Chapter 7.1

Unfortunately, due to a corrupt hard drive last year and EA’s inability to retain photos on their website, the pictures for the first half of this chapter are permanently gone. I left the text as-is, so the story line isn’t completely off. Sorry!

 

Welcome back to the Haight Legacy! When we last left off, Luke had thrown a birthday party for the triplets. He invited pretty much everyone we knew.

 

 

Quite a bit of drama went down at said party, but unfortunately most of the pictures were corrupted.  Long story short, Matthew tried flirting with Jereme Keaton. Jereme was less than pleased by this, and kept pretending he was squishing Matthew’s head between his palms.

 

 

Mark tried flirting with Kenyatta (John’s wife), and was heartily rejected. John threw a fit and left, which left the rest of the party-goers standing around feeling awkward.

 

 

Lora, trying to ease the tension, whipped out her special snow leopard guitar.

 

 

When all the guests finally settled down, Luke began to bring the babies to the cake. Estelle grew up first.

 

 

I selected Excitable as Estelle’s third trait, since that’s now the family trait.  I have to admit, I thought Estelle would be cuter as a kid. Maybe it’s just the hair.

 

 

Naomi grew up next, and Luke tooted his hardest trying to ease Naomi’s growing process.

 

 

Naomi also received Excitable as her third trait. I have to say, she can pull of that hairdo better than Estelle did.

 

 

Sky was the last to grow up; she received the Excitable trait as well.

 

 

Since I absolutely hate that straight, stringy hairstyle, Estelle received a makeover. I think she looks absolutely adorable. She definitely has her father’s eyes and hair color. Still too early to tell the nose and mouth, though.

 

 

Sky also received a makeover. There aren’t too many hair options, so she got a nice pink prissy haircut. Naomi’s hair remained the same.

 

 

The guests ran away as soon as possible, more than likely trying to keep their spouses away from the other spouses at the party. The family feasted on cake for the rest of the night.

 

 

The night of the party, the ghosts came out as usual. Estelle spent a few hours gossiping with Hank until he began to talk about Mark’s philandering. Estelle didn’t want to hear anything about it; after all, his infidelity almost ruined her birthday party.

 

 

The family had some extra funds, so they bought a dresser. I decided it was time to style the girls based on their personalities/favorite colors. Naomi’s favorite color is black, so she got a little-kid-skater type look. Estelle and Sky already had green and pink clothes, respectively, so they didn’t need any makeovers.

 

 

One day at school, Estelle ran into Zackery Bunch. Do you know whose son he is? That’s right, he’s Christopher Alvi’s son! From the looks of it, he’s pretty cute.

 

 

Estelle spent hours on the phone with him, and couldn’t stop thinking of him once they were done talking. She was pretty sure he’s the man of her dreams.

 

 

As soon as Estelle could get an alone minute with her father, she asked him how much money it would take to run away and get married. Luke gulped down his cake as fast as possible to avoid answering that question.

 

 

With the girls gone during the day, Luke and Traci found time to bond. Unfortunately, all Traci wanted to do was woohoo. Luke could never inspire himself to be in the mood, because of his fear of another set of triplets.

 

 

They settled for lots of hugging instead.

 

Traci and Luke weren’t the only lovebirds in the house. Hank’s and Elysia’s ghosts finally stopped and recognized each other, and took a minute to flirt before going back to the couch to nap. I thought this was pretty cute.

 

Unfortunately, their cute moments didn’t last very long and they went back to just scaring one another pretty quickly.

 

 

The girls didn’t spend too much time with their parents, instead preferring each others’ company. They liked to go out to the graveyard at night. It probably felt just like home, since they’re used to Hank’s and Elysia’s ghosts always floating around.

 

Traci wanted to spend some of Luke’s hard-earned cash on a play table, and it ended up being one of the best purchases ever. The girls played with their blocks almost non-stop.

 

On the rare occasions the girls weren’t together, each had their own hobby. Sky liked to work out, Estelle talked on the phone, and Naomi enjoyed gardening.

 

In the mean time, Luke was grinding out his novels and paintings. Only two more points in each, and he’d have achieved his life goal. Elysia often looked on approvingly.

 

Every once in a while, Luke would escape the constraints of his house and go to visit Paul.

 

Caleb had grown into a toddler and looks almost exactly like his father.

 

Estelle, like Luke, was a definitely a family Sim at heart. She called Paul whenever she had a free moment. During this phone call, she rolled the Lifetime Wish to be Super Popular (have 20 friends) so I accepted it for her since she’s almost half way there already.

 

Estelle wasn’t the only family Sim, though. The whole family is very close and hug at every possible moment. Traci tends to forget what she’s doing while she’s hugging the kids and makes a funny “Der…” sound.

 

More often than not, Naomi prefers to be alone. She thoroughly enjoys playing with Berjes, her father’s teddy bear. She rolled the want to be a Creature-Robot Crossbreeder, and it was accepted for her.

 

As the days passed, the girls began to bring friends home from school almost every day.  Sky also rolled the want to be Super Popular, and with that all three girls were designated their lifetime wants.

 

One day, the girls brought this little munchkin home: Estevan Steel. He lives in one of the houses down the street, and he definitely has some cute potential.

 

Estelle immediately took the opportunity to make a new friend, and introduced herself. They became friends almost instantly.

 

After that, I began to stalk Estevan a little bit. My excuse is that I was worried about his safety. Wouldn’t you be worried if you saw a kid getting into the car with this guy at 5 A.M.?

 

They arrived at the park safely… if you can call this safe.

 

Late  one night, Luke finished his final book. The last of the last. That’s right, Luke had finally maxed out both the artistic skill and the writing skill, and his lifetime wish is now complete! The moment passed without notice as the rest of the family continued with their lives.

 

While Luke had been working on his Lifetime Wish, Traci had also been working on hers. After many hours of practice, she maxed out the logic skill and began inviting over as many ranked chess opponents a day as possible. More often than not, the opponents were creepy. After Traci beat this scary many, she reached rank 5 and officially completed her lifetime wish of Chess Legend.

 

Luke and Traci received awards for their accomplishments and I hung them up on the walls to show off.

 

A few nights after Luke completed his lifetime wish, when I wasn’t quite paying attention, Estelle decided to spontaneously age up while holding a plate of… indistinguishable pasta-stuff.  I love that Excitable face.

 

Estelle grew up into what could possibly be a pretty teen, if she weren’t making that face. She rolled Charismatic as her fourth trait.

 

Naomi celebrated her birthday immediately after Estelle. Estelle followed in her father’s footsteps and tooted her birthday blower as enthusiastically as possible.

 

Naomi’s face shape seems a lot like her mom’s. She rolled Insane as her fourth trait.

 

Last but not least, Sky grew up.

 

She rolled Over-Emotional as her fourth trait.

 

I did my best to get the family lined up to compare facial features, but it just wasn’t happening. Obviously Sky has her mother’s hair, Estelle has her father’s, and Naomi has Elysia’s. All three seem to have Luke’s eyes. Naomi seems to have her mother’s features, while Estelle has Hank’s nose and mouth. Sky has a mixture of Elysia’s and Traci’s features.

 

The girls all got makeovers, beginning with sky. I can already tell she is going to be a snob.

 

She pretty much constantly has an angry sneer on her face. And yes, she has eyebrows, it’s just that they’re almost the same color as her skin.

 

Estelle got a cute little green outfit and the same haircut she had as a child. I was thoroughly shocked; she looks EXACTLY like my mom. It was more than a little creepy.

 

Naomi got a bit of a darker makeover. She’s neurotic and insane, so I figured this was appropriate.

 

The girls celebrated their birthday quietly, with a nice bowl of food.

 

Estelle just couldn’t resist making faces for the camera.

Estelle: “…and so I spilled the seeds. It was horrible. Can you see my speech bubble? Isn’t the sight of spilled seeds sooooooo scary? Wait, lemme check to make sure that’s a picture of the spilled seeds. Oh yeah, it is. Isn’t it awful?”
Estelle is constantly chatting to someone about something, it’s slightly amusing.

 

Naomi, on the other hand, is quieter and has her fun by checking the stove/sink.

 

She also likes to freak out.

 

Sky just gets excited about things. Excitable and Over-Emotional make very…. Enthusiastic… Sims.Sky: “OMG, look at Naomi! Yay!”

 

Sky spends all her free time working out. It keeps her busy and out of the way, so I don’t mind.

 

The girls are very popular at school. They almost always come home with an entourage; Margie seems to join them every day. She’s the one with the braids.

 

The guests tend to gravitate towards Estelle, and she’s already made 20 friends only a few days after she grew to a teen. The kids pretty much ignore Sky, which upsets her greatly.

 

But who could resist that sweet face? I obviously adore her, since she’s the most photographed. August Bennet, her current conquest, can’t resist her either.

 

Sky runs to Luke for consolation. He does an autonomous “Praise” interaction, and she runs off all happy again.

 

Naomi stays away from the guests for the most part. She prefers to clean/check/tinker with the sink.

 

Luke appreciates her behavior, because he doesn’t have to worry as much about keeping the boys away from her.
Luke: “Your first kiss had better not be until  your wedding day. I swear, if I ever catch a boy even looking you at the wrong way I’ll… I’ll.. well, it will be bad.”

 

Homework unites all the teens every night, though, and their relationships are reinforced as they chat over their assignments.

August: “Your father came to me earlier and told me I’d better not try anything with you girls. He showed me a shotgun and a Bible and told me to pick one. I totally picked the Bible.”

 

Now that the girls are teens and constantly have boys over, Luke gets pretty stressed out. Fortunately, Traci is there to ease his mind and watch the girls when he’s not looking.

 

Watching the girls is a lot more difficult than you’d think, though, because they love to run around in their underwear.

 

Occasionally, when the girls are at school, Traci and Luke venture out to the park to relax.

 

They ran into Christopher Bunch, nee Alvi, who seems to have aged a LOT.

 

One night, Sky discovered the gym. She worked out as hard as she could, until…

 

… she followed in her father’s and Uncle Paul’s footsteps, and was arrested for being out after curfew.

 

After that, Sky spent every free moment (at least before curfew hours) either jogging or working out at the gym.

 

Unless, of course, she was trying to pick up boys. Strangely, Sky always seemed to fail at this.

 

Estelle, on the other hand, had no problems with the boys.

Estelle: “ Wow, you look like a golden jelly fish. I saw a jelly fish once, it was so pretty! And then…”

Javier: “Aw thanks so much Estelle, you’re so sweet.”

 

When Naomi feels the need to communicate with boys, she does so through the stuffed bear Berjes. That’s always been her comfort-toy.

 

One night, Luke’s birthday snuck up on him…

This chapter is turning out to be sooooo long, I’m going to split it in half. Find out if Luke’s still cute as an elder in Chapter 7.2!

Chapter 31

Welcome back! When we last left off, Greg and Alex had recently been born. With all the kids in the house, things were hectic.

 

The days flew by quickly, and soon it was the twins’ birthday. Nate decided to throw a party and invite the whole family, since everyone was finally getting along well.

 

Once the family and friends convened, the cakes were set up and the candles blown out.

 

Alex grew up first; Ziyi’s genes seem to have heavy influence on this boy’s face. Still, cute.

 

Greg, on the other hand, stands out from the rest of the family with his blonde hair.

 

As soon as the guests sat down to eat the cake, Alex began a screaming-fit. Many of the guests quickly excused themselves and left.

 

As Alana’s neighbor and childhood friend (facing away from the camera), Lyle, was preparing to leave, Alana passed him and had a sudden epiphany. She knew exactly how she wanted to spend her life: making people beautiful, and making money doing it.

 

Alana immediately dragged Lyle to the salon, and gave him a hug of encouragement.

 

With one last before picture, Alana got to work.

 

Alana worked her magic, and Lyle looked like a completely new sim.

 

Alana just had to lean in to admire her work more closely.

 

She was so proud of herself that she swooned, and was caught by Lyle’s lips.

 

Alana’s first kiss didn’t last long, though, as her curfew passed hours before and the cops decided it was time to bring her home.

 

While Alana was crafting her art on Lyle, gossip was spreading around town that Ericka was spending a lot of time alone. Where had Chase been this whole time?

 

He was in the basement, inventing.

 

I was finally able to build a functional basement with a view into the bottom of the dining room floor fishtank. Of course this area had to have some skilling tools. Chase immediately took to inventing.

 

Although far from an expert…

 

… Chase at least was resourceful when it came to correcting mishaps.

 

Nate didn’t appreciate all the yelling that occurred every time Chase caught himself on fire (which was fairly often). Nate was hardly able to sleep.

 

Nate was spending almost all of his time with the toddlers; with 3 of them in the nursery, though, it was tough to keep up on their “training”.

 

Unfortunately, there just wasn’t enough time in the day to provide all three toddlers with adequate care. Alex and Greg were pampered, while Ryan was pretty much ignored.

 

There wasn’t much to be done with him, anyways, since he soon grew to be a child. He rolled Can’t Stand Art as his third trait.

 

While Ryan was busy growing up, Alana was out with Lyle’s twin brother, Levi.

 

Alana immediately recognized that Levi needed some help in the looks department, and immediately took him to the stylist.

 

Levi wasn’t too happy with his new look…

 

… but Alana reassured him with a kiss.

 

He was much happier after that.

 

Chase and Tomika happened to pass by just as Alana was finishing up with Levi.

 

Alana just HAD to give Tomika a makeover.

 

Tomika came out of her makeover looking like a completely different person. She was slightly nervous, though, because she’d heard about Alana’s tendency to kiss her successful test subjects.

Tomika: “Uh… she’s not going to kiss me, is she?”

 

Alana: “Ewww! Tomika, you might be totally gorgeous now, but you are SO not my type!”

 

Although Chase was happy about his best friend’s new look, he had other, more important places to be.

 

Chase was late to his birthday party! Family and friends gathered around to cheer him on.

 

Chase grew up to be a very handsome man, and rolled Great Kisser as his final trait.

 

Chase received the LTW to save 30 sims from fires, so he immediately joined the firefighter profession.

 

Before his first day was done, Chase was fighting fires and looking good (and nervous) doing it.

 

Seeing all the fires aggravated Chase’s neurotic trait, and he found himself constantly checking the stove.

 

Late one night, when Chase was walking home from work, he ran into Ericka. The two were technically still dating, but hadn’t had a chance to see each other in quite some time. Ericka was ridiculously excited. Chase even immediately suggested the two go to the theater.

 

Ericka turned down his offer, and took a minute to yell at Chase for not even calling.

 

They soon made up, though.

 

While Chase and Ericka were out, the twins were enjoying their last moments as toddlers.

 

Ziyi and Nate brought the twins to the cake without ceremony. Alex hadn’t even been bathed.

 

Greg grew up first; he rolled Technophobe as his third trait.

 

Alex grew up next. He rolled Frugal as his third trait.

 

It was around this time that the house received a slight makeover: the outside stairs were removed, and an elevator was installed.

 

With everything else going on, Ryan was pretty much ignored. He slunk around, plotting evil things. He wasn’t too lonely.

 

Ziyi worried about Ryan being alone all the time, and decided there was only one thing she could do: adopt a friend for Ryan. They could be equally alone together. She immediately placed a call to the adoption agency.

 

Before Ziyi could even inform Nate as to her decision, Jessica waltzed into the home and family. Her traits were Evil, Virtuoso, and Good Sense of Humor. She would be a perfect companion for Ryan.

 

Fortunately, Ziyi was right! The two immediately became best friends.

 

Nate didn’t know he had a newly adopted daughter until the next morning, when he sat down with her at breakfast.

Nate: “Oh, hey, why are you here for breakfast?”

Jessica: “Uh… because I’m your daughter?”

 

Nate:” WHAT?!?!”

 

Nate tried to run up and confront Ziyi about Jessica, but got stuck in the elevator.

 

Time passed quickly. The family grew older and closer.

 

Charlie was proof of the family’s age: one day, he showed up at the house as an elder.

 

Xi, as a ghost, didn’t age at all. She came to visit fairly often, and spent a lot of time with her kids. She enjoyed drinking juice with Alana.

 

Alana began practicing mixology when she wasn’t busy with her makeovers.

 

She wasn’t very good at it, though. She should probably just stick with styling.

 

She was able to give another makeover soon, though, because it was time for Jessica’s and Ryan’s birthdays!

 

Jessica grew up first, and received the benefit of Alana’s expertise. She was very, very beautiful. If only she was part of the bloodline.

 

Ryan grew up next, and also received a little sprucing up. His before picture was too hideous to even show. Chase still doesn’t find him very appealing.

 

It was time for Alana’s birthday next, but she accidentally lit herself on fire while blowing out the candles.

 

Good thing a firefighter lives in the house!

 

Alana eventually grew up, but the whole island had to be replaced before the birthdays could commence. Yes, there are more.

 

It was finally time for Nate’s birthday into elderhood.

 

Though he gained a few wrinkles, Nate still looks good for his age. With Nate reaching the end of his years, it’s time to choose the heir of the ninth generation!

 

Will it be Chase, the Grumpy, Mean Spirited, Neurotic, Heavy Sleeping Great Kisser?

 

Or will it be Alana, the Artistic, Charismatic, Dramatic, Flirty, Party Animal?

 

What about Alex, who happens to be Clumsy, Frugal, and Perceptive?

 

Last but not least, Greg, the Disciplined, Technophobic Genius?

 

If you’d like to have a say as to who is the last heir(ess) of the legacy, please click here to vote!

Chapter 30

Welcome back! When we left off, things in the family were starting to calm down. They were finally able to sit and bond.

 

Of course the calm wouldn’t last long, though; Ziyi soon realized she was pregnant while visiting with a couple of friends.

 

 

Ziyi should’ve been excited, but she knew she’d have her hands full what with Ryan still a baby. She dully resigned herself to her situation at first…

… but quickly began to look forward to the new arrival.

Nate wasn’t too fond of Ryan; however, he was still a great father to him. Nate figured he’d just need some time to foster a bond with the baby.

 

Nate was surprise that he was becoming a father again. He was slightly concerned about what the other kids would think about a little brother or sister. After all, Ryan wasn’t really their sibling.

Ziyi decided to tell Alana right away.

 

Alana couldn’t have been happier!

 

She even gave her blessings right then and there.

 

Chase hardly even noticed anything going on in the house anymore. He was always too busy with friends.

 

Chase and Ericka became very close, and hung out together constantly.

 

After a couple failed attempts, Chase was finally able to kiss her.

 

Feeling like he was on a winning streak, Chase asked Ericka to be his girlfriend. She said yes!

 

The downtown spotlights lit up as the two lovebirds stared lovingly into each other’s eyes.

 

Meanwhile, back at the house, Ryan’s birthday arrived unnoticed.

 

He grew up into a cute little toddler.

 

When home, Chase stepped in to help out with Ryan. With Ziyi heavily pregnant and Nate always off taking pictures, Ryan was often alone.

 

He was a pretty happy little kid, though. He would play for hours, pretending to squeeze his blocks to death.

 

He also tried desperately to destroy the xylophone. His evil trait appeared at a very young age.

 

Late one evening, while working as an investigator, Ziyi went into labor.

 

Nate was so overjoyed when he found out, that he broke into some impromptu dance moves.

 

A quick trip to the hospital, and soon Ziyi and Nate were headed home with two new baby boys! All the two could think about was celebrating the new births.  The baby Ziyi is holding is Greg, who rolled the Genius and Disciplined traits. His favorites are: music-Egyptian, food-Hot Dogs, color- Aqua. The baby Nate is holding is Alex, who rolled the Perceptive and Clumsy traits. His favorites are: music-Rockabilly food-Egg Rolls, color- Orange.

 

Life resumed as normal; however, only one baby could have a crib at a time. For some reason, the room kept blocking any extra cribs.

 

Soon, it was time for Alana’s birthday. The whole family and all of the friends were invited.

 

Alana wasn’t too pleased to see Aaron. Really no one was pleased to see him, but he WAS a member of the family.

Part of the reason everyone was so upset was that Aaron brought his new wife, Trudy.

 

Finally, Alana was able to step up to the birthday cake.

 

Alana grew up into a very beautiful teenager. She rolled Flirty as her fourth trait.

 

Ericka was immediately jealous. She knew that there’d be competition in the neighbor now for her role as most beautiful teen. At least Chase was Alana’s brother!

 

Alana enjoyed the rest of the party, and personally thanked each guest. She and Tomika quickly became friends, and agreed to throw another party soon.

 

Alana finally went to bed, and dreamt of fashion.

 

The first thing Alana did when she woke up in the morning was design a few outfits for herself. She then strutted her stuff around the house, as though the whole place was a catwalk.

 

Alana strutted back and forth all day; the only thing that stopped her was a baby in her pathway. She demanded that Nate remove it before continuing.

 

Nate and Ziyi had grown slightly distance since the twins were born. With at least one of the babies crying at any given time, they were a little too busy to spend quality time together. Neither seemed to notice, though.

 

Once all the babies were finally asleep, Nate and Ziyi snuck out of the house and toasted some marshmallows. They thought the evening would be relaxing…

 

… however, Nate burned his marshmallow. He was NOT pleased.

 

He was so exhausted that he then promptly passed out.

 

The next day, when the babies were all crying in unison, Nate and Ziyi decided they needed some time to themselves.

 

Thus, a babysitter was called and they went off to have some fun.

 

Ziyi stopped in at Charlie’s, and discovered his wife was pregnant!

 

Nate scootered around the neighborhood, enjoying his rare freedom.

 

Eventually, he ended up at the bistro with Charlie.

 

It just so happened that Ziyi ran into Aaron, and they decided to go to the bistro at the exact same time.

 

Nate was actually excited to see his wife and brother there. He wasn’t the jealous kind, and sensed that for the family to finally be in harmony again, Ziyi had to settle her differences with Aaron.

 

Unfortunately, Charlie quickly had to leave for work.

 

Aaron, Nate, and Ziyi sat at separate tables and had a slightly awkward dinner after that.

 

Back at home, Alana went to the nursery, only to find the babysitter. She called Lyle immediately, to say there was a very ugly intruder caring for her brothers.

 

The babysitter was more than a little upset, considering they’d gone to school together for quite some time. He also had been working hard on growing his hair out. He thought he was looking pretty good up until that point.

 

Once Alana realized these facts, she did apologize to the babysitter.

 

She got that out of the way just in time, as Xi decided to come for a visit. Alana couldn’t have been more excited.

 

Xi sat down with her children and had a nice visit with them.

 

As Xi headed back to her grave at sunrise, she was happy. Her family was doing well without her, she technically had grand kids, and life was great! Will things continue this way? Check back for the next chapter to find out!

Chapter 29

Welcome back! When we last left off, Xi, Rose, and Farid passed away; only Nate and Ziyi were left to care for Chase and Alana.

Ziyi, wanting to help her step-father, decided to plan a mass funeral.

She invited the whole family.

Surprisingly, Nate wasn’t interested in reminiscing over his loved-ones. He opted to spend the time with his children instead.

Aaron wasn’t interested either; only Charlie and Louisa showed up.

Ziyi knew Nate would be OK as long as he had his kids, so she turned her attention to Aaron. He seemed to be taking the whole situation very hard. She comforted him….

… but soon, that turned into flirting.

Flirting quickly became kissing, and Aaron was happy he missed the party.

When Ziyi returned and found Nate by the fire pit, she felt the need to apologize for her actions with Aaron. Without knowing why, she felt guilty. Maybe it was because they’d grown up like brother and sister.

While the parents were having their dramas, the kids were thriving peacefully. Chase met another kid at school, Tomika Burkett, and they quickly became best friends.

Tomika came over every day without fail.

Though Tomika occasionally wore dresses, she looked and acted nothing like a girl.

One day, when Chase invited Tomika over, she seemed to have grown up. This suddenly reminded everyone that it was Chase’s birthday.

A party was quickly thrown together…

… and Chase transitioned into a teenager. He rolled Great Kisser as his fourth trait.

Alana shared Chase’s birthday…

… and quickly grew up into a very cute child. She rolled Party Animal as her third trait.

With the kids beginning to lead their own lives, Nate and Ziyi were able to enjoy some free time. Lately, Ziyi chose to spend hers with Aaron.

Soon, they were woohooing on a regular basis.

Nate wasn’t dumb or blind, so he knew what was going on; and he didn’t like it. Since Aaron moved out, he’d turned into the town thug. He also had quite a few children. Nate didn’t want Ziyi to be taken advantage of.

Ziyi quickly dismissed Nate’s advice when he confronted her.

Nate couldn’t stop himself from slapping Ziyi. He just couldn’t stand to watch her ruin her life.

The fight quickly dissipated as Nate’s birthday to adulthood arrived.

Nate grew to look much older.

After the fight, Ziyi slept on the bench in the park. She was too upset to go home.

That only lasted until she began to feel sick to her stomach, though.

She ran to Nate to tell him that something was wrong…

… and right then, she realized she was pregnant.

Nate pushed aside his fears for Ziyi, and was thrilled. After all, he loved his kids, and he loved the idea of more coming into the family. He congratulated Ziyi from the bottom of his heart.

Ziyi had started to have some trepidations, though. Since she and Nate fought, she hadn’t seen or heard from Aaron. He wouldn’t answer her calls. She felt jilted.

Nate knew how Ziyi felt, and how her pregnancy would look. Ziyi was a smart, quiet, private person. Her relationship with Aaron was nowhere near public; the neighbors would assume the child was Nate’s, so he might as well accept responsibility for it. He decided he and Ziyi should become a couple.

They exchanged a small peck to seal the deal; however, that peck turned into a long and passionate kiss, and the two realized that they had shared feelings for each other for some time.

Nate dragged Ziyi to the park, even though it was the middle of the night.

He dropped down onto one knee, and proposed to her.

She said yes…

… and the two were quickly married right next to the fountain.

Not too much changed after Nate’s and Ziyi’s wedding. The kids were too young when their mother died; Ziyi had always seemed like their mother anyways.

While Nate and Ziyi were off getting married, Charlie had also gotten married! His wife, Susan, seemed nothing like his type, but they got along well.

Chase was also beginning to develop a love life. He’d met a girl in school: Ericka Lotus.

He was instantly smitten, to the point that he felt the need to change his style. He decided to go all-out rock-a-billy.

The Lotus’ actually lived next-door, and had twin boys: Lyle and Kyle. Alana quickly became friends with Lyle.

One afternoon, Aaron was walking to a friend’s house, and happened to run into a rather rotund lady. She instantly ran up and began flirting with him. This was unfortunate for two reasons: one, she wasn’t exactly his type…

… and two, Nate happened to be walking by. The rotund lady ran away quickly after Aaron’s reproach. He felt pretty smug, but that wouldn’t last for long.

Nate quickly jumped in and attacked Aaron. He was angry at his brother for knocking up Ziyi and never returning her calls.

Right at that moment, back at home, Ziyi went into labor.

Since Nate was too busy fighting with Aaron, Chase had to drive Ziyi to the hospital.

Soon, Ziyi left the hospital with a new baby boy: Ryan. He rolled Evil and Virtuoso as his two traits.

Ryan was quickly dropped off in the nursery…

While Ziyi climbed into bed with Nate. He was too busy sleeping off the fight with Aaron to even notice Ziyi was gone.

The next morning, Nate didn’t even check in on the new baby.

Ziyi was worried that maybe Nate was regretting his decision to marry her and raise his nephew.

She had no need to worry, though, as Nate was just distracted. He had a lot of housework to do. He also felt no bond with this new baby as he did with his biological children.

Alana and Chase were far from forgotten. Ziyi made sure to give them just as much if not more attention than she gave to Ryan.

Alana developed an interest in fashion…

… while Chase developed an interest in handy-work.

Chase was also quite interested in girls. He was soon going home with his neighbor, Ericka Lotus, every day after school. They had bonded over inside jokes about the bus-driver’s lack of talent using bronzer.

Ericka’s father wasn’t such a fan of Chase. He was pretty sure Chase would grow up to be a criminal, considering his mean-spirited nature.

It probably didn’t help that he would say things like “Our house is a lot bigger than yours. A lot more privacy. We should totally go over there”, when her father was right behind her.

Since they hadn’t progressed beyond friendship, these comments lead to quite a few awkward moments.

Chase eventually tried to make his move….

… although the house really was tiny, and Ericka’s mother was only a few feet away. She was horrified to see her only daughter with a kid such as Chase, and cried out in horror.

Ericka’s father took Chase aside and gave him a stern talking-to. The topic of the conversation is unknown, but Chase sat with his legs crossed whenever he visited Ericka after that.

Ryan was the quietest baby to ever have lived, and never cried.

This gave Nate and Ziyi time to bond.

They were finally able to woohoo like the newlyweds they were.

Soon, though, Ziyi began to crave strange foods at random times. She had a sneaking suspicion that all the woohoo had had a side-effect. Will Nate and Ziyi have more kids? Will Chase ever get around to kissing Ericka? Check back soon for the next chapter to find out!

Chapter 28

Welcome back! When we last left off, Xi was pregnant with hers and Nate’s second child. Happy on the outside, she was in fact miserable. She was terrified that Nate would cheat on her, and let the fear consume her. Although she was pregnant, she stopped eating.

Nate was oblivious to Xi’s problems. She hid them so well. It didn’t help matters that Nate was wholly preoccupied by trying to max out his photography skill.

 

Soon, Xi went into labor.

 

She travelled to the hospital alone, and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Alana. She was born with Artistic locked in, and rolled Charismatic. Her favorites are: Orange, Cookies, and Egyptian music.

 

Nate didn’t make it to his daughter’s birth, because he was getting a tattoo.

His tattoo consisted of an Egyptian symbol combined with Chinese writing, to signify his union with Xi.

Xi, unsure of Nate’s whereabouts, was very upset upon returning home. Her husband was nowhere to be found; she could only assume he was gallavanting with another woman.

Little did she know, Nate had already returned from the tattoo parlor and was visiting with his children in the opposite wing of the house. He spent hours snuggling the new baby, and playing with Chase.

Nate stayed in the nursey until he was starved, and rushed to the kitchen to eat. He was so hungry that he didn’t even notice Xi walking by.

 

Xi took Nate’s food-induced blindness to mean he truly was indifferent to her. She was heartbroken.

 

Xi retreated to the upstairs bathroom, clutched her chest, and crumpled to the floor.

 

The whole family rushed upstairs to see what was wrong, and were astonished. Nate couldn’t believe his eyes.

 

Nate couldn’t believe he’d driven the love of his life to such measures.

 

He was devastated. At the same time, however, he couldn’t help but smile when he looked at the empty bed and realized he’d finally be able to sleep all splayed out again.

 

Nate was incredibly lonely after Xi’s passing, and took to carrying around his old toy bunny. He’d had that in his inventory since he became a toddler.

 

Everyone worried about Nate, especially his parents.

 

At night, Xi’s ghost would visit and take care of regular household chores. Nate would wait up to see her.

 

He tried to believe she was his wife and alive again; however, she was only a ghostly embodiment of her former self. She did not recognize him.

 

Ziyi handled her mother’s passing well, but was still distraught.

 

She did her best to help Nate with the kids…

 

… although, he’d taken to spending every moment of every day with them.

 

In a few days, Nate began to return to his old self. He even started playing chess with Ziyi again.

 

Rose and Farid were encouraged to see their son thriving again, and decided to throw a party for Aaron’s birthday.

 

The whole family was invited, as the youngest member of the 8^th generation grew to an adult.

Aaron quickly moved out after he grew up. Farid helped him buy a nice little shack, thus depleting the family coffers.

 

Nate was feeling especially jovial, and decided to move the party down to the park.

 

He even made some hot dogs!

 

… Or at least attempted to.

 

The party wasn’t over yet, though! It was time for both Chase and Alana to grow up.

 

Alana grew up to be the cutest toddler ever. I probably think/say that for every toddler, but I mean it this time.

Chase grew up to be very cute as well. He rolled Grumpy as his third trait.

 

As soon as Alana was mobile, she took off and did cute things. Of course the camera folled her everywhere.

 

Nate kept to his recent habits, and immediately began teaching his daughter life skills.

 

First, though, he stopped to unload some pictures he’d taken.

 

Chase was jealous of the attention his sister was getting, and began to resent Nate.

Nate did drag himeself away from the nursery long enough to help Chase with his homework…

 

… and always played chess with Ziyi.

 

Ziyi had led a lonely life since her mother’s passing, but didn’t mind.

 

Her birthday soon arrived, and the household gathered to celebrate.

 

Surprisingly, she grew up into a beautiful young woman.

Nate was proud that he’d raised his stepdaughter to adulthood, and felt confident in his parenting abilities.

 

As the party wrapped up, though, he couldn’t help but think of how beautiful Ziyi turned out to be.

 

When things finally quieted down, Rose sat down with Ziyi and asked her what her plans were. Was she moving? What career did she want? What were her goals? She’d always wanted to become a chess grandmaster, but that was about it. She didn’t have any skills other than logic, and really had no interest.

 

Ziyi tried to find a job, but no one would take her. Finally, she decided to put her good senses to use and signed up as a Private Eye.

 

Rose, glad to have helped a young girl find direction, decided to congratulate her son for being so close to accomplishing his goals.

 

She barely finished talking, when suddenly, she became a ghost.

 

The grim reaper was very busy that evening: he took both Rose and Farid.

 

As she and Nate were the only adults left in the house, Ziyi quickly stepped up and helped out in the sad situation. She called Louisa and Charlie to let them know their parents had passed, but couldn’t get ahold of Aaron.

 

She quickly caught up with him at one of his local haunts, and had to share the sad news then and there.

 

Aaron handled the information worse than anticipated.

 

Fortunately, Ziyi was there to comfort him.

 

Although Nate was seemingly over Xi’s death, he still visited with her nightly. He’d grown almost as close to her ghost as he was to her in life.

 

The two were very much in love again.

 

One night, when Xiyi couldn’t sleep, she woke up and caught Nate and Xi chatting in the kitchen.

 

She was shocked that Nate could still be in love with Xi’s ghost; after all, Ziyi could sense no part of her mother in the creature.

 

She couldn’t fault her stepfather, though. He deserved some happiness after all the hard times lately.

 

In fact, Nate’s staying up late was finally catching up to him. He was worn out, and one day passed out while feeding the fish. Will Nate be okay? What will happen to the children if anything happens to Nate? Will Ziyi stay or move out? Read the next chapter to find out!

 

In the meantime, though, here’s one last picture of Alana doing cute things.

 

 

Chapter 27

Welcome back to The FIRST Sims 3 Legacy! I know it’s been about 8 months since my last chapter; I apologize for the delay. Life got in the way of my sims time. When I DID have Sims time, quite a few random crashes/save disappearances occurred.

When we last left off, Nate had decided to propose to Xi.

Of course she said yes. Nate quickly grabbed his phone and began planning the wedding party.

Since the family was still new to the neighborhood, only relatives were invited.

Nate and Xi tranquilly exchanged vows in front of the small gathering only several hours after Nate’s proposal.

Nate and Xi quickly got down to business the minute the party dissipated.

The wedding wasn’t perfect: Xi often worried about her ex-husband, and how she’d broken his heart. She wondered about the effect that this would have on her children.

Xi’s son came to visit occasionally. Xi loved to see him as often as possible, as he still lived with his father.

Xi’s daughter, Ziyi, sadly wasn’t adjusting very well. Her birthday soon arrived, and the whole house gathered to cheer her on.

Ziyi grew into an awkward teenager.

Aaron and Salah tried to tease her good-naturedly, but she didn’t understand that they were just teasing.

She sat alone at the end of the table and refused to talk to anyone.

When Ziyi quickly retreated to the chess table, Charlie followed and attempted to strike up a conversation. Ziyi wanted nothing to do with anyone, though, and remained silent.

Aaron and Louisa soon began to gossip about why Ziyi kept herself detached from the family.Did she have a great big secret? Was she really an alien? Her face WAS very stretched.

Xi was oblivious to Ziyi’s strife; she found herself pregnant soon after the wedding.

Although she hadn’t wanted any more children, Xi dealt with her situation bravely. She meditated almost 24/7.

Nate was very excited about his impending fatherhood; he congratulated himself on his manliness often.

When he wasn’t doing that, he was attempting to turn his tumultuous emotions into art.

Nate wasn’t too preoccupied to notice Ziyi’s self-imposed exile. He tried to interact with her as much as possible. They played chess together often…

… and they even began to share their meals. Ziyi quickly opened up to Nate.

Xi was glad Nate had taken an interest in her daughter. She was all-consumed by her pregnancy by this time.

In fact, it was all she and Nate discussed together.

Fortunately, the newly weds remained just as much in love.

Soon, it was time for Louisa’s birthday.

She grew up looking very much the same as she always has.

Of course, Nate could only think of one thing: the baby.

His thoughts became a reality when suddenly, Xi went into labor in the middle of the party.

She drove herself to the hospital, and Nate tagged along.

A few hours later, Chase Haight was born! He rolled Heavy Sleeper and Neurotic as his traits. His favorites re: Food-cobbler, music-pop, and color-black.

The proud parents brought Chase home and set him up with a new baby blanket.

Everyone in the house was eager to spend time with the first child of the 9^th generation. They all clamored in line to hold Chase.

New parents generally lack the free time to nurture their relationship, but with so many people living in the house, a baby was no hassle for Nate and Xi. They were able to kindle their relationship often.

When they weren’t woohoo’ing, they were flirting. They were pretty cute together.

Nate couldn’t spend ALL of his time with Xi, through. He had to work toward s his lifetime wish. As Nate was working on his latest painting, he gained his 10^th painting skill point. All Nate has to do to complete his lifetime wish is to gain 10 photography skill points.

Since all of Nate’s time was spent with  either Xi, Chase, or his easel, Ziyi was left on her own again. She sincerely missed her only companion in the neighborhood.

Ziyi went to the park often in an attempt to make new friends; she never made any.

This was probably due to the fact that, although Ziyi wouldn’t admit it, she went to the park mainly to be near Nate. He enjoyed taking portrait pictures of people, and haunted the community lots. When he wasn’t taking pictures, he was studying.

One afternoon, shortly after returning from work,  Rose entered her bedroom and quickly ran back out.

Xi entered the bedroom, only to find the maid laying on the bed in her sleepwear. The maid was yelling about Rose’s intrusion into her “debut”.

Unsure as to what the maid was referring to, all became clear to Xi when Nate stepped out of the bathroom looking concerned.

Xi took Nate outside and proceeded to berate him for seducing the maid.

Nate tried to explain that he was only taking her picture, but she didn’t hear it.

Miserable, Xi ran back inside…

… only to discover she was pregnant.

Nate was heartbroken: his soul mate mistook an innocent creative moment for infidelity.

He was so heartbroken that he missed Chase’s first birthday. The whole family was there, except for him.

Chase grew up into a very cute toddler.

Oblivious to his parents’ turmoil, Chase immediately sought to bring them together.

Unfortunately, all the excitement of seeing her grandson grow up was too much for Salah. She quietly became a ghost and took off into the afterlife.

Farid was upset, but not devastated. After all, he was almost due to join his mother anyways; he was 87 years old already.

By this time, Xi had calmed down. She realized her pregnancy hormones could be affecting her judgement, and attempted to console Nate over his grandmother’s loss. Nate, still upset, wanted nothing to do with her.

It was at this time that I began having serious problems with the game. I lost at least a total of 30 hours of gameplay when my saves began to disappear. I’d reload a backup, play through again, and come back a few days later to find my saves were lost again. After the 4^th or 5^th time this happened, I also noticed that all of the Riverview-exclusive objects disappeared from the neighborhood. Hoping that the save issue was due to a strange Riverview bug, I packed up the whole family and moved them to a world I’d downloaded: Cornucopia. I also took this opportunity to build the family a new, modern house. This is the outside view.

The downstairs.

The upstairs.

I made a little sunken living room in one corner…

… as well as a large aquarium…

… that the dining room sat upon.

Charlie and Louisa moved to the new neighborhood along with the rest of the family; however, they quickly moved into their own homes.

Since I’d installed Ambitions by this point, Nate zoomed off to register for a photography job.

Nate’s and Xi’s relationship was still rocky. They’d barely spoken, and Xi spent much time alone.

Chase was by no means neglected at this time. He was constantly interacting with the various family members.

He was quickly learning all of life’s essential lessons…

And was pretty much cute all day and night.

Xi, on the other hand, was no doing so well. Although she appeared happy on the outside, she knew things had changed with Nate.

He was always out talking to other women and eventually photographing them…

And spent more time with Xi’s daughter than Xi.

In her misery, Xi stopped eating. Most family members were too busy to notice, but Aaron quickly caught on. Will things between Nate and Xi improve? Will she survive to bring the next family member into the world? Will I ever get this game to work consistently? Tune in in the next few days for the next chapter!

Chapter 6

Welcome back to the Haight Legacy, the FIRST Sims 3 Legacy ever! When we last left off, Traci had just given birth and came out of the hospital carrying a basket. Want to know what that basket contained? Well…

It contained Estelle. Finally, a little girl! She was born with Artistic locked in, and rolled Clumsy. Her favorites are music: custom, food: Goopy Carbonara, color: lime.

The basket also contained Sky; yay, another girl! She also had Artistic locked in and rolled Athletic. Her favorites are music: Electronica, Food: Cheesesteak, color: hot pink.

Last but not least, the basket contained Naomi. Everyone guessed right, Luke and Traci had triplets! Naomi was born with Brave locked in, and rolled Neurotic. Her favorites are music: latin, food: spaghetti, color: black.

With three new babies in the house, I decided it was time to upgrade the house. Tore down EVERYthing, and completely rebuilt it from the ground up. Suprisingly, Luke and Traci only had $4000 cash so this is what was built with that plus the money from the house.

This is the downstairs. The color scheme is violet and black, since those are Traci’s and Luke’s favorite colors. From now on, with each generation, the color scheme will be redone to match the heir and his/her spouse’s favorite colors.

This is the upstairs. A lot of the old furniture has reappeared.

After the birth/unloading process was over, both Traci and Luke were exhausted. Hank’s ghost stepped up and took care of the babies while Luke and Traci got settled.

Hank clearly adores his grandchildren.

Hank carried Estelle, Sky, and Naomi off to bed while Luke and Traci enjoyed their last night of peaceful rest. Elysia watched over her grandchildren and Hank, and seemed supremely happy.

That’s right you two, enjoy it while you can. Even I know this is going to be torture.

The next morning, Hank was still floating around taking care of the babies. Luke sincerely thanked his father’s ghost before it floated back to its grave for the day.

As soon as Hank left, the babies woke up.  Luke tried to sneak out the door while Traci ran back and forth: feeding, changing, snuggling, non-stop for four hours.

Luke continued working on his painting and writing skills while Traci cared for the babies. Right around this time, I realized all of the pictures and paintings that had been stored in Luke’s inventory were gone; the pictures of Hank, Elysia, and Gage were lost and can never be replaced. I’m incredibly sad. Apparently inventory items disappear when you change houses, which I hadn’t known at the time.

In between feedings and changings, Traci found time to celebrate her birthday. She looks a little crazed, but she deserves to: she spends all day, every day, with the babies. As soon as one is happy, another needs something.

Elysia watches to make sure Traci is doing everything right. They’re both family-oriented, so they bonded quickly over the babies.

A few days after the babies were born, Luke threw a birthday party for the girls. He invited his brothers and their wives, as well as a few other in-laws.

Mark came over with his hardcore macaroni. Mark has gotten pretty scary with age, I wouldn’t want to mess with him.

The party didn’t get interesting until Matthew tried to flirt with Mona, Mark’s wife. Look how scared/disgusted her face is.

Once everyone had finally settled down, Traci brought Sky to the cake first.

Sky grew up into a very adorable little toddler. She has her mother’s hair and her father’s eyes.

Traci had to fight to get to the other babies to bring them to the cake. Mark would NOT stop picking the babies up. I would not want him touching my child.

Mark was particularly fond of Sky. He tossed her in the air over and over until they became good friends.

When Traci finally wrestled Estelle away and brought her to the cake, Luke once again set the pace of the party by standing right up front and blowing his party horn. I swear, every birthday that the household has ever thrown, Luke has been right up front and tooting.

Estelle has a cute little cherub face, but I don’t know how I feel about the hair. From the looks of it, she has her father’s hair and eyes.

Naomi was the last to grow up, but she didn’t make it to the cake. She seems to have Traci’s eyes and what seems to be a throw-back to Elysia’s hair.

The party guests finally left and Sky was happy to be alone and reminisce about her (and Estelle’s, and Naomi’s) special day.

All three little girls were equally tired so they all went quietly to bed at the same time.

The next day, Traci got right on top of teaching the girls their life skills.

Luke, on the other hand, decided it was more important that Estelle get a new haircut.

She came out looking pretty adorable. Definitely one of the cutest toddlers I’ve seen. She looks a lot like her father when he was a toddler.

Since Sky was with her mother and Estelle was with her father, Naomi was left to entertain herself. She did so by terrorizing the dollhouse and attempting to rip the dolls’ heads off. Look at that concentrated little face, she’s determined.

When Traci saw what was happening, she immediately grabbed Naomi and began to teach her how to talk: more specifically, how to voice her anger.

Traci: “Now when you’re feeling angry, don’t take it out on people or your dolls. Just go outside and throw a baseball around.”

Naomi’s not even paying attention to these important life lessons. Oh well.

Luke also tries to teach Estelle the facts of life.
Luke: “Someday you might be picked as heiress and you’ll have to find a boyfriend and get engaged. Can you say engaged?”

Luke eventually got bored and wandered off, leaving the remainder of Estelle’s lessons to Traci. She continued to teach Estelle about love and heartbreak. A girl is never too young to learn, apparently.

Poor Sky was ignored until Estelle and Naomi had learned how to talk. With triplets, one’s always left out.

The only break Luke had from child-rearing was to eat, sleep, and take care of bathroom business. The maid apparently enjoyed taking several lunch breaks each day, and kept Luke company. I’m not impressed with these maids at all.

After a few days of being cooped up in the house, Luke just had to get out. He decided to go visit Mona and Mark. Before knocked, he peeked in the window to make sure they were home. From the looks of it, Mona was exercising with a random rotund male.

When Luke finally went inside, he saw that Margie had grown up. Margie seems to have inherited Elysia’s hair as well. It looks really pretty against her darker skin.

Before Luke had even said hello, Mona immediately began to yell at him about Naomi. I guess she’s disturbed about the fact that Naomi likes to mutilate her toys. You’d think Mona would understand, considering she’s Evil.

Actually, I take that back. I’d be a little disturbed if Mona understood why a child would do THIS.

Sky, left on her own, had begun to pick up Naomi’s bad habits.

Estelle remained the adorable little girl she always was.

When Luke finally wandered home, he collapsed into bed alone. He’s always off doing one thing while Traci’s taking care of the kids. In fact, Luke and Traci haven’t spoken once since the triplets were born.

The next morning, while all three girls were still asleep, Luke and Traci finally found time to sit down together. Luke agreed to help out with the kids a little bit more so Traci could enjoy some time to herself.

With her newfound free time, Traci called Paul and caught up with each other. He said she and Luke should come over as soon as possible because he had a surprise to show them.

Luke immediately ran over to Paul’s house and Paul invited him in.

When Luke came very close to stepping on a little blue bundle, Luke immediately realized what Paul’s surprise was. Apparently he’d spawned a baby boy named Caleb.

Paul went and laid down as soon as he got in the house. I guess he was pretty tired from working full time and being a single parent.

Luke cared for Caleb while Paul relaxed. Then he realized: why was he at his brother’s house, taking care of his nephew, when he had three little girls at him that needed care?

Luke immediately rushed home and began to teach Estelle how to walk.

Traci had passed out from exhaustion, so Elysia picked up the slack.

Luke knows Elysia always helps out with the triplets when she comes out to haunt, so he always gets really excited when he sees her. I love excitable Sims.

Speaking of excitable, that will now be the family trait since that’s the only one both Elysia and Luke had in common.  I don’t mind, though, because I find it adorable that Luke does a little happy dance for everything. He makes the funniest faces, too.

One morning, Traci had an action in her queue that had something to do with a spying sim. I looked around the house and found the mail lady looking through the window. I found that absolutely hilarious.

Estelle took a page from the mail lady’s book and began to play peek-a-boo inside the toy box. I find this interaction absolutely adorable. Not that Estelle isn’t cute enough already, but this doesn’t hurt.

Sky does some pretty cute interactions as well. She basically tries to eat everything in sight.

Naomi seems to have mellowed out some, and walks around the house carrying her horse/thinking about horses constantly.

Traci was horrified by the spying and just needed to get out of the house. She wandered over to Matthew’s and Lora’s house, since her only friends are her in-laws.

Lora began sobbing at the sight of Traci. I think it was because she doesn’t have any children of her own, and Traci’s overabundance of children just exaggerates this fact.

Traci sat down to read, but what with Lora’s sobbing and Mona coming to visit as well, Traci just couldn’t get her peace and quiet.

Traci cared for Margie until she, too, realized she had her own children at home to care for and headed back.

Finally, after 6 ½ days of torture, the triplets’ birthday arrived. As always, Luke threw a party and invited all of the extended family, as well as some friends. As you can see, Mark’s wife, Mona, is heavily pregnant for the second time.

Little did they know, this party would be much more interesting than the others…

That’s it for this chapter folks, come back in a day or two for the next chapter! Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it!

Paul went and laid down as soon as he got in the house. I guess he was pretty tired from working full time and being a single parent.Paul went and laid down as soon as he got in the house. I guess he was pretty tired from working full time and being a single parent.

Chapter 26

Welcome back! When we last left off, the 8th generation heir was to be chosen. You voted, and Nate was chosen! Excuse him for not seeming more excited; he expresses his emotions through art.

Unfortunately, my game became horribly corrupted. Try as I might, I couldn’t continue in Sunset Valley. I think it had something to do with trying to move Farid’s brother in with the family. Long story short, dozens of game hours lost, I decided to pack the family up and move them to a new ‘hood. Thus, Riverview became the family’s new home. Sadly, I lost all the other extended family; but, that’s nothing that can’t be rebuilt!

No one seemed to mind the move; they remained in their old house, and settled in quickly.

Charlie moved out quickly, and found new love immediately. In fact, he became somewhat of a player. Maybe he was trying to smother his loss of Sylvia de Santos.

Nate, as always, transferred Charlie’s hidden grief into a choice piece of art.

Charlie called each member of the family every day. It was kind of cute.

Rose was glad to be in a new neighborhood: always the adventurous one, change made her happy. Unfortunately, she was spending all her nights alone. Farid had been a hair away from his final promotion before the move, but sadly his performance was reset when they landed in Riverview.

Charlie stopped by every day.

This day, however, was Nat’s birthday to young adulthood.

The family gathered to see the 8th heir age up.

Nate grew up very well. He immediately ran down to the school to get a job. Yes, I downloaded the education career mod. I like variety.

The other family members were a bit neglected at this point. I’d played through so many days, over and over again, in the old neighborhood that I just wanted to rush and get this over with. Salah and Aaron grew inseparable.

Aaron’s birthday finally arrived, and was barely celebrated.

Being a bit outdoorsy, Aaron went for a more “natural” look as he aged.

Rose, who hadn’t travelled in ages and still had yet to reach visa level 3 in any country, headed off to China along with Farid and Nate.

While Rose quickly set off to business, Nate wandered around and met the locals. It was then that he laid eye on Xi Yuan.

Xi shooed her children in order to talk to Nate. They immediately hit it off.

Although Xi was married, she felt a strange need to impress Nate.

Nate stayed at Xi’s all of that first night, just talking.

Soon, Nate had developed feelings for Xi. He asked if she was single, only to find that she was married. Obviously, I mean where did her two kids come from?

In fact, Nate had the pleasure of meeting Xi’s husband the next day.

Nate didn’t let a thing as small as a husband deter him, though. He had developed fairly strong feelings for Xi and had to let them be known. She didn’t seem to feel the same, unfortunately.

Nate was persistent, though.

Soon, Xi gave in.

In the mean time, Rose had finally reached Visa Level 3.

The family returned home with yet another gnome. At least this one is a bit different.

Nate, completely smitten with Xi, invited her to come visit the next day.

Nate immediately asked Xi to leave her husband and move in. Of course, she said yes.

Ziyi, Xi’s daughter, also moved in. She immediately made herself right at home.

Xi and Louisa immediately bonded. They both had the same lifetime want: to max out both the athletic and martial arts skills.

I decided Xi needed a little… sprucing up. She’s actually quite pretty without that awful haircut.

Xi and Louisa went out and practiced, to achieve their lifetime wants.

Nate soon settled in and got back to painting.

Xi and Lousia did nothing but practice.

During this time, Ziyi was largely neglected. Rose stepped in to ensure the child was getting everything she needed. She didn’t complain once, though; at least her mom was happy.

One night, Nate woke up and knew there was something he had to do.

He immediately proposed to Xi. Will she marry him? Will they have children? Will Ziyi, Arron, and Louisa ever grow up and move out? Will Salah ever pass on to the next world? Find out in the next chapter!

Chapter 5

Welcome back to the Haight Legacy, the first Sims 3 legacy! The heir polls were SO CLOSE but Luke won against Mark by only 4 votes. Luke was my pick so I’m pretty excited about this.

Last we left off, all the kids had grown into teens (well, Luke’s a young adult already) and Luke had just gotten engaged. Gage passed on, and Elysia and Hank got married.

Luke, in his haste to complete his books, had broken the family computer for the last time. Everyone decided to chip in and buy a new laptop for Luke. Unfortunately, since both Hank and Elysia are retired and Luke only source of income are his novels and paintings, the entire family funds were spent on this thing. It had better help him get his writing skill up fast.

As for the spares, Matthew veggies out in front of the television…

Mark reads/plays chess, Paul eats sleeps and fishes, and John’s always out jogging somewhere.

Elysia and Hank just kind of hang out together. Their lives are complete, so nothing too exciting happens with them.

Elysia keeps rolling wants to beat the next ranked chess champion, so she’s almost always got guests over. This keeps her busy/happy so I can concentrate on Luke.

Luke likes to paint, even when I don’t direct him to do it. He’s starting to be able to paint really interesting-looking paintings now.

Sometimes, when Luke just needs to get out of the house for a bit, he meets up with Traci at the art gallery.

Luke’s so excited about his impending nuptials, he can’t stop performing the “Enthuse about wedding” interaction.  At first everyone would get really excited with him but now it’s starting to have negative effects, even on Traci.

One evening, as Hank was heading out to read the paper, a cloaked head and scythe popped out from the ground.

Much to Luke’s chagrin, Hank immediately turned into a ghost.

The grim reaper spoke with Hank’s ghost briefly, and Hank passed away. He had a smile on his face the whole time, and didn’t even beg. I guess marrying Elysia had satisfied him for eternity.

Matthew didn’t make it to witness the entirety of Hank’s death. Since he’s a coward, he fainted about three or four times during the death process.

Hank’s epitaph: Hank lived to be 89 days old. Father of Luke and Paul, he was absent for most of their lives but did his best to make up for it in the end. He will be missed.

That little gnome is a trinket that Mark acquired… somewhere. Don’t know where, but we named him Alejandro.

The grim reaper was kind enough to stick around and chat with the house guests for a while. Luke was even queued up to go flirt with it, but it disappeared right before he could.

Elysia was pretty distraught by the death of a second husband in less than a week.

After Hank’s death, she had a permanent frown on her face.

Luke got over Hank’s death pretty quickly. I have a feeling it had to do with his excitement about his wedding that will take place… eventually. I just want to have everyone grow up to adulthood so Luke and Traci can enjoy peace and quiet when they eventually get married.

The day after Hank’s death, life returned to normal. All was quiet.

That is, it was quiet until Elysia passed away.

The grim reaper came for her in almost the exact same spot it had come for Hank. Luke was horrified to witness the death of his second parent in less than 24 hours after the first had died.

Elysia begged and begged, but the grim reaper took her anyways. She was only 86 days old.

Elysia’s epitaph: Founder of the Haight legacy and simself gone wrong, Elysia had character and will be sorely missed.

The grim reaper stuck around again after Elysia’s death. Apparently death excites the grim reaper.

The grim reaper was kind enough to console Luke for a while before disappearing.

When the kids got home from school, they were shocked to discover they were orphans. They all just froze in place for an hour or two. It was a little strange.

Because everyone was so upset, they all retired early for the night; that is, except for Mark. He had wandered to the graveyard before Elysia died and spent quite a few hours exploring the catacombs. There he met this interesting woman: Mona Payton. Apparently she’s evil as well, and they became great friends rather quickly.

After Mona left for the night, Mark couldn’t get her out of his head. He ran upstairs and read all the romance novels he could find in the house.

Soon, it was time for Paul’s birthday. Only the family gathered to celebrate.

Paul grew up into a handsome adult, with Commitment Issues as his final trait.

He immediately moved out and into a TINY home of his own.

This is the house I built for him. I know it’s nothing special, but I never claimed to be a talented interior designer.

When I switched back to the main family after setting Paul up on his own, I discovered three things: one, Luke was over at the Keaton house spying on Justine’s son, Jereme, and his daughter. Two, the main family had $0. I guess when you move someone out, it transfers the entire family funds to the new family and that’s what I’d used to build Paul’s house with. Oops. Third, I realized I missed Paul. With Sims 2, it didn’t faze me when spares moved out because I knew I’d go play their families while waiting for an heir poll to finish. Now, I know Paul’s going to be growing and aging without me.

On top of that, this new trait system really does give sims more personality and I find myself incredibly attached to my sims.

Anyways, since Luke was already spying on Jereme’s home, I decided to have him go in and say he. He proceeded to enthuse about the wedding; Jereme wasn’t having any of it.

He definitely looks like his mom. It’d be nice for Luke to befriend this guy, since their moms were best friends.

That night, the ghosts were particularly active. From the looks of it, Gage and Hank can’t stand each other in the afterlife.

The next day, as Luke was reading the newspaper, he stumbled across Elysia’s death announcement. That made her death seem more real and I was pretty sad.

John cheered me up, though, when I caught him making funny faces at himself in the mirror.

Luke had a bit of writer’s block, so he wandered over to visit Paul at his new home. It’s only a couple houses down the street, so that’s convenient.

They spent the evening consoling and comforting each other.

Luke: “Paul, you’ve got to get ahold of yourself, man! My wedding’s going to be soon and we can’t be sad for it!”

Paul: “For the last time, can we NOT talk about your wedding anymore? Just get hitched and get it over with already.”

Luke went home and took a bubble bath to relax. He realized Paul was right, life was too short, and he should just marry Traci already.

He rented out the entire park and invited pretty much every single one of the family’s acquaintances. Traci was running a little late, so Luke entertained the family with his nonexistent guitar-playing skills. Elysia left the guitar to him after she died, so he thought it would be a good way to bring her spirit to the wedding.

Traci finally showed up and the wedding was able to proceed. Good thing, too, since Luke’s guitar skills are horrible. Traci didn’t have a qualm about telling Luke how much he sucked.

Everyone had waited so long for Traci that they were just about dieing from starvation.

Eventually, Luke and Traci exchanged vows in front of almost the entire neighborhood.

With Traci officially in the family, I discovered she’s Absent Minded, Couch Potato, Family-Oriented, Clumsy, and Good. Mediocre combination. Her favorites are music-indie, food- fish and chips, color-violet. Her lifetime wish is to become a chess legend. She has no family.

As the newlyweds gazed lovingly into each other’s eyes, Christopher grew furious. Luke had been HER man his entire life, and now some blonde tramp comes in and steals him? The is not to be beared.

Christopher felt utterly broken-hearted and betrayed.

Jereme Keaton left the party early in order to teach his daughter how to walk. For some reason I thought this was so awesome:  even though sims aren’t in your control, they’re still caring for their kids and teaching them life skills.

Traci, Matthew, and John left the wedding party early to take care of themselves. Matthew and Traci immediately bonded on the couch. They may have the couch in common, but Matthew’s incredibly shy around women. He looks like he’s about to faint every time he’s around one.

I set Traci to work right away on building her Logic skill. Getting skills to level 10 seems a lot more difficult now.

Traci’s and Luke’s first night as a couple was spent quietly and without woohoo. They were both too tired after their eventful day.

Matthew is so agitated at the knowledge that a female is in the house, he stuffs his face with leftover cake. No wonder he’s getting a tummy.

No, I mean LITERALLY stuffs his face. And arm. I love slob sims.

Traci’s only been in the house for a day, and I’m already starting to get annoyed by good sims. She keeps rolling wants to donate money. Hey, lady, we just built Paul a bachelor pad; there’s nothing to give!

Speaking of Paul and bachelor pads, Luke is constantly wishing to go visit him. It’s kind of cute.

The ghosts come out every night now. Elysia’s taken to haunting plates of Autumn salad whenever she can. It’s probably because she ate so much of it when she was alive.

With everything and everyone settled down and happy, Luke begins his writing again. He’s so close to maxing out both Painting and Writing.

Traci, meanwhile, has already gained about 5 Logic skillpoints and has begun challenging ranked opponents. She beat 3 in a row one day.

Luke and Paul were never close when they were under the same roof, but all of a sudden they’re constantly calling each other and rolling wants to hang out.

The other kids are living their lives quietly and slowly trying to acquire girlfriends. John’s latest conquest is Kenyatta Greenfield.

Mark is still working on Mona, but sometimes their “Evil Plot” competitions make them jealous of each other.

Mark will get angry and yell, but she just laughs in his face. Oh the joys of two evil sims interacting.

Mark’s birthday finally arrived, and Luke threw a small party for him.

He grew up into a VERY handsome adult and rolled kleptomaniac as his final trait.

Now that both he and Mona are adults, they can finally take their relationship to the next step. She’s quite pretty for an auto-generated sim.

Mark proposed to Mona less than an hour after his birthday. Luke seems to fail to realize how important this moment is; all he can think about it cake.

Mark used the computer first to get a job in the criminal career, then to move out.

Mark moved to a quaint little house and yet again spent all of Luke’s money.

He and Mona got married privately in front of their new house.

With one less sim in the house to worry about, Luke and Traci were able to concentrate on themselves.

While Luke was writing and painting, Traci was working on her logic and challenging opponents.

One day, Luke decided to invite Christopher over for old times’ sake. When she arrived, I was utterly amazed. Apparently she’d married Ethan Bunch and is now pregnant!

Christopher was still bitter about Luke’s “betrayal”.

She expressed her hurt feelings to Luke. Although he’d found a new love and had built a new life, he still cared for his friend and apologized profusely. Their friendship was quickly recovered after that/

Luke was very excited at the knowledge that Christopher would be a mother. He cooed and played with her belly, and began to wonder why he and Traci weren’t trying to have a child of their own. They hadn’t even woohoo’ed yet!

After Christopher left, he drew Traci into bed.

Luke: “So… um… we’re in bed but what do we do now?”

Traci: “No idea.”

They started with a little kissing…

… and eventually figured the rest out. I heard the lullaby .

The next day, I sent Traci down to the supermarket and bought her a few dozen melons. After making the mistake of having Elysia eat nothing but apple pancakes during her pregnancy, I am NOT taking any chances. Traci is eating NOTHING but melons.

Being the couch potato she is, Traci didn’t take her eyes off the TV for the entire first day of her pregnancy.

John and Matthew were pretty neglected during this time, but they coped by spending more time with their prospective girlfriends.

The same day Traci became pregnant, Luke celebrated a birthday.

He only became an adult, thankfully. He’s still insanely handsome.

Finally, Traci spun into her baby-wear. I’d never seen that outfit before, I like it a lot better.

Matthew was happy that Traci was pregnant; that meant she spent more time working on her needs and in front of the TV, keeping him company. The talked about baby things and watched Kidz Zone all day to get inspired.

Right around this time, John rolled the lifetime wish to reach the top of the medical career. Matthew spun the wish to reach the top of the science career. I accepted the wishes for both of them.

The next day was John’s and Matthew’s birthday. Since I hadn’t discovered you could age them up like three days before their birthday until Matthew was born, he caught up to John in age. Luke threw a party and invited all the family friends. Paul came with his old high school crush, Chastity.

Mark arrived with his wife, who’s HEAVILY pregnant.  This is pretty exciting, since I’d never directed them to woohoo or anything.

Mona is flirty, and as soon as she arrived at the party she tried to smooch Luke. He just wasn’t having any of that though. Yay for Luke.

Eventually, everything was arranged for John and Matthew to blow out the candles.

John grew up to be decently attractive, and rolled daredevil as his final trait.

Matthew aged up next.

The shirt/vest totally match the mullet. Matthew is straight out of the ‘80s. He rolled frugal as his final trait.

Matthew moved in with Lora Alvi (Christopher’s niece or something) and Lora’s mother, and immediately got married.

John moved into the Greenfield house… er, mansion… but is still just friends with Kenyatta.

The next day, when Traci invited the next-ranked-chess-champion over, Mark showed up on the doorstep. I guess he’s progressed his logic skills a lot in the 5 days since he moved out. And look who he brought with him, and new baby girl named Margie! Girls ARE possible in this game!

Mark deposited her on the floor, but Luke was quick to swoop in and hog the baby for quite some time.

Traci, of course, beat Mark and he went crawling home with his baby.

As soon as Mark left, Traci went into labor.

Traci: “Luke, stop yawning! Can’t you see I’m in labor here?!”

What’s this basket I spy? And why is she not holding a baby? Tune in next time to find out! Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it! Look for a new chapter in a couple days or so.

As for the spares, Matthew veggies out in front of the television…

Chapter 4

Hey everyone, welcome back! When we last left off, Elysia had gone into labor with her fifth child.

Elysia rushed off to the hospital. She ran by the entire Bakshi family, and they were all so shocked at the sight of a woman in labor that they stood screaming and yelling outside of the hospital door.

Soon enough, Elysia brought home yet another baby boy, Matthew.  He was born with the heavy sleeper trait locked in and rolled couch potato as his second trait. His favorite music is custom, food is stu surprise, and his favorite color is aqua.

Is it just me or is Elysia picking up a few wrinkles?

Everyone was so preoccupied with Matthew’s birth that John’s birthday went unnoticed.  He’s very… bald. I still don’t see any differences in the face from the other babies but oh well.

Gage felt bad that Paul was being neglected, what with all the other babies in the house, so he took him out fishing late one night. From that moment on, Paul was hooked. (Yes, that pun was intended).

Luke was feeling a little neglected as well, so he took a classmate out for a little late-night visit to the art gallery.

Luke was feeling a little neglected as well, so he took a classmate out for a little late-night visit to the art gallery.

Mark, the adorable albeit evil little munchkin, was completely oblivious to the goings-on of the household.

With two toddlers and a baby in the house, no one was able to get a full night’s rest. Maybe that’s where all of Elysia’s wrinkles are coming from.

Every wink of sleep Elysia could get was truly treasured.

One night, Elysia woke up from some much-needed sleep to celebrate her birthday.

With that, Elysia sprouted a few more wrinkles.

Paul had continued to go out and fish in his every free moment, and eventually caught his first fish: a minnow. He bought an aquarium and put the minnow in it, naming it Korey.

Soon, it was Mark’s birthday. I honestly can’t believe I made it to this point; all the juggling and screaming was driving me insane.

He looks VERY different from Luke and Paul. No common features whatsoever. He rolled genius as his third trait.

Matthew grew up as well. He’s a very cute toddler, I like his eyes.

Mark immediately ran to play with the toys. He seemed to enjoy playing with the cars and trucks, and made them crash. Probably because of the evil trait.

When it was time for bed, Mark when off to get some “evil slumber” and changed into his formalwear. I’m thoroughly enjoying the insane/evil traits right about now.

Mark’s first day of school, he went in his underwear. I’m amazed he didn’t get kicked out!

He went over to a classmate’s house and struck up a heated conversation with her plant. I think he tried eating it as well.

Back at the home base, John had a little too much fun watching TV.

Luke began to work on his novels, since his Lifetime Wish is to become an illustrious author.  He invited Christopher over for some inspiration only to find she’d grown to a young adult.

All of a sudden, Luke realized it was time for him to age into a young adult as well.

Luke grew up into a very handsome adult. He looks so much like his dad, except for his mom’s hair. Luke’s fifth and final trait was rolled as Lucky. To sum up his traits, they’re Excitable, Brave, Artistic, Mooch, and Lucky.

Since Luke was back on the same age level as Christopher, he promptly proceeded to make out with her and finally broke his writer’s block. He began a sci-fi novel called “The Purple Hippo With Balloon Lips”.

Luke spent the next few days completing his inspired novel. He spent no time whatsoever with the family.

Mark found Luke’s disconnection from the family very amusing. He cackled and pointed at Luke as much as possible.

Back on the baby side of life, Gage spent as much time as possible with the kids. They’re growing up fast, after all. Just not fast enough for me.

Paul’s birthday came up and Elysia invited all the females of her acquaintance.

One of the invites was this teen, Chastity La Brae.  She and Paul had already built up a little bit of a relationship at school and he couldn’t bear to age up without her present.

When Paul went to blow out the candles, he set the whole counter on fire. Look at that innocent face.

Luke got right on top of things and put out the fire, all on his own. I blame the Brave trait.

Unfazed by the flames, Luke did his best to get the party back on track.

Paul grew up into a decent-looking teen. Now you can tell that there’s a definite difference between him and Luke. They have different eyes, mouths and noses, let alone different hair color. He rolled loves the outdoors as his fourth trait.

Paul went off and changed his hair style to something slightly more attractive.

While Paul’s back was turned, his best friend Jeff went and moved in on his woman.

Paul celebrated his birthday by fishing, as per his character.

He caught many lovely fish…

… and took them home as pets. The same day, he rolled the Lifetime Wish to develop the Perfect Aquarium.

Unfortunately, Paul stayed out a little too late fishing and got picked up by the cops.

Gage was pretty upset with him.

Gage: “What were you thinking? I never should have taken you out fishing that day, you can’t think of anything else!”
Paul: “I can too think of things other than fishing, I’ll show you!”

Paul meant what he said, and decided to make it his prerogative to acquire a girlfriend.

Paul thought and thought and thought, but couldn’t figure out how to just conjure a girlfriend out of thin air.

While Paul was thinking, John got just a little bit older. His birthday finally arrived.

John grew into a cute little boy. He looks a lot like mark, especially in the eyes. His third trait is can’t stand art.

I’m already sick of the short fuzzy haircut, so John got a new one immediately. I figured this baseball cap was appropriate since John is athletic.

While the rest of the house has been living out their lives, Luke has been living art. He does nothing other than paint and write novels. In fact, his relationship with Christopher has suffered greatly.

One day, Hank called Paul and invited him out to the park. Paul figured it would be a good opportunity to meet girls.

The only one he met was Traci Wilkinson, a girl he’d talked to a couple times in elementary school. It appears she’d grown into a slightly attractive adult. For some reason I like how her hair is so blonde it’s almost white. It’s different than all the brunettes in the city.

Paul didn’t even try with Traci, and ended up spending the night making funny faces while fishing.

Paul went home and told Luke about his run-in with Traci, so Luke decided to call her up and invite her to the art gallery. He’d known her in school as well.

They became friends pretty quickly and Luke worked all his best moves on her.
Luke: “Traci, you’re so pretty that if you were a picture you’d be a tropical sunset.”

Luke was so excited about his new blossoming romance, he had to run home and tell someone. That someone happened to be John.
Luke: “John, I know you’re a little boy and you wouldn’t understand but I’m so excited right now!”

Luke was so excited about his new blossoming romance, he had to run home and tell someone. That someone happened to be John.
Luke: “John, I know you’re a little boy and you wouldn’t understand but I’m so excited right now!”

Luke couldn’t keep away from Traci for more than a few hours. Their relationship progressed quickly.

He shyly asked her to go steady. She most definitely agreed, I mean how could you resist this face?

Matthew, probably the most neglected child ever born, finally had his birthday.

He grew up into a happy-looking child, with slob as his third trait.

Mark had his birthday as well.

His evil eyebrows suit him. He rolled Inappropriate as his fourth trait.

Mark, being the evil genius he is, wanted to learn the intricacies of chess right away. I set him to it and after only a couple hours as a teen, he rolled the lifetime wish to become the Emperor of Evil. I accepted it for him.

With all the toddlers grown and able to care for themselves, Elysia and Gage decided to rekindle their relationship. Apparently Traci found the sight of elder romance intriguing.

The next morning, all the kids went off to school and for the first time in four weeks the house was quiet.

A little too quiet for Elysia’s taste. She couldn’t wait for the kids to come home from school and welcomed them warmly.

Although Matthew had been neglected as a toddler, he knew he was loved.

One evening, as Gage was leaving work, his end arrived.

He turned into a ghost…

… and the grim reaper arrived.

Gage passed away outside the science lab, with no one to witness his death.
Epitaph: Gage was married to Elysia as a last-resort. He fathered three children and helped to raise two more. He lived a quiet life, and never fulfilled his dream to become a robot cross-breeder.  Gage lived to be 99 years old. He probably won’t be missed very much, as he really didn’t do anything.

After Elysia found out Gage had passed away, she invited Hank over to console her.

Everyone in the house was pretty distraught.

Elysia smothered her grief by finally letting Hank know how she’d felt about him since she first moved in to the city. That’s right folks, Elysia and Hank shared their first non-cuddling kiss ever! And you know what that means? Hank is finally Elysia’s romantic interest!

Elysia weighed her new-found freedom and decided there was no time to waste. She promptly proposed to Hank. He accepted.

Paul couldn’t understand how his mother could get over Gage’s death so quickly. Gage was the only father he’d ever known, really. He ran into Chastity’s comforting arms.

Luke decided he needed some comforting as well. He invited Traci over, and she came in her best funeral-wear.

Elysia and Hank were so happy that fate had finally brought them together. They couldn’t wait any longer to finally get married.

They exchanged rings on the front lawn, right where they had shared their first kiss and where Elysia proposed.

Luke was so inspired by his parent’s nuptials, he proposed to Traci right then and there. She, too, accepted. Apparently everyone wants to marry into the Haight family.

The whole neighborhood rejoiced in the marriage. They even littered the living room with rice.

Later that night, I went out and found Gage’s tombstone. I placed it in the back yard so he could forever be with his family.

Even though Elysia was happy to finally be with Hank, she still missed Gage. He was the father of three of her children, after all.

Elysia and Hank were oblivious to anything but each other, so the kids had to entertain themselves. John did this by spending time at the gym.

He was probably the most athletic person there.

Hank did his best to get to know his children and step-children. Mark didn’t really want any part of it, though.

On the third night after Gage’s death, he came out to haunt.

I was expecting something a little more ghostly, though. All Gage did was play on the computer…

… and fall asleep. Paul found this utterly disgusting.

The days flew by and John’s birthday came up.

He grew up into a wide-eyed teen with childish as his fourth trait.

He needed a new hair cut, and since teens are lacking in the hat department he went with the good old buzz cut. The hair makes him look even more like Gage.

Since John has the childish trait, he can still play with toys. I find this highly amusing (as does he, apparently).

Now that John’s a teen, he’s able to go jogging. He spent the entire weekend jogging and getting buff.

Hank and Elysia remain oblivious to anything going on in the house. Matthew remains neglected and spends all his time watching TV.

Elysia is utterly happy and fulfilled. She needs nothing more than for Matthew to grow up; then, her life will be complete.

While all this has been going on, Luke has been trying to complete his lifetime wish. Only a few more points, and he will be an illustrious author.

On the day of Matthew’s birthday, Elysia was so excited she waited outside for the school bus to come home.

Only a small family gathering witnessed the last child of the second generation grow into a teen.

He grew up with very… special… hair and a little tummy. He rolled coward as his fourth trait.

Matthew needed a haircut, and I decided a mullet would be perfect for a cowardly, heavy-sleeping, couch-potato, slob. He looks so insanely creepy but I like it.

With all the kids grown, it’s time to pick the heir! And you, my lovely readers, will be the ones to choose! Will it be Luke, the Excitable, Brave, Artistic, Lucky Mooch with the lifetime wish to be an illustrious author?

Or will it be Paul, the Absent-Minded, Never-Nude, Outdoors-loving Loner with the lifetime wish to acquire the perfect aquarium?

What about Mark, the Insane, Evil, Inappropriate Genius with the lifetime wish to become the Emperor of Evil?

Or John, the Athletic, Art-hating, Childish Genius with no lifetime wish as of yet?

Last but not least, Matthew, the Cowardly, Heavy-sleeping, Couch Potato Slob with no lifetime wish yet?

Well that’s all folks! Head over to http://www.forums.boolprop.com/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=40358&p=1089354#p1089354 to vote for the heir! Thanks for reading, and check back next week for an update and the results of the heir poll!