Waiting for Whitney 5.3

What the heck is this?  A REAL Lightning update!  You better believe it!  HUZZAH!

All I remember about last time, is there were 3 very sad triplets because I didn’t bake them a cake on their birthday.  Let’s just get right to it, shall we?

LIGHTNING CHECK!  Cuz who the heck are these guys, amirite?

Rachel is sitting down to some cake!

Left to Right we have Vince, Victor and Vern making some identical faces.

They almost looked like they were all *cringe* to me… Are you STILL upset about the cake?

I was about to move them out, but I re-read my last chapter, which is good, since I stated they would be sticking around since Rach could die at any moment, and Whitney is to be the heir.

Speaking of Whitney!

❤

I forgot how cute this house is.

which makes me extra happy because I built it myself.

It’s not bad inside either.

Master bed & bath down in front, then the three boys’ rooms.  An additional bathroom and final bedroom for Whitney, and then the open living area.  *Pats self on back*

I think I said no one was to have jobs in this challenge, only skills and professions, but I couldn’t just watch these three guys putz around all day, so…

…I decide I’ll try to match their speech bubbles… Vern with science, Victor with something fun…

And Vince wants business.

I have Victor go into Mixology – as close as “party” I could think of for him.

Just getting reacquainted with the family… Rachael helps her youngest with her homework,

while Victor and Vince have a chat.

Vern is pulling cute faces with a glass of water.

I enjoy whichever update allowed Sims to grab a glass of water from the tap.  I think these are the first Sims to drink water in the entire franchise.

Tori stopped by!  I actually remember her, she was one of my favorite spares!

Then Vince’s phone rang and…

… Yeah, you’re already here, Tori – it’s cool.

Whitney the little artistic prodigy is working on her creativity skill.

MOAR GLUE AND MOAR NOODLES!

Made me LOL.

This angry woman stopped by and rang the bell for no reason.

I decided Vern should make a “friend”.

Then I straight up adopted her.  Kind of.  I spent like, 20 minutes making her over, so she’s going to join the family somehow.  I gave her like 5 everyday outfits, my CC Skin, and adjusted her hairstyles and makeup.  Her name is Karen Cadona, and I’m happy to have her around!

She appears less happy.

Poor thing.

About now I come up with the brilliant idea to have all three brothers court Karen while I wait for Whitney to age up.  Each fella can have 5 friendly interactions per visit with Karen, and the first to fill the friendship bar can woo her.

Poor Vern has to start out with her already feeling blue, so he tries to cheer her up.

Awww, his face!

It went badly…

Strike one for Vern.

Well, he’s not out of it yet, but our new friend Karen is NOT a Vern fan.

Sorry buddy.  I always liked you. 🙂

She cheers up some and comes around by Vern’s final interaction.

How freakin’ CUTE is she?  Can you see why this little whim of a legacy/challenge had to bring her in?

Victor has a turn and at least asks her if she’d like to sit down.

Good thinkin’ there, Vic.

However, sitting scores no points with Little Miss Active.

Whitney shows up to cramp her brother’s style.

LOL.  Vic’s all “So this is my kid sister… kids, huh?”  And Whit looks ELATED to be included.

Vince one-ups both his brothers and actually invites Karen inside.

I mean, it’s his little sister’s bedroom… but…

…the look on her face says she’s enjoying his company!

I like Vince too. 🙂

Surrounded by children’s toys, these two really hit it off!

We even have first contact!

But that’s all for this visit!

I set future heir, Whitney up with a bunch of different outfits too.

These are clearly PJs, but she has lots of different looks. TS3 did multiple outfits too, but not as smoothly as TS4.  I like it.

Having a favorite would be kind of weird, since they’re identical, but I think Vern is my favorite.

Vern:  Looks smug.  Vince: Not me?
Okay Vince, maybe you.  It totally is you.

Victor molds clay in the toilet.

Yeah, so it’s totally not you.

Vic:

Cares not.

They’re all fun though… my first TS4 triplets.

❤

Rachael:  SHHHH, the bed is sleeping.

😐

I decide that even though Rachael and I have had a blast as a detective, it’s time to retire.

Sometime when the lifespans aren’t so short, we’ll really give this a shot.  She ends up making nearly $520.00 a day, so not too shabby!

Someone called to wish the boys a happy birthday (that was forever ago?) and I didn’t recognize the Sim, so I checked out the family tree.

It goes all the way back to Henrietta!  Nice!  So Henri’s spouse Jimmy and children I, J, K, L, and M are all lost.  Ian, Juliet, Kenny, Lars & Liv (twins) (Casey while I was trying to figure TS4) & Mimi are also missing.  Then Noah takes over, and has kids with both Kathy and Ratna, and although the mothers are missing, Rachael’s siblings are all there.  Olive (Whoops, I used that name in the Zales recently!) & Olympia, Patrick and Quinn.  Then of course all of Rachael’s spawn.  Simon, Tori, Utah, V, V, V & Whit!  They’ve long since patched the family tree, so it works much better now… but it was still fun to see!

I got the pop-up that Rach’s life had come to an end.

So I have her plant a few more things and send Victor out to tend until the gardener shows up in a couple days.

That night, the Monster visits Whitney.

If anyone can talk to the Monster, it should be her!  No dice this time, but soon I bet!

Karen is over again!  Vern begins his 5 interactions.

Everything was well received.

Here’s one of Whitney’s cute new outfits!

She’s off to go play on the rocket ship play structure.

Vince gets his chance!

How cute are they?

She looks way into him.

And have I mentioned I ADORE HER?!?

I make Karen change her outfit, since I made so many nice ones for her!

While all three boys neglect her for food.

Victor gets a chance and lays it on pretty thick.

Karen doesn’t seem to mind too much.

Utah stopped by!

The adopted hottie!  ❤

Good heavens Vic, I think you’re getting fatter!

I’m pretty sure Vince is going to win the hand of fair Karen, so I decide he needs to battle his genes and take up some physical activity.

Both the fella’s mom and dad had quite the tummy, but Vince looks great!

Vern is also thinner than Victor, but not as svelte as Vince!

NO YOU FAT BASTARD!

THAT WAS WHITNEY’S BIRTHDAY CAKE.  I was *JUST* about to have Rach put candles on it. :@

Rach is so near death, I have her quickly make Whitney another one.

I opt for the Zombie cake, because I think Whit would like it.

We instantly put candles on it.  Don’t even try it, boys.

Make a wish!

I haven’t done much with mixology in this challenge, so Whitney is going to be a bartender!

She adds essence of flavor and self-assured.  She doesn’t look exactly happy, but she’s AWESOME.

Her first whim?  CANNONBALL!


FTW!!!!!!!!!

I decide Vince has won the heart of Karen, and we don’t have time for full friendship bars in such a LIGHTNING challenge.

SO I move Vic and Vern in with the rest of the family.

Hey readers?  Quick side question?

WTH is this symbol?  The one I’ve pinned?  It’s “become confident”, and I’ve seen it a hundred times, but I can’t for the life of me make it out.

But I’m also the one who thought the “Save/Load” symbol in the main menu was a newspaper, but it was actually like, a 3.5″ floppy, so I never clicked it, thinking it was NEWS (boring) instead of save/load (IMPORTANT!)  I feel like the “confident” symbol looks like a paper crane meets a rose meets a protractor… so help me out?!?

All that nonsense aside, Vince invites Karen over for the Big Woo.

Not to be confused with the big WooHoo, but that’s soon, I’m sure.  And OMG LOOK AT HER FACE ❤

They’ll be a lot of fun until Whitney ages up.

Because OMG that face FTW!

SMOOCHIE!!!

BF/GF and then it’s MOVE IN TIME!

She brought the typical $20K an unplaced Sim brings to the house – but the Lightnings have no trouble with moola.

So… I LOVE THESE TWO.

I’m hoping you do too… (And see how her hair is kinda curly but shorter?  Instead of straightened and longer?  #details)

Back inside Rachael has the “woohoo” talk with Whitney.

So funny!  But Rach felt it was important before she died.

Whitney had the option to “complain about everything” which seemed SOO teenager…

Ha, I had to give it a go… look at her!

Rach:  I see the light!

Goodbye Rachael.

You did good.  ❤

Karen:  Alright!  Dinner and a show!

Inappropriate, Karen.

Poor Whit and Vince.

Karen:  Have you guys tried these omelets?

They’re TO DIE FOR.  😐

I’ll miss ya, Rachie.

We had good times.

One very sad Whitney heads off to her school day.

Poor little thing.

And a very sad Vince off to work.

I’m sorry guys.

Hey!  The gardener we hired finally shows up!

Got a lot of wok to do!

Karen is a loner and a foodie.  I decide she’ll try to master baking, which is a skill I haven’t messed with much in this game.

Cooking, yes.  Baking no.  Should be fun!

Ha, she’s terrible.

LOL – side note, the bills came and they’re over $6K!  Good thing the Lightnings are very wealthy!  That little garden really pays off.  They have over $94k in the bank – after paying the bills.

Tada!

Breadsticks!

And some brownies!

She looks so pleased with herself, little cutie!

I downloaded this red haired Sim and her two sisters from the gallery just to fill the neighborhood.

She and Karen had become friends before Karen moved in.  Her name is Annika.

Karen ignores her new friend and dives right into her new baking books!

Outside the Gardener has her work cut out for herself!
But there’s a lot of great variety out there!  Keeps food costs way down too.

Hey, it’s the blue-haired sister!

My my those are some large… assets…

I headed into CAS and toned the whole family down a bit.

There.  Much better.

Green sister came over too!

That’s all three of ’em!

Ooh, Hi sweetheart.

I know you miss your mom.

😦

😦

Vince gets home from work and helps his dear little sister with her homework.

Then I saw the option to “console about death”…

… too beautifully sweet.

Followed by a movie to cheer her up!

Ha, it didn’t work.

Vince’s face “I’m TRYING here!”…

Turns out Karen is “active” and needs lots of exercise.

Cute little outfit!

Whoops!  Looks like these two had too much fun in the hot tub.

Vince hates children, so this isn’t the best news for him.

Sorry dear!  You knew the risks!

What a freakin’ baby – moped through all his report writing.

I have had other “dislikes children” Sims who never really reacted this badly.  Vince didn’t even like his little sister until she grew into a teenager.  He’s my most “dislike childreny” Sim I’ve ever had.

I have Karen bake all her meals when she’s hungry.

Yum, bread!

Sill crying about his newfound fatherhood.

And his mom’s death – but still.  Weenie.

I’d be careful there, complainy pants… her face says she’s not gonna take much more of your crap.

I love this shot.  The comparison of the two and their upcoming parenthood and how they feel about it.

Just wow.  So dramatic there, Vince.  Karen looks serene and happy.  Vince looks like he’s already planning an exit!

Hey, on a lighter note, you can make Rice Krispie squares!

And decorate them!  Too cute!

I was going to have Karen chat with Whitney about the new addition, but they hadn’t even been introduced!

A quick “nice to meet ya…”

Phew – that’s all for now!  What’s next?  Who knows!  Things move fast for those Lightnings *cough-six-months-since-last-post-cough* but I’m sure we’ll see a baby!

Thanks for hanging in there, it’s been a LONG time!  Happy Simming!

 

Sad, Sad Triplets… 5.2

You won’t believe it!  A real Lightning update!?!?

Yeah.  I haven’t opened this file since May 2015.  Let’s get to it!

We’ll start with a Lightning Check!  I have no idea who’s in this house, I don’t expect you will either!

We have Rachael!

Hi lovely!

Her eldest son Simon who is just having his birthday!

(I remembered that I don’t like him.)

Her daughter Tori, who just got home from work BEFORE SCHOOL at the Espresso place.

(LOVE HER!)

Her handsome son Utah – whom if I remember correctly, is adopted!

*swoon*

And then there’s triplets…

Vince moping.

Vern enjoying Simon’s party.

And Victor…

…Super into that door, at the moment.  That’s everyone!

And Simon moves out with a little fanfare.

He added Bro to neat and gloomy.

OH!  I had forgotten that Rachael was a detective.

How fun!  She’s ranked “Captain”!  Adorable.

This career had gotten more challenging than I remember it being.  She actually had to search for clues.

They weren’t outlined and super obvious.  Here she is analyzing some newfound evidence.

Saturday morning brings some sibling bonding.

Wait!  Simon shouldn’t still be here!  There, I moved him out with Aunt Quinn and the ghost of Uncle Patrick.

And Vince?
Put your hand down and go potty.

Grilled cheese lunch for the whole crew.

They’re so sweet!

They still have the garden!  It brings in TONS of money!

The have $92k in the bank.

Tori blows out her birthday candles and enters adulthood.

While cute and handsome brother Utah sings the birthday song.

She’s as adorable as always.

One of my favorites!

Tori and Simon are available for download from the gallery.  Search #lightning with CC Enabled.  It’s just for my default eyes and more detailed skin.

The house is down to five.  Momma Rachael and her four boys.

Utah and the triplets.  ❤

This always terrifies me.
Don’t die Rachael!   (She didn’t)

Another day with Rach on the job.

The law enforcement career is incredibly fun!

My game is extra glitchy after the latest patch.

Victor here has invisible homework.  A myriad of other things have gone awry as well.

More adventures at work with Rachael.

Arresting citizens in public bathrooms.

HA!  Interrogations are where it’s AT!

So much fun!!!

After a long work day, and when Simon stopped by for a visit, I ordered my very first TS4 pizza.

It was super fun!

All the Lightning boys.  Even Simon.

(Still not a fan of that Simon.)

Oops, Utah aged up and I didn’t make him a cake.  Now he’s all mopey…

… but Rach and her triplets are adorable!

I decide the triplets should invite their father over.  They haven’t seen good ol’ Lex in a while.

HA! Rach’s face.  “You invited who over?!?!”

Hey Lex.

The gray suits you.

Distinguished, even…

(Rachael’s face… LOL)

It’s been awhile…

*wink wink*

CHILDREN!  TO BED!

You can do your homework later!

Why are ALL THREE OF YOU awake?!?

Skedaddle!

Meanwhile…

Uh oh…

Um… Uh-oh?

Looks like Rachael will be having the “W” baby!

The next day, reeling from the new pregnancy (that I totally had a hand in) I wondered why Utah didn’t go to school with his siblings.

But duh!  He’s a young adult now!  I move him out.  He’s available in the gallery!  #lightning

Cutie Rachael – pregnant at work.

Look at her badge… hee hee hee.

The interrogation room is the BEST!

Seriously, so much fun.

Oops.  The triplets aged up without a cake, while Rachael stayed late at work.

Now they’re all sad.

Here’s Vince:

He got the Joke Star aspiration and added gregarious to cheerful and self-assured. ❤

And Vern:

Fabulously Wealthy aspiration with business savvy joining clumsy and art lover.

Lastly Victor:
Big Happy Family aspiration which adds domestic to slob & foodie.

Upon closer inspection, they look identical to me.

I’m sorry about your birthday!

And that you inherited your father’s (and mother’s…) round tummy.

Just blog about it and move on!

Please?

Your brother is giving himself a pep talk, and look how happy he is?

Be more like Victor.

We just won’t talk about Vern and his desolation.

…

“HEY!  CRYBABIES!  I made fish tacos!  Come and get it!”

Sad fish tacos are sad.

So…so…sad.

I’m telling you… do not forget birthdays.  Especially TRIPLETS.

Victor!  You’re my new favorite!

Look how happy you are!  Vern.  Pull yourself together.

“These tacos taste like sad and you’re a bad mother”

**Gives Evil Eye**

OMG that lip!!!  It’s even quivering.

I’M SORRY I FORGOT TO BAKE YOU A CAKE AND PUT CANDLES ON IT.

Here boys, quit moping.  I redid three of the bedrooms and converted them into teenage boy zones.

You used to all share one room, so be happy, will ya?!?

Eventually they adjusted… and were cuties again.  I told them all to do their homework…

And they sat together on Vern’s bed to do it.

Cutest detective who ever – detected.

Look at that belly!  ❤

Finally!  It’s baby time!

When lifespans are so short, pregnancies seem super long!

Always a fun adventure.  And look!  Olympia is the attending physician!

O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, V, V, let’s meet the W!

Whitney Lightning enters the world.

Aw.

Just after the birth of Whitney, another special birthday was to be celebrated!

Our Rachael is becoming an elder!

❤

She got a cute new makeover.

More befitting of her age and status.  LOVE IT.

Were you curious?  I was.  Elders can still breastfeed.

And Victor, I know it’s totally natural and beautiful – but don’t you have something else to do?

Um – readers?  She’s looking right at me.

I was going to comment on how old Whitney’s parents are… but um… I don’t think that I will.  Perfectly acceptable parent ages.  Lex isn’t like, dead or anything.  *whistles*

Rachael had a whim to grill steak.  OMG, how funny are they?

ACME steaks.  A la Loony Tunes.

Simon then called and invited his mother and brothers to his birthday party.  Felt wrong to say no.

Everyone arrived in their party gear!  Super cute!

This is the backside of the caterer Simon hired.  I hope he makes him a birthday cake!

I haven’t seen the caterer much…

Aw… Simon, Tori & some make-up, and Utah!

Always fun to see Utah!  Handsome beast.

This is another guest.  Abram Patel.  He has very unfortunate eyes.

Like all the time.

Seriously!  HA HA HA!

Uglacy material.

I nearly died laughing at him.

On the flipside, the rather adorable looking caterer did INDEED bake a cake!

It was cool, Simon automatically blew out the candles, and the friends and family gathered.

Then everyone watched a sci-fi flick.

They’re all so adorable…

Except “weird eye guy”.

Rach hugged her eldest son and then returned home.  Dear little Whitney ages up tomorrow.

❤

Here she is!  She acquires artistic prodigy and neat, like her mother.

Another redhead, but darker skinned, like her father.  I think she’s beautiful.

I’m pretty sure she’s the cutest thing ever.

*sprinkles glitter and noodles to her artwork*

Here she is doing her homework in a new room I added on for her.

I clearly placed the windows AFTER placing the wall décor…

Another fun work day with Rachael!

I love senior detective Rachael.  And her saggy bosom.

#notmyfavorite

#itelllies

Whitney, Vince & Vern.

Too cute!

Middle of the night gardening from Rach.

Totally worth it.  The garden is quite lucrative!

Speaking of lucrative…

…bought some stuff for the pool.  Swan Dive FTW!

The triplets are about to age up, and I got the pop up that it’s almost the end for Rachael.

I refuse to let the triplets age up all neglected again, so Rachael bakes a fancy black/white tiered cake.

Rach makes sure they know how special they are.

Victor: OMG, MOM IS CELEBRATING OUR BIRTHDAY!

POINTS AND HOLLERS!

Party Time:

Vern adds bro:

Victor adds lazy:

Vince adds hates children:

They’re SUPER cute and I love how unique they are!  They are available in the gallery.  #lightning

My own rules, which I frequently choose to ignore, state that the last born is heir.  Since she’s my favorite – Whitney will take over this time.

I’m not moving the triplets out, since I know Rachael could perish at any time.  So what’s next for the Lightnings?

Who knows?!?  Maybe another post in the near future?

I sure hope so!

There’s HOW Many?!? 5.1

Wooee!  A Lightning update!  I know it’s been awhile, but I’ve been pretty busy with those Zales… Let’s see what Rachael gets up to this time!  It’s a doozy!

Lightning Check!  Rachael is sleeping.

The kids Simon & Tori are at school, so check complete.

Wait – here they are.

Aw – little cuties.  And the fridge is broken for some reason, they can’t use it.  FINE.

***1 IRL DAY LATER***

Oooh!  A new stuff pack!

**BUYS**  (It’s nothing really fancy – but I bought it for the hair and clothes)

Fridge works again.  Yay!

Don’t mind Rachael’s awkward posture, we just planted the cowplant berry she’d found while fishing!

I can’t wait to meet him!  (Although the udders suggest it’s female…)

I decide I don’t want to have another baby daddy (or a spouse) I also tell lies and I’ve never adopted a child in TS4, so Rachael is going to adopt!

A thousand bucks to adopt?  Making them is free, yo.

Aw, how do you pick?!?

And why is that one black cardigan top so popular?  Is it like the social worker uniform?  Poor things.  I was drawn to Ingrid at first, but I went with this fella:

I renamed him Utah –

And he’s SO adorable!  I think he’ll fit in fine, social butterfly and glutton.

Rachael aged up!  Oops, I forgot her birthday.

Don’t let the cake slice in the foreground fool you, it’s far from fresh.

Simon aged up too.

He acquired the best selling author aspiration, and adds muser and gloomy to his traits.  SPOILER:  I do not like him – at all.

Poor baby – I forgot you birthday too – I guess we’ll have to get a better look at him later, when he’s not moping.

So sad.  😐

This little guy however, our Utah, is having a grand ol’ time!

He’s loving the stereo and dancing away in his PJ’s.

Simon:  I’m too sad to paint my sad painting.

OH COME ON.

Work it out, mood-boy.

You are not a gifted artist.

SQUEE!

Cowplant baby bush!

How cute are the kidlets before school?

Tori has been VERY under-represented this post!  I promise I’ll make up for it.

LOOK!  A picture of Rachael peeing!

Why you ask?

She’s pregnant!

WHAT!?! I can hear you all exclaim… well, there’s room in the house and that means make a baby if you can, per my own rules.  I watched the people walking by until the first male appeared, then had Rachael turn on the charm.  TADA!  Preggo!  I might introduce you to the baby daddy later.  I DID snap a picture just in case I wanted to fully divulge his identity.

We have a cow plant!

Aw.

Yeah!  Eat him!

I hate that guy!  (He wasn’t eaten)

Rachael’s baby daddy invited her out on a date!  I accepted the date, and then it was kind of cool, because B.D. picked the place!

The park!

Sneak peek!

(I are sneaky)

Rachael took this opportunity to fish, but her date didn’t like that so much…

Ouch!

FINE!  We won’t!  (Blurs out face to continue mystery)

Hey though!  It was totally worth it!

Sammy-Sama told me that this aspiration would be difficult – either they’ve patched up the problems with not catching the early fish when your angler becomes too skilled, or I was just incredibly lucky.  Since I didn’t pay attention to ANYTHING or even really try very hard, I was pretty surprised. It’s also, like a Lightning first!  Complete an aspiration?  No way!

Tori was going to age up on her own all sad, so I had Simon bake her a cake at 4:00 am.

She blows them out with little fanfare, but at least she won’t mope for two days.

Which is especially annoying in such short lifespans.

I went ahead and picked all her traits.  She acquired the nerd brain aspiration, quick learner & perfectionist to go with her already established geek trait.

I think she’s amazing and I’m a little obsessed.

Her outfit is super cute too, hopefully I captured more than just her upper body.

Hey!  That’s not a selfie!

That’s BlicBlock!

Utah is still around.

He’s such a sweetie… never any trouble.

Hey look!  A cake lure!

YEAH!  You suck, go eat it!


C’mon, cow plant!  Eat him!

Dang.

I guess even the cowplant doesn’t like him.

Do you SEE how cute she is?

So that’s pretty gross.

It made an essence of discomfort… or something.

Well, I was trying to keep the baby daddy secret just for fun, but he called and asked for another date.

I guess he forgot how much fun he had the last time.

His name is Lex Joseph.  And here’s his full body picture I snapped from earlier.

So yup – that’s the current fetus daddy.

The happy couple.

Who both like plaid, ti would seem.

Rach decides to inform him that the child is his.

And his reaction is lovely.

Although they still had another terrible date.  Even though Rachael did NOT go off fishing this time, and they even danced together.  I’m not sure how this new dating system works.

Please – have the baby already.

I’m sick of your needy nature.

It’s almost this little peanut’s birthday!

The easiest, happiest little guy.  And wait until you see him!  I kind of ignored him before, since he was so easy going – but he’s pretty stinkin’ adorable…

Kids all doing homework.

So studious.  Not sure why they’re ALL in their swimwear…

Rach finally goes into labor!  I decide things aren’t so great with the dad, so her sister Quinn will join her for a hospital birth.

And look!  That’s Olympia!  She’s a doctor now!

Love the check in process.

It’s super cute!

Ooh, what a handsome doctor!

Lucky Rach!

We have a son!  Vince Lightning!

Wait!  Twins!  Vern!

What?  There’s another one?  Victor.

I am not entertained.  I thought one more baby would be fun, but THREE!?!  No fertility or ANYTHING.  Thanks a lot LEX.

At least Simon and Tori are helpful.

Oh look how weird… they look like girls when they’re in their bassinets…

But Rachael picks on e up and…

…Poof!  Boy outfit change.  Interesting.

Oh no! In the hustle and bustle of the triplet birth, the cowplant died.

That makes me sad. 😦

Utah’s birthday!

Although no one stood around and cheered with him, Rachael did bake him a cake!

He gets alluring and the soulmate aspiration.  He adds goofball to glutton.

and woo!  What a handsome young man!

Seriously.

I adore him.

One eating, two crying…

…and one tired momma.

Who wins at SimLife.

❤

Well, she did – until two of ’em pooped.

Ew.

Then all three boys hopped out of their cribs.  Before makeover…

I spot three redheads!

After makeover – Left to Right:  Vince , whiz kid – self assured, Vern, rambunctious scamp – art lover, and Victor, whiz kid – slob.

I see potential in all three!

Now – that’s all for this post, but I must point out, there are only four pregnancies left – that means you’ll want to choose the next heir wisely!  As he/she will probably be the LAST ONE.  W, X, Y & Z are all that remain in this challenge.

NOTE:  I have a new challenge in mind, that I’ve come up with on my own.  If you guys wish, I will take a poll from the last four children born (unless there’s multiples again!) and use whomever wins to be the founder for my next challenge.  The Lightnings have been fun, but they’re almost finished!

Until next time – Happy Simming!

It’s Rachael Time! 5.0

Wow!  Generation 5!  Neat!  Thanks to all the readers for their support!

Last time, on The Lightnings – A Quick Alphabetcy, Noah’s time in charge came to an end, and Rachael, the chosen heir aged up to Young Adulthood, and is ready to take over!  I’d normally start with a Lightning Check, but since there’s just the two of them, let’s get started!

And let’s go camping!  Rachael seems like the camping type.  I have her and her father rent the fanciest (or next to fanciest, I can’t remember) place they can find.  The tents are super fun, but I’d never stayed at one of the cabins before!

How luxurious!  They certainly will not be “roughing it”.  They’re having a 3 day retreat.

Noah needs to wee and eat, but Rachael is ready to explore!

I love the little camping “world” it’s so pretty!

I wanted Rachael to go fishing…

But not in that dress!

There…

Much better.  That’s our outdoorsy girl!

Yeah yeah, stupid plumbob…

But look at all the fishing women!  It’s like a sisterhood!

Oh man – I just got the pop-up that Noah is going to die soon.

This is NOT how I wanted this camping trip to go!  Please hang in there until we get home!

Rach does a bit more fishing, then heads back to the cabin to spend some time with her aging father.
But when she got back, she found him laying in the yard!!

Turns out he was just looking at the stars, so I have Rachael join him.

Too sweet.

With Rachael’s feet heading off to bed, Noah feels invigorated and alive!

He gets his boogie on to some easy listening music.  (This is a terrible screenshot… I’m re-reading my notes like – Huh?  What is this?!?  I apologize.)

Noah also ventured out to do a little exploring.  Nothing of note happened…

…but the night sky was beautiful.

The bills still arrived, even though they were camping.

With all this recreation, the trip, and the pool – the bank account is rather depleted!

Oh, that – and bugs flew out of the mailbox.

Ha ha ha!

Rachael is busy sleeping in, but Noah spotted a lovely park ranger!

He’s old, but not dead!

(Yet.)

Noah proves he’s still got it.

And finds love in the great outdoors!

I found it fitting that Noah got one more girlfriend.

He was always such a fan of the ladies.

Rachael works some more on her Angling Ace aspiration while her father is busy romancing up the locals.

Sammy told me to use a fishing guide to make sure I did everything correctly, but since Rachael was a level 5 angler by the time she was a teenager, I decide it was too late, and I’ll just try my best.

I was looking for love for Rachael too…

…But everyone I saw was not to my liking.

I got the other pop-up about Noah’s death, and it will happen any minute.

😦

Rachael joins her father in a lite night game of horseshoes.

I’m so sad he’s going to pass away on their vacation.

Worried about her father, Rach naps beside him while he sleeps.

This made me have feels.

When he wakes, Rachael expresses her admiration for him.

It appears to be mutual.

❤

I’m glad you like the smell of Rachael’s cooking you old glutton you.

I’m going to be sad when we lose him, and before he could become a grandfather!

NOOO!  Not yet!

You just ate!

Shouldn’t there be a “you can’t die within so many hours of eating, or you’ll get a cramp” rule?

Oh Noah – farewell, honey.

Thanks for all the cool kids and your womanizing nature.  It was a fun generation.

Rachael had just headed out for a jog, so she missed witnessing his death.

Which is good and bad.  Good, because she won’t get that terrible “very sad” moodlet… and bad, because she won’t get that terrible “very sad” moodlet.  Someone should mourn him, but I don’t want Rachael being in agony for days.

You check your tablet there, Grimmy.

I’m sure it’s his time to go.  Just after he got a new girlfriend, too.

Your creepy dementor hands terrify me.

Spooky.

Goodbye Noah.

I’ll make sure Rachael takes your remains home.  I feel like you were an elder for such a short time.

Meanwhile – Rachie is out for a happy jog amongst the pines.

While her father lies deceased on the kitchen floor!

She stopped to look at this huge… cute… thing…

After a little more fishing, she’s tired and very hungry.

So she roasts a fish!

Hark!  A bear!

The bear is named Quinn – sorry bear, that name is taken!

They chatted briefly, but did not get along.

Rachael’s vacation will be over soon, but with no prospects for romance, she does a little more fishing.

Don’t look so happy there – Rach.

That one is not a keeper.

Before I knew it, Rachael was back at home, with her sister Olive visiting.

They had a fun dip in the pool.

Okay, we gotta get a move on here – it’s spouse hunting time!

I head to the museum because I’m not sure I’ve visited this lot yet.  I immediately spot the guy in the baseball cap.

His name is Jerrod.

Hard to tell what he really looks like under all that – erm – style.

He dresses like an annoying teenage boy.

Even though he’s already an adult – well, let’s see if Rachael likes him.

I learn he’s a glutton and a mixologist at the Rattlesnake Juicebar.  But ugh, his clothes and accessories… Well, I can fix that!

There!  Hiding underneath all that douchebaggery was this very cool face!

Not bad at all!

Aw, I already think they’re so cute!

I’m not sure how long before he becomes an elder, but I’m gonna risk it!

HA!  His face is adorable.

Rachael’s first ever attempt at flirting is successful!

I have her ask him on a date…

…back to her place!  They get their groove on to the stereo.

Cuties!

Smoochies!

And now they’re boyfriend girlfriend!

Wee!

Now, I really like Jerrod, but he’s addicted to milk.

This is like, the fourth glass he’s taken out since being here.
Jerrod: Moo.

Okay then.

Hey, Noah came out for a visit!

Hi buddy!  He’s blue because he’s “sad”, but he looks pretty happy to me!

Jerrod had left and I have Rach invite him over the very next day and…

…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  Already!?!  Son of a…

Well fine.  He may not be the forever man in Rachael’s life, but she loves him I want his genetics.

With Jerrod now at risk of dying any day, I rush things along with a pregnancy test.

Success!

Even if he’s old, I think they’re adorable together.

He strikes a pose, and moves in!

And is initiated to the Lightning house through the traditional “Oh good, more hands, help in the garden” rite of passage.

Rachael helps out, but don’t let her green plumbob mislead you, she’s starving.

Two slices of birthday cake later…

…and the neglected garden is doing much better.

Jerrod:  A Fork?

Rachael:  He’s so great… (smiles)

Sad Henrietta showed up later that evening.

I send Rachael to quickly cheer her up before she breaks everything.  Protip:  Cheer up the ghosts as soon as you see them, and then they won’t break everything.

She was very successful, and after she went off to bed, a very confident Henrietta got her boogie on into the wee hours.

So much better than breaking all the appliances.

I think Jerrod is so cool.

For an old guy.

Pregnant, but happy, I send Rachael and her beau off to do some fishing.

Well, swimsuit clad Jerrod went to the nearest bar…

…But Rachael did some fishing!

Cool, she caught a rainbow fish!

I usually have the speed up too fast to catch pictures like this one, so I’m super happy.

OMG OMG What’s happening!  The camera has zoomed to Jerrod!

Oh, he’s fine…

Just some townie dying.  Jerrod lives to fight another day.

She’s so large already!

And only her second trimester!

Please don’t die.

That’d suck.

Uh oh – Jerrod is “dangerously tired”.

I had him take a nap, but he doesn’t seem to be doing well!  (turns out he was sick…oops)

Out tending the small garden, it’s baby S time!

I decide to have this baby at the hospital and experience the new GTW way of childbirth!

Here’s the hospital!

I’m kind of excited!

So is Jerrod.

LOLZ

I wasn’t sure what to do next, but I realize she can “check in” at the front desk.

And look!  It’s Olympia!  She works here!

After checking in, she just wandered around with this heart thingie over her head.

I think it indicates that she’s a patient.

The dad, meanwhile, is having a snack in the cafeteria.

In his defense, he WAS hungry right before Rachie had the nerve to go into labor.

Back following Rachael, I decide this is pretty exciting!

Then funny!

Then lasers?

Glue?  Is that glue?

I don’t think glue is necessary…

I don’t see a baby, do you?

Hello?  Baby?

Oh – apparently it’s some stork game.

Yes – game.  The doctor is playing some sort of stork drops a baby game on the machine’s display while it uses laser and glue in childbirth.

Does anyone else think this is super weird?

Because I think this is super weird.

It’s a boy!  I name him Simon.

Which incidentally is my cat’s name.

Everyone seems happy enough.

Although I’m a little freaked out.

I’m gonna say, I prefer the sparkle and twirl version of SimBirth.

On the plus side, Rachael and Jerrod returned home with their needs at 100%, so that’s a plus.  And good to keep in mind for an ISBI.

And then I discovered this!

A birth certificate!  So that’s kind of cool too.

Rachael and Jerrod immediately get down to business and…

…we’re having another one!  Yay!

Moments later, Simon hops out of his basket.

It seemed fast to me too!  He’s adorable, even premakeover.  He gets “neat” likehis mother and has the whiz kid aspiration.  (Yes, we need more child aspirations… there’s like… three.)

Squee!

What a cutie!

I decide that I’m REALLY going to work on the children aspirations, so here’s Rachael reading to little Simon.

Which is super cute.

OMG – Rachael’s face…

You better be enjoying this, kid.

Uh oh – I got the pop up that Jerrod is gonna die soon.

And it came – like immediately.

Unfortunately, Rachael was there to witness his demise.

I was considering pleading for his life, but decided to let him go peacefully.

Then this happened.

Which may or may not be the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen in the Sims.  Get your death-y hands off the unborn!

Simon needs to make these “mood potions” for his aspiration.

This was me trying, but his mental skill wasn’t high enough.  Oops.

Mother and son play some chess.

The following day, one happy, focused, well-fed Simon heads off to school.

Earning an A is part of his aspiration, so I’m really trying!

Rachael is swimming, but she’ll be fishing soon.

Phew!  She’s going to have that baby any moment!

She’s extremely sad, examining the water – and still in her swimsuit.

Poor huge little thing.

Nice  catch.

😐

Oops.  Looks like someone had an accident.

I’m sorry Rachie, I thought you could make it.

Don’t mind that pout!  It’s baby time!

I hope it’s a girl!

I opt for the “stay at home and sparkle” birth plan.

It IS a girl!  I ask my husband for a girls name that starts with T, and he picks Tori.

Aw.  We have a cute little Tori!

Olive stops by!

She actually stops by all the danged time, but since Rachael is sleeping and caring for the newborn, Simon invites his aunt in to play chess with him.

The sad ghost of Noah appeared to meet his grand-daughter.

Aw… too sweet.

He even helps out with the smelly diaper!

Thanks!

Rachael takes a moment to thank her father for the visit.

And she cheers him up too, to protect the appliances and electronics.

Whoops.  I’m not very good at keeping the plants healthy.

They look terrible.

A few moments later, Tori ages up!

She has the social butterfly aspiration and the geek trait.  I aim for a “social geek” look, and I think she’s adorable!

The little peanuts bond over a game of chess, which is good for both their aspirations.

As Simon needs mental skill, and Tori needs to make a BFF!

Since fishing is the name of the game, I thought I’d see if Rachael needed to visit that secret place.

I had forgotten how beautiful it was.
I wish there was a single lot so you could live there.

Wow.
Seriously lovely.

She caught a cowberry plant seed!

I can’t wait to plant it!

After fishing in the magic place, she catches a few frogs for bait in Willow Creek.

It was a busy Sunday!

After an all night fishing trip, Rach returns home in the wee hours – to over $5K in bills!  The kids head off to school, and I thought about sending Rachael out to look for another partner – but she’s just too tired.

For now!

And that’s it for this post!  Thanks for reading!  Until next time, Happy Simming!

A Pool and a Party 4.3

Hey there!  Guess what?  Rachael won the heir poll!

It surprised me, but I’m not disappointed!  Votes were as follows:
Rachael:  7 here, 1 on Boolprop
Quinn:  4 here, 2 on Boolprop
Olympia:  2 here, none on Boolprop
Patrick: 1 here, 1 on Booprop
Olive:  None here, 2 on Boolprop
Nice to see that at least everyone got a couple of votes.  I always feel bad for Sims who no one votes for at all.

This post will get us all the way up to Rachael’s YA birthday, and then we’ll be ready to begin Rachie’s Reign!

As always, Lightning Check!  Noah is painting a landscape.

I promise – I know it looks like a blank canvas…

Olympia, while feeling confident, is heading off to smash the dollhouse.

Grr.

Olive is standing around feeling flirty.

Which is a little gross, since the only people she knows are her family.

Patrick is heading inside to wash his hands.

Which I found to be kind of funny.

Quinn is looking at her sister Rachael.

She’s SO pretty!

Rachael is looking at her phone…

…cuz we’re going traveling!

I decide to send her to the new little neighborhood, Magnolia Promenade to see if there’s any fishing.

Took me a minute, but tada!

Cute – but she’s missing school.

Oh well!

Look!  Duckies!

They were quacking and everything, it was adorable.

Yay!  She’s got something!

And someone has joined her!

That’s not a fish.

Apparently it was a dragonfruit seed.  Okay then.  She also caught a lemon once.

Apparently this is a very popular fishing spot.

That old woman looks pregnant, and the man standing right BEHIND Rachael needs to BACK OFF.

#caughtmyfirstfish

#selfie

Rachael met this woman named Amira while fishing.

She had lots of whims about making friends, so I worked on it a bit.  I like it when Sims have close friends outside the family.

Rachael is just a little bit chubby, so I decided to have her work on her fitness level.

She is so cute, I just love her.  I’m glad she won!

But, speaking of won – she’s the NEXT heir, not the current heir, so it’s time to get back to Noah.

He’s still working on that landscape – looks like a cabin!

Teenage homework party!

Except Olympia.  I don’t like Olympia, so she’s cleaning the toilet.  HA!

Kathy stopped by unannounced and uninvited, and then looks SUPER creepy while hugging her son.

RUN PATRICK!

Noah painted this cute little kitty!

It was a “confident” painting.  And I sold it.  But it was cute!

It’s Olive & Olympia’s birthday!

Olympia is nauseous from and illness and starving for fun, so let’s have some cake!

She’s very lovely, and adds foodie to self-assured and hates children.

I like how worried she looks.

Ha!  Look at those girls’ faces!

Everyone looks so funny!

Tada, adulthood!

Olive adds lazy to her traits, and with that, I move them into the other Lightning house, that currently houses elder Mimi, Ratna & Kathy.

Noah ignored the festivities and was busy painting.  This was a surrealism piece.

HA!  HA HA HA HA HA!  Very funny, EA, very funny indeed.

So why, when this game launched, was everyone all “WAAAAAAH NO GHOSTS!!” because SERIOUSLY…

All my ghosts ever do is show up and break everything.  SO ANNOYING.

I followed Noah to work again, and we got another arrest!

It was super fun!  I try not to post a million GTW things, but I think it’s a blast!

Back at home, with his teenagers all doing their homework, Noah celebrates his birthday!

Another Lightning enters old age.  Time flies!

I knew he needed a new “old man” makeover, and I tried to embrace the “retired detective” vibe, as well as his more rambunctious youth…

…He’s a little more dignified than I wanted, but I got sick of messing with him.

Except wait… isn’t that Jimmy’s old man hair and beard?  (Note:  It was not Jimmy’s old man hair, I had made Jimmy mostly bald, not just a little bald… but still, too similar)  So I had to work with his look just a little bit more.

There!  Old man Noah!  I think he’s pretty adorable!

I watched the teens all wake up hungry and select their own breakfasts from the fridge.

Patrick had french toast, Quinn the angry spaghetti, and Rachael a piece of cake.  I thought it was interesting that they all chose different things.

Noah had a whim to take a vacation day, so we did.  I had him spend the day painting.  That same day, later in the evening, I went fishing with Rachael.

Don’t mind the plumbob. She fished ALL night until she had to head off to school, quite tired and rather hungry.  It was cool to know though, that a Sim can head off to work or school directly from a community lot.  After she moved off this lot, the game just plopped me down at home.

Noah had another fun day at work and got promoted to detective!

Oops, that’s a picture of Patrick.  Sad Patrick to be exact.  He just aged up without a cake.  Oops.  He added clumsy to lazy and loner.

A little pep-talk in the mirror and some TV time with dad, and he felt much better.

Sorry I forgot your birthday Patrick, and sorry I didn’t get a picture of you for your promotion, Noah.

I put one of the koi fish Rachael caught in a bowl and I named him Zale.

I still miss having the koi pond on the Zale lot.

Rachael did some more fishing over at the super fancy neighborhood on the golf course.

I hadn’t noticed the course before, but see?

It seems to be for decoration only though, there were no interactions that I could find.  Super beautiful little area of the neighborhood though.

It was a fun, and beautiful day for fishing.

Anyone else looking forward to TS4 Seasons?  I sure am!

Part of completing this level of her aspiration, Rachie needed to mount five fish.
I picked all goldfish because it looks silly – therefore I like it.

Dudes.  I was about to throw a birthday party just after I’d finished building a fun new pool, and the game crashed.  Wow.  I’d gotten so spoiled by the game being so stable, that I hadn’t saved at all.

But I built it again, although with a little less flair.

Tada!  The Lightnings have a pool!

And a little area I put together for a firepit, or a weenie roast!

I love the cooler sitting there.

Rachael!  My first ever TS4 Sim to go for a swim!

There don’t appear to be a lot of actions they can do, but it’s still fun.  Especially in Oasis Springs, which is such a hot, dry environment (at least that’s how it looks…) that I feel like they’d need a pool.

I also had to show off Quinn in her bikini.

I think she is the prettiest TS4 Sim I’ve had in game.  Special thanks to Sammy for making her mother, Ratna for me!

Someone broke the teapot.

I made Noah repair it.  Documented in case he died.  He obviously did not.

Okay, everyone has put on their party attire.  It’s my first REAL party!

I should throw parties more often – I forgot about their cute clothes.

This is Rachael’s party outfit.

I thought it suited her wholesome, down-to-earth personality.

Left to Right, we have…

Olympia, Noah, Rachael, Quinn, Ratna, the Caterer (who did nothing), Patrick, and Kathy!  Not a bad little turn out!

Looks like the dress I picked for Rachael is very fashionable.

She blows out her candles first!

I think she looks adorable and happy!

And mostly the same.  Oh yeah, she added active to her traits.

Quinn goes next.

And turns out stunning!

As expected.  She added gloomy to her traits.

The party thingie, that tells me what I need to do to throw a great party said something about telling jokes.

So I bought the microphone, and had Rachael give it a go.  But it didn’t do anything, so I had her tell a couple just out of the social interaction menu – and that was successful.

The party was a standstill, and the only thing I could do to make it better involved drinks – so I bought this cool bar…

…but it was too late, and they only earned a silver badge for the party.  😦

I remembered to upload Olive and Olympia to the gallery, although they’d gained weight while out in the world…

So they’re a little pudgier than they were when they first left the house.  Well, Olympia looks mostly the same, but Olive is definitely a little heavier.

I also moved out Patrick and Quinn.

I adore them both, so I hope a lot of people download them!!!  As always, you can locate any and all Sims made by me by searching Origin user ID hblair, or you can find the Lightnings by searching #lightning (note – there are many other results with that hashtag… oops.  I should’ve been more creative)

And with that, it’s only Noah and Rachael left in the legacy house – and it’s time for Rachael to shine!

I’m pretty darn sure we’re going to have a GREAT time!

Come back soon to see what’s in store for Rachael!  Until next time, Happy Simming!

We Have an Heir Poll! 4.2

Hey!  An update!  I hope you guys are excited to see the rest of the kids hit the TEENS and finally have a say about who takes over!  I know I am, so let’s get to it!

Lightning Check!  Here’s Noah standing around being grumpy.

He had an angry encounter at work, so he’s all grouchy.

Olympia is sitting on the couch in her PJs

Or her bathrobe, which doubles as her pajamas.

Olive is with Patrick and Quinn, just standing around.

Exciting.

Rachael here is helping herself to some cake.

So much cake.

Since Noah is angry, and hungry, he had the option to make “Angry Flaming Spaghetti”.

It’s hard to capture, but he grumbled and whined while chopping.  I love TS4.

Ha!  Cool!

Fiery!

Although, now… I’m a little worried.

I have to say, it looks like he’s on fire.

He kept doing “Ow ow hot!” animations, but nothing negative happened.

Thank goodness!

Kathy has stopped by again!

I wish Ratna would show up.  We haven’t seen her since she moved out.

I decided to have Olympia invite Ratna over… see how smart I am?

Excellent problem solving skills.

Having Kathy around with her kids is pretty sweet!

It’s nice to see her!

Ratna on the other hand, when she finally arrived, instantly climbed into one of her own children’s beds…

…And started to cry.  😥

Well isn’t that depressing.

Olympia then vented about her own troubles.

Which mostly involve the fact that she dislikes children, and lives with three of them.

This pretty much sums up their entire interaction.  Olympia was very self-centered, and Ratna was pretty sad.

I decided to send in Olive to see if she could cheer up her mother.

Success!  Olive is obviously the sweeter, kinder of the twins.

Much later, I heard whimpering and I found this little peanut crying in her sleep!

It took me a little while to discover that SOMEONE had smashed her dollhouse!

That someone, was Olympia!

What a brat!  :@

Quinn also had a quick visit with her momma.

Always nice to see Kathy and Ratna.

I followed Noah to work again, and we had another fun day.

He got to run his own case!

And we arrested a suspect!

She doesn’t seem like the graffiti and vandalism type – but hey.

He arrived home to needy children and a broken stove.

And that is apparently the only picture I took that evening…

…Because here he is back at work interrogating a suspect.

It was super fun, he got to show her crime scene photos, threaten her with handcuffs, and a myriad of other fun interactions classified under the menu of “good cop” or “bad cop” ha!  It was really entertaining!

Back at casa de Lightning we have a birthday!  Patrick is entering his teen years!

Noah barely finished the cake before Patrick auto-aged.

He adds the musical genius aspiration and adds muser and lazy to his traits.

He’s pretty adorable!!!

Aw, the whole little family.

They’re growing up so fast!

I sent Noah off to work alone on a Saturday, so I could hang out with all the kids.

That of course meant putting them to work.  That small little garden still brings in a fair amount of money!

I also discovered that the Lightnings have grown a “trash plant”.

I did not know this was possible, but thanks to Olympia (it’s ALWAYS Olympia) who kicks over the trash can, and never picks it up again, they now have their own trash bush.  Lovely.

I had Olympia harvest it, and I discovered she then had 10 “Trash Fruit” in her inventory.  And “eat” was an option.

So of course I made her eat one.  I love how they look like a miniature full bin bag.  She got a “Hmm, that was okay” moodlet from eating home grown produce.  Okay then.  I must admit I expected more.

These two are just so adorable.

And they get along so well!

About now I discovered that something has happened to Jimmy.  He doesn’t show up on the family tree, and his urn is empty.  Also, Noah now registers as a “half-sibling” to all of his brothers and sisters – who have all passed away except Mimi.

That’s kind of sad.  Oh well, pixel life goes on.

I caught Quinn watching the children’s channel on TV.

I thought it was cute that it was a TS3 child playing pretend.

Olympia is sick!  This moodlet is rather funny, although kind of sad.

I wonder if it’s from eating garbage?

Poor Ratna is ALWAYS sad whenever we see her!

I sent good daughter Olive out to cheer her up.

She was very successful and they became best friends!  Awww.  ❤

OLYMPIA!

YOU STOP THAT!

Pout all you want you wretched Sim…

…You’re not going ANYWHERE until you’ve fixed what you did.

I ordered some medicine off the computer to cure Olympia’s illness.

It was $50!  I should’ve just let her be sick, she’s such a meanie.

I guess it worked!

Sparkly.

Hey!  Kathy stopped by too!

It’s just one big happy family visitation day.

And Noah’s home too!

Wow, a lot happened since I sent him to work by himself.

He was looking extra pudgy, and if he’s going to be one of Oasis Springs’ finest, he needs to stay in shape.

I love making my Sims go jogging while I sit on my arse and play video games.

Oh yeah, I forgot I kept finding all these stupid Easter Eggs.

I don’t want to sell them, but I’m not sure what to do with them… so a random line or two outside seems good.  😐

With the Get to Work expansion, baking is now a separate skill, so I had Noah bake breadsticks.

Because he was hungry, and I love breadsticks.

He then proceeded to eat them with a fork.

Because why not.

Patrick!

Quit shoving your sister!  The action is called “monkey around” and I swear it looks like they’re about to fight.

I did not forget that Noah, the womanizer, father of five, police officer is also a painter.

And every now and then, when his whims remind me, I have him paint something.

It’s Quinn’s birthday!  Her “other mother” stopped by…

And I have no idea what Noah and Olive are doing behind her.

She acquires the Renaissance Sim aspiration, adding quick learner and perfectionist.

I LOVE the little nerdy chic look I gave her, and I think she’s incredibly pretty!

Just one more teen, and then we can do an heir poll!!!

You know what?  Rachael’s birthday is in just ONE day, and no one had taken a piece of the cake, so I can reuse it… let’s just celebrate her birthday too!

Rachael gains the Angling Ace aspiration, and adds collector and cheerful to her traits.  And apparently I didn’t take a picture…  Ooops.  I made her look as much like a fisher-person as I could.  But don’t be deceived!  She’s a very beautiful Sim, and her formal look might surprise you.  (If you ever get to see it)

NOTE:  I might want to do fashion shows.  I plan all outfits for all my Sims, but you never get to see any but regular and sleep.

So!  Here you have your five heir options!

Olympia, Olive, Patrick, Quinn & Rachael!

For the first time ever, the future of The Lightnings is in your hands.  Choose well.

Vote here, or over on Boolprop!  Or both!

Until next time, Happy Simming!

Noah Gets to Work 4.1

Hey Hey Kids!  Welcome back to another Lightning post!  Last time, Noah was a scandalous man in love with two women, makin’ lots of babies!  This time – well – I know I said no “jobs” with this challenge, but with the launch of the Get to Work expansion, I just HAD to give it a go!  So let’s get started shall we?

Lightning Check!
Here’s Noah.
He has cake.  Shocking.

Olympia and Olive are asleep.

Little opposites in their identical beds.  Aw.

Pouty Patrick is also sleeping.

He’s grumpy because of his “unwanted new sibling”, Rachael.

Quinn is standing around looking smiley.

I really like her – and all the kids, really.

Lastly, baby Rachael.

Aw.

Ha!  Noah put his cake down, and Quinn instantly stole it.

Made me LOL.

BUT!  It’s time for Noah to join a career!

He is now a detective and will start in a day or so!  SQUEE!  I’m so excited!

Rachael ages up!

She gets Whiz Kid and the neat trait.  I had fun with the new stuff from the GTW expansion!  LOVE the hair (not just the color YAY RED! but the style!)  The cute glasses sweater fit her “whiz kid” so I went with it.  Isn’t she cute?!?

Nice Noah.

Keep it classy.

Kathy stopped by!

Hi dear!

At first I thought she was pregnant again, but then I realized she’d just gained weight.

Like all my female Sims do.  Well, and Noah, to be fair.  Noah’s a pudge ball, but that’s because he eats constantly due to his glutton trait.

She joins most of the children at the homework table.

I just have to say, I’m rather pleased with how well this house turned out.

I make sure she shares a few special moments with both her children.

Patrick and Rachael.

I did not mean for both pictures to look almost identical.  Oops.  But thank you Kathy, for passing on the lovely red hair!  And the hugs were pretty sweet.

Casey has also stopped by for a quick visit.

Now an elder!  Doesn’t it seem like just yesterday that Casey “the baby born while I wasn’t looking” appeared?  And she’s an ELDER!  Short lifespans!  That IS why this is the LIGHTNING Alphabetcy!

Oops, it appears I have neglected something.

Too bad Noah has work (SQUEE!) in about an hour!

OMG!  He’s too cute!

!!!

Awesome!

*You’ll have to forgive the plumbob, I have no other Sim I can hide it with when he’s at work.

Look at all his little co-workers!

So fun!!  Although it was hard to find a free computer…

Speaking of computers, the work feature runs kind of like a date or a dinner party, if you’re familiar with TS4.  You get a list of a few actions that need to be completed.  One was “Get a case assignment” which needed a computer.

We did work it out, however!

Then we had to click on the crime map (which was like a bulletin board with a map on it – very similar to the object you unlocked in TS3 in the private eye profession) and travel to a crime scene!  We had very dramatic music and arrived here.

Is this the Willow Creek Library?  I wasn’t sure.

Noah had to collect evidence.

HA!  I love it.  Seriously.  We had to collect five, but there were more than that.

Noah also had to get a witness statement.

So I chose this guy.  He cooperated and it was a simple chat.

Lastly, Noah had to take pictures of the crime scene evidence.

The computers were also all broken as part of the crime, so Noah took a couple shots of those too.  It was very fun!

Back at the station, Noah had to analyze evidence in these fancy schmancy evidence analyzer things.

Which I loved!

Especially the cactus… and the little tuft of smoke!

I ❤ this game.

Noah then filed some evidence, and he had mostly completed his task for the day.

He had a couple little extra jobs to do, that involved the criminals, so I finally found the holding cell.

Noah had to take mug shots…

Criminal:  Doo dee doo – fine day for a picture!

Noah:  Just take my hand, we’ll be BFFS!

Sure – NOW he looks sad.

I kinda felt bad for him…

But they’re kinda fun!

I think this woman, however…

…Looks a little bit like Angelina Jolie.

See?  A little?

Noah also had a work requirement to search a couple people.

Angelina there had a fish on her person.

She also had a turkey baster – do not get me started on the faces she made when he “pulled that out” of wherever he found it.  The FISH was bad enough!

Noah also had to take fingerprints.

Then cake boy had to exercise for an hour and his shift was pretty much over.

He’s obviously very athletic.

He earned $234 for his day of work.  No too shabby!  And way more fun than the garden.  Exponentially more fun.

A tired, and hungry Noah arrives home to a horde of latch-key kids.  And has something very special to make!

And old Uncle Lars has shown up too!

Just in time!

Just in time for what you say?

Olympia and Olive are having a birthday!

Cute Lars – I knew I liked you.

He threw confetti for Olympia and sang Simlish Happy Birthday for Olive ❤

Olive get’s a go too!

So dramatic.

Olympia rolls the “fabulously wealthy” aspiration and adds the business savvy trait as well as dislikes children.

She gets annoyed with her younger siblings from here on out, because they’re “kids”.  Neat.

Olive adds the big happy family aspiration and adds domestic and romantic to her traits.

The twins are not the “prettiest” Sims I’ve seen, in a typical sense, but I adore them for their unique beauty.

Olympia took a more business like approach, and Olive a more romantic take on their new looks.  I’m pretty sure I used new GTW hairs for both of them, but I especially love Olive’s.

After the girls’ birthday, Noah went off to work again, but I promise not to document EVERYTHING (it’s just kind of NEW right now!) I did want to show you that he arrived hungry and the police station has this neat vending machine.

He paid $16 for a sandwich.  That is a bit less “neat”.

Noah also had to patrol a neighborhood…  Which would be great…

Except… ***Tumbleweed***

People did eventually show up…

And FIGHT!

So Noah issued a citation.

Do ignore “elder with the fro” it’s the woman in the jacket Noah’s citing.

A few other GTW (Get to Work) interactions later, Noah’s out for an arrest!

Yeah, that’s the fighting citation woman from above, but we’re arresting her now.  I have no idea if she’s the correct suspect, but the game told me to “check your notebook” but I couldn’t find a notebook to check.

But!  When we got home, Noah got promoted!

So here’s as good a time as any to say adieu!

I know this was a short post for the Lightnings, but I was stoked about the GTW expansion, and I wasn’t willing to play through all the birthdays.  I do still think I’ll heir poll the take over generation, since I have two baby mommas and I want to give each gene pool an equal chance at representation.  So I’m gonna wait until teen for all kidlets, and then poll them!  First vote for The Lightnings!  Should be fun!  Should be next time!  Come back soon!

Scandalous 4.0

Well Hi!  Welcome back to the Lightnings!  I know it was supposed to be a Zale update, but I was having too much fun.  I deviated from my normal play style for this post, and at the time, I was having so much fun, but then I started feeling guilty, and then I didn’t really care at all – so yeah, let’s just dive right in!

Lightning Check!
Here’s Noah looking mopey outside his house.

And Lightning check complete.  He’s the only one.  Weeeiirrd.

With his girlfriend still a teen, I decide to head over and meet the Sim I downloaded for him, created by our one and only Sammy – Author of the Bagrov and Miller-Yang legacies.  If you aren’t reading her stuff already, please do so.  You’ll enjoy it!

She got this adorable mission style home.  It is so cute!

Noah knocks on the door and she invites him in.

We found her reading.  Aw.

Here is her adorable face!

She is a super cool looking Sim!  Her name is Ratna Connor.

They make fast friends and cloud gaze on her porch.

Too cute.

Um, I think she is just amazing!

Do you not agree?!?

I send them out to the Rattlesnake Juice Bar, and they get their boogie on to the jukebox.

They share a bunch of friendly interactions, then I send Noah home.

We begin working on his painting aspiration.

I like to paint small, medium, then large in rotating order so I get to see all the paintings.

I also decide that with Noah’s penchant for food, he should take up jogging.

I think we’ve gone once, just sayin’.

He returns from his jog to see that Liv has stopped by!

They enjoyed a nice chat.  It was sweet.

Then Noah rolled a wish to rummage.  In the trash.  For food.

I got a little pop-up that he’d found a somewhat edible oatmeal.  DISGUSTING.  Good to know for a survival challenge though.  Glutton Sims can rummage for food in the bins.  *gag*

Freshly stinky from his rummaging, Ratna arrives!

Hi Ratna!

I have him make up a garden salad for them for dinner to avoid another fire debacle.

They were just casually chatting when angry ghost mom makes an appearance.

I send Noah to intervene immediately.

If he can calm her down, she just might not break EVERYTHING.

Whoops…

Looks like I’ve been neglecting something.

I was just about to go work on it, but then Ratna invited him over!

Her house is really dark.

It was just a quick visit though, I don’t want the plants to die!

There, thank you, Noah.  They will still make you some money, especially since they’re such high quality!

Ha!  Check it out!

All those years tending the garden, Ghost Jimmy came to help out!  I didn’t know he could do that.

Hey!  It’s Noah’s girlfriend Kathy!  And she’s finally a young adult!

I wonder what she’s so sad about?

She didn’t stay long, but at least she was much happier when she left!

Noah does a little more painting.

He’s as terrible as you would expect.

I was just about to invite Kathy over to see if she wanted to get married and join the household…

…But Ratna stopped by all on her own… And well, well, well!  What do we have here!

Yup!  While waiting for his teenage girlfriend to age up, Noah went ahead and had a little too much fun with Ratna!

His face!

HA HA HA HA HA!

We ask her to move in, so we can take care of (And NAME) the baby!
She readily agrees.

Hey look!  Kathy is here!

And… um… Noah has been busy!

I think this is gonna be good!  Not 100% sure what’s gonna happen…

…but I am so entertained!  Noah asks Kathy to move in too.

I was really just greedy for both of their genetics… but I’m super excited to see what happens!

I love the look on Noah’s face as the two women sit together.  Happy as can be, by the way.

I heard a knock at the door, and I was like WHAT NOW!?!? (Like I didn’t already know what I had been up to…)

But it was just Liv.  Hi Liv!  Is it just me, or does she look like she’s a bit disapproving of Noah’s situation.

I decide not to control the two women at all (for the most part) and just see what happens.

I discover them chatting happily on the couch.  Obviously they aren’t discussing the father of their children.  I decide we will follow any whims Noah has for the women.  We’ll just have to see.  He rolls a “be friendly with Kathy” so they chat about dreams.  Exciting!

The two women are proving to be most helpful and drama free.

And about now I realize that Noah is a jackass.

Ratna goes into labor in the restroom after having a wee.

At least she won’t wet herself like Henrietta and die.

The first of Gen 5 is on the way!

I’m pretty excited!

It’s a girl!  Olive Lightning is born!

It’s another girl!  Olympia Lightning is born!  Good work Ratna!  I can’t wait to see them all grown up!

Ratna and Noah managed another TFB without Kathy noticing.

Noah’s painting watches.

She’s in the kitchen getting something to eat.

Looking very pregnant indeed!

Then Kathy starts taking care of Ratna’s babies.

And just about now, I started feeling a little uncomfortable with what I had done.  But oh well.

Ratna does care about her own babies too!

At this point I love both women more than Noah.

Kathy is super big, and I feel like she’s been pregnant forever.

I hope it’s not another set o ftwins!

After the birth of Ratna’s children, a couple of people stop by.

This male in the back is Reginald, and the woman in front is Tabitha.  They are Kathy’s brother and mother.  I checked her family tree, to see who the father would be for these very different looking people, and none is listed.  Maybe Tabitha adopted?

Noah autonomously flirted with Kathy right in front of Ratna…

…at the dinner table… eating the meal Ratna prepared, but she didn’t mind at all.

Noah also tries his hand at parenting for the first time.

Then ghost dad also helps out.

It’s funny, maybe it’s the way they died, but when Henri comes around, she’s always furious and breaks things, but Jimmy is always helpful.

Ratna is expecting again!

(That’s her nausea face) and silly Kathy hasn’t even popped yet!

I truly love them both.

I thought there’d be more drama, but this is nice too.

Except it’s too nice.  And both the women are amazing… I thought someone would start being all nasty, and someone would be getting picked on… but NOPE!  They just get along and help and support each other.

Noah had a whim to “get to know” Ratna.  So he does.

While she’s peeing.  *Note I built this bathroom this way because that’s what space allowed, but it ended up being pretty great.  If a Sim walks in right now, no one gets the embarrassed moodlet, since you can’t actually see the weeing Sim.  It’s pretty great!  Of course Ratna and Noah don’t get the embarrassed moodlet because of their relationship…

Are you EVER going to have that baby!?

The O twins are already aging up!  Olympia rolls rambunctious scamp and the self assured trait.

She has Ratna’s nose.

Olive also gets rambunctious scamp, and the genius trait.

I put glasses on her genius self, and so I could easily tell them apart.  They’re adorable.

I’m happy I was a genetic hoarder and have both these lovely women in the house.

And they’re becoming good friends.

Aw, playing dolls together!

Olive left, Olympia right.

Noah sits down to have a bite to eat and the girls swarm him.

I’m sure they’d love to have some interaction with their father.

Is Kathy broken?  She’s been pregnant a very long time!

As soon as I snapped that picture, she finally went in to labor.

The world’s longest pregnancy.

It’s a boy!

Oh wait… That’s Ratna with her pregnant belly and undergarments.

Well, it was still a boy!  The “P” child is named Patrick!

And gross.

And put some clothes on.

Kathy is pregnant again too!

Oops… Roof begone!

The girls come home from school super tired.

Aw… little peanuts.

Henri meets the pregnant women at the midnight snack table.

I imagine her telling the women that she died immediately after Noah’s birth, therefore she is not to be held responsible for Noah’s terrible treatment of women.

Hey!  Patrick hopped out of the bassinet!

A redhead!  I think he looks a LOT like Kathy.  He’s also a rambunctious scamp, and adds the loner trait.

Ratna has gone into labor!

It’s another girl!

I name her Quinn and I love how dark her skin is!!!

Uh oh – it finally happened.

Too full pregnancies each, and they just realized that Noah is romantically involved with both of them.

Poor Ratna is the only one who’s sad!

That’s her crying under the covers.  No one else even cares!!!

Oh.  Now Kathy cares too.  Noah rolled (although they don’t “roll” in TS4, I can’t stop using the terminology) “Kiss Ratna” and “Embrace Kathy”.

This put them both in the same place at the same time, with romance in the air.

Poor little Kathy wanted to “Blog about her Feelings”

She just kept crying.  It was awful.

I was trying to repair one broken relationship…

…and I further damaged the other!

So now Kathy’s out here watering the plants wither her tears.

I’m not 100% sure what I thought would happen when I began this series of events… but I’m no longer happy with it.

I decide that these two lovely Sim Women are too cool, and too strong to put up with Noah’s crap.  It’s time to take action.

Ratna is not pregnant – so she’s LEAVING.

She throws a drink at Noah…

Hugs her children…

…and I move her into the Lightning Spares household.

NOTE:  I hate that I have these women leaving their children behind.  But for the sake of the legacy, I need them to remain in the household.  But the women have had enough.  Besides, Noah’s not a BAD man… he just loves two beautiful women and makes babies with them.

After Ratna has departed, Kathy goes into labor!

It’s another girl!

I name her Rachael.

Kathy – having actually been Noah’s girlfriend, breaks up with him.

Aw Noah!  Don’t be so sad!

It’s your own fault!

And with that, Kathy also moves out with Ratna and the spares.

Maybe now, the he’s grown up a bit (BIRTHDAY!)

Noah can start making better choices for his family.

I was two seconds away from save and quit, when Quinn hopped out of her bassinet.

She adds Social Butterfly and the bookworm trait!  She’s cute as can be.

So!  That’s it for this round.  I think I might actually poll the heirs, since there’s two different mommas.  We’ll see.  I never really know what I’m going to do until it happens.

I hope you didn’t hate this little turn of events!  I was mostly greedy for both Kathy and Ratna’s genetics… but then I hated what happened to them… (you’d THINK I would’ve foreseen that… but no.  No I didn’t.)

I’m out of town all weekend (husband’s birthday at the beach!) but I promise next time I post an update, it’ll be those Zales.

I have to go, so I’m not proof reading this post, so forgive me!  Happy Simming!

 

 

Movin’ on Up 3.5

Hey Hey Kids!  Lookie here, a Lightning update!  Who’d’ve thunk it?  I can tell you right now, I feel like this post is going to be very long… At least, it took me AGES to play!  Quick recap – last time, Henrietta popped out more babies, and then died of humiliation.  Our heir was discovered, and Noah will be taking over eventually!  Let’s get to it, shall we?

Lightning Check!  Here’s Jimmy and Liv, just hangin’ out.

Lars is just standing around.

Here’s sad Casey and her pancakes.

Everyone misses Henrietta.  I kind of do too.

The top of Mimi’s fast asleep head.

She kept whimpering in her sleep… it was really sad.

And baby Noah!

The future of the Lightnings!

With all the kids off at school, it’s up to Jimmy to work in the garden and tend to his last born son.
It’s pretty cute, if you ignore the fingers through the baby’s skull.

I couldn’t find Liv for a bit, and I discovered that she had found her mother’s grave.

Super sad.

I thought I outsmarted them, and built this little area…

Which I thought was quite lovely, but they still found a way mourn her.  Dang.

So I did this…

But they don’t mind the fact that they can’t even SEE her tombstone, and mourn her through the hedge.  Sammy – I’m sorry I laughed at Oliver mourning all the time.  It isn’t funny at all, it’s wretchedly annoying… LOL

So far more time than you can imagine, and more money than I wanted to spend later, I built this mausoleum.

Or mausoleum type thing.  THERE JIMMY.  TRY TO CRY ABOUT YOUR DEAD WIFE NOW.
Note:  He still tries, they all do… but it falls out of their queues because they can’t reach her.  FINE WITH ME.

I’ve also scaled the plants down by about half.

It was just way too much!  Back when I had three teenagers and two adults, I could put them all to task and more than 9 hours later, they’d all still be working.  It was never “finished” and there was always something that needed to be done.  But it did earn them a huge amount of money for them – so the incredibly hard work was definitely worth it!

Lightning children are studious children.

Especially now that I don’t need them all farming all the time.

I realized a couple of them needn’t have bothered with their homework.  We have a couple birthday’s coming.

Of course Jimmy broke the fridge while making the cake.

Whoops, I was distracted by cake making and broken fridges, and this guy jumped out of his basket.

Noah, lookin’ pretty cool pre-makeover rolls rambunctious scamp and gains the glutton trait.

Here he is after a quick makeover.

I tried to look for food related clothes, but there wasn’t really any.  He’s adorable and I’m quite happy he’ll be heir!  I think he also managed to look a little bit different than his many siblings.

Cake time!

Lars & Liv are aging up!

Um, Lars?  You should probably light those before you make a wish?

*Blows them lit*

*WHOOSH!*

As handsome as all the Lightnings!

He adds evil, like his twin did at her teen birthday.

Liv’s turn!

Her candles were actually LIT before she blew them out.

She adds Bro to creative and evil.

Ha, that face… she’s pretty cool.

I have Lars risk his life repairing the fridge.

No dying please!  (he didn’t!)

I was going to keep Liv and Lars around in case Jimmy went and died, leaving only children/teens in the house, but Casey will age up before too long, so I’ve moved out Liv & Lars!

You can find them in the gallery under #Lightning

And now we’re down to four!

Here’s our little heir throwing a fit because of an “aggravating conversation”

I like how he chose to shove the toy through his chin.

He rolled a wish to be mean to someone, but I don’t want that!

So I have him take out his emotions on Blarffy.  It granted the wish, so that’s good!

Henri came to visit!  She does NOT look happy.

She broke like, everything they owned – it was AWFUL.

Then she took up residence in the bathroom and just went potty over and over and over and over and over again.

I think she’s making up for wetting herself, and dying because of it.  And look, it’s Mimi in case you forgot she existed.  I kinda did.

Jimmy tries to calm her down.

I found all of it strangely sad.  😦

Casey aged up!  She adds cheerful to music lover and mean.

But she’s very sad because I forgot her birthday.  Well of COURSE I forgot it!  She was born when I wasn’t watching, I don’t even know when her birthday is!  SO THAT’S MY EXCUSE.

Having toned down the farming operation some, Jimmy and Casey are staying on top of things pretty well.

It’s still a lot of work though!

Alas!  I got a pop-up that Jimmy’s at the end of his days!

This is Noah.

The sad little glutton who is eating his feelings.  I am CONSTANTLY asking him to put down the cake.  I’m interested to see what is in his future!

Speaking of the future, it’s time for Mimi to grow up!

Jimmy made her a hamburger cake!

No one really cared, but here she goes!

Jimmy: *Looks away*

She gets the serial romantic aspiration along with alluring and perfectionist.

I like the quirky look she gave herself, but I’m going to make her over to be a little more flirty.

Tada!

Isn’t she lovely?

Here we have the last youth of this generation (which feels like it’s gone on forever).

And oh look, Noah has cake.

Dude – Noah.

Put the food back!  He’s gonna get so fat.  At least that one is a salad.

Jimmy is going to die, very soon.  I got the second pop-up!

Thanks for all you did Jimmy!

Ian stopped by!

Hi buddy!

Jimmy awoke from a deep sleep…

…To die…

…May you rest in peace…

…and finally with your wife, who was taken too young.

The children were all sleeping, preventing them from witnessing the death and getting too sad.  So that’s kinda nice.

But life goes on…

Noah eats cake with his dead mother while Death watches TV.

Just another day as a Lightning.

Casey has been trying very hard to keep up the garden, but without Jimmy it’s nearly impossible.

And to be honest, I’m pretty darn sick of it.

With such short lifespans, there’s another birthday looming!

And it’s NOT Mimi’s, she just made the cake!

Noah here tastes the frosting.

It’s the first time I’ve tried that interaction.  It’s not as cute as I thought it would be.

Then he makes a wish!

That face!  Ha ha ha ha ha.

He rolls outdoor enthusiast and adds collector and snob!

And he seriously needs  a makeover. T hat does not look like an outdoor loving snob.

*Note: As I’m writing this up, I notice that both Casey and Mimi have gained quite a bit of weight by the end of this post…  They both look rather thin in these pictures (Mimi when she baked the cake, Casey just above) but – well, you see if you notice it too.

There, I did my best.

Sort of.  He’s just a tiny bit pudgy, ha ha ha.

Ghostly Henrietta does pushups while watching over her children as they sleep.

Then she cleans the sink!

Why thank you!  How helpful!

OMG.  I’m SO BORED with the garden.

All I do is meet their needs then send them out to take care of the plants.

Noah’s social is low, and I know I nabbed a Sim from Sammy (who I just love) but I need to do something else – so let’s go girlfriend hunting!

Look!  A PERSON!  Go say hi.

Oooh!  Pretty red-headed teen!

Chat her up!

She’s feisty!

A little cloud gazing…

Too sweet.

Ha.  There’s a glitch in the matrix.

Yes, those are two of the same Sim.  I had so many aging problems (because I’m an idiot and can’t read), I had to make copies of Sims who had aged without my permission so I could age them down.  They’re not both in the town, but having played the household, they tend to populate at community locations.  That was her YA outfit, and it looks ridiculous on an elder.

The cute teen is Kathy Kincaid.  I took her into CAS to get a good look at her.

She’s adorable.

She just might have to be Noah’s betrothed.

Cuz seriously.  ❤

So this is weird…

She watches herself die.

Anyhoo, back to Noah.

Who’s this cutie!  She’s also a teen.

I have Noah introduce himself.

She’s giving him a little bit of the crazy eye, but I still like her!

Kathy likes to play hard to get…

He just went for an “embrace” and got shut down.  Their relationship is rather high at this point, so it surprised me!

Her name is Ainsley!

And she doesn’t reject our Noah!  I love that smile!

Eventually he’s too tired, hungry and full-bladdered to hang out any more, so he heads home to meet his needs.

And fix the TV he broke.  Thankfully he didn’t die.

Mimi makes another cake!

But this time, it’s for her own birthday!

She adds cheerful to her traits.

And she’s very beautiful.  As soon as Noah ages up, I’ll move Casey and Mimi out together.

Hey Noah!  You have a visitor!

Invite her in!

What the heck?  She came in and turned on the stove.

Weirdo.

She always looks so bored.

But they’re both snobs, so that might be part of it.

But even if she’s not going to be “the one”…

… we can still have some fun!

Aw…

And they even have a little sleepover.

They were holding hands for the slightest fraction of a moment, and I missed it.  Shoot.

Ghost mom looks surprised to find a girl had slept over!

But Kathy takes it in stride.
Kathy:  *waves*

Dude!  Mimi is actually using the grill all on her own!

I liked this little space I built, and no one uses it.  Except for now!

Okay, I waited until almost everything was ready to harvest one more time, and now I’m going to collect it all, and sell all but one of each plant.

I’m so over it!

Mimi helps so we can get rid of all this hard work.

Just in time for the new generation, the farm has been reduced to something far more manageable!

It’s so nice!

Three more days until Noah’s YA birthday, but I got impatient and rebuilt the entire home!

It’s nothing too special, but I like the way it turned out!

It’s four bedrooms, three furnished, two bathrooms, and an open living area floor plan.

I think it turned out rather nicely!  And the farming definitely paid off, even if it was an insane amount of work.  After completing the build and most of the furnishing, the Lightnings have just under $20k left in the bank.  Not bad!

Definitely nice to see them in a new house.

The walls are a little bare, but it’ll do!

Casey here is making her own birthday cake.

I kept her around, knowing that Jimmy was going to die, and she’s already aging into full on adulthood.

Nice to finally have a little more space!

Ha!  Noah sings happy birthday while Mimi toots the horn.

It was super cute.

She’s as adorable as always!

🙂

The simple household of just the three siblings is so nice.

After all the chaos of their childhood, I bet they enjoy it too!

Noah the glutton just shoves the food in his face.

Nice.

Then I changed Noah’s aspiration, his was plant and outdoor based, and as I’ve mentioned, I’m completely over that right now, and I decide to make it the painting one.  Since I haven’t done anything with that yet!

Look who stopped by!

Kathy doesn’t look that impressed with my building abilities.

Noah is happy to see her…

You know, I’m strangely drawn to her.  She’s a total snot, but I love her hair and face.  She might have to be the wife, and I can save my downloaded Sim for someone else.

I also like her little ever so slightly round tummy.  And her nose.

Noah makes Kathy his girlfriend.

They were both delighted, but Noah managed to DERP a bit.

Then he sets himself on fire making scrambled eggs.

Like actually, fully on fire.

And it’s my first ever TS4 fire, and I’m terrified.  So I make him run to the shower to extinguish himself.

And he left a blazing trail of smoke and flames….

But he was alright in the end!
Which is more than I can say for our fridge and stove.

And then the birthday we’ve been waiting for finally arrives!

I’m a little worried about him being that close to more fire – but hey.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

HA HA HA HA HA H AH AHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!  Nice face, kid.  He rolls the cheerful trait.

Kathy stops by!

But their future is for another post.

Here’s Noah’s YA makeover!

Don’t mind the pouty face, he’s all bummed about a rough day at school.  Come on man, you’re an adult now.  I’m sorry if the kids teased you, but it’s really not a thing any more.

Casey and Mimi are moved out and available from the gallery under #lightning!

And that’s all for now!  Join us next time for the Generation 4 take over!  I’m pretty excited!

So Many Children…Until… 3.4

Well hello!  Welcome back to the Lightnings & Happy Valentine’s Day!  Something rather distressing just happened in game (you’ll see by the end of this post) so let us skip the pleasantries, and get right into a Lightning Check!

OH YEAH – first however, there was a patch, and with that patch they added genealogy!  So let’s see what that’s all about.

Well what do ya know?  The family trees everyone wanted!  And wow that’s a lot of kids, ha ha ha.

Okay now let’s see where those Lightnings are…

Jimmy is feeling flirty by the ferns.

Freud would have a field-day.

Henri sees her flirty husband coming.

Run Henrietta!  There’s room in the house for your SEVENTH child!

Kenny here is bored and smelly…

…little Casey is NOT enjoying his company.

Lars finds other ways to entertain himself.

The cutie.

Liv, who is totally not my favorite, why would you say that? is playing with a toy.

She is so sweet!  And Lightning check complete!

Are they not the cutest?

TS4 children are the greatest!

Liv & Casey are the last two to finish up with the day’s homework.

I really need to redecorate…

Oops, I lied.  Kenny here hasn’t done his yet either.

He was too busy helping out with the plants, and now his energy and fun are super low.  Oops.

Insane Jimmy then got all flirty with his grilled cheese.

How you doin’? *wink*

I absolutely love how to quick meals can be enjoyed together.

Thank you, Lars – for demonstrating your balanced breakfast.

The REAL M is on the way!  Huzzah!

I should give Henri a makeover.  I will, on her adult birthday.

Casey: Hey Dad?  Whatcha doin?

Dad?

Dad?

Dad?

Dad?

Dad?

She followed him around for HOURS, and he never acknowledged her presence.  Just kept working on the garden.  It was SO funny to watch.  And if she didn’t look so stinkin’ happy the entire time, it would’ve been sad.  Way to be, Casey.

Casey is however, mean-spirited, and found herself angry for no reason a little while later.  And picked on poor Liv.

Look at Liv’s sweet little face.  How rude, Casey.

Oh my!  They’re fighting!

Oh! I do not like!

Liv and Casey despise each other after this.  Which I can understand.

Casey adores Liv’s twin Lars, however.

And everyone else in the house.  Guess it’s just Liv who became her punching bag.

This family is adorable.

And Huge.  And growing.

Something about using these pesticides while pregnant seems unwise…

*Henri whistles happily*

We have a couple birthdays!

Lars and Liv!

Cute, even if only momma cares.

Liv gets to blow out her candles too!

Ha TS4 Birthday Derps.

I think Liv looks almost exactly like her sister Juliet.

So I focus on her hair and make-up.  She rolled evil as her trait, and the big happy family aspiration.

Lars somehow doesn’t look just like his older brothers, and I think he’s ADORABLE.

Look at dat face!  Might be a lot of Jimmy – but I think he’s adorable.  He rolls the best selling author aspiration, and adds music lover.

Yay!  More teens to help out!

That’s L to R, Lars, Liv, Jimmy & Henrietta.  I see LOTS of weeds, so get working!

Uh-oh, here comes Clueless Casey!

I wonder which family member she’ll follow around.

I decide to set her up with an activity table under the tree on the other side of the house.

I wouldn’t mind doing my arts & crafts there!

I love it when the kids use the glitter/confetti.

Too much cute.

Looks like we’ll see the M soon!

Henri’s getting quite large!

Things are really improving financially for the Lightnings, so I built this little party area!

Spoiler:  No one uses it unless I make them.  And by make them, I mean drag the food they want out here onto that table.

Hey look!  It’s Ian!

Juliet stopped by too!

Maybe she doesn’t look EXACTLY like Liv…

Good timing, considering I didn’t invite either of them.

Why good timing you say?

Birthday!  Casey is aging up too!  No one but the flamingo celebrates, but no problem, still a party!

Casey gets the musical genius aspiration and the music lover trait thanks to the handy dandy trait randomizer I use.

I went for an angsty teen rocker vibe.  I just adore her.

Oh man, is it gonna be twins again?

She’s huge!

Kenny, Lars and Liv are trying to get their homework done before school.

It’s cute when the children kneel to do their homework, but a little odd when the teens do it.

Aw, I still love Liv, look at that face.

She doesn’t look exactly like Juliet, I don’t think.  But maybe she does.

Dude…

…Have the baby already.

Homework time!

Everyone works hard to get their homework done so I can exploit their labor in the fields.

Henri prepares a meal while the kids (who are all hungry) study.

I think I opted for fish tacos.  I love the food and recipes in this game.

Jimmy’s out working as he ALWAYS is.

Henri “baby facotry” etta is pretty useless, while pregnant her needs deteriorate very quickly, so I can get her all happy, put her to work, and then a just a short while later I have to get her all happified again.  And she’s ALWAYS pregnant.

The second Henri sits down with her tacos, she goes into labor!

About danged time.

I hope it’s just one!

Or maybe two would be good, because then the house would be full and she wouldn’t have to be pregnant – AGAIN.

It’s a girl!

Mimi Lightning!

Aw.

❤

Yay!  I put the fish tacos over here hoping someone would use the space.

Thanks Lars and Liv!  (And Jimmy too)

Guess what?

N BABY!  I went ahead and used the pregnancy test to fast forward things a little.  Jimrietta is pregnant with their 8th child.  And Henri is STILL a YOUNG ADULT!  All those pregnancies have kept her so young.

Henri:  I bet you could tell but…

…we’re having ANOTHER one!

Jimmy: Good lawd!

Ha… his face.  I actually do not blame his face.

Mimi is the happiest baby I’ve ever had.

She has cried ONCE since her birth.

Hey look, it’s Ian!

He comes by often.

It’s another birthday!  Kenny is entering adulthood!

Um, Lars?  That looks a little weird.

Just sayin’

Kenny is yummy.

And I have uploaded him to the gallery.  Find them all with #lightning!  He adds insane to music lover, and hot headed.  He has the master mixologist aspiration.

Mimi ages up too!

She never had a poopy diaper.  Not once.  That’s my kind of infant!  She gets artistic prodigy and creative.  She’s just as lovely as her many, many siblings.

I instantly regret giving Kenny the boot.

I could really use his help, the plants look AWFUL.

Jimrietta are never going to get it all done.

I need the teens!

Yay!  They’re not in the best spirits after the school day, but I don’t care.

Get to work!

Kenny and Ian stop by.

This family is sweet and likes to spend time together.  However, all I could think at this moment was how badly I wanted to make them go help with the farm.
The hard work pays off, however.

This haul will bring in over $4000.00  Most of the plants are “Superb” or at least “Excellent”.  The cherries alone netted over $1k.  Those 90 tulips and 53 roses also really brought in the money.  Next time we have a harvest, I’m going to pay attention to what really makes bank, and scale the operation down a bit.  I know mushrooms are pretty worthless.  And the sage and daisies (not pictured).  They have about $16k, I’m thinking of tearing down the house and building a new one.

Casey does her homework while her dad jabbers at her eating cake.

I’m sure that really helps with concentration.

It’s another birthday!

Not being slowed down by constant pregnancy, Jimmy is aging into elder!

I decided he needed a new look.  With less hair.

On his head, that is.  A bit more on his face.  I think he looks ADORABLE.

In the filthy bathroom, fresh out of the shower after WETTING herself…

…Henrietta goes into labor.

It’s a boy!

Meet Noah!

And we INSTANTLY try for the O Nooboo.

And they finally aren’t sleeping in the cheapest double bed.

Well wonders never cease.

There’s a first time for everything!

I was JUST about to save and close when…

OMG!  It’s from her peeing herself right before Noah was born!  I thought she’d be just fine!  I cannot believe this!!!

Seriously?

This is happening?

Oh no…

Poor Mimi!

She was the only one to witness her mother literally DYING from embarrassment.

*sigh*

This is not good.  Not good.

In a brief moment of rational thought, I send Mimi to quickly plead for her mother’s life.

We were not successful.

Henrietta, mother of 8 – Ian, Juliet, Kenny, Lars, Liv, Casey, Mimi & Noah – dies as a young adult of embarrassment on her kitchen floor.  Because she wet herself right before giving birth to Noah, and I ignored her wishes to alleviate the mortification.  I can’t believe she’s really dead.

You’re all on your own, Jimmy.

But that does mean we have our heir!  Since Henri is obviously not having any more children – Noah will continue the Lightning Legacy.

And that’s all for now!  I was genuinely shocked beyond reason, and pretty sad when Henri chose to die all because of a little pee when about to go into labor.  I mean, it’s pretty understandable if you ask me.  However – I am a bit ready to move on… she was still a YA, so we’d probably have been able to knock out several more kids with Jimmy before either he passed away, or she aged up.  I love Jimmy & Henri, and I love all the children, but I can’t see them really providing any more variety.  I think, now that there’s genealogy, we’ll be able to see grandparent genetics play a roll, so I’m ready to add a little more diversity to the gene pool.  I promise that Noah’s spouse will add something new.  Thanks for reading!  And until next time, Happy Simming!

OH, and I found this that I forgot to put in the post somewhere…

RIP, Henrietta – RIP indeed.