailed right by him, looking for Dalhousie at his new residence of Roschlel. Ven was starting to wonder why no one was paying him anymind, even though his was the co-founder of Truth's first fraternity. While brooding in front of the fireplace, cheerleader Sandy Andrews from Kenisa sat down beside him smirking. He tried to flirt, Sandy told him not to try so hard and let things run it's natural course...apparently natural course with Sandy could move quite fast. She got pregnant in the "magical pregnancy" photobooth at Kenisa on their first date...I'm really gonna have to look into that considering they were not trying for a baby.

Davnus is still on cloud nine since he started dating Keely (who joined Kenisa). The magic photobooth did work on them too. As soon as Keely found out she was pregnant, she raced through Physics major as quickly as possible, not wanting to have the baby on campus....Pregnancies upon graduation while being in the Kenisa Sorority 4/5. Breanna and Damien decided to wait until they got married...especially after hearing the track record of the photobooth.

So that's 3 graduates from Roschlel. Dalhousie and Jace Aja- (you know who I'm talking about and if not, read one of the previous entries about Dru Seavey and her boyfriend Jace) are currently running Roschlel:

Doesn't Dalhousie (on the left) look so happy about this concept. Jace don't look so bad once you change his clothes although I still don't know why he has Maxis eyes...I have defaults plus about 20 eye colors de-customized so anyone could get them.

At Kenisa, you already know that Breanna, Sandy and Keely have graduated (2 of which left pregnant). Left in charge of Kenisa Sorority are Felicia Goodman (who is having some real trouble dealing with the cow mascot), Anglica Umgabi and Em (Moorehouse) Moore. Dru is currently pledging with Trisha Hamilton (Davnus' sister) next in line as a pledge. No good pictures to show as of yet, hopefully next update.

The graduated couples have all bought houses beside each other on Brixham Drive. Just follow the arrow to the box and you'll see which ones...all I need to do is add a lovely white picket fence :D:

So that's everything for the update except for one thing, I absolutely LOVE Keely's new hair, take a look:

And in case anyone's wondering where I got it from Bipsouille Sims. Yes the site is in French but just look under "Coiffures" on the 2nd page.