tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12308484352897712592024-02-20T00:44:30.893-08:00Rosebud Prosperity ChallengeLayout v.2SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-83164973356946576232015-04-29T09:10:00.000-07:002011-07-23T06:51:16.020-07:00Introduction - Welcome to Rosebud!In a green valley nestled between rocky cliffs lies the tiny town of Rosebud. A farm stretched over the entire valley, but when the old farmer passed away with no heirs, the land was turned into a subdivision. Now, five families have discovered the lush land and are attempting to make a fresh start. The five families are vastly different in culture and composition, yet they all share the desire to begin anew and make the best of life in Rosebud.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/beaumont.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 395px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/beaumont.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Beaumont family moved to Rosebud when corporate employment and city living failed to satisfy Armand and his wife Adelaide anymore. They decided they wanted to move away to enjoy a slower pace in a place where they could put their full energies into raising their sons, Arnaud and Alain.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/vinci.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 345px; height: 383px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/vinci.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Vinci family had much more tragic circumstances. Brothers Pablo, Enzo, and Salvatore are facing the greatest challenge of their lives: trying to survive without their parents. Mom and Dad Vinci were wonderful parents, providing for their children by running a family pizzeria that their great grandparents started generations back. Tragically, there was a fire after hours one night at the business, and Mom and Dad couldn't escape in time. The pizzeria burnt to the ground, and the Vinci boys were left orphaned within the course of a night. Despite being devastated by the loss of their beloved parents, Pablo and Enzo are determined not to let social services come take away Salvatore and split them up. They learned during their parents' short lives that family means everything, and they won't lose what family they have left: one another.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/cleary.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 406px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/cleary.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Cleary family has also been touched by loss. One night, Mom Cleary and her father went out for a Daddy/Daughter night. In the car on the way home, Mom Cleary's father clutched his chest, obviously having a heart attack. He lost control of the car, and in the ensuing accident, both he and his daughter were killed. The news hit both spouses like a ton of bricks. Roisin Cleary lost her husband and daughter, and Colm lost his wife and father-in-law. Immediately feeling the need to bond together in the face of such a horrible accident, Colm invited Roisin to move in with he and his three daughters...her now motherless granddaughters. Colm's mother Aisling knew that they would need all the help they could get, and so she moved in as well. Now, with the girls' two grandmothers joining their household, Colm is going to try to raise his girls in a way that would make his late wife proud.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/villalobos.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 381px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/villalobos.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Villalobos family shares a lot of similarities with their neighbors, the Clearys. The parents of two girls and two boys, Catalina, Dorotea, Diego, and Vincente, are also gone. The children think their parents are dead because that is what their guardian and paternal grandfather Santiago has told them. Only he knows that his son and daughter-in-law skipped town one night while the grandchildren were visiting their grandfather, leaving only a few thousand dollars and a note that said they were tired of being parents, and for Santiago NOT to try to find them. Since that day, Santiago hasn't heard a word from them, and he knows he can never reveal this hurtful, damaging truth to his grandchildren, whom he loves more than life itself.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/tanaka.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 396px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/tanaka.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Last but not least, the Tanaka family moved to Rosebud when Mom and Dad Tanaka died in a plane crash, visiting the tiny island from which their parents hailed in Japan. Their tiny island-hopper plane was caught in a sudden storm and went down in the Pacific Ocean. Their bodies were never found. Mom Tanaka's mother, Yuuna, knew immediately that she would take care of the five children, three teens Kimi, Mariko, and Jiro, and the two toddlers Inari and Aki. Family came first, no matter what, and even though she suffered immensely, she kept it inside to be brave for the children. Family was life, and Yuuna won't allow her grandchildren to grow up without a loving home.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/town.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 676px; height: 507px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Intro/town.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Can these five families embrace their similarities and differences to build a successful, thriving neighborhood in Rosebud? We'll see...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">References:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcjr38sx_0dpvw4mf9">Sims 2 Prosperity Challenge Rules</a> (Apartment Life version)<br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prosperity_challenge/">Prosperity Challenge Yahoo Group</a><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[Author's Notes: A few mentions for the name inspirations. Armand's name is a nod to Anne Rice's angel-faced vampire. Paolo's name is a distant nod to Snow Patrol bassist Paul Wilson a.k.a. Pablo. Enzo's name is a nod to Jason Kay of Jamiroquai's favorite automobile (his self-described "black devil car.") Tara's name is a nod to Amber Benson's character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Fiona's name is a nod to musician Fiona Apple. The Villalobos surname is a nod to the character Esmerelda Villalobos, the cab driver in <span style="font-style: italic;">Pulp Fiction</span>, who is played by a woman I ADORE. (Everyone go see the movie <span style="font-style: italic;">Curdled</span> immediately.) Colm's name is a nod to Colm Mac Con Iomaire, the violinist for the Dublin band The Frames. Dorotea's name is a nod to my friend Dorothea, who also has the nickname "Dot." Diego's name is a nod to the yummy Diego Luna. The Tanaka surname is a nod to Mr. Tanaka from my favorite book <span style="font-style: italic;">Memoirs of a Geisha</span>. And finally, Aki's name is a nod to my Japanese neighbor of whom I'm very fond. As for the naming scheme of flowers for the town, I just like flowers. :)]]<br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TABLE OF CONTENTS</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 1- Fall</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/03/beaumonts-round-1.html">Beaumont</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/04/vincis-round-1.html">Vinci</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/04/clearys-round-1.html">Cleary</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/04/villaloboses-round-1.html">Villalobos</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/04/tanakas-round-1.html">Tanaka</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/04/university-round-1.html">University</a><br /><br />Total points: 29<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 2 - Winter<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></span><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/05/beaumonts-round-1.html">Beaumont</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/05/vincis-round-2.html">Vinci</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/05/clearys-round-2.html">Cleary</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/05/villaloboses-round-2.html">Villalobos</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/05/tanakas-round-2.html">Tanaka</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/university-round-2-part-1-urele-cham.html">University Part 1</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/university-round-2-part-2-landgrabb.html">Part 2</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/university-round-2-part-3-vinci-cleary.html">Part 3</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span><span>//</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span><span><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/university-round-2-part-4-conclusion.html">Part 4</a> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br />Round 3 - Spring</span></span><span><span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/beaumonts-round-3.html">Beaumont</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/vincis-round-3.html">Vinci</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/clearys-round-3.html">Cleary</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/villaloboses-round-3.html">Villalobos</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/tanakas-round-3.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/tanakas-b-round-3.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/tanakas-c-round-3.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/university-round-3-part-1-urele-cham.html">University Part 1</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/06/university-round-3-part-2-vinci-cleary.html">Part 2</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 4 - Summer</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/beaumonts-round-4.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/vincis-round-4.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/clearys-round-3.html">Cleary</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/villaloboses-round-3.html">Villalobos</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/tanakas-round-4.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/tanakas-b-round-4.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/tanakas-c-round-4.html">Tanaka C</a><br /></span></span><span><span><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/beaumonts-b-round-4.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/vincis-b-round-4.html">Vinci B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/vincis-c-round-4.html">Vinci C</a></span></span><br /><span><span><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/07/university-round-4-part-1-landgrabb.html">University Part 1</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/university-round-4-part-2-urele-cham.html">Part 2</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 5 - Fall</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/beaumonts-round-5.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/vincis-round-5.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/clearys-round-5.html">Cleary</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/villaloboses-round-5.html">Villalobos</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/tanakas-round-5.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/tanakas-b-round-5.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/tanakas-c-round-5.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/beaumonts-b-round-5.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/vincis-b-round-5.html">Vinci B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/08/vincis-c-round-5.html">Vinci C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/09/university-round-5-part-1-villalobos.html">University Part 1</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/09/university-round-5-part-2-urele-cham.html">Part 2</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 6 - Winter</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/09/beaumonts-round-6.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/09/vincis-round-6.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/09/clearys-round-6.html">Cleary</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/09/villaloboses-round-6.html">Villalobos A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/09/tanakas-round-6.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/09/tanakas-b-round-6.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/09/tanakas-c-round-6.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/10/beaumonts-b-round-6.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/10/vincis-b-round-6.html">Vinci B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/10/vincis-c-round-6.html">Vinci C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/10/beaumonts-c-round-6.html">Beaumont C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/10/villaloboses-b-round-6.html">Villalobos B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/10/villaloboses-c-round-6.html">Villaloboc C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/10/villaloboses-d-round-6.html">Villalobos D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/tanakas-d-round-6.html">Tanaka D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/tanakas-e-round-6.html">Tanaka E</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/university-round-6-urele-cham-house.html">University</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 7 - Spring</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/beaumonts-round-7.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/vincis-round-7.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/clearys-round-7.html">Cleary</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/villaloboses-round-7.html">Villalobos A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/tanakas-round-7.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/tanakas-b-round-7.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/tanakas-c-round-7.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/vincis-b-round-7.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/vincic-b-round-7.html">Vinci B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/vincis-c-round-7.html">Vinci C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/beaumonts-c-round-7.html">Beaumont C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/villaloboses-b-round-7.html">Villalobos B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/villaloboses-c-round-7.html">Villalobos C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/villaloboses-d-round-7.html">Villalobos D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/tanakas-d-round-7.html">Tanaka D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/vincis-d-round-7.html">Vinci D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/11/university-round-7-urele-cham-house.html">University</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 8 - Summer</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/12/beaumonts-round-8.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/12/vincis-round-8.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/12/clearys-round-8.html">Cleary</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/12/villaloboses-round-8.html">Villalobos A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/12/tanakas-round-8.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/12/tanakas-b-round-8.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/12/tanakas-c-round-8.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2009/12/beaumonts-b-round-8.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/01/vincis-b-round-8.html">Vinci B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/01/vincis-c-round-8.html">Vinci C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/01/beaumonts-c-round-8.html">Beaumont C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/01/villaloboses-b-round-8.html">Villalobos B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/01/villaloboses-c-round-8.html">Villalobos C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/01/villaloboses-d-round-8.html">Villalobos D</a><br />Tanaka D<br />Vinci D<br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/01/university-round-8-part-1-girlfriends.html">University Part 1</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/01/university-round-8-part-2-vinci-twins.html">Part 2</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/01/university-round-8-part-3-urele-cham.html">Part 3</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 9 - Fall</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/02/beaumonts-round-9.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/02/vinci-round-9.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/02/clearys-round-9.html">Cleary</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/02/villaloboses-round-9.html">Villalobos A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/02/tanakas-round-9.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/02/villaloboses-b-round-9.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/02/villaloboses-c-round-9.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/02/beaumonts-b-round-9.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/02/vincis-b-round-9.html">Vinci B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/03/vincis-c-round-9.html">Vinci C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/03/beaumonts-c-round-9.html">Beaumont C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/03/villaloboses-b-round-9.html">Villalobos B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/03/villaloboses-c-round-9.html">Villalobos C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/03/villaloboses-d-round-9.html">Villalobos D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/04/tanakas-d-round-9.html">Tanaka D</a> (future Cleary B and Tanaka D)<br />Vinci D<br /></span></span><span><span><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/04/chans-round-9.html">Chan</a></span></span> (future Beaumont D)<br /><span><span><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/04/vincis-e-round-9.html">Vinci E</a> (future Villalobos E)<br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/04/university-round-9-part-1-girlfriends.html">University Part 1</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/04/university-round-9-part-2-vinci.html">Part 2</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/05/university-round-9-part-3-urele-cham.html">Part 3</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 10 - Winter<br /></span><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/hoodr10.jpg"><span>**Hood View at the Beginning of Round 10**</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/05/beaumonts-round-10.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/05/vincis-round-10.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/05/clearys-round-10.html">Cleary A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/05/villaloboses-round-10.html">Villalobos A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/05/tanakas-round-10.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/05/tanakas-b-round-10.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/05/tanakas-c-round-10.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/05/beaumonts-b-round-10.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/vincis-b-round-10.html">Vinci B</a><br /></span></span><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/vincis-c-round-10.html">Vinci C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/beaumonts-c-round-10.html">Beaumont C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/villaloboses-b-round-10.html">Villalobos B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/villaloboses-c-round-10.html">Villalobos C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/villaloboses-d-round-10.html">Villalobos D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/clearys-b-round-10.html">Cleary B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/tanakas-d-round-10.html">Tanaka D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/vincis-e-round-10.html">Vinci D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/beaumonts-d-round-10.html">Beaumont D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/villaloboses-e-round-10.html">Villlalobos E</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/06/university-round-10-urele-cham-house.html">University</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 11 - Spring</span><br /><br /><span><span><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/07/beaumonts-round-11.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/07/vincis-round-11.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/07/clearys-round-11.html">Cleary A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/07/villaloboses-round-11.html">Villalobos A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/07/tanakas-round-11.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/07/tanakas-b-round-11.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/tanakas-c-round-11.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/beaumonts-b-round-11.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/vincis-b-round-11.html">Vinci B</a><br /></span></span><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/vincis-c-round-11.html">Vinci C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/beaumonts-c-round-11.html">Beaumont C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/villaloboses-b-round-11.html">Villalobos B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/villaloboses-c-round-11.html">Villalobos C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/villaloboses-d-round-11.html">Villalobos D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/clearys-b-round-11.html">Cleary B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/tanakas-d-round-11.html">Tanaka D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/08/vincis-d-round-11.html">Vinci D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/09/beaumonts-d-round-11.html">Beaumont D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/09/villaloboses-e-round-11.html">Villalobos E</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/09/vincis-e-round-11.html">Vinci E</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/09/vincis-f-round-11.html">Vinci F</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/09/university-round-11-round-11-chin.html">University Part 1</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/09/university-round-11-part-2-urele-cham.html">Part 2</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 12 - Summer</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/beaumonts-round-12.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/vincis-round-12.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/clearys-round-12.html">Cleary A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/villaloboses-round-12.html">Villalobos A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/tanakas-round-12.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/tanakas-b-round-12.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/tanakas-c-round-12.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/beaumonts-b-round-12.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/vincis-b-round-12.html">Vinci B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/vincis-c-round-12.html">Vinci C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/10/beaumonts-c-round-12.html">Beaumont C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/11/villaloboses-b-round-12.html">Villalobos B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/11/villaloboses-c-round-12.html">Villalobos C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/11/villaloboses-d-round-12.html">Villalobos D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/11/tanakas-d-round-12.html">Tanaka D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/11/clearys-b-round-12.html">Cleary B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/11/vincis-d-round-12.html">Vinci D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/11/beaumonts-d-round-12.html">Beaumont D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/11/villaloboses-e-round-12.html">Villalobos E</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/11/vincis-e-round-12.html">Vinci E</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/12/vincis-f-round-12.html">Vinci F</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2010/12/vincis-g-round-12.html">Vinci G</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/01/university-round-12-part-1-chin.html">University Part 1</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/01/university-round-12-part-2-urele-cham.html">Part 2</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 13 - Fall</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/01/beaumonts-round-13.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/02/vincis-round-13.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/02/clearys-round-13.html">Cleary A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/02/villaloboses-round-13.html">Villalobos A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/02/tanakas-round-13.html">Tanaka A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/02/tanakas-b-round-13.html">Tanaka B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/02/tanakas-c-round-13.html">Tanaka C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/03/beaumonts-b-round-13.html">Beaumont B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/03/vincis-b-round-13.html">Vinci B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/03/vincis-c-round-13.html">Vinci C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/03/beaumonts-c-round-13.html">Beaumont C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/03/villaloboses-b-round-13.html">Villalobos B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/03/villaloboses-c-round-13.html">Villalobos C</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/04/villaloboses-d-round-13.html">Villalobos D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/04/tanakas-d-round-13.html">Tanaka D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/04/clearys-b-round-13.html">Cleary B</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/04/vincis-d-round-13.html">Vinci D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/04/beaumonts-d-round-13.html">Beaumont D</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/05/villaloboses-e-round-13.html">Villalobos E</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/05/vincis-e-round-13.html">Vinci E</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/05/vincis-f-round-13.html">Vinci F</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/05/vincis-g-round-13.html">Vinci G</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/05/university-round-13-part-1-urele-cham.html">University Part 1</a> // <a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/06/university-round-13-part-2-urele-cham.html">Part 2</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Round 14 - Winter</span><br /><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/06/beaumonts-round-14.html">Beaumont A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/07/vincis-round-14.html">Vinci A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/07/clearys-round-14.html">Cleary A</a><br /><a href="http://rosebudprosperity.blogspot.com/2011/07/villaloboses-round-14.html">Villalobos A</a><br />Tanaka A<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Random Thanks:</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Liz (of the <a href="http://silvervaleprosperity.blogspot.com/">Silvervale Prosperity</a>) for helping feed my enthusiasm and addiction and for being more aware of simmy things than I am and therefore being able to offer me cool tips and tricks. Also for the inspiration for the table of contents format. And I may also steal your idea of having the family tree in the sidebar with color coding. But don't worry, I'll buy you lunch or something in thanks for allowing me to totally gank your great ideas.<br /><br />twoflower (of the <a href="http://twoflower-applegrove.blogspot.com/">Apple Grove Prosperity</a>) for showing me how totally rad, hilarious, and absolutely entertaining a prosperity blog can be.<br /><br />robinaschatz (of the <a href="http://sirenprincess.blogspot.com/">Emerald Isle Prosperity</a>) for having so many great ideas that I had to borrow some of them - splitting the rounds up by season, including OOC "author notes" at the end, and keeping track of the family net worth at the end of each round.<br /><br />Mao (of <a href="http://www.maonao.net/portal.html">loads of stuff!</a>) for inspiring me as a storyteller. I have NEVER seen such amazing stories!<br /><br />Everyone on the yahoo group for being so wonderful, welcoming, and forthcoming with the game tips and feedback! Play on, lovely simmers.<br /><br />xo,<br />S<br /></div></div></div></div>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-82599819702826688652011-09-28T03:50:00.000-07:002011-09-28T03:52:22.663-07:00Hi, HowdyHey everybody. I don't know how many people out there are waiting on baited breath for new posts (lol probably none), but just in case anyone is wondering where I've disappeared to, I started my master's degree on the first of September. With a full-time course load and a full-time job, this means very little time for my sim-babies. I haven't given up or abandoned my 'hood, but it might take a while for me to get new posts up, at least until my Thanksgiving and winter breaks.<br /><br />Hope everyone in simlandia is happy and healthy. :*SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-44899313992555345482011-09-11T09:00:00.000-07:002011-09-11T09:20:39.237-07:00The Tanakas (B) - Round 14Hey, peoples of the internets! So I've been pretty absentee lately, and that's because I recently started my master's degree at University of Maryland. Not only am I working full-time and doing a full-time course load (40 work hours + 9 credit hours), I have to commute 160 miles round trip each day I drive to campus. And on top of that, I've caught the old familiar demon, bronchitis, again. So since I'm hacking up a lung, already woke up at 8 to read a twenty page long hella boring theory of information paper and now feel like playing sims instead of blogging them while enjoying my nice hot mug of tea... you get a slackery update. Enjoy this slideshow, and sorry for the cop-out entry.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="width:480px; text-align: center;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://w540.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http%3A%2F%2Fw540.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg359%2Fskeasyplateau%2FRosebud%20Prosperity%202%2FTanaka%20B%20Season%2014%2F342221e7.pbw" height="360" width="480"></embed><a href="http://photobucket.com/slideshows" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" /></a><a href="http://s540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20B%20Season%2014/?action=view&current=342221e7.pbw" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn_viewallimages.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />I recommend pausing this and clicking through the images since Photobucket's slideshows go so damn fast.SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-72081626845210033072011-08-07T06:55:00.001-07:002011-08-07T07:34:33.218-07:00The Tanakas (A) - Round 14<a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/tanakaa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 449px; height: 403px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/tanakaa.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Tanaka/TA/jiroelder.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 141px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Tanaka/TA/jiroelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Jiro Tanaka, Adult Romance Sim, 2nd LTW Have 20 Simultaneous Lovers<br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Tanaka/TA/lindaelder.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 158px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Tanaka/TA/lindaelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Linda Tanaka, Adult Pleasure Sim, 2nd LTW Become Professional Party Guest</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/homeradult.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 182px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/homeradult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Homer Tanaka, Adult Family Sim, LTW Raise 20 Puppies or Kittens<br /><br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Tanaka house, Linda and Jiro were by themselves while Homer finished out his college term. They studied, skilled, engaged in hobbies like orchid growing and tinkering, and trained Belle and Sebastian how to do lots of tricks. Linda, bored in her retirement, got a job in the slacker career only to discover that no one wanted a professional elderly party guest. This round, Homer rejoins them in the house, hopefully perking up the place a bit.<br /><br /></span></div></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 458px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The first thing Homer did upon his rearrival into Rosebud was to call up his college sweetie, Zadie Villalobos. It seemed awfully quick to Linda and Jiro, but the two immediately wanted to tie the knot. After all, they'd been together for two years in university, at least. Neither wanted to wait any longer.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 416px; height: 403px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 456px; height: 432px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Their engagement was quick, and their wedding even quicker.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 476px; height: 412px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 468px; height: 500px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They didn't even wait for all their university friends to get settled in so they could attend...they had a very simple, lovely ceremony in the backyard with only Homer and Zadie's parents in attendance.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 487px; height: 402px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>What they truly wanted was to begin their lives together as husband and wife, and as they feasted on one of Linda's meals later that week, it finally sank in with a sense of great satisfaction that they were finally married and ready to start a family.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 532px; height: 379px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They got started on that baby-making part right away; two family sims together made for eager and frequent attempts at starting the next generation of children!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 504px; height: 389px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Zadie's love for fishing in college inspired Homer to have a small pond put in at the back of their lot, and Zadie spent hours outdoors, thriving while indulging her love for nature.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 433px; height: 419px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Of course, it wasn't long before nature took its course with Zadie as well. A few short weeks later she was on the phone to her parents letting them know that a new addition to the family would be forthcoming!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 522px; height: 377px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Jiro and Linda were happy to have new life back in the house again. Too much time with just each other and the dogs was starting to make them feel stir crazy. Jiro in particular escaped to his telescope...perhaps one time too often...<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 653px; height: 391px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Don't knock over the trees!!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 598px; height: 351px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Bye Jiro! Enjoy your trip!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 509px; height: 390px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A few hours later, the aliens returned their human guinea pig more or less unharmed. Jiro was fascinated and horrified, but at least he was too old for the aliens to impregnate.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 421px; height: 354px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>After all, one preggers person in the house was enough, despite the fact that Zadie seemed like the happiest pregnant lady that ever lived. She was the type that glowed with health and the new babies inside her.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 204px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 395px; height: 202px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Not long after, good luck struck both of the newlyweds. Zadie found a job in her chosen career path, and Homer found a well-paying job in the business field that would help support his new family. Zadie, of course, couldn't start until after her children were born, but at least she'd secured the position.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 607px; height: 371px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>In preparation for the new family, Zadie and Homer spent some of their own money to improve the kitchen of the home and make some other small decorating changes to upgrade old appliances. After all, if this was to be their house someday, they wanted it to constantly be improved.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg"><br /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/18b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 521px; height: 322px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/18b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 499px; height: 410px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Sonny and Cher, the two puppies of Belle and Sebastian, grew up into adult dogs, raising Homer's goal total to four.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 417px; height: 323px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />It also meant it was time to say goodbye to the little pups, and Homer gave them up for adoption...just in time it seemed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 467px; height: 363px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>After all, the house was about to get much more busy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 384px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Oh, you just look sooooo pleased with yourself, don't you, Zadie?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/22.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 492px; height: 384px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Zadie, was, indeed, happy with herself...happier than she'd ever been. That night, the Tanaka family welcomed two new members into their home: a boy named Kenji and a girl named Kata.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/24.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 510px; height: 410px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The one bit of misfortune that the births of Linda and Jiro's grandchildren brought was that it seemed to anger Yuuna, who up until now had been resting peacefully in the back yard. She began haunting them with a renewed vengeance.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/23.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/25.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 528px; height: 468px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Fortunately, she seemed to avoid the nursery, and everyone loved to be in that baby-powder scented room, cuddling the new additions.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/26.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 476px; height: 392px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/26.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Ultimately, after a particularly terror-filled night for all the adults in the household, it was decided that long-lost Yuuna was to spend her eternity with the other elder generations of Rosebud, in the Wildflower Cemetery. Bye, Yuuna. :'( It's time for a newer generation to take over, and don't worry...I'm sure Linda and Jiro will keep up the haunting once it's their time to go.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> I never anticipated pairing Homer and Zadie, but the way they glued themselves to one another in college made the decision for me. I'm hoping that their features will mix well, though I have NO clue if they will or not. I haven't mastered the art of predicting genetics in this game yet. The twins were a surprise, though a pleasant one. Both Homer and Zadie are family sims, so they're falling all over themselves with happiness at having not one but TWO babies to take care of. On a side note, I felt like I got some really neat shots this round, though it had nothing to do with me. While editing these pics, I was particularly impressed with the angles of the alien abduction shots, which seemed different to me than most of the pictures from abductions prior. Also, I don't know how I got it, but I LOVE that shot of Zadie holding Kenji after he was first born. I don't remember ever seeing that expression during the birth cinematic before. Regardless, I was pleased with how the shots turned out this round. Handful of bloopers for you!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/blooperadvice.jpg">You know, Linda, somehow I don't think your hobby advice is sinking in at present.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/blooperrealnice.jpg">Nice, Jiro. Real nice.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Tanaka%20A%20Season%2014/blooperyup.jpg">Yup, this is pretty much how I imagine most thoughts in Jiro's head.</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-46682962269325111012011-07-22T15:56:00.001-07:002011-07-23T06:49:45.071-07:00The Villaloboses (A) - Round 14<a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2013/villalobosa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 457px; height: 380px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2013/villalobosa.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2013/tayeadult.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2011/vinneelder.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 164px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2011/vinneelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Vincente Villalobos, Elder Romance, 3rd LTW Have 50 First Dates</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2013/tayeadult.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 159px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2013/tayeadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Taye Villalobos, Adult Fortune Sim, 2nd LTW Become Hand of Poseidon<br /><br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Villalobos house, Taye moved in with his Uncle Vinnie. Though he didn't know his Uncle Vinnie very well, they quickly formed a close bond. Vinnie, in his retirement, continued his womanizing ways, and Taye got a job in his chosen career path, quickly achieving his lifetime want of becoming a business tycoon. That wasn't the only victory in Taye's life, though. He also met a woman he found immensely attractive: Angelica Eich. Will Vinnie stick around for another whole round as an elder? Will he continue to get along with his nephew despite his nephew's uninterpretable desire to be monogamous with only ONE (admittedly beautiful) woman? We'll see.</span><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 425px; height: 382px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Having achieved his greatest lifetime desires when he became a business tycoon, the first thing Taye wanted to do was quit his job. He was fresh out of college! It was time for him to start enjoying life a bit, and the whole job thing was really cramping his style.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 348px; height: 222px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>His new true passion was oceanography, but he thought it might be fun to play professional sports for a while, if he could hack it. After all, he was still young, and all his time spent playing with the soccer goal in the back yard of his childhood home couldn't have hurt him <span style="font-style: italic;">too</span> much, right?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 442px; height: 470px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Vinnie, on the other hand, was getting older and had achieved his lifelong desires. Sometimes, when he played piano, he could still feel the heat of the spotlight on him, even though his days as a music god were over.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 416px; height: 402px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>His love of music didn't end with his piano, though. It was starting to infect the whole house. Sometimes, when none of his old girlfriends were available, Taye agreed to dance with him, just to make him happy...no matter HOW weird it felt.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 494px; height: 432px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Vinnie, forever motivated by his...well...nether regions, used his skill in his old age to his advantage. He was a frequenter of the local music and dance shop, always putting on his best clothes and playing beautiful addaggios for all of the lonesome ladies who might be in attendance.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 474px; height: 406px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The ploy always worked for Vinnie. Women seemed charmed by this cultured older man who could both cook them a five-star meal AND play them a concerto at the same time.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 468px; height: 399px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This method seemed to work well for Vinnie...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 297px; height: 448px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>...VERY well.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 540px; height: 392px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Occasionally, one of his old flames would pop up looking to get revenge on "the new girl," but Vinnie was ultimately unharmed, and that was the important thing, to him. He'd never exactly been one to understand the jealousies of "love."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 522px; height: 368px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And apparently, his somewhat questionable methods of "wooing" seemed to still be effective.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 554px; height: 375px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Very effective.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 414px; height: 432px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Even when, in the midst of a date, Death showed up, it didn't hurt his romantic pursuits.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 419px; height: 408px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Vinnie and Taye cried heartily for the passing of Santiago's last puppy as he hopped to the giant doggie heaven in the sky.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 424px; height: 327px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Of course, Vinnie needed some serious comfort after that. Women liked a man who wasn't afraid to show his tender side.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 472px; height: 390px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Taye, somewhat surprisingly, seemed to follow Vinnie's lead in the aftermath of their loss...only he sought solace in the arms of his one twoo wuv, Angelica Eich, in a hot tub across town.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 458px; height: 454px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>So, while Vinnie vascillated between meaningless sex and alcoholism to ease his pain, Taye made a life-altering decision.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 559px; height: 402px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>He decided he wanted to begin his life with Angelica and promptly dropped to one knee right on the sidewalk in front of the Villalobos house.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 460px; height: 506px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She accepted, of course, and moved in to join the family. (Our first <a href="http://silvervaleprosperity.blogspot.com/">Silvervale</a> sim to become a playable, YAY! :D)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Angelica's Stats:</span><br /><br /></div><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 320px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 545px; height: 147px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 624px; height: 152px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She was a well-rounded and lovely individual for a criminal! Though being a criminal was a pretty good preparation for being a politician, she thought...<br /><br /><br />Unfortunately, the puppies-of-the-past seemed to be having a bit of territoriality about their new roommate:<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/22.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 504px; height: 341px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/23.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 516px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/24.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 476px; height: 386px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/25.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 429px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/26.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 445px; height: 350px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/26.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Just for good measure, Pequito gave Taye a scare too...to pay him back for bringing a stranger into the house.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/28.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 204px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Angelica, after recovering from being scared nearly to death, decided to put her energies toward making a career switch, and she lucked out by getting an entry level position right away.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/27.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 517px; height: 363px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Vinnie's most recent date conveniently left another hot tub so the soon-to-be-newlyweds and Vinnie+1 didn't have to share a hot tub for their romantic escapades.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/29.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 423px; height: 362px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Vinnie was delighted to have Taye and his new fiancée in the house. It made him feel less lonely, and while Angelica certainly wasn't hard on the eyes, he also found her intelligence and drive to be infectiously appealing. It was possible Vinnie may have found himself his first true female friend...and one he had absolutely no desire to bed, only to have the pleasure of knowing.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Author's Notes:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> YAY! Angelica moved in, and I can't wait for she and Taye to get married and start having gorgeous babies! As for the dogs... I have NEVER seen such a mass-scale haunting directed at one person in my history with this game. It really was like the dogs were angry that someone new moved into the house. ALL of those scares happened in a single night. Poor Angelica nearly dropped dead. If the ghostly doggies can't behave in the future, they're going to get shipped off to the cemetery to enjoy their dirt nap with Santiago, because I refuse to have vengeful ghost dogs in the house when I have a pregnant woman there. Recipe for disaster, that. Also, I wanted to share something I thought was really interesting. Check out Angelica's friends:<br /><br /><br /> <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/25.jpg"><br /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/blooperinteresting2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 627px; height: 155px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/blooperinteresting2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;">From L to R: Tabitha Devivio, Lindsay Wade, Vinaya Devivio, random townie, random townie, Julio Eich.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/blooperinteresting1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 615px; height: 152px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/blooperinteresting1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;">L to R: Taye, Vinnie, Mariko, Janet Devivio, random townie, Brad Devivio.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><br />When I saw this, I remembered I moved all of the packaged Silvervale sims into a single lot when I was giving them makeovers before transforming them into townies. This turns out to have been an excellent decision because now I can summon via phone sims I NEVER see in my 'hood, like darling Julio, who has been in oblivion since the day I installed him...perhaps hiding in a dark corner of a downtown gay bar somewhere. Regardless, hooray! This made me happy. Few bloopers for you!<br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /> <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/blooperfickle.jpg">That's very fickle of you, Taye.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/blooperlittlelate.jpg">I'm sorry, Catalina moved out something like 80 years ago and is now the living dead in another house down the street. Really, get with the program.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/blooperrandom.jpg">Did anyone else know you can get a body skill point for this? O.o I had no idea.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/bloopersparkly.jpg">Ooooh, <strike>shiny</strike> fuzzy!</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Villalobos%20A%20Season%2014/bloopertwins.jpg">Lol, twinz. The maxis premade dogs are fairly homogenous.</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-25309548183214668572011-07-08T10:32:00.000-07:002011-07-10T08:17:11.594-07:00The Clearys (A) - Round 14<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/clearya.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 554px; height: 526px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/clearya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Cleary/CA/colmelder.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 156px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Cleary/CA/colmelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Colm Cleary, Elder Popularity Sim, 2nd LTW Have 20 Simultaneous Pet Best Friends</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Cleary/CA/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 167px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Cleary/CA/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Tessa Cleary, Adult Knowledge Sim, 2nd LTW Become Education Minister<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Cleary/CA/nealadult.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 151px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Cleary/CA/nealadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Neal Cleary, Adult Knowledge Sim, 3rd LTW Become Space Pirate<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20A%20Season%2012/tallulahteen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 179px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20A%20Season%2012/tallulahteen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Tallulah Cleary, Teen Knowledge Sim, LTW Become Chief of Staff<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20A%20Season%2013/phoenixteen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 198px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20A%20Season%2013/phoenixteen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Phoenix Cleary, Teen Romance Sim, LTW ?<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Cleary/CA/colmelder.jpg"><br /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20A%20Season%2013/declantoddler.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 179px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20A%20Season%2013/declantoddler.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Declan Cleary, Toddler Knowledge Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20A%20Season%2013/damientoddler.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 195px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20A%20Season%2013/damientoddler.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Damien Cleary, Toddler Fortune Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Cleary house, Colm ate lots of grilled cheese and had to say goodbye to his beloved second wife, Michelle. The whole house was devastated by her death, and Tallulah acted out on her sadness by sneaking out of the house and getting brought home by the police. The house got an expansion in preparation for the birth of the Cleary twins Damien and Declan, and both Tessa and Neal reached TOC. At the very end of the round, Phoenix aged well into a teenager. Let's see how this family does in round 14.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 476px; height: 375px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The season started with Neal getting a supernatural visit from his mother, which actually pleased him, knowledge sim that he was. It definitely set the stage for the events that were about to follow...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 491px; height: 442px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Sadly, Death came for Colm one night...but he had a surprise up his sleeve! He had wished for the power to cheat death from the genie, and he was about to see if his wish was granted.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/2.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 477px; height: 399px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Death wants to play a game; at least it isn't chess.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 501px; height: 402px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Neal can't bear to look as his father embarks upon the game.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 497px; height: 396px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />It wasn't exactly scientific, but "eenie-meenie-miney-mo" seemed like a good option in a game of chance.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 508px; height: 415px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And success! The genie had come through with his promise, and Death left very disappointed that day, going home empty-handed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 660px; height: 409px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Guys? Hey, um... guys? You can stop crying now....<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 162px; height: 72px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>What was the first thing Colm did to celebrate his new lease on life? Well, a booty call to Christa Hu, duh.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 611px; height: 355px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>He deserved a little celebration. After all, he'd just beat death!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 479px; height: 408px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Death was a persistent entity, however, and the next day while indulging in his favorite activity, gardening, Colm encountered his mortality again.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 479px; height: 407px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Again, he begged...and again Death granted him the opportunity to luck his way out of shuffling off the mortal coil.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 488px; height: 408px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This time, sadly, Colm wasn't as lucky. He chose the wrong hand, and his family had good reason to cry.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 556px; height: 401px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>At least Colm got a lovely sendoff, though, complete with a cocktail and hula zombies dancing him into the afterworld.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 363px; height: 244px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Even the huge promotion Tessa brought home that night wasn't enough to alleviate the grief of the family. Colm had seemed larger than life in his time and nearly immortal. It was a sad reminder to everyone in the family that nothing lasts forever.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 357px; height: 302px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Colm's characteristic generosity and wide circle of friends was reflected in his enormous will, which left money in the hands of a whopping 22 residents of Rosebud.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 606px; height: 403px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The family laid him to rest next to his darling wife, Michelle, where the two of them could spend their afterlife together.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 451px; height: 440px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 405px; height: 470px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unfortunately, the twins would forever remember their birthday as the day their grandpa dropped dead. Birthdays were supposed to be filled with happiness, balloons, and cake, not sobbing siblings.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 436px; height: 455px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Even through her grief, Tessa had one ray of hope: she and Neal were pregnant again. Even though her initial pregnancy had been an accident, Tessa was learning from Neal's large Irish family that there was little more important than the bonds of blood...something her parents never taught her in word or deed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 356px; height: 330px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>In an ironic mix-up of their names, it was Declan who grew up poorly, not Damien. He had some rage issues... "<span style="font-style: italic;">I HATE THIS MAKEOVER, AND I HATE YOU! THIS IS STUPID! I WANT MY GRANDPA!"</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/23.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 587px; height: 411px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>He and Damien had a decent relationship, and Damien tried to calm his twin by remembering to engage him in peaceful activities. The blowups were <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> attractive.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/22.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 456px; height: 413px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Neal took over his father's garden and felt closer to him by digging in the same dirt Colm had cared for so tenderly.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/24.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/25.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 438px; height: 437px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Meanwhile, Tessa grew larger and larger...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/27.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 578px; height: 380px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Tallulah and Phoenix knew what was coming as they watched their mother grow rounder through the passing days. They loved their family, but they definitely didn't want to be around for another cycle of toilet-splashing poop machines. It was time to take matters into their own hands, apply for private school, and then get the heck out of dodge to Sim State.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/28.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 543px; height: 359px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>With almost no help from their parents, the two enterprising teens impressed the headmaster enough to gain entrance into Rosebud Academy for the final semester of senior year. It wasn't the experience they cared about so much as the bullet point on their college applications, and now they had it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/29.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 416px; height: 371px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unfortunately for the teens, Tessa's time for birth came before their time for college.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/30.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 492px; height: 402px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/30.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A baby girl was born, Norah, on a snowy winter night.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/31.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 434px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/31.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>But that wasn't the only addition. Shortly thereafter, the Cleary family welcomed another little girl: Claire.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/33.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 447px; height: 403px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/33.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And then Charlie....<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/35.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/32.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 492px; height: 406px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/32.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>...and Rachael!! It was quadruplets for the Cleary family, and Tallulah and Phoenix nearly killed one another rushing to the computer to apply for scholarships.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/34.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 172px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/34.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/35.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 221px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/35.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They kissed their parents and siblings goodbye and hot-footed it out of the house to Sim State. Helping out with Damien and Declan had been enough!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/36.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 492px; height: 420px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/36.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Neal honed his gardening craft in a state of shock. If they were going to have four brand new toddlers in the house and two young children, they would be needing a LOT of food.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> Wow. Okay. So let me just start this commentary by saying that at the point in my game when I played this household, I had neither the More Than 8 Sims Per Lot hack NOR the trips and quads hack installed. I have since installed More Than 8 Sims Per Lot, but at the time this happened, I was staring in shock at my computer screen. I know it was a glitch, and I feared imminent destruction of my 'hood, but so far, nothing else seems to be glitchy. Tessa kept having "first" pregnancies. In other words, the full cinematic, no "second twin gets magicked onto the screen without all the hoopla" stuff. Each birth happened about a sim hour apart, and by the time she had her fourth child, I decided to end her pregnancy manually using InTeen. Otherwise, I think she would have just kept going! I quickly had to send the teens off to Uni because I couldn't handle a house with that many sims, especially when four of them are about to become toddlers, two of them arean't old enough to help out around the house yet, and both my grandparents are dead. I decided to keep the four that were born, and I don't *think* they're clones because of their skintones, but if their personalities turn out to be identical, I may have to rethink that. I've never killed off a sim toddler before, though, so probably they'll just stick around. I was totally depressed to lose Colm, but I have to admit, it was overshadowed by the weird BabyFest 2011. We'll see how things go next round. O.o If I don't lose my mind, it'll be a miracle!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/blooperalittleyoung.jpg">He's probably a little young for the GC talk, Neal. Give him a few years.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/blooperLOLZ.jpg">LOLZ, VERY INSIGHTFUL OF YOU, DECLAN.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Cleary%20A%20Season%2014/bloopersaddriver.jpg">Awwww, even his carpool driver is sad to see Colm go. :'(</a> ]]</span><br /></div></div>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-59857401837516587542011-07-02T12:16:00.000-07:002011-07-02T12:47:45.017-07:00The Vincis (A) - Round 14<a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/vincia.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 466px; height: 435px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/vincia.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Vinci/VA/gretchenelder.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 160px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Vinci/VA/gretchenelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gretchen Chin, Elder Knowledge Sim, 4th LTW Own 5 Top Level Businesses</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20A%20Season%2011/craigelder.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 153px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20A%20Season%2011/craigelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Craig Chin, Elder Knowledge Sim, 2nd LTW Max Out 7 Skills<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Vinci/VA/bitsy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 130px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Vinci/VA/bitsy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bitsy Ray, Knowledge Servo, 4th LTW Become Space Pirate</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/coleadult.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 163px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/coleadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Cole Chin, Adult Popularity Sim, LTW Become Hall of Famer<br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Vinci house wasn't terribly entertaining. Mostly, Craig, Gretchen, and Bitsy worked on their careers and earning new badges. Bitsy earned a gold sewing badge, a gold pottery badge, and a gold toymaking badge. Gretchen and Craig each earned a gold sewing badge. Let's see if they manage to be interesting in round 14. (SPOILER: They don't.)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 368px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Craig and Gretchen had to admit: having Cole home was definitely an adjustment. It surprised them how interested he was in making new friends, especially since he had always been so painfully shy. They suspected his new clothing choices were chosen with the intent to override that innate shyness and attract attention. It didn't seem to suit him, but Craig and Gretchen were mature enough at this point to know that Cole was an adult capable of making his own decisions and developing his own personality.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 271px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Craig, having finally reached his lifetime want of becoming a criminal mastermind and his second lifetime want of maxing out all seven skills, decided that his last goal on earth would be to eat as many grilled cheese sandwiches as was humanly possible.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 347px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bitsy, in honor of her creator, chose the same secondary aspiration. As she watched Craig get older, she was filled with dread for the day when he would no longer be around. This was a way to honor him while he was still here.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/4.jpg"><br /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 546px; height: 421px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 428px; height: 458px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The household tradition of earning as many badges as possible was also still going strong. Bitsy tackled gardening next, and Craig tackled pottery. Both felt convinced that between the four residents of the house, every talent badge possible could be earned, and they worked hard at this pastime goal.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 165px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Cole, knowing he needed to contribute to the household income somehow but unable to find a job in his chosen field, decided to start writing novels. After all, he was an alien...there was a huge market out there for sci fi fans who wanted to read about the life of someone who was spawned in outer space.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 406px; height: 203px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Fortunately, after a brief while, a new opportunity opened up in the athletic field, and Cole snapped it up. With all of his skills and his seemingly unearthly ability to learn new things and make friends despite his shyness, he was sure he would be a Hall of Famer in no time.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 525px; height: 370px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Bitsy, too, continued to reliably climb the job food chain. Even though she really wanted to be working in the Adventurer career track, that didn't mean she couldn't be good at what she did.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Luckily for her, too, a job suddenly came up in her path of choice, and she quickly snapped it up. She would be a space pirate no matter what it took!<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 477px; height: 380px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>As for Cole, it only took him a few weeks on the job to make it all the way to the top. He had to admit it was thrilling to achieve such a lofty goal, but on the high of his success, he decided he needed something else equally challenging to tackle. From now on, he would put everything he had toward becoming a celebrity chef.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 281px; height: 398px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The success of his achievement allowed him to change his world view a bit as well. Sure, it was awesome to have lots of friends...it counteracted the loneliness he felt as an essentially shy person. But now that he was an adult and watching his parents in their golden years, he knew he wanted something more. Commitment? Lasting relationships? Perhaps not. But a good woohoo now and then would be nice!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 473px; height: 419px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Sadly for Cole, the luck that day would go to his parents, not to himself. A genial gypsy left them a magic lamp that would allow up to three wishes to be granted. Craig and Gretchen, as the senior members of the house, got first dibs.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 506px; height: 455px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 541px; height: 391px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Predictably, Craig wished for the power to cheat death, and Gretchen wished for a longer life. They weren't quite ready to shuffle off this mortal coil quite yet. The genie granted each wish happily.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 515px; height: 372px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Bitsy was a bit oblivious to the new, magical influence in the house. With no finite lifespan and never knowing someone who died, she wasn't as concerned with the end of life as her human counterparts were. She just kept plugging along at her job.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 503px; height: 365px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This boost of confidence that a servo could never, in fact, actually <span style="font-style: italic;">die</span> only gave her more motivation to do well... perhaps to support the family, and perhaps to encourage her maker and his mate in their golden years.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 484px; height: 389px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bitsy became almost obsessed with proving to Gretchen and Craig that she could and would take care of things around the house as the couple passed into their golden years. Though a servo wasn't familiar with the concept of grief, she knew the couple well enough to understand that they wouldn't be along forever, and that that knowledge worried them.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 401px; height: 194px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Happily, Cole managed to find a job in his next chosen career field: the culinary field. Bitsy could see that it did all three of her human friends' good to see these successes.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 561px; height: 405px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity%202/Vinci%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>...which was exactly why she hid the fact that she forgot to pay the electric bill and had to sacrifice an expensive bed to the repo man. She replaced it with her own funds. After all, she had a family that consisted of two elderly sims longing to feel they made a difference in the world and a brand new adult who was still just feeling out his way. Bitsy felt both stressed and grateful to know that she could be the one consistent driving force in the Vinci house that could keep it going for generations.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> Gosh, these guys are boring. Even Cole is boring, though I suspect he'll be booty-calling Willow Vinci on a regular basis in the next round. I'm going to shoot for earning ALL of the talent badges on this lot, which should be easy since Bitsy will live forever, but I have no clue where I stand and what still needs to be earned. I'll possibly post about that next round to give everyone a status update. No bloopers for you; this house was definitely a quick, simple play!]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-33861915676391606832011-06-26T08:29:00.000-07:002011-06-26T09:09:36.653-07:00The Beaumonts (A) - Round 14<a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/beaumonta.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 462px; height: 384px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/beaumonta.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2011/alexandreadult.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 144px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2011/alexandreadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Alexandre Beaumont, Adult Knowledge Sim, 3rd LTW Become Media Magnate<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2010/cooper.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 136px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2010/cooper.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Cooper Bigfoot, Adult Bigfoot, 2nd LTW Become Media Magnate<br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Beaumont house, we had both sad and happy news. The sad news was that Armand Beaumont, father of Alexandre, finally passed away. The happy news was three-fold: Armand got to fulfill one final wish by adopting a puppy named Mojo, Alex found himself happily abducted by aliens and impregnated, and Alex also managed to achieve his second LTW of maxing all 7 skills. Also, Alex might have started a new hobby as Rosebud's first serial killer, using his Natural Science career reward of the cowplant to dispatch some of Rosebud's elders who have been around way too long. Let's see how the preggers Alex and the bereaved best bigfoot friend and puppy of the deceased do this round.</span><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 513px; height: 452px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>We begin the round by discovering that, apparently, all the knowledge in the world can't prevent a kitchen fire when the cook has to run off in the middle of prep to pee because of a full pregnancy bladder.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 404px; height: 400px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The chaos apparently spurred Alex into labor, though whether he was birthing an alien child or a cell phone was unclear.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 587px; height: 402px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Happily, it was a healthy and bouncing baby boy, who was quickly named Jupiter after Alex's favorite planet in the solar system.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 473px; height: 338px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Alex could hardly believe the miracle both of male birth and of the minty green skin and black hair that clearly was inherited from Jupiter's alien father.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 463px; height: 464px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Cooper, ever the helpful hand around the house, was always eager to take care of Jupiter when Alex was at work or otherwise indisposed. Jupiter would certainly grow up with an interesting family story... something that would make a good auto-biography someday with the title <span style="font-style: italic;">My Two (or sort of actually three) Dads</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 592px; height: 441px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Oh gee, old townie, however did you manage to find your way into that pen with the large, unusual plant offering a piece of birthday cake?<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/5.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 520px; height: 398px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Ahem...nothing to see here. Alex is just realizing that with a little one, he might need some more energy to raise a child who was rapidly approaching the active toddler years. And after all, why shouldn't he take advantage of the rewards coming from his hard work and careful study over the years?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 353px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Jupiter wasn't the only one growing, either. Mojo became an adult dog who looked surprisingly wolf-like in his coloration and coat. Cooper was instantly smitten with this domestic version of his former wildlife companions.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 438px; height: 384px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The feeling was clearly mutual. Mojo spent the majority of his time following Cooper around and sleeping on his bed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 418px; height: 184px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Cooper had to admit that he was proud and delighted to become the new master of this puppy, who had been adopted by the man who rescued Cooper from the wilderness. He felt it was a tribute to Armand that he was now Mojo's "daddy."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 465px; height: 484px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Alex, ever the inquisitive knowledge sim, decided that one visit with aliens wasn't enough. He simply HAD to contact them again, regardless of the consequences. And if you'd asked him, he would have admitted that he wouldn't mind another adorable green baby in the household...<br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/10.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/9.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 482px; height: 388px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>His venture was successful, and yet again, Alex visited with his neighbors from outer space and was unceremoniously dumped back on his front lawn when he'd worn out his welcome.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 444px; height: 476px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Though he wasn't showing any signs after his most recent encounter, Alex couldn't help but daydream and somehow <span style="font-style: italic;">know</span> that a little brother or sister was growing in his belly for Jupiter.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 537px; height: 374px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Oh, hi Makoto. Would you like some cake?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 341px; height: 249px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Let's not get too out of hand, here, Alex. I mean, I know you're a super-motivated knowledge sim and all, but let's at least have some respect for <strike>your elders</strike> <strike>your victims</strike> the dead.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 525px; height: 353px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Cooper, the best bigfoot in the whole world, came home with a second lifetime want achieved. Now that he was a media magnate, what did he think he'd like to try his hand at next?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 378px; height: 321px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Obviously, becoming a game designer. After all, he had a little honorary nephew that he wanted to see well-entertained as a child.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 402px; height: 380px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/23.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 383px; height: 401px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Awwwww, Adelaide and Armand are sad. Why? Because their son is a serial killer? No. Because their bed disappeared? No. (I put it in the back yard when I converted their room to the nursery to avoid angry ghosts.) I honestly think they're just sad they aren't around to enjoy their grandchild.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 489px; height: 442px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Despite the surprisingly quiet first trimester, Alex did indeed find himself pregnant once again. But there were more important things at hand, namely, baby Jupiter's first birthday!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/22.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 533px; height: 146px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Little Jupiter grew up into a very handsome, active, kind young man who would inevitably be an enormous slob. Judging from Jupiter's hair color and his vague familiarity with his alien "friends," Alex suspected that he had been inseminated by the Pollination Technician the aliens called <a href="http://applesims.net/multipt.html">Schroedinger</a>. If that was the case, Jupiter would grow up to be a very handsome young man.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 452px; height: 466px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Cooper, in addition to helping out with the raising of Jupiter, took his duties as Mojo's owner very seriously. Being a very skilled bigfoot, he decided that Mojo should be very skillful as well. He found Mojo to be very quick to learn new tricks and commands.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/25.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 586px; height: 367px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Mojo was turning out to be a very smart and good-natured dog, which was no doubt due a lot to Cooper's kind and nurturing love for the dog. Mojo even got along well with little Jupiter, which was surprising given <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/blooperadorable.jpg">how rough small children could be with pets without realizing it</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/24.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 551px; height: 490px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Once more that winter, a surprising event sparked the birth of a child. Alex was spending time training Jupiter when the ghost of his father appeared to him. They didn't speak, but Alex got the comforting feeling that both Armand and Adelaide were always around, watching him and loving him from beyond.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/26.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 422px; height: 404px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/26.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>That night Armand got to witness the birth of his second grandchild, if he was still floating around in the ether.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/27.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/28.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 515px; height: 492px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A baby sister, called Saturn, was born to the household that night, and Alex was certain that everyone there, both alive and beyond, were delighted to see her.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> Whew, it took me so long to get through university, I thought I would never make it back to the first house in the 'hood again. I'm really excited to see how Jupiter and Saturn turn out, as they are the first children born of my newly installed multi pt hack by applesims. I was hoping that Alex would get impregnated by one of the PTs with a recessive hair, but it looks like Saturn's "mommy" is Schroedinger as well. Something exciting turned up while I was playing a later lot this round that involves Alex, though, so expect some interesting changes to this household come round 15! Only other thing to mention with this house is that I am finding it REALLY hard to let Cooper age. Maybe I'll let the cowplant keep him alive forever. :X<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/blooperdelayed.jpg">Little bit of a delayed reaction here, Cooper, given that not only has Alex met aliens, he's also already given birth to their spawn. That, or you're just really eager for the pitter-patter of more green little feet in the house. :)</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20A%20Season%2014/blooperloveit.jpg">I'm sorry, but when I see a toddler eating kibble, it cracks me up EVERY TIME.</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-36433143299030044922011-06-01T14:50:00.000-07:002011-06-01T15:28:45.528-07:00University - Round 13 - Part 2: Urele Cham House<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/urelecham.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 516px; height: 416px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/urelecham.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/marcya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 163px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/marcya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Marc Beaumont, Young Adult Popularity Sim, LTW Become The Law</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/ginaya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 166px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/ginaya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gina Vinci, Young Adult Knowledge Sim, LTW Become Space Pirate</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/gioya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 169px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/gioya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Giovanni Vinci, Young Adult Fortune Sim, LTW Become Chief of Staff</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/graceya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 181px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/graceya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Grace Vinci, Young Adult Fortune Sim, LTW Become Hall of Famer</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/leahya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 189px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2012/Urele%20Cham%20House/leahya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Leah Vinci, Young Adult Family Sim, LTW Become Education Minister<br /><br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Urele Cham house, the Vincis took over the greek house... not only that, Leah and Grace took over the beds of the non-Vinci men in the house: Bastian Beaumont and his cousin Marc, and Homer Tanaka.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Even Zadie got a little carried away with all the woohoo and had a little hot tub party with Bastian...and then in bed with Homer a little later. It was woohoolapalooza! Leah started to really fall for Bastian and he got a hardy slap to the face when she caught him flirting with Gina Vinci. Soon, they both realized that what they had was more than a college fling, and Homer and Zadie began to realize the same thing. Homer, Bastian, and Zadie all graduated summa cum laude and left the remaining five underclassmen to survive their final two years. Let's see how they do.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /></div></div><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 451px; height: 422px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The first thing Marc Beaumont did as a new upperclassman was... TO BECOME A VAMPIRE?!?! No, he was just too dumb to come in out of the cold while stargazing at the telescope on the roof in his bathing suit.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 506px; height: 421px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Of course, the other members of the house weren't exactly making their brain cells happy either... life was pretty sweet in the greek house, and they had all the distractions they could crave.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 482px; height: 333px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Fortunately, it didn't seem to affect their studies too much. With the system they'd worked out (involving group paper-writing sessions in which they could trade ideas easily), they all managed to coast fairly painlessly through their courses.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 583px; height: 394px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Grace was just happy that ONE Beaumont boy remained at the Urele Cham house. Her sister was mooning over the recently-graduated Bastian, but as far as Grace was concerned, Marc wasn't half-bad himself.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 568px; height: 409px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Life was getting more exciting at Sim State, especially since a new "annex" had been built to their greek house. Urele Cham had gotten so popular with Rosebud teens that it required a second off-site housing unit just for additional members. They could have HELLA toga parties now, with another five members residing in the lot just behind the main house.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 404px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The kids continued to eat way too much pizza, despite the fact that they could catch and/or grow perfectly good food of their own. But what fun is blackened catfish when you can have greasy mozzarella cheese and spicy pepperoni on a thin crispy crust!?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 599px; height: 344px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>When there were no parties or woohoo sessions impending, the siblings in the house tended to stick to one another, which left Marc a little bit the odd man out.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/7.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 544px; height: 402px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Of course, in the case of the twins, he could always count on tomboyish Leah to end up making her sister angry, which was good for him. Why?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 381px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Well, because he was great at comforting Grace after a spat with her sister.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 509px; height: 449px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gina and Gio became even more close as their final two years at university came to a close. Neither of them really had any interest in romance (and neither had any good prospects, for that matter), so they usually ended up either studying or playing games together. Gio was good-natured enough that he didn't mind his sister's rabid love of anything involving gaming.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/19.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 628px; height: 434px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Though, if you'd asked him? He would admit that it did give him a private little giggle whenever he beat her at one of her precious video games.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 592px; height: 326px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They didn't always indulge in good, clean fun. When Gio set the kitchen stove on fire trying to flambé some bananas foster, Gina never let him hear the end of her teasing. "<span style="font-style: italic;">The best cook I know, and you poured flaming rum all over the stove! That was the smartest thing you've EVER done!"</span> But they loved one another, and this much was obvious. It was their way of expressing it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/13.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 516px; height: 450px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/12.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 421px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Leah found herself somewhat lost without Bastian there anymore. He had promised her he'd wait for her until she graduated, but the house seemed a little less fun without him around. She threw herself into other tasks, mastering her creativity and puttering around in the greenhouse out back. She wasn't MEANING to be productive, but somehow her distracting hobbies ended up making her quite a skilled young lady.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/14.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 498px; height: 381px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The time finally came when all five of the Urele Cham "elders" became seniors. This was truly their year. How did they spend it?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/16.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 545px; height: 383px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>With hot tub woohoo...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/18.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 546px; height: 345px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>...a shopping spree to purchase every single video game available for the greek house console...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/17.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 539px; height: 520px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>...and, of course, a massive bubble-blowing session. It would be a good year.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/20.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 461px; height: 375px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>With all that fun, the first semester passed in a whirlwind. Only one semester now separated the Rosebud teens from the rest of their lives.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/21.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 481px; height: 423px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Leah kept working in the garden, but now she felt less sad and more excited. Only a few more months until she could join Bastian in the "real world!"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/22.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 425px; height: 416px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gio spent his time maxing the rest of his skills so he was prepared to earn beaucoup bucks the second he got a job back home.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/23.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 527px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gina spent so many overnighters playing the new video games that the spindle spun out of control and shattered the video game console, forcing her to buy a replacement.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/24.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 404px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And because of (despite?) all this, the five Rosebud teens finally managed to graduate Sim State with full honors.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/25.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 468px; height: 460px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Marc!<br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/26.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 436px; height: 384px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/26.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Grace!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/29.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 456px; height: 402px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Leah!</div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/27.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 464px; height: 403px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gio!</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/28.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 508px; height: 452px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gina!<br /></div><br /><br /><br />See you guys back in Rosebud!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> This house was pretty entertaining this round, though I'm running out of things for the different generations to contribute to the greek house! I finally realized that the perfect gift from Gina to this gen would be every single video game it is possible to purchase for the sim gaming unit, but I've got no idea what it will be next round. Yet again, at the UC house, couples have managed to assert themselves, though sadly, Gina and Gio NEVER found anyone they were interested in at Sim State. Guess they're just late bloomers...or maybe they won't bloom at all. We'll find out when they get back to the main 'hood, I suppose. Two bloopers for you for these kidlets!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/blooperthief.jpg">Leah, you are TOTALLY ripping off your sister's love letter from Bastian. Don't think I don't see you.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20House/blooperwhut.jpg">Um, Marc...well, considering you don't <span style="font-weight: bold;">own</span> a toy dog, I'd have to say NO to that one!</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-56778552788271806812011-05-23T10:21:00.001-07:002011-05-23T11:20:16.359-07:00University - Round 13 - Part 1: Urele Cham Annex<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/unip1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 387px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/unip1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/nalaya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 149px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/nalaya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Nala Villalobos, Young Adult Knowledge Sim, LTW Become Media Magnate<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/doyleya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 178px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/doyleya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Doyle Vinci, Young Adult Family Sim, LTW Graduate 3 Children From University<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/riverya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 159px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/riverya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>River Vinci-Chin, Young Adult Knowledge Sim, LTW Become Criminal Mastermind<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/bijouya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 168px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/bijouya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bijou Beaumont, Young Adult Knowledge Sim, LTW Become Media Magnate<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/adamya.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 185px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/adamya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Adam Depiesse, Young Adult Knowledge Sim, LTW Become World Class Ballet Dancer<br /><br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This household full of YAs is brand new to the university scene, and since there were so many upper-classmen already inhabiting the primary Greek House, I decided that this round I needed to build a Urele Cham annex. It's right next door to the original Urele Cham house, and I downloaded it from TSR. (I don't remember from whom, but if anyone is interested, I can look it up. Many thanks to the hardworking people who do this kind of thing and offer up their work for lazy schlubs like me to use in game!) Four of the five freshman university students are Rosebud playables, and the special addition to this round is River's chosen man: Adam Depiesse, of the lovely turquoise-colored eyes. Let's see how these n00bs do their freshman year, shall we?</span><br /><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 602px; height: 395px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>It was that time of year again: the time when parents sadly watched their young ones leave the nest and fly into a college life that would most certainly corrupt them, the same way it did their parents. The tearful hugs goodbye filled the street as the Rosebud teens got their first look at their new home on campus.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 602px; height: 347px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Frankly, all of them were awed at the sight of the newest building on campus, built specifically for the Rosebud-centric greek fraternity, Urele Cham. All of the newest freshmen's parents had been members, but it still seemed amazing that they could be allowed such luxury being grandfathered in for a generation or two.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 448px; height: 399px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The four teens from four of the most prominent Rosebud families were confronted with a newcomer, but he seemed like he would fit right in. Adam Depiesse was accompanying his girlfriend River Vinci-Chin to Sim State for his four-year period of matriculation.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 552px; height: 151px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>There was nothing offensive about his personality, and he was certainly cute and loved River a lot, so no one minded that he was tagging along for the four-year ride.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 156px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The first thing everyone agreed upon was the pooling of their money to hire a butler. Sure, they could all cook and clean well enough, but who wanted to constantly be scrubbing toilets in between writing term papers? Dorms had cooks, so what was so wrong with having a cook/maid/repairman?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 425px; height: 458px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>River immediately was drawn to the music-related objects in the house. Her mother had been a rock goddess in her younger days, and River had always had a love for music. She wasn't the only one appreciating the amenities.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 424px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>With personal computers already outfitted in the rooms, it was no problem to get some quiet space to study in a house full of people. Adam definitely had a bit of self-conscious work ethic, feeling like the one person in the house who had to prove his mettle to be accepted by the grandfathered Rosebud teens in the Urele Cham fraternity.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 560px; height: 409px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The other four settled in comfortably. Bijou took to reading the paper every day, thinking that the combination of social and intellectual news was important for her to follow. Her two loves (lots of friends and lots of brains) were still going strong.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 549px; height: 411px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>After the first few weeks, the newest Sim State attendees began to settle into comfortable habits. Their butler always had exceptional variations of traditional "college food" on hand. Sure, burgers were classic dorm food, but not all of them had slices of blackened portobello mushrooms and fresh pesto on them.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/12.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 477px; height: 383px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Adam definitely felt like he was riding on the laurels of his Rosebud friends' parents hard work, and he was, but he didn't mind as long as he could be riding on River too. River had no complaints; she was just happy she could drag her childhood friend and great love along with her through the university years.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/14.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 327px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Somehow, the first semester passed amidst a blur of term papers and gourmet meals. All the kids in the Annex got A+ grades.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/13.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 334px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>River truly came out of her shell in university. Having spent so much time alone with her hippy parents made her go a bit crazy when she had some freedom in university. At least she made friends easily, though.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 410px; height: 496px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She was definitely one of the more... "unique" members of the greek house. The butler may not have appreciated her creating extra work for him by demolishing his neat piles of autumn leaves, but the neighborhood boys certainly didn't mind.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/16.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 477px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>River truly felt fulfilled at Sim State. She loved her parents and the upbringing she'd had, but it was nice to have more modern conveniences like a treadmill and an indoor heated pool instead of constantly growing your own vegetables, catching your own fish, and sleeping in freezing cold tents for "fun."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/17.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 414px; height: 411px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Adam definitely seemed to appreciate the svelt body that all the treadmill and pool time gave his girlfriend.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/18.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 462px; height: 437px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Woohoo was certainly on the minds of more Rosebud YAs than just River and Adam. Bijou had a tiny crush on Doyle Vinci, who was just so adorable with his seemingly clueless hippy-dippy nature.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/19.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 396px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Yeeeeek. Doyle wasn't too interested back, though. Wonder why...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/20.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 520px; height: 435px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>As the Rosebud YAs began to adjust to college life, they also began to party a little heartier. They all became especially fond of the "fruit punch" that ran freely from the tap in the pool area.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/21.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 496px; height: 421px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Adam really ramped up the greek house factor finishing his punch benders by crushing the cup against his forehead.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/22.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 489px; height: 346px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Nala was the quintessential "cool chick" of the house, honing her trick shots at pool and always able to make it to class on time no matter how much fruit punch she'd had to drink the night before.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/23.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 474px; height: 474px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The whole house went a bit crazy the week before freshman finals. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Llama:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">This is so not going to end well.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/25.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 359px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Caught off-guard despite their knowledge of the semester schedule, the YAs of the annex had some major cram sessions right before taking their final exams.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/24.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 466px; height: 354px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Mercifully, they all passed their courses with flying colors, which was a miracle given the hangovers they were nursing as they suffered through the exam season.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/26.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 569px; height: 414px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/26.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The exhaustion they were met with following their "party first, study later" mentality freshman year caused them to be a bit more dilligent as they began their lives as sophomores at Sim State.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/27.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 461px; height: 427px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They learned the fine art of balance fairly quickly. Hard core study sessions were followed by mini-parties to celebrate a week of hard work, another round of study sessions beginning on the following Monday.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/28.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/30.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 515px; height: 473px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/30.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They started trying to make skilling fun, too, which helped them gain necessary knowledge while still not weighing down their spirits with *too* much seriousness. [Pictured front to back: Doyle, River, Nala, Bijou]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/32.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 457px; height: 553px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/32.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>With all the hot young bodies and young adult hormones taking over the annex, it was frankly amazing that any of them managed to get ANYTHING academic done, but somehow they managed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/33.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 508px; height: 387px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/33.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And though the primary house would have been embarrassed to admit so, the young'uns were putting their upperclassman elders to shame!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />[[</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Author's Notes:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> This round, I decided that I had SO many Rosebud teens going to college that I needed a secondary Greek House. Thus, the Annex came to be. I have to admit that playing college students in a new house made me enjoy playing university a lot more, I guess just because of the change of scenery. Adam won the right to go to uni with River because ACR told me that she liked him better than her other high school romance, pink-eyed Matt Layhew. The kids really seemed to enjoy life in this new house, so from now on, there will be two "greek houses" on campus...one you have to be a member to move into and one that is like training wheels for true Urele Cham members. The young-uns will move up into the primary house when they become upper-classmen so the new dorm will remain open for new arrivals. I some bloopers for you, so let's get on to them! Official Urele Cham greek house update is next!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Bloopers:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />At one of the dorms (maybe the Landgrabb one), I discovered that my game had gone a little glitchy and made the hot tub invisible. River and Adam apparently couldn't wait to woohoo in the privacy of their own annex bedroom, so the following highly amusing "Invisible Hot Tub WooHoo" series of photos is brought to you by my game's bugginess:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperiht.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 483px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperiht.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 464px; height: 378px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 579px; height: 401px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 507px; height: 350px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 408px; height: 327px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 485px; height: 305px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/blooperihtwh5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Frankly, most of that just looks painful, so better you than me, guys.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/University%20Season%2013/Urele%20Cham%20Annex/bloopernotlookinggood.jpg">If that's one of your primary wants, Doyle, I don't think ur doin it right.</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-26501994139753329782011-05-15T06:38:00.000-07:002011-05-15T07:09:28.162-07:00The Vincis (G) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/vincig.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 502px; height: 495px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/vincig.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2012/gemmaadult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 168px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2012/gemmaadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gemma Vinci, Adult Romance Sim, LTW Become Professional Party Guest</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2012/willowadult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 188px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2012/willowadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Willow Vinci, Adult Romance Sim, LTW Become Rock God<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2012/puckteen.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 190px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2012/puckteen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Puck Vinci, Teen Popularity Sim, LTW Become an Icon<br /><br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round, Willow, Gemma, and Puck purchased a house in "downtown" Rosebud and had very little money to decorate due to the price of the land and building. The sisters both quickly got jobs, Willow in the paranormal career track and Gemma in her chosen field of slackerdom. Puck aged well from a cute little boy into a badass teenager, and the house gradually filled up and got decorated as money started trickling into the family bank accounts. Let's see how these three do this round.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 498px; height: 430px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>If Puck had learned anything from living with two romance-driven people like his mom and his aunt, he had learned that there were two things you needed to be super popular. The first was charisma, that natural charm.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 455px; height: 434px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The second was a hot bod. Yoga may not have been the manliest activity in the world, but it sure built up his muscles. Puck would have preferred to do something like run a treadmill or lift weights, but he knew they couldn't afford this expensive equipment, and Rosebud hadn't gotten its own gym yet. So yoga it was, and he delighted to see his muscles begin to define themselves.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 434px; height: 435px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>All his hard work quickly paid off. He was soon getting off the bus with the beautiful Tabitha Devivio, a <a href="http://silvervaleprosperity.blogspot.com/">Silvervale</a> transplant.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 504px; height: 580px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Their casual conversation quickly turned to flirting, and soon Puck could see that she was starting to crush on him a bit. The feeling was mutual; Tabitha was gorgeous, and she still had that "new girl" appeal.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 589px; height: 427px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>That day, Puck managed to get his first kiss from the brunette beauty, and he felt himself beginning a rocket ride to popularity.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 576px; height: 371px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Willow wasn't having quite as much fun, to her chagrin. Sure, she was making good money and getting promoted regularly at work, but all work and no play made Willow a dull, and grouchy, girl.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 515px; height: 418px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gemma, too, found herself spending so much time in the house that she was almost turning into a dorky knowledge sim. Not that there wasn't value in learning, but what about <span style="font-style: italic;">fun</span>?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 492px; height: 375px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Fortunately, she at least satisfied some of her more romantic needs at work. Being a professional party guest had its perks, and now that she'd become the queen of the scene, she could relax and start picking off some of the men she'd met at work for more private parties.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 608px; height: 370px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The three members of the household got along great. Sure, they were an unusual family, but they all understood each other, and they frequently had breakfast in the wee hours of the morning, when all three were getting home from their social pursuits.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 318px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Gemma, inspired by the delicious food she ate at all of her soirees, started contemplating a career shift into something that was...well, a bit more lucrative.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 390px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>As she started researching all the things she would need to do to make her dream come true, it occurred to her that she <span style="font-style: italic;">was</span> sort of turning into a dorky knowledge sim against her will. She simply sighed and accepted it...though she did make a promise to herself to go on no fewer than three dates a week.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/14.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 474px; height: 369px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>After all, if hardworking Willow could manage to still booty call her old flames and date new people, so could Gemma.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/17.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 512px; height: 383px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>If Gemma had to listen to one more night of Willow having fun with one of her suitors, she'd scream anyway. Best to find her own and try to drown her sister out.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/12.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 473px; height: 382px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Puck's popularity began to really take hold in his school, and he brought home yet another Silvervale transfer, this time the ginger-headed Lindsay Wade. As pretty as Tabitha was, there was something fiery and appealing about Lindsay that Puck found entrancing.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 434px; height: 408px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>In fact, he found that he couldn't stop thinking about her, even when working on homework for his favorite subjects.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/16.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 566px; height: 450px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>He finally gave up trying to concentrate and called her. Tabitha would probably be jealous, but they weren't going steady, and how could he resist this new pretty girl in his arms? If this was what popularity brought him, he was okay with having to deal with the tough choices it brought.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> I am SO glad that Puck brought home some of the Silvervale kids. I really think he hit it off with Lindsay, so she may be joining him when he goes to college. I guess it depends on if he can keep his lips off any OTHER females he might bring home on the school bus, lol. Poor Willow and Gemma are dying from not getting any romance action, so I'm going to have to try harder next round to allow them to play at least as hard as they work. I got a little caught up in trying to get money into the household.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/bloopersocute.jpg">Not a blooper, but their kiss was so picture perfect and adorable! </a>// <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20G%20Season%2013/blooperbootycall.jpg">Lol, Willow, you just can't let go of the past, can you?</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-6193302428481770232011-05-09T13:40:00.000-07:002011-05-09T15:27:31.744-07:00The Vincis (F) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/vincif.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 497px; height: 530px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/vincif.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2011/liamadult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 175px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2011/liamadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Liam Vinci, Adult Popularity Sim, 2nd LTW Have 20 Simultaneous Pet Best Friends<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2011/conoradult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 184px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2011/conoradult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Conor Vinci, Adult Family Sim, LTW Graduate 3 Children From University</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2011/francesadult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 175px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2011/francesadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Frances Vinci, Adult Family Sim, LTW Marry Off 6 Children<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2011/jennyadult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 186px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2011/jennyadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Jenny Vinci, Adult Popularity Sim, LTW Become Media Magnate</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2012/luciatoddler.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 165px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2012/luciatoddler.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Lucia Vinci, Toddler Romance Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Vinci house, the four housemates began to really get to know and become close with one another. Conor reached the top of the education career, Liam reached the top of the law enforcement career (thus reaching his LTW), and the girls both made great progress in their own career tracks. Liam was abducted by aliens while trying to skill for his job, thereby getting pregnant, and Frances gave birth to she and Conor's first child, Lucia.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Lucia aged up well from an infant to a toddler. Let's check in with them again this season...</span><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 488px; height: 413px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>In a house with four adults and one toddler, the toddler is queen. That was what little Lucia Vinci was discovering in her toddler years. There was always someone to play with her, always someone to give her a bottle, always someone to take her out of the crib or change her diaper. It was great. All the adults adored her, so there was never any shortage of people willing to take care of Lucia.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 420px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Jenny found that she was starting to have a bit of child envy. She, too, wanted to have a baby with her husband. Maybe not as many children as Conor and Frances wanted, but maybe one or two would be nice...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 540px; height: 407px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unfortunately for Jenny, everyone else in the house seemed to be having luck with pregnancy except her. Frances was exhibiting the first signs of a second pregnancy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 439px; height: 379px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>As for Liam, he was a little farther along in the process. One sunny day, he started feeling spasming pains in his abdomen and felt sure it was because of his alien abduction. He'd heard rumors about men becoming impregnated by aliens in this town, and sure he'd been putting on a little weight since his abduction, but it wasn't until this moment that he really felt sure that he shared a fate with all those men.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 542px; height: 414px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Yeah, Jenny, that's pretty much my reaction to that pop-up too. TWINS. OOPS-BABY, NATURAL ALIEN TWINS. Like this house wasn't slated to be full enough already. Sigh.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 447px; height: 401px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>But Liam, Jenny, and I all eventually succumbed to the cuteness that is the adorable black-eyed little alien baby. Or babies, as the case may be.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 296px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They had one of each - a boy and a girl - and they got the astrological names of Perseus and Lynx. Jenny had to admit that even though her husband had beat her to the punch of having babies, the two newcomers were adorable little bundles of neon green joy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 461px; height: 306px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Since she didn't have any maternity leave to take advantage of, Jenny went back to work on her regular schedule and continued to work her way up the journalism food chain. She actually loved going to her job...it was what she truly wanted to do with her life, and she knew she could reach the top.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 506px; height: 400px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A few weeks later, it was time for another important event: the birthday of little Lucia. All of the adults had to admit that, although it was hard for them all to watch the first baby of the household growing up, it would certainly be a relief not to have three toddlers in the house at the same time...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 263px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Lucia grew into a pretty, if somewhat stern-looking, young lady. She definitely grew to favor her mother in looks every day.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 492px; height: 482px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Speaking of her mother, Frances was delighted when she finally started showing a bit of baby belly. She wanted at least three children, and Conor wanted at least six. She was fine with doubling her number, and she knew that he had come from such a large family that six seemed small.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/12.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 506px; height: 420px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unfortunately, this pregnancy seemed a bit harder on her than usual. She cramped frequently, and everything she ate seemed to upset her stomach. One night at dinner, she started to feel particularly badly.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/13.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 413px; height: 405px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The pain in her stomach was so bad that it made her feel nauseous, and she stood in the dining room sweating, trying to control her gag reflex so she could get some more nourishing comfort soup into her body. She was sure if she could eat just one bowl of the healthy stuff, it would make her feel infinitely better.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/14.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 476px; height: 402px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Tragically, she lost her baby later that night in a miscarriage. It was completely unexpected, totally shocking, and utterly devastating. She had never felt so desolate and heartbroken as she did in that moment.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 486px; height: 409px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Over the next few weeks, Frances spent most of her time in bed, crying herself into exhaustion and then finally sleeping. Even her sleep was restless, however. She frequently woke in a cold sweat, jolting up in bed from a nightmare that some terrible accident had happened to Lucia...that she had lost another child. Frances had never known depression so deep.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/16.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 464px; height: 368px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Her sole comfort was Conor. He was the best husband any woman could have, she came to understand in that low time in her life. He was eternally tender and would just lie with her in bed, holding her and letting her cry if she needed to, or kissing her and telling her that she was beautiful and that they wouldn't let this stop them. There would be more beautiful babies in the future for Conor and Frances Vinci, he assured her.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/17.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/18.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 609px; height: 358px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The whole household was sensitive and sympathetic to Frances. They all knew how much family meant to her. So it was that when it came time for Liam's twin babies to grow into toddlers, Jenny allowed Frances to have the honor of holding Lynx.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/19.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 457px; height: 490px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>With his squinty little eyes and his pouty little mouth, not to mention the definitive sharp Vinci cheekbones and black hair, Perseus made for one adorable toddler.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/20.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 408px; height: 422px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Not to be outdone, Lynx too was a little beauty, loudly touting her twin-ness with her brother with the same slanting eyes, defined cheekbones, and pouty lips. They were utterly adorable, and Liam and Conor had to admit that it was kinda sorta totally AWESOME that Liam had had twins. They both hoped that Perseus and Lynx would be as close as their daddy and his twin were.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/23.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 541px; height: 138px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/24.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 535px; height: 137px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They were good kids, too. As they grew, their personalities became more clear. They were very different in some ways, but they shared a lot of positive traits. Both were very kind and friendly, even if they differed elsewhere.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/22.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 425px; height: 411px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Scenes like this became typical in the Vinci house. Whichever adults were home were in charge of helping train the toddlers. They were both bright, but Liam and Conor gained new respect for their parents trying to teach two sets of skills simultaneously.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/21.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 386px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Liam was totally delighted with his alien children. Sure, he hadn't expected or planned for them, but they quickly became the apple of his eye. Even Jenny, who wanted a baby of her own someday, fell deeply in love with the little ones. Liam made so many grilled cheese sandwiches for his new picky little eaters that he sometimes felt like a grilled cheese. Mmm, grilled cheese...it was kind of like the perfect food....<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/25.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 514px; height: 410px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Frances, meanwhile, was suffering a bit of a private matter. She couldn't stop throwing up. At first, she thought it might have been her body still revolting from the harsh trauma it had been through. But as the illness continued in a distinct morning pattern, she began to have her suspicions, which she kept very closely to herself. She and Conor had only slept together a few tender times while she was recovering from her miscarriage. Could her body really have accepted a new baby that fast? And what would happen with this baby? Would she lose this one too? Her heart and head were in turmoil, and so she kept her mouth shut until she knew for a fact what was going on...and until she knew how to voice her worries to Conor.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/27.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 544px; height: 394px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She continued on as normal, helping Lucia with her homework and still remaining closed-lipped about her situation. No one seemed to notice a thing...probably because if Frances had a bad day from time to time, the other adults in the house could certainly understand why.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/26.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 494px; height: 384px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/26.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She even went back to work, quickly bringing home a promotion and even some friends. [That's our lovely Aurélie Beaumont there!]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/28.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 410px; height: 421px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>It wasn't until she grew a little baby belly that she finally had the nerve to tell everyone that she was certain she was pregnant again. Immediately, everyone swept her off her feet and catered to her like she was a queen. Nothing bad would happen to their family, and they would make sure of it. Somehow, this special treatment made Frances feel safer and more calm than she had since the miscarriage. She began to relax and even tentatively become excited about the new baby.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/29.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 422px; height: 336px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Even Conor's Mom, Caitlin, stopped by to help out around the house when everyone else was at work. Caitlin loved both of her daughter-in-laws and her grandchildren madly, so it was no sacrifice for her to spend a day in a house full of children and a pregnant lady. In fact, she found it was kind of nice not to BE the pregnant lady in a crazy house full of people for a change! Her presence soothed Frances even more so that the worry about the miscarriage faded almost completely from memory, and Frances began to enjoy being pregnant again for the first time.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/30.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/31.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 550px; height: 397px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/31.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The final upswing in events at the Vinci compound was Jenny finally being promoted to media magnate. She'd achieved her lifetime goal, and now she knew she really wanted to settle down and start her family with Liam. She wanted a baby, at least one, that was hers and Liam's together.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/32.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 329px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/32.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Of course...if she could become an amazing and celebrated small business owner at the same time, that would be sweeeeeeeet.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> This house just talks to me. I kind of love it. More than any other house in the neighborhood, this family always presents a story for me to tell that goes beyond the typical "sims doing the same thing in different environments" thing that sometimes goes on in other households. I was SO sad when Frances lost the baby; that and Liam's twins were a total surprise. Solely because of this house, I have now installed the more than 8 sims per lot hack because I want Jenny to be able to have a natural baby with Liam while Frances and Conor also pursue their goal of having six children. I really, really love this family. :) It's hectic, but it's also fantastic! A few bloopers for you...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/blooperironicallyenough.jpg">A message for Liam. When I saw it, I thought, "Well, it's funny you should say that..."</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/blooperOHAI.jpg">Parent-child calisthenics? Nope, just an overexcited giant wave hello from mother to son. <3</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20F%20Season%2013/blooperrottenrotten.jpg">Why is it that I'm not surprised that Aline Beaumont, with her zero nice points, is apparently taking over as the new neighborhood paper thief?</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-69661819797225928662011-05-05T15:01:00.000-07:002011-05-06T12:29:43.917-07:00The Vincis (E) - Round 13<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/vincie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 510px; display: block; height: 492px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/vincie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2011/bethadult.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 150px; display: block; height: 167px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2011/bethadult.jpg" border="0" /></a>Beth Vinci, Adult Popularity Sim, LTW Become Hall of Famer</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2011/silvioadult.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 150px; display: block; height: 172px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2011/silvioadult.jpg" border="0" /></a>Silvio Vinci, Adult Fortune Sim, LTW Become Prestidigitator</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2012/rubychild.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 150px; display: block; height: 181px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2012/rubychild.jpg" border="0" /></a>Ruby Vinci, Child Popularity Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2012/pearlinfant.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 150px; display: block; height: 185px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2012/pearlinfant.jpg" border="0" /></a>Pearl Vinci, Infant Family Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last time at the Vinci house, Silvio and Beth got busy with the baby-makin'! Beth managed to get in peak physical condition to aid in her LTW despite popping out a second baby and spending most of her free time at home potty training Ruby. Silvio helped too...though more with the baby-makin' part than the potty training part. Let's see how this new little family is doing this round, shall we?</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 479px; display: block; height: 350px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 524px; display: block; height: 368px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/2.jpg" border="0" /></a>The fall season started off well for the adults in the household. Both of them were making slow but steady progress in their chosen career fields. Silvio was promoted to International Sim of Mystery (a job in which his neurotic dedication to order and cleanliness surely helped him), and Beth was promoted to Assistant Coach (a job in which her new-found mother's ability to manage people who act like children certainly did the same).<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 416px; display: block; height: 474px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/3.jpg" border="0" /></a>Beth was even trying to make some new friends with co-workers she'd just met.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 393px; display: block; height: 507px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/4.jpg" border="0" /></a>Somewhat surprisingly, given her rather brusque personality and somewhat cruel sense of humor, she seemed to be succeeding!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 426px; display: block; height: 497px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/5.jpg" border="0" /></a>Of course, there was always some tending to Ruby to do. Ruby had been sort of an oops-baby, but that didn't mean they couldn't do a good job raising her. She was a lot nicer to be around now that the possibility of a poopy diaper was no longer in the cards.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 475px; display: block; height: 371px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/6.jpg" border="0" /></a>More promotions quickly followed. Beth learned an important lesson that day: shocking your co-workers with a joy buzzer is clearly a good way to endear yourself in the workplace and cement potential promotions.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 471px; display: block; height: 366px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/7.jpg" border="0" /></a>Silvio learned that when you aren't busy being barefoot and pregnant all the time, it's a lot easier to achieve your lifetime goals. He came home that fall with his dream job: head of the SCIA.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 374px; display: block; height: 317px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/8.jpg" border="0" /></a>Of course, as soon as he had the job, he realized it wasn't what he really wanted to do with his life. What he really wanted to do was... be on STAGE. Yes. The entertainment business was the life for him and his measly one nice point.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 548px; display: block; height: 388px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/10.jpg" border="0" /></a>Ruby observed her parents and learned important life lessons: like that throwing a water balloon at someone was a great way to make friends. Fortunately, her victim this time was the nice-challenged Caroline Beaumont, so it all worked out.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 401px; display: block; height: 411px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/9.jpg" border="0" /></a> Soon it was time for the youngest bundle of joy to grow up into a pooping, screaming, toilet-playing machine.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 407px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She grew up into a lovely young lady who was a good mix of her parents, and she was shockingly nice coming from a father with only one nice point.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 139px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Perhaps she was to be the odd one in the family who didn't think pranking was a nice way to make friends. She was almost better suited to be a popularity sim than her older sister, but her friendly, outgoing nature certainly wouldn't hurt her in her eventual hunt for a mate.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/13.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 570px; height: 454px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Skill training began in earnest once more in the Vinci household. Pearl was bright and learned quickly, though perhaps it also helped that her parents were a bit more experienced this time around.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/15.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 179px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/16.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 209px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Silvio had some tough decisions to make at work, but he seemed to be making the right choices. In a fit of jealousy, he attacked another gang of pirates and secured for himself and his family a hefty $32,000 bonus. It really helped build up their depleted finances. After building and furnishing their large house, they were running on fumes.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/14.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 382px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The influx of money gave Silvio enough aspiration points to choose a secondary aspiration. Romance seemed like a good one. Now that the girls were a little older, maybe he and Beth could revisit some of their romantic bedroom activities.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/18.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 465px; height: 414px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Fully trained with all the necessary toddler skills, Pearl was ready to have her next birthday.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/19.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 561px; height: 382px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Silvio quickly realized when he looked at his second daughter that he would need a very large stick to keep the boys away once she turned into a teenager.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> This house is pretty fun to play. I think the girls turned out pretty cute despite having two parents with kind of weird features. I think Pearl is going to turn out gorgeous, though as you'll see from one of my bloopers, she looked downright SCARY when she first transitioned to toddlerhood. I don't know if any other kids are in the works for these two. I might just let them woohoo autonomously, and if risky woohoo decides they need another child, so be it. A few bloopers for you...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/blooperAHH.jpg">The horror of Pearl's infant-to-toddler transition. AHHH!</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/blooperprettiestnanny.jpg">Prettiest nanny evar. <3 I kind of want to extract her from game and reinsert her as an adult townie.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20E%20Season%2013/blooperwegetit.jpg">So...what is it you want again?</a> ]]</span><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-82088683558374491342011-05-01T08:58:00.001-07:002011-05-01T09:18:06.956-07:00The Villaloboses (E) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/villalobose.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 562px; height: 492px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/villalobose.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2010/imeldaadult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 161px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2010/imeldaadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Imelda Vinci, Adult Knowledge Sim, 3rd LTW Become Media Magnate<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2010/marquezadult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 163px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2010/marquezadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Marquez Villalobos, Adult Knowledge Sim, 3rd LTW Become Professional Party Guest<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2012/antonychild.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 183px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2012/antonychild.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Antony Villalobos, Child Fortune Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2012/julianchild.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 184px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2012/julianchild.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Julian Villalobos, Child Popularity Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Villalobos household, Marquez and Imelda both reached their second LTWs. The boys grew up well from infants to toddlers, and then from toddlers to children. Cinnamon hated the kids as toddlers and sadly passed away before they grew up into less annoying humans. With both of the kitties gone, Imelda decided it was time to adopt the next set of "breeders" her mother had given up for adoption: Roux and Brownie. Let's see how this little family and their nearly elderly kitties get along this round</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 404px; height: 205px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The first thing that happened in the Villalobos house that fall was for Imelda to make yet another career change. She didn't really feel that she needed to keep chasing her dreams, but now that she was a successful professional, lateral moves from career to career were both a way to keep her interested in her work AND to keep nice promotions coming into the household. This was important since they would have two boys to send to college in the not-too-distant future.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><br /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 417px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 459px; height: 429px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And go to college they undoubtedly would. Both boys were coming home with A+ report cards on a regular basis. School didn't seem very challenging for them as long as they kept up with their homework, and Imelda contemplated sending them to private school.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 406px; height: 502px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They didn't suffer socially either. The boys were constantly bringing home friends, though most of the time it was the same two girls: a similarly-aged set of female twins, Sophie and Susannah Beaumont.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 537px; height: 443px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Now that the boys were older, Imelda and Marquez found they had a bit more leisure time together, which was fine with them. The infant and toddler years had been demanding, and they enjoyed the ability to sneak a bit of private time when the boys were at school or playing with their after-school friends.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 411px; height: 462px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 423px; height: 533px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Even the kitties were becoming less work. As they aged into elders, they required a lot less play time and spend a great deal of their days napping in warm patches of sunshine. Life had become suddenly calm for Marquez and Imelda.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 563px; height: 406px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Imelda quickly reached her goal of becoming a media magnate and wasn't sure what she wanted to do next, but she could stick in this position for a while. It payed okay, and besides, it left her with fairly regular hours that allowed her time with her family.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 580px; height: 485px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The boys liked having her home in the evenings too... it meant they were always allowed to have over their friends.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> These guys were surprisingly "boring" this round. I like playing them, but they mostly just did normal young family things. Homework, working, cooking, studying, playing with the cats. The boys should age into teenagers next round, I think, which I'm very excited for since I think they're going to be mega handsome. No clue whether there will be chemistry with the Beaumont twins or not, but I love that the two pairs have become friends. Lots of bloopers for you this round!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/11.jpg">Imelda looks like she's about to choke on her dinner at this topic of conversation.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/bloopernothankyou.jpg">No thank you, we don't want any.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/blooperisaidNO.jpg">I <span style="font-style: italic;">said</span> no thank you.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/blooperisaidnothankyou.jpg">NO, DAMMIT!!!</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20E%20Season%2013/bloopernotright.jpg">This just seems inappropriate. </a>]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-53809084762718635112011-04-25T12:55:00.000-07:002011-04-25T14:35:24.933-07:00The Beaumonts (D) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/beaumontd.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 502px; height: 412px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/beaumontd.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2010/aurelieadult.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 153px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2010/aurelieadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Aurélie Beaumont, Adult Family Sim, LTW Marry Off 6 Children</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2010/guillermoadult.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 164px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2010/guillermoadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Guillermo Beaumont, Adult Family Sim, LTW Marry Off 6 Children</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/alinetoddler.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 175px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/alinetoddler.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Aline Beaumont, Toddler Fortune Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/carolinetoddler.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 199px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/carolinetoddler.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Caroline Beaumont, Toddler Popularity Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">**NOT PICTURED**</span><br /><br />Sophie Beaumont, Infant Knowledge Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br />Susannah Beaumont, Infant Popularity Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round, Aurélie and Guillermo enjoyed their newfound wolfiness. Aurélie popped out two sets of cheesecake twins, all four of whom were messy assholes thanks to their parents now-non-existent neat and nice points. Fun! Guillermo also got beat up by an old man and cried like a baby. Let's see how this rapidly growing family does this round!</span><br /><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 384px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A growing family needs a growing home, and even though Aurélie and Guillermo didn't have much space, they added on where and how they could. Having added on a third-floor nursery and a second-floor bedroom, it was now time for the third and hopefully final addition: a bottom floor nursery.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 632px; height: 536px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>With these new rooms, the Beaumonts now had an infant nursery, a toddler playroom and bedroom, and a bedroom for when the oldest set of twins got out of their diapers. It worked out well, despite their lack of space.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 573px; height: 486px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The oldest set of twins happily entertained themselves in their toddler area, which was large enough for all the toys they could want, their cribs, and happily barricaded off from the rest of the house by the staircase.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 536px; height: 554px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />There was always enough to entertain them or frustrate them, depending on the toy they chose.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 513px; height: 400px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They weren't slated for toddlerhood long, though. Early on that fall, it was time for the girls' birthday party.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 413px; height: 554px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Aline</div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 420px; height: 553px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Caroline</div><br /><br /><br /><br />They grew up into lovely young girls whose parents embarrassingly decided to dress them alike, for which they would certainly get crap as long as they were in public schools.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 381px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Aline had to make a quick exit from the birthday festivities, however, because she was feeling a little nauseous. Mhm. That's right. You wanted this, Aurélie! You're the one who wants to marry off six children, so don't look at me!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 503px; height: 421px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Aurélie thus started baking up the last batch of babies while the first and second batches happily cooed or played away.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 518px; height: 421px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The girls got moved to the second floor, vacating the upstairs toddler area in preparation for when their current infant sisters, Sophie and Susannah, grew up, which would be happening with shocking rapidity.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 444px; height: 414px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>They still played with the toys upstairs, though; especially the play table. Plus, the windows were so high up that they had a great view of Rosebud's tiny "downtown" area. It was fun to spy on the neighbors, they soon discovered.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/12.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/13.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 594px; height: 415px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Despite their wolfy tendencies, Aurélie and Guillermo still managed to be great parents. A little bit of a meat craving didn't prevent them from making sure their girls got their homework done! Aline and Caroline didn't mind too much... if they kept up their grades, they could go where most of the other kids in Rosebud went: to the private school. Yeah, they'd have to wear matching uniforms, but at least everyone else would match too there.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/14.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 576px; height: 569px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Besides, their mom and dad always tried to take the sting of boredom off the homework process by playing a few good games of red hands afterward, the most fun game that ever existed in the Sim Universe besides possibly Swing Me Around, but that made you puke.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 482px; height: 404px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Beaumonts were an amazingly happy and well-adjusted family given how mean and messy they all were.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/16.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 551px; height: 405px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And two more mean, messy children were about to grow up and start wreaking havoc in the world! It was time for Sophie and Susannah's birthdays.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/17.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 428px; height: 534px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Sophie, who has her mommy's and maternal grandparents' blue eyes, and her paternal grandparents' black hair.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/18.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 443px; height: 500px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Susannah, who has her paternal grandmom Nerissa's eyes and her daddy's hair. I think she gets the scowl from Guillermo.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/21.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 413px; height: 362px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Mercifully, this birthday meant that the infant nursery was now empty, which was a good thing since...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/22.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 404px; height: 278px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/23.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 287px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Third and final cheesecake twins Etienne (FINALLY A BOY!) and Elodie joined the Beaumont clan.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/24.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 452px; height: 399px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The babies were happily nestled in their nursery, and the oldest girls came home with happy news for their parents: their studying had paid off and they were both now on the honor roll with straight A's.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/25.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 412px; height: 475px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Aurélie found that life was rather grand when she wasn't waddling around with a big pregnant belly or throwing up all the time. While the oldest girls were at school, the middle girls were playing, and the youngest twins were sleeping, she found she enjoyed revisiting some of her hobbies again.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/26.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 415px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/26.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Her time would only get better as the children grew up. Sure, it was hard to see her babies getting bigger, but the independence that came with birthdays sure was a big help.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/27.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 480px; height: 366px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Elodie, who has her daddy's brown hair and her paternal grandmom Nerissa's green eyes.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/28.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 407px; height: 325px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Etienne, who has daddy's brown hair and brown eyes (brown eyes also stemming from grandmommy Catalina).<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Aurélie and Guillermo finally felt like their family was complete. With their six children, their home was full to bursting, and frankly, Aurélie was tired of being barefoot and pregnant all the time. Now it was time to raise their messy little brats as best they knew how...which surprisingly, was pretty well.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> I so love this family. I find them to be an endless source of mirth for me. Guillermo looks all weird, and now their kids look all weird, and they're all big sloppy jerks because Aurélie and Guillermo have NO nice or clean points thanks to the lycanthropy. Over all, I love this weird little family that should be dysfunctional but actually functions quite well. I'm anxious to see if some of the kids turn out as bizarre-looking as teens and adults as they are as children. :) A few bloopers for you...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/blooperjumping.jpg">Jumping on the bed is an adventure when you have the bottom bunk.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/blooperjumping2.jpg">Really, Caroline, you're going to wake your sister up.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20D%20Season%2013/blooperwolfietrouble.jpg">Q: What's worse than a crabby, hormone-ridden, pregnant wife? A: A crabby, hormone-ridden, pregnant WEREWOLF wife. :)</a> ]]</span><br /></div></div></div></div>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-36422118953231832092011-04-23T13:52:00.001-07:002011-04-23T14:15:35.511-07:00The Vincis (D) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/vincid.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 512px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/vincid.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2012/inarielder.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 205px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2012/inarielder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Inari Vinci-Chin, Adult Family Sim, 2nd LTW Reach Golden Anniversary</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Vinci/VD/salvatoreadult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 131px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Vinci/VD/salvatoreadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Salvatore Vinci-Chin, Adult Knowledge Sim, 2nd LTW Become Head of the SCIA</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2012/riverteen.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 179px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2012/riverteen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>River Vinci-Chin, Teen Knowledge Sim, LTW Become Criminal Mastermind<br /><br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Vinci house was pretty interesting! River, Inari, and Dakota both aged well into the next stages of their lives. River's male childhood friends turned into some pretty adorable teenagers alongside her, leading to romantic connections with both of them. The Headmaster came over, and River got accepted into Rosebud Academy. She also got inducted into the ranks of those rarefied teenagers who actually get abducted by aliens, thus winning them an alien reparations grant for college. Inari tried unsuccessfully to complete her bug collection. Let's see how they're all doing this round.</span><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 204px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Salvatore decided that since he was getting older, he should probably try to get a job in his second life career of choice: the Intelligence career. He really thought he could become head of the SCIA if he could just get his foot in the door, and luckily, that opportunity arrived before the glass age ceiling cut him off from the possibility.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 465px; height: 382px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The job opportunity came just in time, too: the next day, he started really feeling the aches and pains that came with wearing a giant vintage metal dive helmet all day every day.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 420px; height: 362px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>He almost couldn't believe that he, Salvatore, was an elder now. It seemed so long ago when he and his older brothers Enzo and Paolo were alone in their birth home trying to make ends meet after the deaths of their parents.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 624px; height: 450px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>He'd come a long way since then...gotten taken by the social worker, adopted, given a new chance... He'd gone to college, met the girl of his dreams, achieved a lifetime goal, and had a beautiful daughter and a wonderful home. He felt pretty darn good about himself.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 469px; height: 363px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>His new boss seemed to agree with Sal that Sal was suited for the Intelligence line of work. He received a promotion his very first week of work.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 489px; height: 389px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The rapid succession thereafter of promotions only cemented the idea that Sal was made for this job in everyone's head. But life wasn't to continue on without sadness forever...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 488px; height: 408px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>It was their little girl's time to move on to college. She had a whopping number of scholarships and was rearing to go join the other Rosebud teens who had headed off before her. Even though she loved her parents, she couldn't wait to get a taste of college life...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 303px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>...especially since she found out that her favorite beau, Adam, would also be joining her at Sim State. Bring on the lack of parental supervision!<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> Okay, Sal and Inari are adorable elders. I don't know why, but I really have a soft spot for elders in this game. Way back to Aisling and Roisin and Santiago, I've loved them, and I especially love it when they're all in love and snuggly still into their twilight years. I definitely don't want to lose either of them, but I think they're darling with their gray heads. I checked ACR to see who River liked better out of her two romantic possibilities - Mayhew or Adam - and to my pleasure, she likes Adam better. He got sent off to college with her and will be living with her in the new dorm I've installed at the Sim State campus for my townie teens. I really hate having spouses that only have four want slots, so I patiently suffer sending townie teens who are to be mated to my playables to college and making them playables early just so they can have the full six want slots. Besides, what's one more teen when you already have NINE other sims slated to be at uni in round 13. THAT'S RIGHT. NINE. Another dorm was necessary, so you'll see when I blog the uni houses this round that I now have a Urele Cham Annex... i.e. another great dorm building I downloaded and plopped down next to the original greek house. So. Yes. Look forward to ten kids at uni at the end of this round. Including River and Adam! Only one blooper for you...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blooper:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Vinci%20D%20Season%2013/bloopergrandma.jpg">I really kind of do adore the mailman in this game. :')</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-85906263307399853182011-04-20T12:06:00.000-07:002011-04-21T07:52:42.491-07:00The Clearys (B) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/clearyb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 508px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/clearyb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Tanaka/TD/taraadult.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 139px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Portraits/Tanaka/TD/taraadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Tara Cleary, Adult Knowledge Sim, 2nd LTW Become Chief of Staff<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2012/melodychild.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 153px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2012/melodychild.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Melody Cleary, Child Family Sim, LTW Grow-Up Well<br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last time at the Cleary house, Tara was getting used to having a brand new baby! She was also getting used to a taste of what it was like to be a single mom. Sometimes, <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2012/blooperyousuck.jpg">she wasn't so hot at it</a>. But for the most part, she was an attentive new mom, and <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2012/12.jpg">Melody was a happy little toddler</a> who aged into an equally happy little girl. Let's see how they get on this round.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 551px; height: 413px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Now that Melody was a child, Tara had some time alone in the house during the days. She missed her little girl for sure, but she also enjoyed the freedom to do things SHE wanted to do again, after years of being the sole caretaker for her daughter. Tara found that all she wanted to do was spend time outside, whether it be in the garden or at the little fishpond she had installed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 545px; height: 414px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She was still ready to give Melody a great big cheer for an A+ report card, though. Melody came first and would probably resent all the attention she got from her mother once she was a teenager.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 452px; height: 518px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Already, Tara's little girl was getting older and more independent. When Melody suggested that she might like to go to the same private school Tara had attended as a child, Tara set up a meeting with the headmaster, and Melody greeted him and enthusiastically gave him a tour of their home.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 480px; height: 419px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Between Melody's charming and outgoing personality, her bright mind, and Tara's amazing cooking (and perhaps her amazing midriff for a middle-aged woman), Melody was accepted with flying colors.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 506px; height: 396px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Tara continued her new-found love of fishing, sometimes combining it with mother-daughter time as Melody played in the grass, jump roping or catching bugs.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 506px; height: 541px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Apparently, there were payoffs to becoming a master angler that Tara never knew about. One day, she caught a strange golden fish, and when she took it to the pet store, they informed her that it was a rare golden trout. It was worth a lot of money as a delicacy if she sold it, but Tara decided to have her prize mounted. Maybe she would catch another someday, but if she didn't, she had that trophy to be proud of.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 551px; height: 413px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Tara's middle-aged midriff was about to become an old midriff, so it was a good thing she got use of that formal wear while she could. Later that season, she stood in front of her birthday cake, which was lit up like a bonfire.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 411px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Though Tara didn't like the idea of getting older while her daughter was still so young, she knew she couldn't help it, so she might as well embrace it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 576px; height: 496px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Cleary%20B%20Season%2013/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And she had to admit...she thought she made a pretty darn adorable gray-haired old lady. :)<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> Soooo, Tara. Cutest elder ever, mmkay? Also, that golden fish? I'd never seen it before, and you can sell it for way more than normal fish. After two years, I'm still discovering little nuances of this game that I was never aware existed. So fun. :) Next round, Melody ages into a teen, and I can't wait to see how she turns out, squee! But for now, on to Sal, Inari, and River!]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-84391239830442293142011-04-06T06:36:00.000-07:002011-04-06T07:13:26.190-07:00The Tanakas (D) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/tanakad.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 566px; height: 494px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/tanakad.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2011/akielder.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 145px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2011/akielder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Aki Tanaka, Elder Popularity Sim, 2nd LTW Become Captain Hero<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2011/daisyadult.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 174px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2011/daisyadult.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Daisy Tanaka, Adult Family Sim, LTW Have 6 Grandchildren</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2012/yoshichild.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 182px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2012/yoshichild.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Yoshi Tanaka, Child Romance Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2012/akiotoddler.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 177px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2012/akiotoddler.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Akio Tanaka, Toddler Romance Sim, LTW Grow Up Well<br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Tanaka house, Daisy got knocked up and had a second child, Akio. Yoshi grew up well into a child. Daisy also earned her silver gardening badge and took a brief foray into the world of plantsimism. Aki was mostly an uninteresting old guy. Let's check in on them this round!</span><span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 526px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>We begin this round by checking in on Yoshi. What is he up to? Oh, only being the perfect child.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 466px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>If I hadn't pre-rolled him, I'd have made Yoshi a fortune sim. He constantly wants to sell lemonade, and he's good at it!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 459px; height: 496px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Not only is he entertaining himself, he's also learning about business, earning money, and making friends with people in the neighborhood. I love you, Yoshi.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 465px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>What else does he do? Well, he works hard at his homework, and when he wants to up his fun level again...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 561px; height: 439px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>...he simply indulges in a little perfect big brother behavior. I died of cute here, mmkay? This was in his wants panel all the time. :')<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 521px; height: 455px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Oh yeah, and he's also a totally well-adjusted super genius. I. love. this. kid. Meanwhile, what is Akio doing with his time?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 546px; height: 418px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Playing in the toilet.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 488px; height: 396px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Also, getting a sex education lesson way too early. This is super parenting form on the part of Aki and Daisy. I imagine their conversation about having sex in front of the baby to mimic that of Peter and Lois' in Family Guy: "Don't worry, honey, he'll just think I'm hurting you." :p<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 471px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>OH YES YOU ARE!!! :D<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 491px; height: 380px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Daisy's super-ovaries and Aki's still apparently very high virility rate mean she's got another bun in the oven, yay! I feel like Aki's making up for lost time with Tara...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 429px; height: 410px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Pop #1!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/12.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 555px; height: 392px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Pop #2, and a happy pop-up! I really like it when the other children are already children and sort of able to care for themselves before new babies are born. It makes life a lot easier. So without further ado, a hasty birthday party commenced!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/13.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 493px; height: 425px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This room: apparently not designed in a comfortable way for sim logic. Daisy and Yoshi cheered from the other side of the couch.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/14.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 584px; height: 406px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>AHAHAHA, he looks kind of like a nerd. I like it. :') He did grow up well, though, which is amazing given all the toilet water he must have inevitably sucked out of the paws on those pajamas.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 484px; height: 367px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>No discernible point to this picture other than the adorableness of the sibs. They have a great relationship score already thanks to Yoshi being Super Big Brother, so I think these two will end up having a fun childhood together.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/16.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 493px; height: 432px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Ohai, Daisy. That face...what? You're going into labor? <span style="font-style: italic;">"Shooflee!!"</span> You know, you picked the perfect spot. Right at the top of the staircase in the middle of a narrow hallway. I totally would have chosen to give birth there too. Stellar job.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/17.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 464px; height: 401px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Buuuut, I forgive her because BUNDLE OF ADORABLENESS! It's another boy, and they decided to name him Nobu, after the lizard-skinned, one-armed, intractable man in <span style="font-style: italic;">Memoirs of a Geisha</span>. It means "to prolong or stretch." I refrain from making a joke here. I hope that Nobu's namesake doesn't doom him to a life of tragedy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/18.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/19.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 451px; height: 529px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>So far, it looks like he'll be pretty well loved at least. Aww, proud papa. I'm so happy Aki has finally achieved some happiness. :)<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> For some reason, I had to do this entry in this style. It's fun for me to sometimes do some commentary other than narrating. Plus, I feel kind of sarcastic this morning, and that's just how this entry came out. :p Daisy's LTW is the reason I'm letting her have another kid. Whenever I see that six grandkids want, I always think... ugh, well, guess she'll have three kids because at least then each of them only has to have two kids. I'm not sure this is sound logic, but oh well. It makes sense in my head. Two bloopers for you. :)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/blooperlolzno.jpg">AHAHAHAHAHAHA IN THAT TINY HOUSE? Shyeah right!</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Tanaka%20D%20Season%2013/blooperGOOPY.jpg">This is not a blooper, but it is very important. Do you know why? FIRST GOOPY SIGHTING EVER IN MY GAME! :D</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-69775005041524323762011-04-03T13:34:00.000-07:002011-04-03T13:59:02.062-07:00The Villaloboses (D) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2012/villalobosd.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 504px; height: 455px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2012/villalobosd.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2011/connorelder.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 184px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2011/connorelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Connor Villalobos, Adult Knowledge Sim, 2nd LTW Become City Planner</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2011/doroteaelder.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 198px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2011/doroteaelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Dorotea Villalobos, Adult Family Sim, 2nd LTW Become Business Tycoon</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2011/nalateen.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 191px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2011/nalateen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Nala Villalobos, Teen Knowledge Sim, LTW Become Media Magnate<br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Villalobos household, Nala was a true knowledge sim. She did her homework in a timely fashion, studied new skills, and discussed her grades and scholarship opportunities with her father. She got into private school, and Connor got a womrat, both of which delighted him immensely. Let's see how they are this round.</span><br /><br /><br />3<br /></div></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 392px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Connor indulged in his habits, like gaming, but mostly, he remained so enamored with his new womrat that he couldn't be bothered to receive awards for his hobby interests.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 576px; height: 386px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Dot also indulged heartily in her hobbies, earning her a gold arts & crafts badge. Life as retired people was calm, but it didn't mean they were already dead.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 387px; height: 416px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>There were plenty of other things to do besides work! Like feed the womrat, clean the house... and eat. A lot. Dot quickly learned the downsides to the latter hobby.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 551px; height: 391px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Meanwhile, Nala continued to try to update her skills. She frequently could be found after dark outside at the telescope. Logic was a rare skill, and she was determined to have as much of it as she could when she finally shipped off to university to join her older siblings.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 464px; height: 396px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your perspective, it turned out that staring into space so much earned her a little too much attention from the sentient beings out there who wanted their privacy. That looks scary as heck, Nala...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 491px; height: 416px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Fortunately, being the knowledge-minded sim that she was, Nala viewed the whole "alien abduction" thing in a positive light. She'd learned more thanks to her abduction than she ever could have by studying books or staring through a telescope. Unfortunately, she added a few dozen more gray hairs to her parents' heads in the process.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 420px; height: 213px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She only hoped that she could turn her extraterrestrial experience into something that could earn her money for college. After all, what university WOULDN'T want to admit someone who had honest-to-goodness been abducted by an alien and could expound upon their habits from first-hand experience?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 201px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Knowing that she still needed more extra-curricular activities on her resume before she applied for school, Nala applied for a job in the Law career, hoping to impress her future professors with her prestigious teenage career.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 359px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Dot took notice of her daughter's enterprising habits and decided to pop out of retirement for a while herself. When a position in the adventurer career came available, Dot snatched it up. She'd always wanted to be an adventurer. Though she was a retired individual, it would still be fun to experience the job and, at the same time, bring a few extra dollars into the house as income.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 584px; height: 430px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Shortly thereafter, Nala decided it was finally time for her to head to college. She got her beloved Alien Reparations Grant along with a slew of other scholarships. It would definitely ease her parents' minds not to have to pay for her full tuition at Sim State.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 427px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bye, Nala. See you at uni! She would impress the college campus if it was the last thing she did.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> So this was the last round of children in the Villalobos household. Taye will not be rejoining this household because he is moving in to take over his Uncle Vinnie's house, so the future of this lot is in question. No clue yet who will end up inheriting. Nala is my first teen to ever be abducted by aliens, thereby being my first teen to ever win the alien reparation grant. Yay, Nala! I have two bloopers for you; otherwise the round was fairly innocuous.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/bloopergoforit.jpg">Whatever floats your boat, Connor, though that's hardly the most exciting and rewarding activity <span style="font-style: italic;">I</span> can think of.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20D%20Season%2013/blooperflattened.jpg">Nala looks distinctly pancake-like. Poor flat girl. :(</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-2176004282164173042011-04-03T05:56:00.000-07:002011-04-03T08:29:53.820-07:00Anniversary Post #3: Favorite Houses Tours<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >**WARNING: Lots of large pictures in this entry; may take a crap ton of time to load depending on your connection speed.**</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Instead of giving tours of the founder houses and how they've changed, I decided it might be more fun to show pictures of my favorite houses I've built. I warn you, I'm not much of a decorator, and the process of taking these screen caps taught me I'm not much of a photographer either! However, this should give you an idea of what my favorite houses look like. Mostly, I'm fond of big, wide-open floor spaces and rooms, which you'll see is a theme in a lot of these fave houses. Anyway, on to the photos! (They are in no particular order of favoriteness.)<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">House #1: Tara Cleary's Tuscan "Villa"</span><br /><br />I deliberately tried to go with Mediterranean colors for this house, and I was pretty pleased with the result. :)<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 633px; height: 365px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A night shot of the exterior of Tara's "floating" house.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 572px; height: 440px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Top-down view of the ground level. Enormous pool and party grotto area ftw!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 494px; height: 513px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Top-down view of the first floor. Clockwise starting in the upper right-hand corner: dining room, kitchen, bathroom, master bedroom, entryway, living room. Dead center: peep-hole to the pool. :)<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 643px; height: 393px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Top-down view of the second floor, which was added after Melody grew up into a child and needed more space. (When she was an infant and toddler, her crib was in the dining room. :p) Office on the left and ginormous room for Melody on the right. I just build the same size as the house below and figured the big room could always be broken into smaller ones if need be in the future.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 638px; height: 528px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Oddly-shaped open-air living room in olive green and sky blue.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 582px; height: 475px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Wine-themed bathroom.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 636px; height: 531px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I have never been to Tuscany, but I imagined this color scheme and style to fit. :p<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 634px; height: 526px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Mediterranean blue master bedroom.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 577px; height: 531px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>New upstairs office space for Tara to write her novels. Also, I needed this area to be sort of neutral since my options were limited for where the staircase should enter the upstairs. I hate when staircases open directly into a bedroom for some reason. It's a functional entryway for the upstairs, basically.<br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/8.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/7.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 636px; height: 372px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Downstairs pool/grotto area. It's dark, so I'll just sort of list what's down there. On the right, the staircase upstairs and the corner of Tara's grill. In between the archways are some benches, and there are privacy hedges in the front between the archways. There's also a stereo down here somewhere, though I don't recall exactly where.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 669px; height: 430px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Other side of the pool with slide and fountain in the front. I have a hard time keeping my simmies out of this pool, but then I don't really care. That's what it's there for. This is a really fun area for parties, but I admit that a major design flaw is the staircase from the kitchen to the grotto. Anyone can just walk into the house, and the paperboy insists on walking all the way up the back spiral stairs to lay the newspaper on the INSIDE of the front doors. *sigh* I guess I could eliminate those stairs altogether, but I really like the convenience of them. Maybe I could build a box around them at the bottom with a lock on a door. Or a fence with a locked gate. Hm. But despite this little annoyance, I still luuuurve this house. :) On to the next!<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">House #2: The Vinci Twins' Ginormous Two-Family Stone Home<br /></span><br />I absolutely adore this house. I think I got the plans from houseplans.com and picked it because it looked like it could be easily adapted into a two-family home. I knew I wanted Conor and Liam and their spouses to all live together, but what I didn't expect was that Conor and his spouse Frances would want eighty bajillion children to fulfill their LTWs. Soooo, this house may end up being the reason I have to install the "more than 8 sims per lot" hack. Especially since Liam had to go and get himself knocked up with alien TWINS. Sigh. But it's okay, they're cuties. Anyway, this house fulfills the "large, sprawling rooms" theme you'll notice in other favorite homes. On to the photos...<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/12.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 630px; height: 372px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Outside night shot of the stone behemoth. I love their little entryway, but I wish I could do something to decorate up the eaves of the roof. As I said, I'm a poor builder and decorator.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/14.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 496px; height: 560px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Top-down view of the first floor. It's a VERY open floor plan, which means I never get sims yelling and waving their arms that they can't get through. I like this very much. From the top left-hand corner, going clockwise: dining nook, games alcove (outside back porch), formal living room, family room, dining room, powder room and adjacent "hidden" hallway into the kitchen.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/13.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 501px; height: 560px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Top-down view of the upstairs. Again, clockwise from the top left: Weirdly-shaped long narrow nursery (oops, just noticed that rug is defying the laws of physics), top balcony (outside), master bedroom #1 (Liam and Jenny) with attached gold master bath #1, hallway, kids' bedroom, black and white master bath #2, yellow master bedroom #2 (Conor and Frances), red and white kids' bathroom. The nursery hasn't been decorated because this house cost so fracking much that they are still too cash poor to decorate it. Ditto the lack of furnishings in this house. For a long time, lots of the rooms barely had anything but the bare necessities in them because I spent so much on the stone exterior and simply the SIZE of the house and building materials. So if this house seems a little more bare than usual, don't worry...it will get better as these four start raking in some serious promotions.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 662px; height: 528px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Family room. I love this room. I love the patterned ottomans and the old-fashioned sort-of tacky patterned couch. There is ALWAYS a sim glued to that piano, fyi.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/16.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 688px; height: 505px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Dining room. If you notice, because they were really poor when they moved in and because the rooms are so enormous, I went with embedded carpet sections to break up the consistent hardwood floors throughout the first level. It's cheaper, and it's nice because there ARE no throw rugs big enough to satisfy some of these huge rooms. I don't know why, but I love this room too. The whole house is a little extra formal...I was going for a style to match the almost castle-like exterior, so you'll notice everything is a bit formal and a bit on the old-fashioned side. (Except the kids' areas.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/17.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 661px; height: 529px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>View of the kitchen over the breakfast nook's table. Also gives you a view of the back hallway between the kitchen and the dining room. Please also notice the lovely fly-covered dirty bowl on the floor. Yes, I didn't give them adequate warning that they were participating in a photo shoot. Not sure I like the wallpaper in the kitchen, but for now it will stay until some of the other rooms get actual decoration. It's a little too country for the style of the rest of the house. Also, oops, uncolored half wall on the right. It's amazing what I'm noticing by really examining these houses!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/18.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 687px; height: 511px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Formal living room. I used the green rugs and the muted green walls to sort of match the family room, since technically it is open to one another. (There is another "hidden" side hallway connecting the two rooms behind the staircase...in the top right-hand corner of this picture.) I don't like the rugs, but otherwise I love this room. The pregnant people spend a lot of their maternity time in those uber-comfy chairs studying because it's a mere two-second dash to either the kitchen or the powder room.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/19.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 679px; height: 484px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/19.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Upstairs black and white master bathroom #2. Hey Frances. I know that if you weren't on pause, you would be totally giving me the stare of death for not giving you adequate time to mop up that giant shower puddle, clean up the dirty bowl, and oh yeah, get off the pot.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/18.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/20.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 695px; height: 480px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Yellow master bedroom #2, complete with Conor snoozing away. I really love this room, and it really fits this couple, but it is painfully under-decorated. This will eventually be modified. Not sure how, but probably with some plants and definitely some art. Perhaps a rug. Also, they get the bedroom fireplace because Conor is the elder twin. :) Ah the perks of being first-born by two minutes.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/21.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 718px; height: 575px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Sorry for the walls-down shot, but I wasn't sure how else to shoot this room. This is the kids' playful red and white room. I never use those crazy floors, so I tried to switch it up and make it fun for the chilluns. You can see a tiny piece of the completely undecorated nursery in the background... there will be no formal shot of that. :p It's a really painfully-shaped room for a nursery, but it should be much better when they become children and can be in bunk beds.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/22.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 579px; height: 477px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Gold master bath #1. Jenny seemed like she might be the materialistic type, so she and Liam got the gilded bathroom. :p<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/23.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 680px; height: 482px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/23.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>As with Conor and Frances' room, Liam and Jenny's room is still VERY meager in terms of decoration, but the color scheme will stay, even as more decor is added.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/24.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 689px; height: 464px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And finally, a shot of the back porches. Lower level has poker and darts, upper level has exercise equipment and the telescope. They have very little lawn area left, so most of their outdoorsy things are on these balconies. Also, HI CAMEO GRANNY CAITLIN! :D Caitlin is so totally stoked that her granddaughter Lucia inherited her red hair. She seriously stops by unannounced ALL THE TIME. It's cute. :) But anyway... on to house number three!<br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/23.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">House #3: Fiona and Enzo Vinci's Cathouse<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><br />This house makes me all kinds of happy. I think it was another houseplans.com find, and what I loved about it was how it seems upside down: there are bedrooms on the bottom floor and the living area is on the top floor. It gives the bottom floor a definite "apartment" sort of feel, which was perfect for Grace and Leah when they were growing up because they had their own living area and didn't have to always be in common family areas to hang out. I also really love the kitchen in this house. I want this kitchen. Again, this house fits the "wide-open spaces" pattern I seem to have.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/25.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 615px; height: 459px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Outside shot with spoiler! (That's Leah standing on the front lawn after having been merged back into her parents' house post-graduation.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/26.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 680px; height: 510px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/26.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Top-down shot of the upper floor. Clockwise from the top left-hand corner: living room, kitchen, master bedroom, hallway activity alcove, master bathroom, hallway/stairway. I'm guessing those slashed lines are the tops of the walls on the lower level...I'm not sure why they showed up in this pic.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/27.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 661px; height: 481px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Top-down view of the ground level. Clockwise from top left: kittycats' bedroom :D , twins' bedroom, party-hardy garage, entryway/hallway, downstairs living room, downstairs full bath.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/29.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 704px; height: 459px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Starting upstairs, this is the living room. Number one, I love blue. Number two, I love blue with natural wood. Number three BIG GIANT LIVING AREA. Number four, no neighbors behind you means the ability to have very large picture windows. <3 this room. Which segues directly into....<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/30.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 587px; height: 507px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/30.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The kitchen! All appliances along one wall, modern black and white against the blue wall, and loooooots of window space all along the counters. And hanging baskets of flowers. (Yay, I decorated something!) I really, really adore this kitchen.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/31.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 715px; height: 535px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/31.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Off the kitchen, the hallway/activity corner where Enzo spends the majority of his time either writing novels or painting. He totally planned that painting to match the decor before this photo shoot.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/33.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 634px; height: 483px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/33.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>To the left of the activity area is the master bedroom. Fairly non-descript, but I love being able to have enormous windows in private rooms like this because they are on the second floor. :)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/32.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 491px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/32.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And to the right of the activity area is the master bath, color-coordinated with the rest of the upstairs. I really dig this nearly-cobalt blue color.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/28.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 633px; height: 527px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Moving downstairs, we have the kitty room, complete with some kitties and an eviscerated catnip mouse. There is also a pet house out back for makin' kitty babies. Two litter pans are annoying, but Fiona tries to teach all the adult kitties how to use the toilet to eliminate the necessity for excessive litter pan cleaning.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/twinsroom.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 694px; height: 489px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/twinsroom.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The twins' room. This room is kind of a mish-mash because it never got a full makeover between their childhood and their teen years; plus, they had such different personalities that it made for interesting decor dichotomy. This room will become Leah's bedroom again when she moves back in and will get a makeover.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/partygarage.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 657px; height: 527px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/partygarage.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Party garage!!! For those times when you just need to get away, as Fiona and Enzo did a LOT when the girls were toddlers. Bar, bubble blower, disco ball... what else do you need?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />There were supposed to be pictures of the the downstairs living room and the downstairs bathroom, but alas, I suppose something weird glitched out with fraps. Not sure what happened to them, which is a shame since the downstairs living room is kinda neat. But instead, here's a final image of the back of the house with pet privacy house:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/34.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 555px; height: 376px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/34.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Also, the telescope Fiona constantly uses to spy on Linda Tanaka and the solar panels that keep them from having to pay bills every month. And that's it!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Next up...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">House #4: Amber and Diego Villalobos' Garden Home<br /></span><span><br />I'm not sure what it is about this house that makes me love it so much, but I think it started with the wraparound porch with flower baskets on the railing. Also, I love stone houses, and I love the nature hobby, which means I got to turn this house into a veritable flower house. You'll notice in this picture that there are two greenhouses...that's because the last time I played this home, I was trying to get Amber her wishing well and thought that I could make flowers come out of hibernation by putting a flower bed in a greenhouse. Turns out no dice. But I did build a very gorgeous flower garden with fountain and stone walkways that will make an appearance when it's spring in this house again. This house has the same large open family area as a lot of my other favorite houses, and though the upstairs is a little boring, the first floor and the basement "party" area make this house really appealing to me. I have no idea who will inherit this house, but if I can't find someone before Amber and Diego die, I'm totally having them activate a servo so some lucky future sim can move in here. Perhaps when that happens, they can redesign the upstairs. Anyway, thus begins the tour.<br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/33.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/35.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 626px; height: 375px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/35.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Outside shot of the stone garden house. I'd call it a cottage, but it's a little large to fit that moniker. This house has the most outdoor garden decoration of any in my 'hood, and I love it for that reason.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/36.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 671px; height: 552px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/36.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Second floor, top-down view. Clockwise from top left: Marquez's old bedroom, now a playroom for a cat the couple has adopted, red office, stairwell/hallway, Marquez's bathroom, master bathroom, master bedroom, hallway. Bonus: cute, cuddly elder couple in bed. :') Bonus #2: Conner Villalobos doing ballet in the office while the cat stares at him weirdly, lol.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/37.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 416px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/37.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>First floor, top-down view. Clockwise from top left: living room (with entry to back porch), stairwell, powder room, kitchen, dining room (with front porch access), reading nook.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/38.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 519px; height: 491px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/38.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Basement, top-down view. Clockwise from top left: bowling area, stairwell, bar, stereo, pinball machine, as-yet-undesignated corner area at bottom right.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/39.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 611px; height: 565px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/39.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>In-home bowling alley.<br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/38.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/40.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 666px; height: 491px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/40.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Bar and game area.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/41.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 659px; height: 480px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/41.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>First floor: kitchen.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/42.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 658px; height: 517px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/42.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Dining area and reading nook. I don't have any CC that creates a window seat, so that little alcove with a couch in it and windows behind it was my solution.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/44.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/43.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 627px; height: 498px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/43.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Living room and stairwells. Notice this house is another with big, open rooms.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/456jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/46.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 617px; height: 512px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/46.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Upstairs: the master bedroom with adorable couple, d'awwwww. <3<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/45.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/48.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 641px; height: 523px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/48.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Office/new kitty's bedroom.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/47.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 659px; height: 521px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/47.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Marquez's former room, now sort of a miscellany. His bed is still there, along with all the cat toys and the chess table.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/49.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 608px; height: 386px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/49.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The two bathrooms upstairs. There wasn't really a better way to take a picture than this.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/45.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 736px; height: 573px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/45.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And finally, their flowery porch rail on the back deck. Grill, treadmill, ceramic mushrooms, telescope, and pond in the background. I wanted to take more pictures of the gardening, but it's winter, so everything is covered. You've seen plenty of the greenhouse and the front flower beds in the entries for this house, though, since every entry for the last three rounds has been Amber trying to get her wishing well. >:O That's it for this house, which means just one left...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">House #6: Marquez and Imelda Villalobos' Sprawling Spanish-Inspired Household<br /></span><br />I love the layout of this house; it was another find from houseplans.com, my sim-spirational house building website. This house has a freakin' huge floor plan, so their lot is enormous and the house looks enormous on the neighborhood view, but it's all one level, so instead of building up, they built out. I tried to stick with a somewhat Spanish theme here, though I'm not sure how well I did. Regardless, I still love this house. The original had a sunken living room, but I didn't bother to do it in this house because I'm too retarded to sit and figure out how to make an appropriate split level. :p<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/50.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 649px; height: 381px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/50.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Outside view. Pretty. <3<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/51.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 618px; height: 437px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/51.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Top-down view. Clockwise from top-left: sun room, living room, master bedroom, master bathroom, kids' full bathroom, kids' room, office/kitty room, entryway, dining room, kitchen.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/53.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 537px; height: 522px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/53.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Living room, which has an open feel because although there are walls blocking out the hallway at this end of the house, they are all half-walls, so the living room, hallway, and dining room are semi-open to one another.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/52.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 631px; height: 525px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/52.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Other end of the living room, showing opening into the hallway.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/54.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 633px; height: 515px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/54.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Sunroom. Lots of windows, lots of plants, and the bookshelf and couch. It's a nice, quiet study area, though if sims are like me, all that warm sunshine pouring in and making the place hot would put me immediately to sleep on my book.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/55.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 483px; height: 529px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/55.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Other angle view of the sunroom. Very difficult to photograph properly. :p Also, hi thar Julian, icu being studious. Good boy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/44.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 657px; height: 476px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/44.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>One side of the kitchen, the part on the right as you exit the sun room.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/56.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 625px; height: 526px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/56.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Other side of the kitchen, on the left as you exit the sun room. Includes a little breakfast bar. About the floor: I'm not sure about this floor. I keep changing it and can't ever seem to get something I like. The first floor I had looked too much like grass. Now this one is too aqua. Meh. Maybe I'll have to make something custom to fit it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/57.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 633px; height: 524px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/57.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Dining room. I wish Maxis had a table this size so I didn't have to back two three-tile tables up to one another, but alas, they don't. And this room looked way too weird without a table this size, so the Villaloboses get way more chairs than they could ever need. Also, this shot offers a view of the open-walled feel of the hall and living room.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/56.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/58.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 685px; height: 484px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/58.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Down the hall, the master bedroom. Mmmm, I love bright, pure white and dark wood. It makes me happy. :) The fact that the "curtains" on the bedposts are off-white drives me crazy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/59.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 607px; height: 518px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/59.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Master bath and boys' bathroom. I tried to stay with earthy tones in this house...the exceptions being the sunroom and the kitchen because those two rooms have unique purposes that don't necessarily need to match with the rest of the house, imo.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/60.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 631px; height: 525px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/60.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Boys' bedroom, decorated with kitties, of course, because this is a cat-friendly dwelling. I hate those comforters on the beds, but I haven't yet downloaded something masculine in the yellow hues to replace them yet.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/61.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 625px; height: 517px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Favorite%20Houses%20Tour/61.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And finally the office/kitty area. Food, litter pans, and climby house are in here. There are no official beds other than two pet houses out back. Sometimes the kitties stay there, sometimes they sleep on the floor in the office. Either way, this is kind of the retirement home for all Fiona's "breeders," so these cats are all really well-behaved and don't jump up on furniture or destroy things. Yay.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And thus ends the tour! A few honorable mentions go to: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Aki's bachelor pad</span> (eliminated because I kind of had to butcher the second floor to add enough space for children...lack of foresight on my part, d'oh.) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nerissa and Catalina's purple house</span> (eliminated because while I love that house, it's got sort of a weird floor plan and there isn't anything REALLY spectacular or unique about it. Also, I love the revamped [no pun intended, lolz] basement "lair" more than the upstairs.) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Caitlin and Paolo's log cabin</span> (eliminated because please, with so many children in that house, you've seen the layout more than a few hundred times. Very nice and FUNCTIONAL house, though, especially with that many sims in it). Also, no founder houses were included not because I don't like them or because I don't like the remodels I've done over the course of this challenge, but mostly because I'm so fracking sick of those houses that I'm biased against them. :p Anyway, hope you enjoyed this very picture-dense trek through my favorite houses in the 'hood. Regularly scheduled programming (i.e. the Connor and Dot Villalobos' house) is resuming soon! Hope you enjoyed the anniversary stuff. :)SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-13760400342865625182011-03-26T07:00:00.000-07:002011-03-26T07:21:06.324-07:00Anniversary Post #2I've been working on getting a family tree up and running, and it's finally to a point where I can share it!<br /><br />It's not all pretty and color coded like a lot of people's, but it's handily hosted by tribalpages, which makes my job a lot easier. Only pictures of sims who have already reached adulthood are uploaded, to save me the trouble of constantly changing pics.<br /><br />With that, I present <a href="http://rosebudsims.tribalpages.com">Rosebud Sims Family Trees</a>. :)SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-87042063092204398342011-03-25T07:56:00.000-07:002011-03-25T08:03:59.897-07:00Anniversary Post #1So it's about my two year anniversary with this blog, and I have no clue whether anyone is interested in this stuff or not, but I thought I'd share my reasons for choosing some of the names I've picked for my simbabies.<br /><br />A lot of the time, I try to choose something that has meaning to me or is a nod to a character, musician, or thing I like, but for the names that aren't specially called out in this post, I probably just searched for baby names of the appropriate gender and nationality, then chose one I liked. These are the names that have specific meaning to me, with their origins and the reasons I chose them.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Amjdc7aCkNqIdHU5dldOM3ZPMkx4MkpQVG5jckdvSnc&hl=en&authkey=CMXswIQN">Clicky clicky.</a><br /><br /><br />There will probably be another anniversary post or two. I might do tours of some of my favorite houses, and I'm contemplating packaging and uploading some of my simmies. If anyone has any specific sim requests, let me know, and I'll be happy to oblige by uploading. I'd also love to start making wallpapers and floor coverings, but I don't know if I'll get into that in time for any shared uploads to count as being celebratory of my anniversary on this blog. So stay tuned for some more in-between posts to celebrate two years of my Rosebud babies!<br /><br /><br />-SSKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-88079741617441010902011-03-24T07:40:00.000-07:002011-03-24T08:08:50.628-07:00The Villaloboses (C) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/villalobosc.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 468px; height: 377px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/villalobosc.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2012/nerissaelder.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 174px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2012/nerissaelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Nerissa Villalobos, Elder Knowledge Sim, 2nd LTW Become Mad Scientist</div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2012/catalinavampjpg.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 152px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2012/catalinavampjpg.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Catalina Villalobos, Vampire Fortune Sim, 2nd LTW Become World Class Ballet Dancer<br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last time at the Villalobos house, Nerissa aged well into an elder. Catalina lived pretty much the way she always had, only she became a serious night person. She kept her job and managed not to get burned to death running to her carpool in the early afternoon. Cat and Nerissa also enjoyed continuing to get it on in their adult years. Yay for elder love! Let's see how they're doing this round.</span><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 411px; height: 494px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>First on the agenda was to suck down a few glasses of the Elixir of Life. If Catalina was going to live forever, she may as well live forever as a young person instead of dealing with the aches and pains of middle age her whole eternal life.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 617px; height: 421px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She felt so good that she lured her love into bed to remind her of their earlier days together, back when they were both still young and spry.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 454px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Of course, one thing she didn't think of with her new youth was the fact that it wasn't just the outside that got younger...it was all the inner workings too. Catalina could hardly believe it when Nerissa told her she was experiencing the tell-tale signs of pregnancy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 507px; height: 425px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Sure enough, though, Catalina's belly popped into a round little bulge, and Cat took off work to give herself time to rest and spend time with her baby mama before the baby actually came.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 489px; height: 404px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>With the approach of a new child on the way, Nerissa felt herself getting sad and nostalgic for their older child, Guillermo. Even though he was now a werewolf, Nerissa still loved him more than the world. And besides, Nerissa's whole family was apparently going creature-feature these days, so what difference was it whether someone was a werewolf or a vampire? They still loved her, and she still loved them, and they would always be family.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 515px; height: 449px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Pregnancy didn't stop Catalina from wanting to be physically close with Nerissa, the same as her older physique didn't bother Catalina in the least. They both still thought the other as beautiful as they day they'd met.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 494px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>As the days went by, Catalina grew larger and larger. Both women were truly delighted that they would have one more child together...especially since the unspoken understanding was that someday Nerissa wouldn't be around anymore while Catalina lived on.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 413px; height: 546px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>It wasn't long before it came time for Catalina to give birth, and as she clutched her stomach, she gained a whole new respect for the pain her wife had gone through all those years ago giving birth to their son.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 494px; height: 405px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>In a few hours, the women had a brand new baby - a girl with both Mommies' black hair and Catalina's brown eyes and skintone.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 441px; height: 563px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Mommy Nerissa named her Marianela and snuggled her delightedly. She was perfect.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 507px; height: 424px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She remained perfect in her mothers' eyes, but she most definitely didn't remain tiny. Soon it was time for the first baby birthday they'd had in many years.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/12.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 288px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Marianela grew up into a lovely little toddler with a not-too-bad personality either.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/13.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 139px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />One thing Cat and Nerissa could agree upon: she most certainly didn't get her neat-freak habits from Catalina, and she certainly didn't get her outgoing nature from Nerissa. It made them smile to see both of their personalities reflected.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/14.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 563px; height: 462px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20C%20Season%2013/14.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And who couldn't be charmed by the little girl? She brought new life and new happiness into a house that hadn't seen children for years.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> It was totally planned to let these two have another baby. I think it's because I feel so guilty letting Nerissa die while Catalina gets to live forever. I wanted to throw them one last bone so I could alleviate some of my terrible feelings about splitting up a couple that is very much in love. I'm hoping that the mixture of the two women's features will look better on a female child than it did on Guillermo, who looks a little bit wonky. I'm betting Marianela will be a beauty. She certainly won't win any charm competitions with that measly one nice point, ouch! No bloopers, just on to the next house! ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-45462926649995032182011-03-19T14:03:00.001-07:002011-03-20T07:38:27.567-07:00The Villaloboses (B) - Round 13<a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/villalobosb.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 480px; height: 405px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/villalobosb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2011/diegoelder.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 177px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2011/diegoelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Diego Villalobos, Elder Fortune Sim, 2nd LTW Become Space Pirate</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2011/amberelder.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 189px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2011/amberelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Amber Villalobos, Elder Popularity Sim, 2nd LTW Become Captain Hero<br /><br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Villalobos house, Amber and Diego were helplessly boring without Marquez around to keep the house lively. Amber tried desperately to earn the wishing well but fell short. Diego joined her in her nature hobby interest, and the two spent a lot of time weeding and fishing. Not much more is in store this round, but let's check in with them anyway, shall we?<br /><br /><br /></span></div></div><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 560px; height: 381px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Diego and Amber got used to not having a child in the house. Marquez had moved into his own home with his wife Imelda, and that meant his parents had the luxury of truly enjoying the home they'd made for themselves without having to feel like the doddering old grandparents. Diego didn't mourn his elderhood but rather celebrated it. Just because his hair was gray didn't mean he and his friends couldn't whip a bowling ball down the lane in the basement for a satisfying strike.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 499px; height: 411px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Amber, too, was spared the dreaded "grandma syndrome," of becoming a live-in grandparent. She could still haul huge fish out of their backyard pond and get on her hands and knees to tend her beloved plants. She and Diego were definitely enjoying the retired life.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 449px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Despite Amber's spry knees, however, she still struggled to get the coveted wishing well from the gardening club. They'd even begun to give her money for what a great job she was doing, but the wishing well was still elusive. She was heartbroken to lose her last chance before the growing season ended that year.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 637px; height: 377px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Their home was beautifully adorned with decorative plants, not to mention the ones that produced food, and she still couldn't earn her well. It was depressing, but maybe next year...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 494px; height: 422px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Diego began to settle into a late-fall routine....finding ways to entertain himself indoors in preparation for the coming winter, when he and Amber's nature interests would curtail themselves.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 414px; height: 483px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Of course, life wasn't just what the couple made of it...it was also what happened to them. Their lawn gnome, in particular, kept things interesting that fall with a constant disappearing act.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 479px; height: 416px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Amber had to laugh at her husband's seeming delight at their continually disappearing lawn gnome. It made him act like a kid again.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 407px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>But she had to admit, it was refreshing to see him having so much fun - and good, clean fun. Plus, he always managed to get their gnome back.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/10.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 410px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Their life was simple and happy. They had everything they needed in the house, from entertaining ways to sustain themselves to other entertainment like friends and each other.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 486px; height: 452px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Villalobos%20B%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>And their friends definitely didn't mind coming over to enjoy the place either.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> This house is fairly interesting with Amber's goal of getting the wishing well...I like the nature hobby a lot. But with winter being the next season, I'm afraid they'll be terribly boring. Guess we'll find out. No bloopers for you. ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1230848435289771259.post-43176139688290705382011-03-16T11:59:00.000-07:002011-03-16T12:19:45.314-07:00The Beaumonts (C) - Round 13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/beaumontc.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 516px; height: 489px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/beaumontc.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Starring:<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2011/alainelder.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 167px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2011/alainelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Alain Beaumont, Elder Family Sim, 2nd LTW Raise 20 Puppies or Kittens<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2011/meadowelder.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 166px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2011/meadowelder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Meadow Beaumont, Elder Family Sim, LTW Raise 20 Puppies or Kittens<br /><br /><br /><br />~*~*~*~*~<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Last round at the Beaumont house, Marc went off to college. Alain reached his LTW when the couple had their golden anniversary party. Cleo and Darcy passed away into the doggy heaven in the sky, and new pups Nikki and Jesse aged into adult dogs and were given up for adoption. Let's see how these two do by themselves this round.<br /><br /></span></div></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 474px; height: 381px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Alain found that life didn't change very much with Marc gone at school. He still spent time bathing and feeding the dogs, helping Meadow keep house, and building toys in his basement workshop. He also found some time to do some fishing, keeping more fresh food on their table.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 402px; height: 202px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Meadow kept plugging along at her lifetime goal, starting the fall season off right with the birth of two new puppies: Betty and Gunnar.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 491px; height: 361px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>She also decided to adopt another puppy at the same time, with the hopes that when Gunnar grew up, he might have a potential new mate, adding some fresh blood into the Beaumont doggy bloodlines.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/6jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 511px; height: 265px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The three pups got along swimmingly and were happy in their little puppy play area.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 423px; height: 379px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>In fact, it wasn't long before they'd all grown up into adult dogs, and Meadow was delighted to see that Daisy would bring some interesting genes into her dogs' family line.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 285px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Betty and Gunnar looked exactly like Sara, only with Apollo's coloring, much like Nikki and Jesse had looked before them.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 413px; height: 322px;" src="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>It was soon time to say goodbye to Betty, and Meadow and Alain gave her big hugs before she headed off to be adopted out to a new family. Sara and Apollo were moved to the "retirement home" for dogs, and Daisy and Gunnar were going to take on the role of the next breeding pair of pups. Sooner or later, Meadow swore she'd achieve this lifetime goal...and maybe Alain could get some happiness out of it too.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[[<span style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Notes:</span> They were a little boring this round, as all elders are, but the dogs are cute and keep me entertained. Does anyone know if Alain will get to claim his second LTW when the couple has raised a total of 20 puppies? Because that would be kind of awesome. Two for one and all that. Can't wait to see how the new pups turn out...I'm hoping we can lose that original gangly body shape that has been around since Darcy. Couple of bloopers for you.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloopers:</span><br /><a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/6.jpg">Even ghost dogs like to be clean.</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/blooperdogwash.jpg">And apparently dogs aren't the only ones who prefer a water wiggler to a bath tub...</a> // <a href="http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg359/skeasyplateau/Rosebud%20Prosperity/Beaumont%20C%20Season%2013/blooperscary.jpg">Okay, I used to think ghost dogs were cute, but I TAKE IT BACK. EEP!</a> ]]</span>SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16255505963845172695noreply@blogger.com3