So...after getting to have 1 play session with Bon Voyage, I got Free Time. Hesitated for quite some time before installing it. I waited for the updated versions of my hacks. I had a couple of test neighbourhoods to make sure I knew what I was doing.

I finally went in to Truth to see how things played out. In the Seavey-Hamilton Houshold, a new baby was born, Jayden Hamilton (mostly because the twins Blake and Blaise had their mother's last name), everyone ran around the house in Maxis clothing (instead of copying my clothing mesh folder from my downloads folder, I moved it somewhere else), they had the 1st floor refurnished and built on a new addition just so I had space to put in a single recliner. It is currently Jayden's play area. The only hobby I was able to discover was that Blaise is an Sports hobbyist (big suprise...really...her LTW is to reach the top of the sports career track)

I moved onto the Schlel house...the house was ridiculously cramped and another baby was on the way. There was already an addition on the house and if I built another one, there would be no backyard (like it would really matter considering no one uses it anyways). The family moved into a house that I built from a floor plan (yeah floorplans). They just managed to pay for the house. Ven is still the only one working. Sandy popped out child number 5 (a little boy named Avery who like almost all of the kids, look like Sandy). Andrea has become the doting big sister. She and Andrew still don't get along, but Angela and Anthea adore Andrea. It has been discovered that Anthea is really into her games but the hobby of everyone else is completely up in the air.

While playing the Schlel house, I felt that my sims needed to be able to buy furniture at an actual store. So I left in the middle of game play and built a furniture store, right beside The Clock Tower. It's mostly a chachka furniture store. I had to get another sim to run it. So I decided that Theresa Taylor, a recent graduate of Truth U, would be the one. I went to her house and recieved a nice little surprise. Theresa had to leave to go to work which left Amin Sims (I really don't remember if they're engaged or if he's just a live-in-boyfriend) at home by himself. He has a LTW to become a Rock God...he's currently unemployed and was at home for the neighbours to come over and welcome him into the neighbourhood. Geeves, the robotic butler, apparently was affronted by not being personally invited into the house and went back to the Hernadez Sr. House. Em, Peony and Angelica had a grand ole time in the house. Angelica is apparently an accomplished piano player. Amin and Angelica started jammin in the 'what-was-going-to-become-a-kitchen-but-will-now-be-a-music-room'. Maybe Amin and Angelica will need to find a couple more people and start a band. They are in current need of a drummer and a bassist, possibly a fiddler as well, but that is up for debate. LOL

When Theresa returned home, she immediately went to her new store to set everything for sale, at 10 o'clock at night. Instead of sending Theresa back home, I decided to open the store to see how accessible the furniture would be. First customer, Geeves, the robotic butler from the Hernandez Sr. House. He spent over $6,000 on a mah-jong table, a poker table, possibly a statue but I wasn't watching him the whole time. Just a couple of shots of the shop so far. I didn't have time to really take pictures though.





The business is doing pretty well, the customer's really seem to like it but I think I may raise the prices to get it to be a bit more exclusive like.

That's it for this update. Ciao til next time

Week 2 for the Seavey-Hamiltons and the Schlels

Everyone's growing up! They're getting so big and they families are expanding like crazy. This is just for the 2 households I've played recently.

Davnus Hamilton, with his LTW of earning $100,000, decided to start a home business. There isn't much space on a 2x2 lot with a house and a garage for a home business so he decided to build a pond, set up the electro ticket thingamajigee and then charge people to fish in his lake. Stupid idea you'd think...who'd want to pay to fish? Well apparently the people of Truth love the idea of coming over, paying some money to fish in the front yard or relax in the hot tub in the backyard while handing over all the fish they cash to Davnus who can either sell it or eat it. Nice deal for him...stupid townspeople....not that he's complaining. Also because of this new fishing venture, Blake and Blaise are earning fishing skills which of course will come in handy at some point of their life...if the grocery store ever caught on fire and they could never buy food again.

Blake and Blaise spent a good few days bringing kids home from school to come over and play. Blaise brought over Andrea Schlel on the same day that Blake brought home Miguel Hernandez so those 2 got introduced. On the next day, more kids came over, ones I had never seen before:

Arvin (the last name escapes me right now) & Bruce Fuschs

Blaise may have found another possiblity for her one and only...Arvin or Miguel...who knows? I'll wait until Miguel becomes a teen before I age Arvin up and then check for chemistry. They both seem to have very good genes

Blaise has also become the best of friends with Andrea. They are so cute when they hang out together. Sometimes, they even manage to get Miguel in on the conversation...not necessarily by his choice.

It soon became time for their birthdays and they both grew up well

On the Schlel front, baby Andrew has now become toddler Andrew and mama Sandy and daddy Ven are expecting...again...much to Andrea's suprise. She's still trying to figure out where all these children are supposed to go in a 3 bedroom house.

Sandy gave birth to twins...I really only wanted one kid and two pop out. Meet Anthea and Angela Schlel. I still can't figure out if they are identical or not.

Andrew grew up in no time flat. I was very surprise to find out that Andrea and Andrew don't get along...they're not at the point of fighting all the time but the refusal to hug sends a pretty big message. For Andrew's birthday, Andrea gave him a gift. He looked at the gift in disgust and shrugged his shoulders. When Sandy gave Andrew a girft he was bouncing and clapping before it even reached in his hands.

Andrea has decided that her parents are completely insane after declaring that they want 10 kids. From then on, Andrea decided that she was gonna get out of this house as soon as possible. If her parents were going to have 10 kids, they were going to need the space.

Right before the twins became toddlers, a new room was built over the hot tub. Andrea got the new, much bigger room. Andrew took Andrea's old room and the room that had been sitting there for quite sometime, completly unused was going to be the room for the twins when they became children.

Without the bangs, is Anthea

With the bangs is Angela

Sandy has already found herself pregnant again...much to Andrea's dismay. Andrea grew up into a lovely teen. She cut off a lot of her hair and went for a sleek bob.

Andrea and her cooky friends

Beginning of Week 2

Pedro

I managed to stick out the rest of University, not as a happy camper mind you, but I did it. Especially after talking to my mom on the phone about the value of a good education, getting a degree and then a decent job that can support a family (she must think I'm actually planning on having 4 kids like her). I didn't even try to remind her that are family is rich now...considering we won the Sim Lottery before we even moved to Truth. From good investing, I'm more than financially set. I decided since I was already 1/2 through my Senior Year, I might as well finish it and I did. With a 4.0 GPA and no sign of the stupid cow. It also helped that I locked the door with a good security system that kept away all mascots, cheerleaders, visiting professors etc.



I bought this sweet Modern home for over $40,000. It's kinda bare right now...but I'm a bachelor. I will get it more furnished as I work on getting Meshell back.

My buddy Corey graduated as well as Teneesha. They got this house just down the street from me, practically right across the street from Teneesha's brother Damien. He's busy giving dirty looks at the house because his little sister is living with a man. Teneesha just rolls her eyes and tells Damien that he needs to accept the fact that she's a grown woman. Am I the only one who knows that's never how it works with brothers and sisters?

Seavey-Hamilton, Blaise

It was mommy's (Keely-Ann) day off today and daddy (Davnus) had to go to work but mommy never works on Mondays anyways. And I woke up to a stink. I followed the smell and it lead me to my brother Blake. How can this kid smell so much but he's so neat about everything else? Mom tells him to wash out the bath and he's jumping for joy...he's just weird. By the time I got downstairs for breakfast, mom had some toaster pastries sitting on the table for us. Dad grabbed one and ran out the door, saying he was late for work. He quickly turned around and gave me, mommy and Blake a kiss before he left again. My daddy's a photographer. Me and Blake had to leave mom and go off to school. School was the same as always. We go to a public elementary school. We don't know that many people yet but my neighbour, Andrea Schlel came home with us after school. Mom had cooked us her chilli con carne. I teased Blake because he made sure he sat across from Andrea. He hated it but it was so much fun. Andrea said it was the best chilli that she had ever had. She couldn't stay for long and by 6:30 PM, she said good-bye and ran across the lawn to her house.



I hope Andrea becomes my friend soon. Daddy came home after she left so he didn't get to meet her but he did get a job promotion...I think he said something about a "free lacing fertografer". It seems the same to me. He still takes pictures of people and stuff. He kissed me and Blake "hello", asked us if we did our homework yet. And then sent us upstairs to do it. It didn't take long but when we were done, we had to go to bed.

While we were sleeping, I heard the fire alarm go off. I was ready to run to the escape exit like they taught us at school. By the time I reached to the stairs to go out the back door, I realized the nanny was still in our house. I don't know why she even came today at all. Mom was home the whole day. But it was 3 o'clock in the morning and I think she was trying to make Spaghetti. She can't cook. The whole kitchen stank and the fireperson had to come and put out the fire.



Mom fired her as soon as she found her...showering in mom's shower.

Andrew-Schlel, Andrea

When I left for school this morning, there was no breakfast on the table. Daddy was running out to work and mom was meditating in the backyard...again...she does it all the time and I'm tired of eating pizza everyday. I can't wait until I'm tall enough to reach the stove and cook a meal for myself. I'll probably make myself a whole turkey as my first meal.

After school, I went over to Blaise Seavey's house next door. I heard her mother makes really good chilli. It was really good. Blaise's brother kept giving me weird looks. I just finished my chilli and went home to mom (Sandy) who was in the middle of giving birth...and dad was no where to be found. I got a little brother...mom named him Andrew. He's got my eyes!



Dad still hasn't made it home. I hope he does soon.

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.