The Antonius family suffered from some serious tension between the teenage daughter and her parents. They were none too happy that Paige had turned out a romance sim, and her father especially objected to her dating.


"No, you are NOT allowed to go out on a date! You're grounded - permanently!"


Yeah, that went over about as well as you could expect. Make an enemy out of your daughter, Rylan, why don't you?


Tori and Paige did get along a little bit better, at least enough so that she learned to study properly. However, most of her time was spent downtown with this guy (whose name I can't remember right now). He doesn't seem to mind being poked in the chest like that...


Rylan got a job in the career of his choice - science - while Tori switched jobs to arrange her schedule around his, so someone would always be home with the twins. Soon enough, she began showing signs that there might be another little one on the way...


Penelope and Priscilla were toddlers by then, who seemed content to play with their rabbits. I honestly have no idea which one this is, since they grew into identical dresses and PJs.





Moving on to the Bonaccords... Romulus and Remus both agreed that their little nephew Ramsay needed a female influence, and since Romulus is a romance sim, the task of finding someone suitable fell to Remus. One problem with that, though - he never seemed to meet anyone he had more than one bolt with. (Aside from Tori Antonius, who is of course taken.) He went from community lot to community lot, he scoped rooms and checked girls out, he even paid for a couple of blind dates - never more than one bolt. I was about to settle for that, when he finally met one he seemed more attracted to than the others... All it took to get him and Laura Greaves up to two bolts was a hair cut. It seemed a low price to pay for true love, and a mother figure for Ramsay.


After a few dates, Laura agreed to marry Remus. She's a knowledge sim, Pisces, with a LTW of becoming a mad scientist - just like her hubby. She's currently in business, though, and will have to reach the top of that career before she gets to switch.


Not long after she moved in, Ramsay grew into a child.




Meanwhile Romulus had been busy dating one girl after another, and with money from their jobs and date gifts, the brothers built themselves quite a decent home.




And so we come to the last original family, the Forsythes. Bryony and Rebecca do their best to take care of their little sisters Lily and Rose, but also manage to find some time for more personal matters. Rebecca and her boyfriend Tavarez Knight are now going steady.


Bryony, pleasure seeker that she is, was eager to meet someone, too. She went downtown to see if there were any cute boys hanging out there - and guess who she picked out of the crowd?


Yes indeed - it's Leeland Dante! And he says he'd love to go on a date with her!


They're a two-bolt couple, and keep gushing hearts for each other so much that I'm wondering if once he works out enough to get fit, they'll go up to three.


Without parents to help them with their homework, Rebecca and Bryony have to struggle through it as best they can. At least they'll be able to help their sisters when their turn comes.


And it came soon! The toddlers grew up well into schoolage children, having learned all their toddler skills, and earned a lot of skill points. Here's Rose, reading a cook book. Since her big sisters aren't very good cooks - Bryony set the stove on fire the first time she tried to use it - she has apparently decided she should know how to feed herself. Rebecca has promised to buy her an EasyBake Oven.


Lily keeps cleaning up after the others - Bryony especially, since she tends to leave big puddles on the floor after taking a shower. (More proof that she and Leeland were made for each other!) Throughout her toddler years, she preferred the logic box thingy to the rabbit. Now she runs out to the telescope every chance she gets.


The girls' mom, Summer, made an appearance. Since she's a placeholder, it didn't take me long to decide to get rid of her headstone after she had scared the teens a couple of times each in one night. They have enough on their plate without dealing with an angry ghost, too!

Three more big families... If I had chosen the play order myself, I would've thrown the Coopers or Jessamyn Cantrell in here somewhere, but the dice had other ideas.

The Knights: Joe, the father, is a fortune sim. His three teenage children are all family sims, so they were busy looking for love. Toddlers Jade and Janson - suffering from a weird glitch that made their faces much paler than the rest of them - were thinking toddler thoughts, really just wanting to learn to walk and talk, and get the occasional snuggle.


Kora here dated Orlando Centowski, for lack of better options. He probably won't be going to college with her, but I'm not making any promises at this point. Who knows what the future may hold?


Apparently I do! You may remember that I said I wanted to pair off Adam Nottington with one of the Knight girls - well, he and Kiana have three bolts for each other. With a 3/0 relationship, they had options like sweet talk, slow dance, etc. These two were made for each other!


Tavarez found the girl of his dreams in Rebecca Forsythe - another two-bolt relationship. They're really adorably cute together. Just look at her autonomously admiring him!


Ugh, this glitch gave the little ones a really creepy look. Now that they've grown up, I can finally fix it by sending them to the mirror.


I agree, Jade, it's such a relief!

Jade Knight is a funny name, btw - I keep picturing a knight on a proud charger wearing jade armor - and then pulling off "his" helmet to reveal that "he" is really a girl! Okay, maybe it's just my imagination that's funny...


Last time we saw Marisa Bendett, she was getting into fights with Fred Cooper. Now she's marrying Joe. Both are fortune sims, and she isn't desperate for kids of her own, but also doesn't mind helping raise his five. (She did roll up a want to have a baby right after they were married, but when she'd spent some time in that crowded house, it soon rolled away.)


Oooh, this is funny! Amin Sims stopped by for a visit, and decided to use and flush the toilet while Marisa was in the shower. She shrieked, then jumped out and started yelling at him. Poor Marisa!


Well, the Black family is toddler-less. Just an elder, a married adult couple, a teen and a child. The elder, Jonah, found a downtownie he fell in love with, and since his LTW is to graduate three children from college, he decided to move out and get to work on that with Katerina. I can't seem to find any pics of them, so you'll have to wait until I get to that house.


Renee is a romance sim, but Timothy knows how to keep her happy - woohoo, and lots of it. They date whenever they can, and she seems content. Since her LTW is to be a party guest, there's really no need for her to be unfaithful.


Ronan takes after his mother - another romance sim who wants to be a party guest. Hmm, he may not stay that way once he gets to college... But for now, he's dating downtownie and townie teens. This is Chris Young.


Peeking at the neighbors in her skimpy nightgown is Renee's idea of fun, it seems. She got poked by Isabella Nottington, who appears to be the local peek-ee. Well, I guess that's one way to meet new people...


Hey, thanks, Chris! Another telescope is exactly what this family needs! Oh well, guess I'll just sell it.


Another teenage girl dropping off another telescope? Are they trying to tell me something?


Uh, they let you wear your hair that long in the military? Maybe buzz cuts are out.


And so we arrive at the Nettles family - romance grandpa Nolen, and his five granddaughters - teen Nadia, child Nina, and toddlers Naomie, Natalie, and Nicholette.


Nadia does what she can to help out - she teaches Nina to study, and works for a meager paycheck while Nolen stays home to take care of the kids. It isn't easy on him, with his weak bladder and aching back, but he does manage to teach them all they need to know. (They suffered from a glitch that meant they had no wants, but fortunately that went away when they grew up.) And so they grew up at last.


Naomie, all grown up. The most energetic of the triplets.


Natalie, who manages to be both tomboyish and lazy.


And Nicholette, the quiet, studious one.


I can't help but feel I should warn Andrea that Nolen is just using her...


Observed on community lots:


How nice of these three spouses and future spouses to do my job for me by making friends with each other!


Sasha, is picking a fight with a cop really a good idea? Especially since I think your LTW is to be a Captain Hero...

Three of my own families in this update!


First off, Jessamyn Cantrell, adult female pleasure seeker.


Her first date was with a downtownie, whose name I can't remember at the moment. He's popularity, and is much more interested in Jessamyn than she is in him - but it evens out to two bolts, so it'll do.


She's also involved with Romulus Bonaccord, and when she paid the matchmaker for a blind date, guess who fell from the sky? Nolen Nettles. Both are romance sims, so that works out for everybody involved. Nolen especially could use the aspiration boost, since he's going to have to raise his five granddaughters all on his own.


She's done pretty well so far, juggling these three, and it doesn't hurt that they bring her nice presents. She's friends with Joel Cooper, but I'm not planning to let that go any further - although he does have a romance brother he may introduce her to...

She likes bright, bold colors, so that's how she painted her one room. I think it suits her. She doesn't need a very big house, after all, living on her own.




When I got to the Cooper family, I knew already that three adult males - and one elder - in the same household was going to get crowded... So I sent Joel and Terrence downtown straight away, to see if one of them would find a future spouse. Joel didn't - he spent most of his time playing DJ. But Terrence found himself a three-bolter!


I love the lighting in this picture. Although to be frank, the fact that he's on the dance floor in nothing but his swimming trunks is just a tad disturbing. Not to mention that his brother is two feet away in the DJ booth... Anyway, this is Sharlene Kimbrell, and she and Terrence are head over heels for each other. Everytime they ended a date, he'd roll up a want to ask her out again. They didn't stop until Joel's whining about wanting to go home and get some sleep wore them out.

As soon as they returned, Terrence moved out to find a place of his own, where he intends to ask Sharlene to marry him.


Joel did find the time before falling into bed to call up his friend Jessamyn Cantrell and invite her over. By the time she arrived, Joel was already fast asleep, so it was Ethan who greeted her. Romance and pleasure - they hit it off wonderfully, of course, and she became his first lover. His goal in life is to woohoo with 20 different sims, so he bought himself a snazzy car to make that easier. He has also seduced a pretty little barista, and is looking forward to many more notches on his bedpost.


Joel had a harder time finding love, and when he finally did, it was with someone unexpected. Lexie Nottington! Why, she's old enough to be his mother! But the two of them are crazy about each other, and Joel is already wondering how he can persuade her to move in with him. Surely her granddaughter can manage on her own - she's a teenager, after all.


Here's Joel on his way to work. Yep, he's a cop - he wants to be a Captain Hero. So does his father, which of course he's too old for, but Fred finds some comfort in the thought of his son as the protector of the good people of Strawberry Fields.


On the the Vegas! This should be interesting...


First thing Javier did was hire a nanny to look after his younger siblings while he went downtown. He needed to find someone to date. I was willing to settle for Bryony Forsythe, even though they only had one bolt, but then the perfect victim showed up. Mackenzie seems to enjoy providing Javier with the aspiration points he so badly needs.


Back home, I built them a very basic home - two cubicles for the toddlers (since at least two of them will be awake at all time), a bathroom, and a bedroom for Javier and Rosario, so they can get some sleep. Not that Javier spent much time sleeping - he used dates or the energizer to refresh his energy and other needs. Here he's teaching Dolores to walk, while Carmen gets to know a few townies. Daniel and Mercedes are sleeping, and Rosario is probably studying, or maybe painting.


She did get rather neglected, the poor child, since the toddlers took up most of her big brother's time. Oh, he taught her to study, but that was about it - she mostly had to manage on her own, with the help of an easel, a bookcase, and an Easybake Oven. She was almost as anxious as Javier to have the quadruplets grow up - at least then she'd have someone her own age to talk to.


One of the rare moments when all four toddlers were awake at the same time. Three teenage girls from the neighborhood had stopped by - perhaps to check out Javier? - and stayed to play with the toddlers. Looks like Kiana Knight got so caught up in it that she forgot all about going to the bathroom...


Finally - they're all grown up! Left to right, we have Rosario, Javier, Mercedes (redhead), Dolores (in PJs), Carmen, and Daniel. They made it!