Generation Three Objectives

Mandatory Objectives

• Serial Romantic aspiration = 5pts
• kiss 6 sims = 2pts per sim
• have at least 2 bfs/gfs as a teen = 5pts/bf or gf
• get married = 10pts
• have at least 1 kid = 10pts
• divorce twice = 10pts/divorce

Optional Objectives

• go on 10 "Gold" dates = +2pts/gold medal earned
• cheat on spouse = 5pts
• marry due to "accidental" pregnancy = 10pts
• follow through on all whims to breakup, no exceptions = +2pts/whim

Generation Two Objectives

Mandatory Objectives

• have popularity or money aspiration = 5pts
• complete Musician brance of Entertainer Career = 20pts or -2pts/level short
• master Charisma skill =  10pts or -1/skill short of 10
• marry "bandmate" [sim with "Music Lover" or "Creative" trait] = 10pts
• have at least 1 child = 5pts
• have 50,000 in family funds by death = 10pts or -2pts/$10k short

Optional Objectives

• be enemies with one or both parents by YA = 5pts/parent enemy
• play for [& receive] tips at all community lots = 2pts/community lot 
• have an affair with a "groupie" [someone who tips] = 10pts
• have child with "groupie" = 5pts
• "adopt" cild into household and make him/her heir = 15pts
• never become good friends with children [not your focus] = -10pts/child "Good Friended"

Generation One Objectives [tally]

Points in purple are points that Candice earned/lost


Mandatory Objectives

• have one of the "nature traits" = 5pts / 5pts
• must live off the land [no job] = 5 pts / 5pts
• grow a garden with every type of plant = 1pt/plant or -1p/plant not planted = +18pts / -13pts
• marry a sim with "Loves the Outdoors" trait = 10pts / 10pts
• no woohoo before marriage = 5pts / 5pts
• have 1 boy & 1 girl [no adoption] = 5pts/gender / 10pts
• master garden skill = 10pts or -1pt/skill short of 10 / -4pts

Optional Objectives

• spouse masters fishing skill = 10pts / 0pts
• catch every type of fish [spouse or founder] = 15pts / 0pts

total score: 36 (ended prematurely)

Generation One Objectives

Mandatory Objectives

• have one of the "nature traits" = 5pts
• must live off the land [no job] = 5 pts
• grow a garden with every type of plant = 1pt/plant or -1p/plant not planted
• marry a sim with "Loves the Outdoors" trait = 10pts
• no woohoo before marriage = 5pts
• have 1 boy & 1 girl [no adoption] = 5pts/gender
• master garden skill = 10pts or -1pt/skill short of 10

Optional Objectives

• spouse masters fishing skill = 10pts
• catch every type of fish [spouse or founder] = 15pts

Chapter 23: Alba's first day as a teenager

The day after Alba's birthday, I send her to the park with two boyfriend candidates : Juan and Ayden. Juan is that adorable redhead Alba wanted to befriend that day on the jungle gym. Unfortunately, he grew up to be a glutton – one of my least favorite traits considering that they are consistently cleaning the fridge of yummy leftovers! He's still in the running, but I want Alba to have other options! Then, she met Ayden Gillespie at her birthday party – apparently he's a random kid that CeeCee knew and invited to Alba's birthday since she didn't know too many of Alba's actual friends. Anyway, he's Marisa's brother (the gorgeous Sim I took a picture of in the previous chapter) so beautiful genes sure run in that family! Plus, he's a music lover and cheerful, so really what's not to love?!

Still, I decided that this time the decision whom to romance would be entirely 110% up to Alba, so hence why she invited both boys to the park. Imagine my delight when Alba instantly rolls the wish to become friends with Ayden when they get to the park! And to top things off they couldn't keep their eyes off each other!

Here's Juan telling an outrageous story and being outrageously ignored by his two companions (lol)

And then again later...

Ayden and Alba become friends that day, but to my big disappointment, Alba doesn't roll anymore Ayden-oriented wishes after that :( Instead she becomes obsessed with progressing in her aspiration and writing jokes (huh?). Oh, well, maybe later Alba!

I found a lot of plants ready to harvest around the park and the house (perks of having spent two childhoods there!), so Alba's garden got a really good head start. I'm really excited for her aspiration – I really want Alba to complete what her late grandmother couldn't ^^

Ayden shows up when Alba is watering her plants.

I didn't realize it until later, but Ayden showed up flirty! Does her have a thing for Alba? :D

Since I'm not taking any romantic initiation until Alba wishes it, I'm really crossing my fingers that Ayden will make the first move x)

Look how he's looking at her in this picture!

And Sri just cracked me up - “I've got my eye on you, young man!” hehee

The family also has their first dinner together in ages! Their schedules never properly matched or they were never hungry at the same time, but this evening it felt like everything ligned up on its own. I got CeeCee to make salsa with the fresh onions and tomatoes Alba harvested at the lots – it turned out delicious. CeeCee's quite the cook now and with Alba's fresh produce, I can just imagine how delicious their dinner must have been, yumyum x)

Alba took a selfie or herself before dinner. Amusingly enough, she's the first of my Sims to do this. I never saw Cassandra and Cristina as teenagers do this nor did Candice or CeeCee as YA & Adults!

"No phone at the table, Alba!"

I've noticed since then that Alba likes taking selfies of herself – she's gorgeous, and she knows it! Haha.

As you can see, CeeCee is not too please to have her daughter taking pictures of herself at the dinner table :p

Later that night, Alba called her good childhood friend Elizabeth. I don't think I've posted the picture of Elizabeth since she grew up

She's still pretty but I think that considering how adorable she was when she was a child she should have been drop dead gorgeous as a teen – or kept that cute childishness about her. But, I feel like she's neither super gorgeous nor super cute anymore, just a pretty inbetween. Her teenage trait is “Bro” so that makes her a Creative Bro. The one thing she really has going for her is that gorgeous red hair of hers? I really want the legacy red hair to resurface in my sims, but if my heirs keep choosing dark-haired partners I doubt that'll heppen u_u

Alba tells her all about her afternoon at the park and Ayden showing up at her house later.

“Wait, you'll never guess what else...”

“He kept looking at me with this flirty look in his eyes! Hahahahaha!”

Well, Alba may be uninterested in Romantic affairs, but she's definitely not clueless hehe!

Chapter 22: Alba's Birthday

The years days fly by for Alba and Levi. Their days are filled with homework, levelling up their skills, completing aspirations and just plain having fun!

(Levi completed his first aspiration of being a Social Butterfly and now wants to be a Rambunctious Scamp!)

Sri and CeeCee are equally hard at work:

CeeCee tackles the few venues left for the her to play for tips at

While Sri hugs random strangers and pickpockets them!

At work, Sri is slowly climbing his way up the ladder. He now has enough prestige to dress up and look cool x)

At home, Sri helps the children with their homework. Here he is becoming friends with Levi!

Unfortunately, things still aren't resolved between Sri and CeeCee. Is the flame gone? Are they only staying together for the children? It seems like even they don't know.

Before long, it's time for Alba to age up into a teenager. When the time came around, I was very upset about two things:

1) I HATE that children can't throw parties!!!! Levi & Alba have probably 15 good acquaintances between the two of them (mostly the same people) but CeeCee had to throw the party for Alba and CeeCee only knew like 5 of Alba's friends (and not even her closest ones). I had to get Alba to invite her friends over, get CeeCee to introduce herself to them, ask them to leave and then invite them again via the social event planning. It was a huge pain! Hahaha

Anyway, maybe only 5 guests would have been for the best because the house is actually tiny and it was packed full!!!!

This, would have been the perfect number of guests...

...this was not!

(there are others in the living room too ... oh, woe is me x_x)

(and, yes CeeCee is playing the violin in the crammed kitchen with her back to everyone haha. One of the requirements was that someone had to play an instrument for an hour and CeeCee felt like that was the spot to do that. Not she's like in anyone's way or anything).

As you can see, all of Levi and Alba's friends have already aged up. I used the DYI Story Progression  method to create friends for Levi and Alba since all the townies were getting pretty ancient. Unfortunately, I didn't think about the aging problem (I rarely do) and created all the kids at at the same time. Oops. I'll have to remember timing for the next gen.

Anyway, the house was packed but everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Everyone especially seemed to be enjoying CeeCee's home-cooked meals too. They absolutely cleaned out the fridge, which was particularly pleasing for them but particularly annoying for CeeCee & myself!

Or, well, maybe just myself. Look how ridiculously happy CeeCee is cleaning up after the guests.

Weirdo, haha.

2) I wished I'd taken pictures of all Levi and Alba's friends as children so it would be less confusing for everyone as to who is who (they have many friends). Also some of their transformations were just phenomenal and I wish I had taken close-ups of them as children to compare. Boo. I shall remember this for the next generation :p

I did take a couple pictures of some teens that I thought were particularly good-looking!

Marisa Gillespie (do you remember her? She was that cute hot-head I had Levi chat up on the jungle gym ages ago!)

And Alexa May-Rose, CeeCee's niece.

I just found her to be stunning. I'm actually quite upset that she's Levi's cousin, hahaha, boo :p

Soon it came time for me to turn the camera away from Alba's guests and onto the cake!

Make a wish, Alba!

I present to you, Alba the teen!

Alba's aging up rolls were very very interesting.

First off, she rolled the trait of Loner.

Alba's a creative soul who spent her childhood on monkey bars and jungle gyms. She was always around one friend or another and she barely had time to play the violin or paint a picture. I think this trait is her way of telling me that she needs a rest. She had a fun, bustling childhood but now she needs to reconnect with her artistic self!

And yet, she'll never regret or forget her childhood spent in the sunshine because she rolled the aspiration Freelance Botanist. I don't know about you but I totally OMFG'D when I saw this. I'm so happy because that was Candice's aspiration! Alba may not have known her grandmother, but there's a garderner in everyone of these legacy children, I tell you, just lurking and waiting for their moment to shine. I just love how Alba reconnects with her grandmother after CeeCee tried to cut the cord hehe ^^

The party was fun but ended with a silver medal – my last task was to compliment the birthday sim 4 times but none of my “compliment outfit” or “flatter” interactions seemed to count. Oh well.

After the guests left I gave Alba a quick little makeover

(that the default outfit she aged up with. Isn't it gorgeous? I feel like it matches her perfectly!)

That's the end of this chapter! Next time, Alba will start seeking out a potential boyfriend (2 strong candidates she'll have to choose from) and gathering plants to start her garden. Meanwhile, Levi will have to find other ways to amuse himself now that none of his friends can play on the jungle gym with him (I suppose they could be monsters, but they have more important flirting things to do now that they're all grown up!).  

Chapter 21: All-Nighter

Today, Levi and Alba are planning on staying up all night! It's a school night but I decided to indulge and bought them each a Sleepless Potion! They begin by getting their homework out of the way. Nothing kills fun like work hanging over your head!

Sri even gives them a hand before having to head out to work

(Yes, unless Sri has to venture out to the sidewalk to be mean or mischievous, he basically does just hang around the house in his bathrobe all day...)

Alba finishes her homework (and her extra credit) first so she tests out her brand new violin while waiting for Levi to finish. I suppose watching her mother play all the time rubbed off on her!

“Man, this music doesn't sound like the way Mommy plays at all.”

When she gets home from work, CeeCee decides to prepare a fancy meal for her two little daredevils. I tried to take pictures of her really fancy knife tricks, but they're super hard to get at just the right moment. Needless to say, gone are the days when she dropped the entire pepper shaker in the pot!

The chili is delicious!

CeeCee heads off to bed immediately after dinner and it's time to get these two little rascals working on their aspirations. Alba needs to play video games for 10 hours and Levi needs to make a BFF. I already knew the BFF was going to be Alba, but I didn't know how to juggle having Alba play video games and socialize at the same time. I thought I would have to have her play a while, cancel the action, talk with Levi for a while and get back to gaming. But then the most extraordinary thing happened...This:

Levi picked up this really creepy doll-toy-like thing that was on the edge of the desk kneeled by the desk and started talking to Alba while playing his creepy toy (which curiously gets him creative skill points, don't ask me why/how).

I EFFING FRICKEN LOVE THIS GAME!!!

During the night, Levi keeps getting up and moving around all over the place, but he keeps playing his doll and socializing with Alba. It is the perfect set up. Not only are they both making progress in their respective aspirations but they are both also leveling up in unrelated skills (Social skill for Alba and Creative skill for Levi). I was really a happy Simmer :)

Oh and it turnned out to be hilarious watching Levi play with his doll! He kept hitting himself in the face with it, hahaha. Failed attempt at a picture:

By the end of the night, Alba reached her next milestone and so had Levi – they became BBFs!!

So adorable <3

**

I confess one of the reasons for the all-nighter was that I realized that I hadn't given Levi a bed. I let them have an all-nighter to give me a chance to decide if I wanted to create a whole new room so that Levi could have his own bedroom, or if I would just stick him in Alba's bed room.

I decided on the latter option. They are BBFs and if I added another desk to the room they could talk while they worked! I had to make Alba's room a little bigger so CeeCee's musical studio shrunk as a result, but I don't think she minds :)