July 2029 - Del Sol Valley, California Tang family - George is 32, Dorothy is 32, Anaya is 1, Elliana is 1
George and Dorothy have found that having twins has kept them busy in the past year. Anaya and Elliana’s first birthday is arriving tomorrow and from what they’ve heard, having a toddler is definitely something to keep you busy. They can’t imagine what having two toddlers at the same time will mean!
July 2029 - Pleasant City, Nevada Craig family - Lucas is 22, Andrea is 22, Elliott is 3
(These first few pictures are memories looking back into June at Lucas’s parents’ house in Arcadia, North Carolina. It then moves into July in Pleasant City, Nevada.)
Back in June, Lucas had been there in Arcadia for his little sister’s high school graduation.
“You’ll do great out there,” Lucas said as he hugged her tight.
"You don't have to cook breakfast for me," Lily tells her dad.
"I want to," Logan says. "It's your birthday and my girl isn't a little girl anymore, but I'd like to pretend she is before she heads off to another country."
Gates family - Xander is 39, Chelsea is 39, Kat is 19, Caleb is 17, Olivia is 16, Bianca is 10
Xander Gates checks the oven to see how the ribs he’s cooking look. Pretty good, he decides, but they need to cook a while longer at the low temperature. Kat’s boyfriend Yori will be coming to dinner that night to meet the family for the first time and so Xander hopes that these ribs cook to be still tender, but nicely barbecued.
I missed seeing full family trees with my Sims from the very start of my playing in TS2. So I created TS4 versions of the founders of my game just long enough to make them related to my current Sims. Took some work, but I love it!
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Family Tree - Craig
Here is the family tree for my founder Dave Craig. He had two daughters, Julie and Suzie, from his first marriage, and then Marcus, Tucker, and Jessica to his second marriage with Glenda. And here are their grandchildren and great-grandchildren! The tree was too wide to see it all on one view, so I had to put the two sides together. The founders are now set to passed away and so they show in gray pictures on the family trees. (Dave and Glenda were still alive when I took this screenshot.)
Sam and Ariel Smith step outside of their apartment in San Myshuno, New York, one evening as the sun begins to set. Ariel is in her ninth month of pregnancy and she’s taking the advice she’s heard about getting out and walking around in hopes of starting labor soon.
If you are interested in seeing the Traits & Aspirations spreadsheet I made, you can download it here. I do not own Vampires or Realm of Magic so the aspirations for those packs are not included in my worksheet. But you could easily go through the list of traits and decide where those go for your own game.
Let me know if you have any questions or if anything doesn't make sense! :)
I've been wanting to connect my Sims' traits to the aspirations they choose. The traits are random, I'll roll the dice and let the game decide on their traits--unless I think that trait really doesn't fit that Sim, then I'll roll again in those cases.
May 2029 - Pine Hollow, North Carolina Gates family - Carrie is 65, Todd is 41, Rachel is 41, Vanessa is 12, Aaron is 8
Life on the Gates family farm is always busy. Carrie and her oldest
son Todd work in the garden every day, planting new things, harvesting
the plants already growing, and making sure everything has enough water.
His younger brother Nathan may have moved to Arcadia to get away from farm life, but Todd loves it here.
April 2029 - Arcadia, North Carolina Gates-Watson - Shelley is 40, Logan is 39, Lily is 18, James is 14
“What is this supposed to be?” Logan asks, staring at the strings of paper shapes his wife had just hung on the windows.
“It’s
to celebrate Easter and spring,” Shelley tells him. “It tells people
that we’re happy for the season changes and welcome them inside to join
us.”
“It
doesn’t seem like it’s been forty-four years,” Julie Lloyd tells
William. “It seems like just yesterday we were in college, talking about
spending forever together after we were done.”
“That was just
yesterday,” William says, reaching up to softly rub her cheek. “You’re
still as young and beautiful as you were then.”
