Cavanaugh Family

Generation 4 - Chapter 13

2007-09-13T20:31:00.000-05:00

Remember last chapter how I sent Payton and Maura to mourn in the mausoleum? Didn't help. In fact, I think it made things worse. Yep, big mistake having them step foot in that place. I give up. Since we had all those birthdays and managed to keep everyone alive, here's another family portrait. Who's getting tired of these family portraits? Everyone? Too bad...ha! Welcome to the family, Jaq. You're not really part of the family until you've been scared by a ghost, so congratulations. By the way, you look really good without the hat! First order of business for Hayden is the potty training. Good job, Clay. Good to see senility hasn't set in! Here we have Cadence greeting Stephen Vu. Not bad, Cadence, not bad! He has some potential. Especially for a guy just walking by the house. We'll keep him in mind for the future, after you graduate college, of course. Wait a minute, we don't have a teenager in the house. Who is this? Oh wait, that's Taylor. I missed his birthday, but doesn't he look handsome? And just like all the Cavanaugh 4th generation kids in front of him, he hightailed it to the phone and called to get his acceptance to college. See ya, Taylor. We'll be visiting you in college! All I can say is it's a good thing we got that first painting out of the way because if Marisa had her way, Clay would be joining her! These ghosts are relentless! Seriously, I'm lucky I haven't had anyone die yet! Hayden's getting the daddy treatment. Clay has taugh this kid to potty and to walk. We don't need him to talk though. He's fine just walking around. Teaching him to talk just causes more noise in the house. And the time has come for Jaq to officially join the family. Draco and Jaq take a moment to exchange vows in the backyard as couples in the house have before them. They exchange rings. And this is also about the time I started to freak out because I couldn't remember who got to the arch first and wasn't sure if Draco would be taking Jaq's name. Lucky for me, though, Draco had gotten to the arch first and as they offically become husband and wife, I discover that Jaq is now Jaqueline Cavanaugh. Whew! "Congratulations on growing up!" Yes, Jaqueline, congratulations on growing up and getting married. Normally, I would think that was an odd thing to say right after getting married, but he is a Cavanaugh, after all. Ok, seriously! Keep this up and I'm getting rid of you! And to think I liked you, Remington. And finally, Payton, the kid the ghosts loved the most, is turning into a teen and he can finally leave the house! And as we end this chapter, we take a look at Payton as a teen and we count our blessings that there will be one less person in the house because it was getting really crowded and we need to get Generation 5 going!

Generation 4 - Chapter 12

2007-09-13T20:07:00.000-05:00

In our last chapter, Generation 4 heir, Draco, returned home from college and invited his college sweetheart-turned-fiancee, Jaqueline, to move in and be part of the family. She accepted and became an adult in front of our very eyes, but refused to remove the hat. After Draco returned home, the family decided they needed to make a change. They decided they needed to mourn the dead. The ghost situation was getting out of hand and they didn't want to continue the tradition of the ghosts welcoming the young members of the family to childhood. Payton and Maura were both elected to go into the mausoleum and focus on the members of the family who haunted the most and were the meanest. I admit that Leilani wasn't too bad, but no time like the present to try and prevent the meanness from emerging. What's with the face, Payton? Ok, yeah, why don't you try dancing with each other to lighten the mood. I believe I sent you both out there to mourn, not have fun. As we leave the mausoleum and leave Maura and Payton to their good time, we notice that Jaq is changing her first diaper. Not too bad for the first time. Hey, Jaq, I think I figured out why you were asked to move in. The family needed a designated babysitter. *snicker* I know Draco doesn't have the best profile and some of you even wince at the sight, but I don't care. I love Draco and he will always be perfect to me. Looks like Jaq kinda likes him, too! And, since Jaq has moved in, no time like the present to drag everyone out and get that picture taken. It's about time, I'd say. They couldn't wait for Draco to change after coming home from college. And here we have the babysitter with the other youngin' in the house. I think you better get used to this. Especially since you'll be expected to pop out at least one kid to keep the family line going. Maura and Clay's life bars were getting pretty far along, so before it was too late, I had one of the people in the house, I think Draco, paint the Couple portrait to be displayed above one of their two urns when the time comes for them to depart this world. And, of course, because these two are so much in love, they couldn't resist some cuddle time. I had another person in the house capture this moment, so they'll have this bit of love in still life for all time. Well, it looks like Draco got the joy of painting the cuddle picture. And he also maxed his creativity! Congrats, Draco! Hey, look, it's time for a glitchy shot. Draco is cooking a meal in the middle of the kitchen, without the aid of a counter in front of him. He's so talented! Talk about a busy day! Can you see what we have in this picture? If you look on the counters, you'll see we have four cakes. Yep, I said four! Up first, Clay turns Elder. I guess we got that picture taken just in time! Up second and third, we have Hayden and Maura. And the fourth birthday belongs to Cadence. Sorry kid, I didn't get the before photo. Too much going on and I couldn't keep up! Draco had the pleasure of poofing Hayden into toddlerhood since Maura and Clay were busy getting old. There's no mistaking this kid as a Cavanaugh! Red hair, green eyes....yawn. Clay, you look pretty handsome as an old guy! Even though I gave you that hair as a teenager to hide that jaw, it fits you as an old man, too. And, finally, Maura becomes old. I think we lucked out for these birthdays. Everyone looks okay, clothes aren't horrible and everyone aged well. Stay tuned. There might be a wedding next chapter!

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Generation 4 - Chapter 11

2007-08-23T10:22:00.000-05:00

Remember that crazy, nothing happened chapter we just had? Well, more happens in this one. We'll start this one off with a birthday. It's Bailey's birthday! And doesn't she look cute with her new hair? Before blowing out her candles, she checks to make sure everyone is there for her transformation into teendom. Hey, Bailey and turned teen, but what's wrong with Maura? Before we find out, doesn't Bailey look just like her mother? Even down to the hairstyle! Sorry to steal your thunder, Bailey, but it looks like a baby is coming. But you still look cute! As Bailey walks off with her slice of cake, the rest of the family's attention is on Maura and the upcoming arrival. And here's the new baby! Welcome baby Hayden! Such a cutie and basically another Maura clone. With the new baby, Maura has been forgotten and so, basically, has the baby. There's cake, how could you forget that?! Sorry, Maura, the cake was a better offer to the family. You're on your own. After the cake was devoured, Bailey made a phone call. Just who are you calling, young lady? Legacy's home for the insane? I mean, come on. Your father whips out a pillow in celebration of the new family member. So with that, Bailey is off to college. And as you can see, nobody saw her off. I think, actually, Payton remembered and he waved at her from the front door. But everyone else was busy having a pillow fight. And with one less mouth to feed, Maura decides to pull out a whole lobster to cook for herself. I should have someone suck out her cooking skills. Thanks for wasting food. And for anyone wondering, we have a shot or two of Bailey headed to college. This is her after her transition to young adult. And after her makeover. We may visit her again to see if we can accomplish Maura's LTW. Oh, and one last shot of her jamming with Draco's fiance. That girl loves the instruments! As Bailey headed off to college, Draco returned from his college stint and a fancy college diploma. Before he even thought about changing his clothes, he was dragged to have the family protrait done. Hey, what do we have here? A former firefighter starting a fire. Oh, Maura, what am I going to do with this family? But I did manage to find a really cute firefighter named Alec I could hook up with someone in the house. Too bad I only have the male's be heirs because I would love for his gene pool to merge with this house. After the fire, it was back to business. Maura taught Cadence to walk as she was all glowy from the smart milk. And Clay met his soon-to-be daughter-in-law, Jaqueline, as she stopped by when Draco beckoned her over. Of course the kissing room is the setting of Draco's affection and lure of bringing Jaq into the house. A little bit of flirting should do the trick. And it worked! Jaq is now part of the family and one step closer to being married into the family. And as she transitions from young adult to college graduate, let's reflect on Draco's impending nuptuals. *sigh* Eh, not sure how I feel about the hat as an adult. We'll try it and see, but Jaq is now part of the household and she's also a bonus because she can babysit! Stay tuned for the next chapter with possibly a wedding and maybe even a birth!

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Generation 4 - Chapter 10

2007-08-23T09:51:00.000-05:00

This chapter brings us back to the main house and we can find out how the family coped while Draco was away at college. We start off this chapter with what else, but a family picture. Now that Lahela has moved out and Draco went off to college, the family headed out and had another photo taken. Current child count for Maura is 5 kids. Will she make it to 10? What's with the face, Maura? "I don't know. I feel kinda funny." Huh, I wonder what it is. Well, I guess we figured that out, didn't we? "Rats, another one? Didn't I just have one?" I thought you wanted 10? Well, either way, another one is on the way. It's not often Clay and Maura get some time alone for a meal, but here they are. I'm not sure where everyone is considering the house is a zoo and all. But, since Maura is busy being the baby factory, she needs to keep up her strength and she had a yearning for grilled cheese, so Clay cooked some up for her. An accomplishment that day for Payton was learning how to walk courtesy of Clay. And just in time, too, it looks like, because that night was a birthday! A birthday for who? For Payton. He became a child and apparantly it wasn't important enough to get a before shot. Poor Payton, the forgotten child. This is Payton, right? I just wanted to make sure because I have very few pictures of him. Oh, I see how it is. The cute itty bitty babies get the before shots in this house. Here we have a birthday for Cadence. This family is full of excitement, aren't they? If I didn't know any better, they were just statues! And here's Cadence as a toddler. She's just like all the others. I don't really think there's a point in rolling the pacifier. Maura just keeps passing those genes along. I know, Maura. You potty train one, you potty train them all. But think of it this way, you don't have many more to train. You have this one and the one you're carrying and your lifeline is getting pretty out there, so I don't know if you'll make it to ten. "Good! I know I said I wanted that many, but now I'm rethinking that." Maybe you should have thought of this before, oh, I don't know, having six kids. As I'm busy grumbling at Maura, who should get Happy Birthday'd, but Payton by Tony. Welcome to childhood, kid. And look who it is, it's our founder and his wife. They love being out together. Hey, Payton and Taylor, I know you like playing games and stuff, but I think you should be careful where you play. Taylor is defying the laws of science and actually inside the table. You know, I was going to not post this picture, but it's tradition. Payton and Cadence have celebrated birthdays, so the parental unit has decided to take another picture. Alright, who's ready for a makeover? First up is Payton. Now here is Taylor. And finally, Bailey. Maybe now I can tell the two boys apart. Hey Taylor, go easy on your sister. You don't want to smash her face in with the pillow. Anyway, that's it for this chapter! Stay tuned for more family oddness!

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Generation 4 - Lahela Went to College

2007-08-23T09:13:00.000-05:00

Alright, this chapter is for those of you who wondered what the heck happened to Lahela. No, she didn't get shipped off to college and forgotten. That's the job of the younger kids who were born later. I just forgot to blog her. But, yes, I sent Lahela to college and she went before Draco. So here we go. Here we have Lahela in her professionally taken "Just came to college" picture. Posterity, you know? As Lahela entered college, she didn't change much from when she was just a teenager. Her clothes are similar and she didn't change her hair, but she was different because she was out of the house and officially on her own because she wasn't going back after graduation. This was it. She was in charge of herself from here on out. I know I mentioned it before in passing, but I don't remember now. She chose her major as soon as she came to college and it was something like Drama or Econ, or something...I can't remember. But does it matter? She's not the heir, so she can do what she wants. And so, apparantly, can this chick. Lahela is minding her own business taking a shower and she's being watched. Can we say creepy? Lahela has been making a lot of friends in her quest to find the love of her life. Here she is dancing with some random guy and at least I can say one thing, she's a better dancer than her brother! But, what's with the face? Before class, you can find her spying on bushes and flowers. Like I said, I let her do what she wants. And if that's what she wants, then so be it. She also had the urge to go downtown and earn some money. Here she is seen serving coffee to various people. And I think she has found the one. And you know what's sad? I don't remember this guy's name. It's Rick or Brian or Mike or something. Someone help me with the name? While I struggle with the name and until I get back to the game and play them to find out, I'll call him Mike. Here we find Lahela developing a crush on Mike. And then she serenades him. Doesn't he look like a shy little school girl? Does this girl ever go to class? Now they're kissing under the light of the moon. Get a room or something! Oh, I see what she was doing...she wants something from him. She's just flattering him. And this is why the girl doesn't need to go to class. She just influenced her own boyfriend to do her term paper. Shameless! Well, after spending all that time getting all stinky writing that paper, I would hope that he gets something in return. They have fallen in love with each other. Awww. Seriously, why can't I remember his name?! Well, look what we have here...what am I calling him? Mike? Looks as if Mike is in his underwear and they just got engaged! Just what were they doing prior to this...hmmm? As Lahela and Mike are discussing possibly their future and when the wedding will be and all that fun stuff, who should show up but the Secret Society people. Sadly, with all the people I have put through college, Lahela is the first I have gotten into the Secret Society. "Wait, you're acting weird. What are you doing?" Lahela, don't sweat it. Just go with it. You might do this someday. "I won't become a clone like these people, will I?" Oh, do you mean that black blazer? Yeah, if you want. But you don't have to if you don't want to. But you can do a cool handshake with the people who wear the blazer! Upon one of her many trips to campus facilities, she runs into a fellow secret society member and proceeds to do their "secret" handshake. Come on, Lahela, you know you want to wear the blazer... But before she was able to don the blazer, Lahela graduated from college with a 4.0 and a ticket back home. After returning home, she gave herself a makeover and I'm not sure if I'm too hot on the blush, but she looks kinda cute, so I'll keep it. She also got a snazzy looking house. Although, don't ask me about that green strip because something funky happened during the building process of it and that strip takes on the color of the inside. Oh well, like I said, she's not the heir, so she can do what she wants. Speaking of, look who just moved in! College boy came over and she popped the big move in question. And he grew up to look like that? Yeah, let's get to a mirror and take off that bandana. There we go, that looks better. Here's Mike, post make over. He turned out cuter than I thought he would! That night, in their bedroom, they decide to get married then and there. Even though she's not the heir, I'm happy for her and I do like her. I'm glad she hooked up with what's his name. There now. Lahela is now married and check one off for Maura's LTW of marrying off 6 kids. I guess that means I have to play 5 more of her kids. Ugh. But hey, Lahela is happy and she is now Mrs. What's his name. And after the ceremony, they wanted privacy, but I do believe I heard the chimes of an upcoming baby. Stay tuned, I may come back with more of Lahela and College Boy.

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Generation 4 - Draco Goes to College

2007-08-19T14:09:00.000-05:00

If you remember, at the end of the last chapter, Draco hightailed it out of there and headed off to college. And as it turns out, Draco is the first of the Cavanaugh heirs to go to college. And because, he is on his own for the next 4 years, he keeps with family tradition and heads out first to get his picture taken. Um, hey Draco, ew. I'm not liking the outfit much. But here we have Draco as a college student! One of the first people Draco met was this girl, Jaqueline. They were in the same dorm where she stayed on the first floor and he was on the second. College life in the dorms was always fun. Always something going on, such as right now. Here we have a pillow fight going on. But wait, neither one of those guys in Draco. Where's Draco? Yep. Seriously. While everyone is inside having fun, he is weeding and watering the flowers. Draco, you're such a nerd! Awww, this is actually what convinced me they were made for each other. Draco had just finished a meal, when he, on his own, went into Jaqueline's room and flirted with her. Upon his flirting, they both developed crushes on each other. I didn't take a picture of his flirt because it happened so fast and by the time I realized what he was doing, I was preparing for Jaqueline to make him cry. There is something about the cafeteria worker. All the guys who passed her would swoon, just as Draco is doing now. I didn't take a close up of her, but from what I can tell in this picture, she's old and...wait, I don't need a second point to that. She's an old lady who works in the dorms and the guys are swooning over her. *shudders* Nothing like falling in love in the dining room. Yep, our Draco has fallen in love. What comes after falling in love? A pillow fight of course! Did you ever see that episode of the Simpsons when Homer went back to college? He was driving down the street and sees nerds walking down the sidewalk, so he sticks his head out of the window and screams "Nerds!" That's what I feel like doing now. Of all the things these two could be doing, they are studying instead. Just like his great-great grandfather. He's looking out the window at something that is not even there. Um, Draco, you call that dancing? Please don't do that again...please. Draco takes a moment from studying and cleaning to focus on Jaqueline and flirt a little. Hey, why don't you pay attention to your girlfriend as she's falling in love with you instead of checking out the cafeteria worker? Ugh. And since Jaqueline has fallen in love, Draco took the opportunity to try for their first kiss. With everything that has happened to them in the dining room of the dorm, they will always have fond memories of that room. Especially now since he's proposing in the same place they fell in love and had their first kiss. Well, I would say only if she says yes, but if she says no, I'm sure he wouldn't forget that either. But these two are meant for each other, so of course she accepted. Our little Draco is now officially all grown up with a fiance. *sigh* Draco is such the good student that he even suited up for the old coach. Only at college can you dance to the music played by a cow. I thought I told you never to dance ever again. We have come to the conclusion of Draco's college career and upon graduating from college, he plants a big wet one on his fiance. Oh, and he also does some celebratory streaking. You can't leave college unless you've streaked at least once, right? Oh, ew. That's what you want to go out in the real world looking like? Get thee to a clothing store, stat!

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Generation 4 - Chapter 8

2007-08-19T13:42:00.000-05:00

Welcome back! When we left off, Leilani did something right and scared a person who wanted to be scared, while Remington the ghostly maid, well, didn't and baby Payton was born! And speaking of Payton... it's birthday time! And of course, Lahela, the only person to remember that Payton exists, was the one to do the birthday. It's a boy! Yep, Payton is a boy with red hair and green eyes. I'm almost kind of sorry that Draco didn't get the red hair and green eyes. *Sigh* You know, Lahela tries to help the family out, and how does she get re-paid? Lucy scares Lahela out of sleep and also manages to take away some aspiration points. No wonder why nobody liked you, Lucy. Not long after getting Lahela, she gets Draco! What is it with you ghosts?!? I think the ghosts plan this. They tag team each other. That same night, not long after Lucy got Draco, Remington got him! How anyone manages to survive in this house is beyond me. The next morning, Lahela was thinking the same thing I was. It's time for her to escape this crazy house and head off to college and start her life. Um, Lahela, I think you're forgetting something. Your clothes, perhaps. Or is this going to be a family thing since one of your aunts, or great aunts, or whatever, went to all of her classes in her underwear? Oops, looks like I forgot another birthday. Draco managed to sneak in a transition when I wasn't ready. Today, he became a teenager. What did he roll? I believe it was Knowledge and his lifetime want was something to do with the Criminal career track. I didn't write it down because I thought I would remember. Oops. And hey, look, it's Taylor's birthday too! Let's watch as he becomes a child. Nothing new. Red hair, green eyes, blah blah blah. Is it the bedroom, is it Bailey? What's the deal? Lucy surprises us all and sneaks in a scare. Maura, what is it? Why are you up? Oh! Hey, it's another baby! This time, here comes baby #5. Doesn't look like Clay will be here for this one. He's off in dream land dreaming of construction workers. And baby #5 is Cadence. You know, you're not going to reach 10 kids if you keep shooting out singles, Maura. Now that Lahela is off at college, Draco became a teen, Taylor grew up and Cadence was born, the family decided to head out and take another picture. Wait. What? Draco's going to college now? Who is going to help out now?! And it looks like the only person who cares is the only person in the house not related to him. Bye, Draco. See you at college! This what I love about Bailey. She's so social. She's always going up to someone asking them to dance or read to her or even going up to the baby and talking to Cadence. Should have known this was coming. It's pretty much a rite of passage now. Anytime you have a birthday from toddler to child, you are greeted by a ghost. Sorry, Taylor. Do you see that? Three ghosts are out tonight. In this picture, we have Remington on the far left, Brady in the background on the right and Tony on the right closest to us. Poor Taylor. Remington is stalking him. Get used to it, kid. The ghosts are mean!

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Generation 4 - Chapter 7

2007-08-19T13:17:00.000-05:00

At the end of the last chapter, Maura had just given birth to baby Payton, who I mistakenly called the fifth born child for Maura, but was in actuality, her fourth child. My bad, I forgot Draco was the product of Clay and a Poly Tech. But since there is a new baby in the family, I will start this update with an updated family picture. The family is glad to have Lahela in the house because she helps out a lot with all the little ones, but in the back of their minds, they know she will soon be leaving for college. After the birth of Payton, another male in the house heard the goings on and came running. Hey, Clay, you've been through a lot. Why don't you lay down on the bed and relax a bit. I'm sure Maura will understand if you need to take a breather. *shakes head* While Maura and Clay were recovering from the birth of Payton, it's time for yet another birthday. This time, we have Bailey turning into a child with the help of Lahela. And here we have our first look of Bailey as a child. After the birthday celebration, Maura and Clay get down to the baby making, and they seem completely unaware that they have company. Ew. If my dead mother ever comes around when I'm in the middle of something like that, please don't ever tell me. While her parents were getting down to business, Lahela takes it upon herself to potty train Taylor. And as Lahela is working with Taylor, Lucy passes by on her almost nightly rounds. Lahela, Taylor, say hi to your grandmother, although I'm sure if you haven't already been scared by her, you will soon. Happy birthday, Bailey! This is your grandmother and I'm sorry to say that she is most likely angry because your father was not the nicest person to her and she died a sad lonely woman. Looks like Clay had some left over energy after going a round or two with Maura. I hadn't seen anyone in the family do this yet, but I'm so glad that the playfulness has remained in the family. Since the time was coming for Lahela to go off to college, she decided to give herself a makeover so she wouldn't look so much like a child when she moved to the dorms. It doesn't look like she hates it. More family playfulness. Bailey and an underwear clad Maura dancing in the kitchen. And as Maura and Bailey were sharing an odd family moment, Lahela finished the rest of her makeover. She started with her hair and went into the bedroom to take care of her clothes. And in the midst of all the chaos, we have Draco doing his favorite activity. He is happy as a clam whenever he is cleaning since he has full cleaning skills. You would think that one of the parents would be cleaning while the kids have fun, but in this family, nothing is what you would imagine. And Lahela? Just chilling out at the guitar looking for some tips so she could have some spending money while she is away. With Bailey's birthday and Lahela's makeover, the family headed off to get their picture taken again. With all the changes that go on, they will have to take a lot of pictures! Do the adults in this house ever wear clothes? And here we have the mandatory shot of Clay teaching Taylor to walk. I guess it's true. The more kids you have, the less pictures you take. Payton has been somewhat forgotten and has been left in the crib unless it's feeding or changing time, but lucky for us, Lahela has remembered the baby. And no matter how many kids they have and are taking care of, Clay and Maura will always have time for each other. Right now, they are taking the time for a dance in the living room. Finally! Finally a ghost gets it right and scares the person who wants to be scared. For some reason all the ghosts stay away from Clay and get all the kids. Just when I was praising a ghost, Remington goes and scares Lahela. What did I just say? Stop scaring the kids! Tune in for the next chapter where I sure we will have more ghost sightings and most likely another birth from the baby factory.

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Generation 4 - Chapter 6

2007-07-30T11:30:00.000-05:00

At the end of the last chapter, we had some nerdy family bonding time at the telescopes, training by Clay, and a baby named Taylor was born. We start this chapter with some bonding and cooking in the bathroom. After deciding he wanted some mac and cheese, Clay decided to take the preparations into the bathroom as Maura was doing her business. Raise your hand if you want that batch of mac and cheese. Lahela and Draco didn't seem to mind that this is a special batch of mac and cheese. As they ate, they discussed the ghost problem they have. Ghosts have been coming out quite often and scaring constantly. There's only so much a person can take! Maura arrived home from work on a rare day when she wasn't pregnant, but that is about to change... Yep, there we go. Another vacation for Maura. Child #5 is on the way. I think this might have been done purely by Clay. But either way, Clay knows it must be hard on Maura to pop out kids left and right and he wanted to show his appreciation to his wife. With all these kids, there is always a birthday. Today is no exception. Lahela becomes a teen today. As Lahela is transforming, I catch Maura congratulating Clay and Clay swooning over his wife. These people get distracted so easily. I'm not sure if I like the look, but she's cute. This would be Lahela, pre-makeover. Lehela rolled the Fortune aspiration and her lifetime want is...wait I know this. When she went to college, she was a Drama major...I can't remember what her lifetime want is, but she rolled Fortune. Oh yeah, it has something to do with Sports, whatever that LTW is. Anyway, with Lahela's birthday, the family updated their family portrait. After the party, they wanted to settle down a little, so Clay and Lahela choose to spend some time with Bailey and play with her for a while. Of course, Clay takes the opportunity to explain where Draco came from and why he looks different than the rest of the family. After the bonding time with Lahela and Clay, Maura had her turn with Bailey and gave her a bath. After the bath, Maura finally took the reigns and did a little training for Bailey. Bailey has had a busy night! And so Clay got the credit because he had the want, the finishing touches for Bailey learning to walk went to him. With a house so full of people, it's easy for someone to get forgotten. Lahela was the only person to remember that it was Taylor's birthday, so she helped him into Toddlerhood. It's nice to have a teen in the house because, hey, free babysitter! The ghosts are out. I don't even remember which ghost this is, but I'm willing to bet it was Leilani. During the commotion of the evening and the ghosts, Draco, Lahela and Clay managed to get a meal together and sat down to eat. Draco, unaware of the family's love of starting fires while cooking, got the low down from Lahela. Taylor, in all his new toddlerness, starts working on his speaking skills. His first word is bear, and good thing, too, because there are two of them in the backyard somewhere. I don't remember the last time Maura had a full night's sleep. She's always waking up to ghosts or labor pains, such as now, or to a baby crying. So now she's waking up to give birth to baby #5. And what is this? Someone is actually aware of what is going on and comes running?? This is not a typical reaction, and I'm pleasantly surprised! Now we welcome baby Payton. Payton is baby #5 and that puts Maura half way to 10 kids. Will she make it? By the way, do you notice after Draco was born, all the kids have been given ambiguous names? Bailey, Taylor, Payton...you don't really know what they are until they become toddlers.

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Generation 4 - Chapter 5

2007-07-30T08:19:00.000-05:00

If you remember the last chapter, Maura just had a baby and I couldn't remember anything about it. Well, good news! The third child born to Clay and Maura is a girl and they named her Bailey. So, to recap, they have three kids - Lahela, Draco and Bailey. After the birth of Bailey and all the excitement, Clay went out to collect his thoughts and stare at the stars for a while. It wasn't long before the ghost of Leilani popped up in front of him and surprised him. He may have acted scared, but Clay secretly loved it. Meanwhile, the next morning, Maura wakes up to that same funny feeling and the bump of child #4 appears. She's always wanted 10 kids, so she's almost half way there. Lahela was growing up and playing with friends she brought home from school. What is she doing; pulling a quarter out from behind her ear? And isn't this the same kid that Leilani was friends with when she was still in school? There are just not enough kids in this town. And now we watch Draco become a child...here's to hoping his toddler years were the awkward alien years and he gets better with age. But first, Clay wants to make sure everyone is there for the event. And, awww, look at Maura and her bump. Draco grew up well, of course. And, if you notice the profile, still no nose. When will this family catch a break?! Look how cute he is, though! And trust me, he does get cuter. In gameplay, I've got him in college and he is one of the cutest aliens I've seen. That might also be because he's a Cavanaugh and I've got a soft spot for them. And while Draco digs into his ginormous piece of cake, we see Sophie, who constantly called Lahela while in college, holding onto her youth. And now we come to one of the last pictures of Maura with baby Bailey. Today is her birthday and she becomes a toddler, but not to worry because there is another bun in the oven. Have you ever noticed how pretty Maura is? And she keeps passing on the red hair and green eye gene to the kids. None of the kids so far look like Clay...well, except for the nose. Speaking of noses, this family is just cursed. Maura doesn't have a great nose either. But oh well, what can you do? So here we are, Maura and Bailey at the cake getting ready to be tossed into the air. And what a cutie she is! And look at that mouth! This family cracks me up. Marisa pops up and scares the crap out of Draco, while in the background, Clay and his typical "hey, how's it going?" greeting. I think I would have a different reaction if my kid was getting his pants scared off by the ghost of my grandmother. This is Clay we're talking about, though. And we all know what this means. The fourth Cavanaugh is on the way. And arriving into the family is baby Taylor. I know, I know, there already is a Taylor in the Cavanaugh's, but I forgot that when I picked the name. But this Taylor has red hair and green eyes and looks nothing like McKenna and Ashley's Taylor. With the addition of Taylor to the family, the Cavanaugh's decided to update their family potrait. On the ground, we have Bailey, Lahela and Draco. Behind them, we have Maura and Clay, who is holding Taylor. I realized we don't have many pictures of Clay and his kids, just Draco, so I thought I would snap a shot of Clay holding Taylor. And, if you notice, it's also my first picture taken with Snagit, and also my new computer! Speaking of pictures with Clay and his kids. I have to throw in the potty training picture. It seems Clay is doing all the potty training here. While Clay does the training, Maura is out front, in her underwear (just what have you been up to, missy?) reading to Lahela. And fresh off potty training and still glowing with smart milk, Clay has started teaching Bailey to talk. Clay is just Super Dad, isn't he? And to end the chapter, we have Maura, still in her underwear, and Lahela both stargazing after a round of book reading. This makes me think back to when Tony just died and the whole family sat around studying. They're all a bunch of nerds!

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Generation 4 - Chapter 4

2007-07-13T09:42:00.001-05:00

I know it's been a long while since my last post, but if we can go back a moment, let's reminisce. Lucy just kicked the bucket, much to the relief of practically everyone in the house because they hated her, except Lahela, who then grew up badly with the memory of her death. And Draco was born and named after the mean kid in Harry Potter. So let's get to it! After Lucy passed and Lahela celebrated the worst birthday ever, Lucy's urn was placed in the family's mausoleum with the others who have passed on before her. It's been so long, can someone remind me who the others in there are? Alright, on with the show. Hey, it's another birthday! This time, Clay has some bonding time with Draco before he blows out the candles. I just can't win with this family. Marissa passed down that horrible pointed nose that won't go away, and now Draco has absolutely no nose at all. Maybe now we'll have a happy medium. Yep, maybe if Clay throws the baby in the air and spins him a bit, his nose will pop out. We can only hope, right? He's got a face only a mother, or in this case, a father could love. Should I have warned you first? Let's hope these are his awkward years. So anyway, Draco has grown into a toddler and Clay loves him and it's possible he may grow on me, so we'll see how it goes. Where did the black hair come from, though?! While Clay was assisting Draco into toddlerhood, Lahela needed some help learning how to do her homework for the first time. Honestly, I think seeing Draco was a shock to the both of them and they ran away to distract themselves and keep busy. *Swoon* It's the wonderful father. Clay couldn't love his son any more than he already does and he doesn't waste anytime teaching him the basics. What is it with the men in this family? I love them all! I think it's a bit too early to start teaching him about death, don't you think, Clay? Meanwhile... Uh oh, another mouth is on the way! And just in time, I'd say. Gotta get the potty training done and out of the way now that there's another kid coming. You know, I don't know what he was cooking, but I'm not surprised. How many fires has this family had now? Maybe Clay was trying to reinact his first meeting with Maura. After two kids, with one on the way, maybe they were trying to find ways to keep the marriage alive. I love watching the parents teach toddlers how to walk. And this is no exception. And I'm thinking that while Draco is a toddler, he should stay in his pajamas because he is so much cuter that way. Aww, so cute! Clay really is a good father. Lucy, why do you come back? You know they all hated you and couldn't wait for you to die. Your son beat up on you, or thought about beating on you, daily. Poor girl. I know, we all miss you, though. Tugs at the heart strings, doesn't it? Hey Draco, that's Grandma! Remember her? She died when you were a baby and your parents have been forgetting to talk to you about her. One day we'll have a talk. What? Is it that time already? Hey, where's Clay? Hey, nice of you to mosey on over Clay while your wife is giving birth! I know it's your third, but it's kind of a miracle, you know. And what a cutie he/she is! Seriously, it's been so long since I played, that I have no idea if it was a girl or a boy, or even what I named it. I think it's a girl, though. So yeah, let's go with that. It's a girl. Wow, Maura sure looks ugly in profile, doesn't she? And happy, too. Woman just had a baby and she looks like she's about ready to commit murder. Thank goodness one of them is happy. Anyway, stay tuned for the next chapter where we get to find out the actual gender of the baby and maybe even a name! Woohoo! I'll try not to wait a year for my next post, either. =)

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Generation 4 - Chapter 3

2006-02-05T18:12:00.000-05:00

Last we left off, Clay just gave birth to the family's first alien baby, the new heir, Draco. Lucy has attached herself to Draco now hoping to get another ally in the house. Will she make it to see him become a toddler? Will he get a good inheritance? Oh, Remington, I told you to leave people alone. Remington got Clay as he was looking at the stars...and maybe the aliens, too. Don't be too excited about being scared by a ghost. You never know what could happen. I know it's hard to tell, but the max out skill icon is just disappearing. Thanks to all the nighttime star watching, Clay managed to max out his logic skills as his grandfather floated by him. And Remington attacked again. After his last scaring, Clay's needs dipped, so he had to go into the kitchen to get something to eat. But then, after Remington scared Clay, I tried to click over to Clay's icon, but I couldn't. It took me a second before I finally realized why. Oh no! He couldn't get that food made fast enough before Remington came calling again. (Pay no attention to the dirty bottle) And what comes after a sim is crumpled in a heap on the floor? Yep, Grimmy. He wasn't supposed to come until it was time for Lucy to go, but it seems he got called down early. Thank goodness Maura was home so she could beg Grim to save her husband. Not only begging, but pleading and groveling for Grim to spare Clay. Luckily, Maura picked the correct hand and Clay's life was spared. In your face, Grim! Ha! Really, Maura. There's such a thing as a sore winner. Try and keep it down a notch so he doesn't come back for you early. As Clay was lifted back up into the world of the living, Grim warned Clay to be careful and watch out for the ghosts. Sigh, Clay, keep it down. Don't celebrate too much or else Grim will change his mind! But, he got his Saved from Death want, yay! Awww, these two are so cute together. =) Less than 24 hours later, Grim showed up at the house again. This time he was here for Lucy as she was about to join Brady in the afterlife. "Hey, I got a couple grains left. You're sure it's my time?" I don't know why Lucy is fighting Grimmy. Everyone in the house hates her and can't wait for her to die. She should have yelled at Grim for taking too long to come and get her. But she went peacefully, afterall. Unfortunately, she died on the same day as Lahela's birthday. It's a bitter sweet occasion. The family will always remember this day. Only because Lucy's urn is in the picture as Lahela is blowing out her candles. Let's watch as Lahela spins into childhood and out of the toddler years. Yep, she's really got the Cavanaugh nose, but she's still a cutie. Too bad one of her fears as a toddler was the death of a relative because she didn't have time to get over it before transitioning. So she grew up badly. Let's hope it doesn't affect her later in life.

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Generation 4 - Chapter 2

2006-02-05T16:40:00.000-05:00

Welcome to another chapter in the lives of the Cavanaugh's. I know it's been a while since my last update (has it really been over a month?), but let's do a quick recap. Clay just got abducted by aliens and came back to hear the chimes of the lullaby. Need to remember anything else? Take a look back and get a refresher. Now on with the show. The morning after the abduction, life appeared to return to normal. Maya had her head back in a book studying and she managed to max out cleaning, I think. Then she made her way over to the chess board where she played a game with Clay. Clay is discussing with her his fears that he could quite possibly be pregnant after his adventure last night. Later that night, who else show up, but a ghost. I don't think there has been a ghost free night, well, ever. I'd hate to find out how they would react if I ever got rid of their beds. And here is Maya. This girl has always gotten up in the middle of the night from a sound sleep ever since she was a child. She usually gets up to make the bed, but this night, she awoke from a sound sleep to primp. Interesting girl, Maya is. At the same time, on the other side of the house, Clay found himself waking out of a sound sleep as well. And why, you ask? Aww, if the bump of the alien baby! Poor Lucy. It seems the baby is the only person in the house to not hate her, but isn't that a sweet picture? After her conversation with Clay over the chess table, Maya decided it would be best for her and Dorian to get out of the crazy house. She had heard her Aunt McKenna did the same thing after something called a firey birthday, but now with another baby coming into the family from her own brother, well, she just had to get out. After news spread throughout the house, the rest of the family came running into the den to say their goodbyes as Maya gave them her condolences. Maya and Dorian chose to say their goodbyes before going out to the taxi, so as they were climbing in, they didn't look back at the house they called home for so long. That same day is another birthday for the family. This time the birthday is for Lahela, the first born of Clay and Maura. Aww, daddy and daughter, and look how happy he looks. And as with all children have done since the family started, Clay threw Lahela into the air as she transitioned into the next stage of her life. Say it with me, now. Awww. Isn't she cute? She's got her mom's red hair and green eyes and it looks like her father's nose. Agh! I curse you, Marisa Bendett! Three generations later and it's still running rampant! First order of business is to get rid of those diapers. Now that another baby is coming, the family thought it best to save money on diapers by potty training Lahela. And, done. What is it with this family? Every person, live and dead, refuse to leave Lucy alone. And this time it is her dearly departed husband who promised to cherish and protect her. I don't know what I'm going to do with them. That's right, Remington, just keep going. Just pass through and don't bother anyone. Lucy has decided that she would like to teach Lahela to walk...and if Lahela could increase her inheritance at the same time, score! I don't suppose the others in the house will get much, so she needs to give it to somebody, right? Uh oh, Clay did you eat something bad? What's wrong? Oh, I get it. It's baby time! If anyone remembers the picture I posted a while back of the baby, then nobody will be surprised by this next picture. Aww, it's a green baby. And, the generation 4 heir! Yep, Clay had a baby boy and since we needed a D name, his name is Draco. Yep, Draco from Harry Potter. We can thank my sister for that. After all the excitement, Maura went back to work cleaning. What did she care? It's not her kid, Clay can deal with him, getting up in the middle of the night for cleanings and feeding. Aww, and it's Draco's first bottle. Let's hope he doesn't get the nose.

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Generation 4 - Chapter 1

2005-12-21T21:06:00.000-05:00

Okay, I was going to be mean and make you wait to find out what Maura had, but being mean is the ghosts' jobs. Marisa is giving Clay a piece of her mind for letting his wife give birth in the kitchen while he had a meal behind her in the dining room. And as Dorian picks up the baby from the floor where Maura left it so she could make herself a sandwich, I will take the opportunity to introduce you to the newest member of the Cavanaugh clan. Clay and Maura's first born is a girl with red hair and green eyes, and they decided to name her Lahela keeping with the tradition his grandparents started by giving the first born daughters Hawaiian names. Lahela means "Innocent Lamb" in Hawaiian. Continuing with the night of a thousand ghosts, right after Marisa scared Brady, another one (can't remember who) flew into the lamp and scared Lucy (hiding behind the fridge). These ghosts are relentless! I'm not sure what happened with Lucy, but I was higher up and saw her gaping hole open and thought it was funny. Clay tried to make up for missing the birth by giving Lahela her first bottle. That night, as Clay and Dorian were out watching the stars, someone got a strange feeling and then was surrounded by a blue light. Just who was it, you ask? Why, it was Clay! Clay was the chosen one for the night. Maya being the knowledge sim that she is, was the first one there to witness all the action. Clay then got this strange sensation of being lifted off the ground, and sure enough, he was. The aliens were taking him up into his ship! You gotta love the faces they make. The family gathered around after Clay had disappeared and weren't sure what to do with themselves. How long would Clay be gone? What would he be doing up there? They tried to go and do other things, but what could you do at 2 in the morning while waiting for the heir to be returned to earth? Eventually the space ship came back and the family heard it returning and they all ran out to the street to greet Clay as he returned. Clay dropped out of the space ship and appeared to be okay. That is until he fell face first onto the pavement. I've been told he looks like a dead frog. The space ship stuck around after they dropped Clay off, maybe to check and see if he was still alive. I don't know. Just looking at the faces he made was so funny. And here it looks like he just remembered what happened to him. And then he was either embarrassed or ashamed. But we also heard the same lullaby that chimed when Maura got pregnant with Lahela. Maybe he's just now realizing that there is an alien baby on the way. After the space ship left, Clay passed Dorian who could not stop laughing at the events and Clay with his typical greeting. You know, isn't it enough that he was abducted by aliens and impregnated? He has to be scared now, too? Stay tuned for the next chapter when we may see another baby born.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 41

2005-12-21T14:00:00.000-05:00

Welcome to the last chapter of Generation 3! So that means there is a baby born in this one. But first, we need to get this out of the way. No, not the elder lovin. Brady knows his time is almost up, so he wants Lucy to know how much he loves her. You know, I just told him to make out with his wife and I love that reaction. And this will be the last kiss they share here on Sim Earth. Enjoy that smile because we all know what comes next. Grimmy has come for Brady. Unfortunately, he was in the green so he didn't get a platinum urn and he didn't even get the hula girls. Witnessing her husband's death has traumatized her. "I will never love again." I know this isn't my Dawson legacy with all the movie stuff, but what movie does that come from? Brady disappeared in front of Lucy's eyes and left an urn before Grim left the house. Poor Lucy. Her only ally in the house is gone and she has to fend for herself. After Grim left, Lucy took Brady's urn to the mausoleum and told him she would be with him soon. Uh oh, looks as if someone doesn't get enough sleep. Dorian came home from a hard day's work and collapsed onto the ground into a deep sleep. Lucy wanted to call up her friend Joe because she needed to bring her social back up, but he wasn't home and she got his answering machine. She's just not having any luck, is she? I'd like to call this picture the beginning of the night of a thougsand ghosts. Leilani is the first of three ghosts to show up tonight and do their thing. Here's Tony. He's handsome as a ghost, too, isn't he? And then right through that window is his wife, Marisa. They are out in force tonight. Tony wastes no time in getting the party started. His first vicitm is his daughter-in-law, Lucy. And then we have Marisa scaring Maya. She wants us to think she liked it, but I don't think she did. Aww, bump is getting bigger! That means the baby will be coming shortly. Maya managed to take a shower and had just made her food when her face fell. Darn ghosts deplete all their needs. I managed to wake her up and make her eat. When Tony got her. Too bad she's been wanting to see Remington's ghost and not Tony or Marisa's. On Maura's way to make herself something to eat, she finally went into labor. At least one of the men in the house were playing attention. Clay didn't even notice and went off to the dining room to eat his meal. His kid was just born and he still didn't notice. What's up with the men in this family? Maura, in her makeover outfit, holds up the newest edition to the Cavanaugh household. And the newest edition inherited Maura's red hair and green eyes. Finally another color besides blue!

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Generation 3 - Chapter 40

2005-12-21T13:33:00.000-05:00

Since the family has acquired two new members, they need to be introduced. We'll start with Dorian because Maura is currently occupied. He we have Dorian Kautcher-Cavanaugh after his makeover. He's a Sagittarius and his stats are 1/6/6/8/4. His turn ons are swimwear and brown hair and he dislikes custom hair. He's a knowledge sim with a lifetime want ot becoming Chief of Staff. He's also got body, creativity and cleaning maxed. Say hi to Dorian everyone. =) Brady is telling Maura he wants grandchildren. He has a suggestion, but she likes it the old fashioned way. Maura joined the family and got a job in the military field and brought home this, so we can add this to the family's inventory. Dorian fits in quite well, doesn't he? He's not the first in the family to make Lucy cry. Poor Lucy. It looks as if playtime in the spa produced the bump of generation 4! Clay is one more skill toward reaching his lifetime want of maxing all skills. Here he is maxing out mechanical I think. I'm not sure what happened here, but really does it matter anymore? This family hates Lucy and all they do is slap her around. And make her cry. Here's a tip, if you have six people in a house and everyone hates just one family member, keep your eye on that family member. This is what happens when you're off doing something else and not paying attention to that part of the house. Maya can fight all she wants though because Lucy has almost full body points and Maya doesn't have any. So we know who won that fight. With all the fighting in the house, it sure is nice to see a couple so in love. One of my favorite things about Nightlife are the heart bubbles. He sure loves her. Well, our favorite mean ghost is out and started her scaring. Poor Jan, she just came home from work with Maya and didn't do anything. We can tell by the red doodad that she's not a knowledge sim. This won't be the last time she's a victim of one of the ghosts. Hey! Dorian's got a playful side! I was off in a different part of the house and noticed that he was taking a very long bath. And this is what I found when I went over to see what he was up to. Sigh, I sure am going to miss Brady. Unfortunately, this will be the last time he does this. But check out that fancy car he arrived home in. Must be nice to be a Freelance Web Designer. Not again. I come back from showing Brady a little love and I find his son beating up his own mother. We all know the ending to this fight, right? Brady has no body points and Lucy ends up flooring him and winning the fight. Stay tuned to find out in the next chapter if Maura finally has her baby.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 39

2005-12-21T12:44:00.000-05:00

If you remember in our last update, Clay and Maura had just gotten married in front of their family in the backyard of the Cavanaugh estate. After Clay and Maura finished the ceremony, Maya dropped to her knee and asked Dorian to marry her. The question came to a surprise to Dorian because he wanted to be the one to ask her, but he was happy she did it. He of course said yes and they celebrated their engagement quietly so as not to take the focus off Clay and Maura. If it weren't for those rings above their heads, nobody would have known something was going on. While Dorian and Maya were alone among the chairs, Clay and Maura were cutting their wedding cake. Aren't they cute? Clay gently feeds his bride a piece of cake. Don't you hate it when your parents show up at your wedding in their underwear. It's no secret what they've been up to...again. After the cake was cut, Maya and Dorian announced their engagement and felt they were ready to get married. They wanted to share the day with Clay and Maura and they quickly got dressed and started the ceremony. Maya said her vows to Dorian as she put the ring on his finger and he did the same. The doodad announces the union and they seal their marraige with a kiss. At least Lucy and Brady managed to get dressed and attend this wedding. Jan, who also attended the wedding, came over to give Brady a hug. She told him they were both lovely ceremonies and she told him he had grown up so well. She remembered meeting his father when he first moved into the neighborhood, but somehow she discovered the secret of staying youthful. Even Clay and Lucy put their feelings aside on his wedding day and shared a kiss. Isn't it embarrassing when another person is wearing the same thing you are? Clay and Maura sure didn't waste anytime getting in the tub, did they? I don't think they're doing any synchronized swimming...hehe. You know, if they had a car, they might re-enact that scene from Titanic. They make a cute couple, don't they? Please stay tuned and we can find out how Maura and Dorian adjust to becoming Cavanaughs.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 38

2005-12-15T08:28:00.000-05:00

In our last Cavanaugh update, if we remember, Clay had a birthday and I left it like this. Well, our little Clay has grown up and become an adult. Would we like to see what he looks like? You do? He doesn't look too different, does he? And it seems Maura likes what she sees. Now we just have to worry about his outfit. But, before anything can be done, this happens. Clay falls to the ground upon aging and looks like he's having a fit. No, it's just the Cavanaugh mental breakdown that has been passed down from generation to generation. Clay wanted to go to college as a teen, and since he didn't get the chance to (or wasn't allowed since it's the Classic version), it was one of his biggest fears so far in life. But have no fear. As his mother looks on in her underwear and Maura gets her first taste of a Cavanaugh birthday, Clay gets a visit from the family doctor. Clay gets better and the doctor leaves and the household goes back to "normal." Do you think he's embarrassed by his mother prancing around in her underwear? He shouldn't be, afterall, he just had a psychotic breakdown at his birthday party. But now to more important matters at hand. It's time to get Clay and Maura hitched, although they have to have their first kiss and fall in love first. Awww, it's their first kiss. Clay has been waiting for that one for a while now! There they are falling in love. He sure moves fast, doesn't he? Clay whips out the flashy ring that has been in his family since his grandfather proposed to his grandmother on the lawn in their house when they didn't have floors. *sigh* Let's take a moment to remember Anthony, shall we? He sure was cute, wasn't he? Anyway, back to Clay. Maura, of course, said yes and she loved her ring and loved how pretty it looked on her finger. Notice the absence of a red ring. And here they are getting married. And it's still Clay's birthday! Neither one of them are romance sims, but they can't wait to seal the deal and kiss to their marraige. Aren't they cute together? And to Maura, she's marrying into the richest family in town. Although they are pretty much the only family in town. McKenna lives across the street and everyone else in the family is still in college! And with the kiss, they are married! After the ceremony, Clay yells out, "Let's have some fun!" And to end the chapter, we focus on another couple. When are these crazy kids going to get hitched? Stay tuned and we'll find out. And we'll see Clay and Maura start their life together.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 37

2005-12-03T22:20:00.000-05:00

So remember I said in the last chapter that when Leilani was out, she didn't cause any trouble? Well, I lied. Why does everyone hate Lucy so much? That poor woman! If it's not a living sim going after her, then it's a ghost. And more pictures of two elders who love each other and who are glad Clay is nowhere around them to have a fit. Although, here is Clay throwing a fit. Only it's not over his parents playing with each other or kissing. Lucy and Brady are sound asleep and Clay came into their room to throw a fit. This kid really needs to chill out. Thank goodness they can put their differences aside and sit down to a meal together. Clay's topic of conversation is the world and the environment. He's also telling his mom how important he thinks recycling is. I'm so glad they are getting along. I'm tired of all the fights, aren't you? Although, I'm sure there will be more, unfortunately. And even though Brady is old and getting older by the second, he is talking to Meadow on the computer! That girl must have hypnotized him or something. Here he's telling her he would have treated her like gold. And how they couldn't get engaged when he was younger because he was promised to someone else. And now that he's married, she really has to stay out of his life. Okay, maybe that's what I wanted him to tell her because he seems to always be drawn to her! Look who came to visit Clay. Today is his birthday as he becomes an adult and he has invited Maura over to share his birthday with her. She said she missed him and asked how he was doing. They struck up a conversation to kill the time until his birthday. Clay tells Maura that their kids could go to college if they want, but if they don't, they don't have to. And her reply to him is that they are only best friends and she's too old for him and he's just a kid. She told him they can't be together. Little does she know... It's birthday cake time. And of course Clay is repulsed by it. That must be his favorite gesture because he does it all the time! "Hey baby, you're about to take back when you told me outside." He's so sure of himself, isn't he? And there to celebrate Clay's birthday are his future bride, Maura Simpson, and his barely dressed mother. You know what she's been up to when she's walking around in her underwear. It's a good thing Clay doesn't put two and two together or, if it was possible, he would hate his mother even more! And as Clay begins his transition, Maura becomes excited because she'll get to see how Clay will turn out. Are we excited? I can say for sure that he will soon be changing his clothes. With all the clothes they have, why does he have to change into that hideous outfit? But this is Clay as an adult. Stay tuned for the next chapter when we get to see how he turned out and maybe there will be a wedding.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 36

2005-12-03T21:39:00.000-05:00

In our last chapter, Maya and Dorian developed crushes on each other, so I thought maybe I could dedicate a chapter to these two lovely sims. Maya invited Dorian over and he jumped at the chance to see her. Maya told Dorian how nice he looked and stroked his face. Little did Dorian know she was doing all this to get a kiss out of him. They hadn't had a kiss yet even though they had crushes on each other. But Maya got what she wanted and they had their first kiss. And what does every girl do after her first kiss with her boyfriend? That's right, gooses him! After the events on the front porch, Maya and Dorian sat down for something to eat. Maya noticed Dorian was stuffing his face and it wasn't pretty. "Don't you have to go to work soon?" "If I go to work, I'll miss you. Won't you miss me?" Dorian asked. Although Dorian didn't work on the street, he had a desk job at the Sim City PD. He hadn't told Maya before now. Maya watched Dorian eat sloppily and asked him if he wanted something to drink to wash all that food down with. You're the one that wants to be with him Maya. You're going to be grossed out for the rest of your life. Even though Dorian could gross Maya out at times, she did enjoy being with him. Aren't they cute? Brady wanted to talk to Dorian about his and Maya's relationship since both of Maya's parents were dead and someone needed to stick up for her and watch out for her. Dorian told Brady he had gone to college. Brady asked him if he would be able to support his niece because he only wanted the best for her. And Dorian told Brady he would be able to support Maya and any kids they would have. Fittingly, Leilani was out that night. Possibly to check up on her family. She didn't cause any trouble that night, just watching over her family. Maya and Dorian took a dip in the Love Tub and playfully splashed each other. Maya had the want to appreciate Dorian so she turned him around and gave him a backrub. Which of course caused them to fall in love with each other. And what comes after falling in love? Woohoo of course! Interesting position she's got there. But, hey, at least she's having fun and she and Dorian are in love. And after they're done, he's out of the tub and dressed and ready to leave. Dorian thanks her for the woohoo and takes his leave. Next chapter will go back to normal. Just wanted to show Dorian and Maya discover their love.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 35

2005-11-29T12:55:00.000-05:00

Well, since it's been forever and a day since I've updated this family, please bare with me. I may forget some names, and I may have even forgotten how to blog. =) Please refer to previous post, which explains my absence. Now to recap, if I can remember. The family had a no good maid that was previously betrothed to Clay, the Gen3 heir; Maya, Clay's cousin, started in on Dorian, the cop so she could get on with her family; and Brady is still hanging in there, but with one foot in the grave. As it stands, Clay and Lucy, his mother, wife to Brady, hate each other because Brady and Lucy flirt in front of him. I may have forgotten something, but oh well, you're pretty much up to speed now. So where were we? Oh yeah, that no good maid, Katerina. Here is Clay firing her and giving her her walking papers. And after he fired her, well I don't know where she was going. But, Clay managed to get her turned around and headed in the right direction. Clay being Clay and saying goodbye to her in his own way. Meanwhile, Maya called over Dorian to put the moves on him. Almost looks as if she's going in for the kill, doesn't it? And here she goes. "You look so nice today, Dorian." And he fell for it. "Thank you, Maya, I always love to hear that coming from a beautiful lady like you!" And she gets the pink hearts first. And Dorian soon followed. Now do you notice Joe Carr in the background on the porch? Lucy did! She went over and got him back for blasting Leilani with a water balloon a while back. Joe didn't like that too much. Here are the men sitting down for dinner - Joe, Dorian, Brady and Clay. Joe is asked them about inheritance money and what they did with it. Clay's answe gives you this picture. I think this picture is funnier than anything I could say as a caption. After dinner, Dorian shows off his excellent body skills by doing a dive into the pool. And Remington is making an appearance - not sure if it's his first because it's been so long since I've updated and I just can't remember. But with this house, what does it mean when a ghost is out? Yep, a ghost sighting. This time the victim is Lucy. Okay, what's missing in this picture? A woman! Dorian and Joe are chilling out in the Love Tub, but Dorian is trying to man it up by talking sports. Nice try, but no, you're still two guys in a Love Tub. Now it's three guys in a love tub, but still no woman. It's about time. Maya has joined in and is now splashing Dorian while Brady and Joe talk about manly men things. Maya is making her move on Dorian not caring that her uncle is in there with them. Joe is suggesting to Brady he move out to avoid all this lovey-dovey stuff. Maya and Dorian are just going to town, aren't they?! Meanwhile, Lucy is trying to get her figure back and Clay doesn't like that. See that sneer? He positively hates his mother! I'm sure he'd kick her if I'd let him. Now that Katerina has been kicked to the curb, the family has hired a new maid and look who it is. Definitely going to keep her around if I can. Uh oh, looks like someone forgot to pay the bills. Okay, that was me, but I swear I didn't get a notice! First, he's taking one of the chairs in the kissing - uh, I mean tv room. Hey! Where's he going! Look how many goodies he can take all in that general area! So many memories, so many memories. Looks like he's taking the arch, doesn't it? The family was saved, he only took the little light next to the arch. And you know what? Maya was on the opposite side of the house going to the bathroom the whole time he was in the house and in the backyard taking things and she didn't even notice. She had to see him leaving, didn't she? No worries, Maya, your family has enough money to replace a chair and a light, get over it. Tune in next time to find out if Maya ever gets over the loss of the chair she barely sat in.

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National Novel Writing Month

2005-11-27T00:43:00.000-05:00

I know it's been a while since I've updated the Cavanaugh's, but I have been participating in National Novel Writing Month and I am so very excited to say that I am now considered a NaNoWriMo winner because I hit the 50,000 word mark and I wanted to share my winner's icons with all you. Thanks for patiently waiting for the next installment of the Cavanaugh's. Updates will be coming in December.

Generation 3 - Chapter 34

2005-10-11T20:57:00.000-05:00

"Whooo! I got an A+! Yay! Go Me! Yay!...." So, it looks as if Clay has gotten a good grade in school and excited and can’t hide his enthusiasm as he gets off the bus. He does this every day, nothing new, same ole, same ole. Only, today nobody is home, so he’s cheering for his sad self. If nobody is home, they should just not cheer. It’s too sad and pathetic, but I enjoyed taking a picture of it and saving it for posterity. Now I have something to show his great-great-great-etc grandchildren to tell them what a dork he was and how they used to do that in the olden days. Looks as if the maid is ignoring this part of the house. Look how dirty that bathroom is! Is it coincidence that that’s Clay’s bathroom? Is it also coincidence that the maid is the sweet little Katerina who Clay was originally betrothed to in his younger days? Hmm, something to ponder there. You know what I’m not going to ponder? Firing her. I’m firing her the first chance I get. And Ashley’s still making friends with his future in-laws. So Brady may have been spying, but Ashley should really just be used to it by now since they’ve been doing it for years. Maybe he’s afraid they will discover his secret for longevity and never growing old. Hey, it looks as if it’s that time again. It’s time to annoy the kids as the elders flirt in front of them! See how they ring up those negative marks in synchronization.
It’s just too fun to make these guys mad. I just wish they wouldn’t cancel everything in their queue’s to throw these fits. Although Brady had his portrait painted when he was younger, he is also having his elder portrait painted. I haven’t decided which photo to place above his urn yet and what I’ll do with the other one, but it’s nice to have a choice. I might go with the elder painting since all the other paintings follow the elder trend. These two do everything together! It’s synchronized "My environment is too low!" Lucy manages to max out her creativity...in her underwear. Ahem, we know what she’s been up to. *wink wink* This had me biting my nails. Clay spun up the want to be saved from death. I hadn’t attempted this yet, but I wanted to keep him happy, so I obliged. I made sure Maya was home from work because, even though Brady and Lucy were home, well his relationship with Lucy was -80 or something due to all the public displays of affection between Brady and Lucy, so I didn’t think he would jump at the chance to let her save him. His needs were a tiny bit low and his mechanical skill was about mid way. Wouldn’t you know, when you want someone electrocuted, it just doesn’t happen. And great! The stereo works now. Wonderful. Maya has decided to try to work her magic on Dorian. Remember Dorian? He’s the one who yelled at her for calling in a fake emergency. She didn’t want to try to lure him in wearing that awful outfit she transitioned into, so she dug deep into her closet and found this pretty dress, which surprisingly suit her personality pretty well. "So wait, you’re telling me your family has loads of money? And I could be eligible to get in on the action?" "And all I would have to do is move in?" What are you telling him, Maya? "So tell me again how much money your family has? I just want to be sure." Dude, you’re in the love tub. Money should be the last thing on your mind. Look, who’s making her first plate appearance. Sorry, effect of the Angels game I’m watching. =) Leilani has chosen tonight to come out haunting for the first time. And it just so happens that Maya has the want to see Leilani’s ghost so she’s off chasing Leilani around holding Mr. Bear in hopes of making a ghostly connection. All of her chasing really tired Maya out. Almost to the point of passing out, so she decided to take a break and try again later. Luckily, Leilani chose to be nice and waited until Maya was rested before deciding to make the connected with her daughter. She may seem scared by all this, but she really did want this. I think she’s just putting on a show for Dorian to come to her aid. He never did come though. The next morning at breakfast, Clay asked Maya how it was going with Dorian. "So is it safe to assume there will be a wedding in the future? Did you lock him in?" Ha ha, get it? Safe, lock...anwyay. "Did you tell him about our bags of money?" "Did you tell him you’re well educated?" I’ll end this chapter with Brady’s nagging. Did Maya lock it in with Dorian? Will they end up getting married? Will the family ever fire that no good maid?

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Generation 3 - Chapter 33

2005-10-11T20:51:00.000-05:00

You know, it’s a good thing these two showed up after Leilani’s death to be there for Clay and Maya (who had been sleeping when Leilani died due to her night job). I was going to have to find a way to punish them if they hadn’t done anything. Lucy and Brady may have been consoling themselves in their own way, but Clay was just having nothing to do with it. He absolutely hates it when his parents become at all personal. While Clay seethed with hatred, Maya had just woken up and was given the news of her mother’s passing. That’s ok, Maya, you may be an adult, but you can still cry and mourn in your own way. To cheer herself up, Maya decided to study to gain a skill while Clay decided to sit down and write out his feelings. Poor guy has been dealing with a lot of death in his young life. For heaven’s sake, Clay, Maya is not going to try to read what you are writing. She’s busy learning to notice. Some people have some strange coping mechanisms. Clay eventually gave up on the idea of writing in his diary, so he picked a seat on the sofa next to Maya and went to work on skill building in hopes he would eventually max all his skills and therefore earn his lifetime want. Brady tried to put up a tough front in front of the kids, but when he was out of sight and on his own in the entertainment room, he relaxed and let out his grief. He missed his sister more than he realized and decided he will enjoy the time he has left with Lucy. Lucy felt the same way and decided it was a good time to show her love for her husband. Another bonus, Clay was in the other room and would never know what was going on. All that lovin’ was too much for Brady and it tired him out. If he wasn’t in bed, you could usually find him napping in his favorite chair. And here we go. It’s time to pick your favorite. They are both studying the same skill and both have the want to get to the next level. Clay was fed the smart milk when he was a toddler and Maya was not. Who will get the skill point first? If you said, Maya, then you are correct. Now back to regularly scheduled programming. Hey, look who showed up in the actual Sim world, not to be confused with SAR (Sim Alternate Reality). Brady had made it to bed to go to sleep, woke up to go to the bathroom, and was scared so badly, he had to jump in the shower. Thanks Remington!
But, hey, since Brady was up and so was Lucy, they both had wants to flirt with each other, kiss, make out, dance, talk, etc. You get the idea, right? Clay must have sensed something was going on because he came into the bathroom to share his displeasure with his parents. Lucy and Brady laughed and wanted to see how much he could handle. What kid likes to see their parents making out? After their kiss, Lucy and Brady chuckled, and noticed they each had that gleam in the other’s eye. They walked past Clay and went straight for the bedroom. With all that flirting and kissing going on, what comes next but this want? This is all these two do anymore! You know, if I didn’t know any better, Lucy is a family sim instead of a popularity sim. She is spinning up more wants that have to do with Brady than anything else. I guess it’s true what they say, some people are just made for each other.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 32

2005-10-11T20:44:00.000-05:00

This chapter may seem to jump around a little bit because while I was playing (and not saving), the game crashed and I lost about 2 sims days of play and had to replay my lost time. So remember when you are playing - Just Save It. =) So we’ll just pretend that the Sims are experiencing an alternate reality (picture that sci-fi show, Sliders, only nicer). Not long after Remington passed away, he decided to come out of the mausoleum and explore the other realm known as the Sim Alternate Reality (SAR). I was hoping he would haunt in the clothes he died in, but just my luck, he haunted in his every day outfit. While everyone else was sleeping, Brady was up painting trying to help fulfill his elderly sister’s dying wish to make $50,000. Unfortunately, SAR is not too different than the actual Sim world. Brady gets his pants scared off of him when Remington popped out of the painting and did a little Boo action. Luckily, this all happened in the land of SAR, and didn’t actually happen, or so I’d like to think. Back in the real world, Clay was starting a fire cooking toaster pastries. C’mon, Clay, they’re just pastries. How difficult is it to cook that? In Clay’s terror driven state, he noticed a fire fighter came to save the stove and the day. Funny, he thought, I never even had to call the fire department. Their response time is off the charts! Once the fire was out, Clay got a better look at the person who had come to his rescue. Her name was Maura Simpson and one look at her and he could see his future children in her beautiful eyes. "Hey, do you like money? My family has loads of it. How would you like to marry me some day. I’m already promised to the maid, but I don’t think she’d mind at all." "How about I give you some now, a dowry if you will, but for right now we’ll consider it a tip for your life saving services." Maura told him she thought he was a funny kid, but promised to keep in touch. Back in SAR, it was Marisa’s turn to come out of her urn. Will she follow Remington’s lead and scare the pants off someone in her family, or will she just play around with some of the objects in the house? Turns out she just wanted to take a bath, no harm done in SAR. Leaving SAR and coming back in the Sim world, Lucy was trying to hide her feelings and convince herself that she belonged to only Brady by dropping to her knees and declaring her love for him in song. So far keeping Lucy and Leilani apart seems to be working. The only thing they really want to do is talk. Brady’s heart is spared breakage for the time being. This woman loves to show her man how much she loves him. Clay doesn’t like it as much. You can see him in the background having a fit. He really doesn’t like it. He should know that that’s the whole reason I do it to see him throw a fit! Ok, this is odd. Remember I sent Napua to college a couple chapters back? She came home from school with Clay one day. And what is the first thing you do when you come home with your brother? You watch him go to the bathroom...obviously. Later that day, both Clay and Leilani were low on their social meters and struck up a conversation after a game of pool. "Haha, I taught you never to play pool against me again!" laughed Leilani. Leilani discovered that playing with Clay wore her out so she decided that, because of her advanced age, she would go take a nap before dinner. While she was sleeping, Clay had just finished the portrait he was painting of his aunt and went to go wake her up to show her. Leilani loved the detail he put into the painting to capture her essence and told Clay how proud she was of the way he grew up . Unfortunately, this would be the last thing she would say to her nephew. She knows it’s coming, but yet she is in a content state because she knows she is about to join her darling Remington. She’s also going to go in a platinum state because of what she did last night. She reached her want of making $50,000 by selling a higher value painting that her family had been busy working on the past couple of days to help her go out in platinum. As Clay was stepping away from Leilani, he suddenly became aware of what was happening. He was there for Remington’s death and something seemed suddenly familiar about the atmosphere around him. Clay started to cry, but noticed his Aunt Leilani wasn’t sad and wasn’t crying at all. He realized it was probably because she knew she would be reunited with her true love and she was calmed by that. He also noticed he was the only member of his family by Leilani’s side and wondered where his mom and dad were. If you look way in the background back in the entertainment room, Lucy and Brady are just now leaving the room to come to the commotion. Turns out they were playing chess and couldn’t tear themselves away. So much for Lucy loving Leilani, huh? Leilani remained emotionless throughout Grim’s entire visit, except for when he offered her a drink. Her face lit up with a smile, she happily took the drink, grabbed her suitcase and departed, leaving a platinum urn behind. I don’t know what Lucy and Brady are doing, but they still have not come into the room. Only Clay remains after Leilani’s departure and mourns his aunt’s passing all by his lonesome surrounded by Grim’s hula girls. How fitting to have her urn underneath the portrait Clay had painted of her and the painting she had been working on, but will never be able to finish. And with that, the family placed her urn in it’s final resting place next to her beloved late husband located in the family mausoleum

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Generation 3 - Chapter 31

2005-10-11T20:36:00.000-05:00

Last we left off, the family lost Remington, husband to Leilani, and Lucy became an elder the same day. We try to forget the monstrosity she became and look forward to what she looks like now after her makeover. She felt her long hair was more fit for a younger person and changed her hair to a shorter bob-like cut, which looked better on her than her previous look. Meanwhile, McKenna quietly walked to the family mausoleum to pay her respects to the recently departed Remington. Although she didn’t show it at the time, she was saddened by his death and would miss him greatly. Clay and BJ, the headmaster, came to the mausoleum next to pay their respects and McKenna could see that Clay was still emotional so she tried to console him by reminding him of the money he received from Remington’s inheritance. Even with the mention of Clay’s inherited money, he was still a little teary and found he could not stop crying over his uncle. BJ thought maybe that by him playing the guitar and some nice music would cheer Clay up, but it didn’t seem to work. "You know, Clay, if you would rather donate some of your money for campaign workers, that would be nice too. After all, I am looking to run for mayor in the near future and every little bit helps." Oh, I see. McKenna has intentions all her own rather than have the best intentions for her family. Oh, look who showed up to cause a little trouble with Clay. They aren’t the best of friends, so Joe always tries to make a point of picking a fight with him whenever they are together. Here, they are getting into one of their usual shoving matches, I can’t remember why. Maybe because Clay said something derogatory about Joe and a dress. That’s good, Clay, compliment the guy while he’s still wearing his uniform. What is that Maya is doing? Looks like she’s fishing for a husband. A friend of hers at work told her that one day she made a fake emergency call in an effort to meet someone new and ended up getting reprimanded, but she also met the man she would eventually marry. Maya had giggled and made fun of her friend for doing something so silly, but her friend defended herself by telling Maya that nothing she had tried worked, especially that dating site, sim-Harmony.com. Maya thought about it and decided she would try it to see what would happen. No sooner had she hung up the phone when a good looking cop came running into the house to investigate the reason for the call. He ran from room to room and ended up coming back to Maya to call her out for making a fake emergency call and he followed with a hefty fine. Maya considered that getting off easy when she took a look at the police officer in front of her. "Who is this handsome man in front of me?" thought Maya with a smile. She decided she hit the jackpot and found the man she wanted to marry. Now, if only she could get him to feel the same way. Officer Dorian left with a warning not to do it again or he’d be back. "What’s so bad about that?" thought Maya. "He can come back as many times as he wants and I’d let him in!" Meanwhile, Jan was standing off to the side watching the exchange and, as soon as Officer Dorian left, she went up to Maya and teased her about what she had just done to meet a guy. They shared a laugh and playfully tickled each other, all the while Maya was beaming inside for what she had just done. Uh oh, Leilani put on the noodlesoother at the wrong time. I was anxious to get her another promotion and failed to notice she wasn’t in platinum or gold and she had slipped to green. She put the noodlesoother on and all her needs plummeted and she dropped to the floor. Oops! Does this guy have no manners? He sees her passed out and yet continues to yell at Leilani for spying on him through the telescope. Get up, Leilani. Fight back! Leilani who? Brady came home from work to start up a pillow fight with Jan. That looks kind of painful, though. And thanks to the noodlesoother depleting all of Leilani’s needs, and the fact that she lost her husband her main source of keeping her social needs up, she got a visit from the Social Bunny. Do bunnies always land on their faces? Isn’t he cute? He gets up from the face down position to say hi and wave to Leilani. And she responds by shoving him. Be nice to him, Leilani! He came to visit you in your socially inept time of need! And you made him cry! Poor bunny. Nothing like a violent game of Punch You Punch Me. For someone with rapidly depleting social needs, she isn’t making any friends with the bunny. Lucy had just gotten home from work when she saw the state Leilani was in and decided to go over to her and comfort her and try to make her feel better. She spoke some encouraging words and gave her a hug. As Leilani was walking away feeling a bit better... ...Yep, Leilani and Lucy are in love with one another. There’s no denying it due to the heart floating above both of their heads. Lucy tried to hide her feelings for Leilani by going over to Brady and serenading him. What will happen with the love triangle? Will Brady find out? Can Leilani and Lucy hide their feelings for each other?

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Generation 3 - Chapter 30

2005-10-01T22:09:00.000-05:00

The next day, as they sat down to burned grilled cheese that Clay made, with an univited guest (why does he continue to come around?) Clay was talking about money. "So what is the best way to make a lot of money?" "Max a skill." "Max a skill? I've already maxed out two and my lifelong goal is to max off all of them, which one should I focus on next?" I think that would be painfully obvious by looking at the meal you are subjecting your family to, Clay. "I heard I could max my cooking skill by cooking something I like and I like eggs! Who wants an omlette?" "No? How about a shake? Smoothie? Ice cream?" Poor Clay, it's a good thing he's cute. After everyone had gotten home from work, Remington thought it would be a good idea for he and Leilani to celebrate their golden anniversary in style, so he dressed up and surpised her with the party. He wanted this to be special for her so he asked her to go outside because he had another surprise for her. When she got out there, she found a bottle of champagne chilling by the pool and she realized how much she really loved Remington. She was about to take the champagne inside when she was suddenly stopped. Before the party had started she was looking through the telescope and happened to maybe glance in Ashley's direction. He caught her and came over to give her a piece of his mind. He was also a bit mad that his fiance, McKenna, was invited and he wasn't, but we won't get into that. Leilani finally made it into the house and into the dining room to make a toast to Remington and their marraige. "I will always love you, Rem. You caught my eye when I was a little girl and you were our maid. I knew someday we would be together and you have given me so many wonderful years and two beautiful daughters. I have never been happier and I want to thank you for making that popssible." Remington and Leilani couldn't keep their eyes off each other as they both took a sip of their champagne and Remington couldn't hide the fact that his eyes were brimming with tears. "How did I get so lucky to end up with this woman?" he thought. As Leilani was walking away to put the champagne on the counter, Remington was about to tell Leilani how much he loved her when - Remington had known this was coming because he hadn't felt well all day. He wanted to throw this party for Leilani so she would have a good memory to connect with a bad one. Rem had accepted his fate and hoped Leilani would feel the same way. Leilani had felt a draft from behind her and she remembered feeling the same thing when both of her parents had died and she knew without having to turn around what that draft was. She knew she had to turn around to face what was happening and she couldn't hide her tears. Pretty soon the rest of the family knew what was going on and couldn't help but cry over the impending loss of their dear Remington. You would think, though, that McKenna, who is Remington's neice, would show some kind of emotion. What was once a fun and lively party has turned into a somber event. A disaster of a party if you would rather call it that. Not wanting to prolong the inevitable, Remington grabbed his suitcase and was ready to depart to the next dimension. He told Leilani he loved her one last time and he was gone. And then all that remained was his urn for his family to mourn over. He had slipped out of platinum before the party and was unable to make it back, so he left a non-platinum urn behind. While Remington was being taken away by the reaper, Lucy was transitioning into elderhood. And yikes, what a scary elder she became! Something has to be done about the way she looks, and quick, or she was going to be going outside to look up at the clouds! It was just about that time when Remington's inheritance was deposited into the family's bank account. Leilani, alone, inherited $20,000. The money was quickly forgotten when she laid eyes on Lucy. "Woman, look at you! You celebrated your birthday in the midst of all that chaos? Interesting choice of clothes you've got there." Clay noticed Leilani took Remington's death very hard, so he thought he would make a toast to her and to what a wonderful wife, aunt, mother she is. "To Aunt Leilani, she is one of the most important women in my life and I want her to know how special she is." And with that, they drank more champagne in honor this time of Leilani. She realized living without her Remington would be hard, but she still had a very wonderful family who would help her through her pain and someday she would be with her husband again. But that didn't mean she couldn't miss him very deeply. Afterall, it is healthy to cry. "Hey, Tony, Marisa, do you need a haunting partner? I know I just got here, but I'm ready!" And here is where Remington will spend the rest of his afterlife.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 29

2005-10-01T20:46:00.000-05:00

In our last update, we covered one of the two birthdays the house was celebrating. The heir had become a teen and chose to become a Knowledge Sim with a lifetime want to max out all his skills. We continue with the birthday madness. In case you were wondering, Maya is the birthday girl as she becomes as adult. What will she look like? How will she take her transition into adulthood? She's starting to look more and more like Princess Leia with her hair in those buns, and I'm kinda iffy about her outfit, but she still looks cute and she appears to like it. Uh oh, something is happening. Do you think she knows what is about to happen? Clay knows. It seems Maya, also being a Knowledge sim, had a deep desire to go to college, but wanted to keep her family happy by staying close to home. She thought she would have had a good chance to go, but then Napua took a turn for the worse and she was the one to leave instead. Clay and Lucy both noticed Maya was having a problem, but didn't want to bring it up to the others because they didn't notice, or pretended not to. Suddenly, the same doctor who came to Leilani's aid as she transitioned into adulthood, fell from the ceiling to help Maya. "Eet seems my last patient vas as meesed up as you are now. I cured her by teeling her to act like zee monkey. Now eet's your turn. Zee monkey, some believe, vas vhat ve used to be a long long time ago." "It is videly known that thees spinny vheel can take you out of your craziness. Stare at the spinny vheel and you vill be cured." And, surprisingly, Maya was suddenly cured thanks to help of the doctor that nobody else seemed to have noticed. Her family had eaten dinner and had given her weird looks like they didn't see who she saw. "Did you notice Maya sitting off to herself acting like she was talking to someone? Do you think maybe her brains are a little scrambled? We may have to have checked out or something." So it seems someone did notice her strange behavior. Uncle Rem, don't you think someone should go over and talk to Maya to see if she's ok?" But they continued talking in the kitchen and nobody ever went over to her. And then Brady came home from work. Poor Brady, his little boy celebrated his birthday into teenhood and has all but forgotten his dad so he won't be getting a welcome home hug. And look who came out for his grandson's birthday. He stopped for the traditonal cheering of the bed before he went off to his ghostly duties. Which included scaring his only son. What did Brady do to deserve this? His only crime was loving his father while he was alive. Although he never did visit the mausoleum where Tony was resting peacefully. The other elders in the house were busy too. They were once again having a pillow fight. You leave them alone for too long with nothing to do and they'll whip out a pillow to entertain themselves. Their exuberance was short lived. After the pillow fight they decided to make themselves something to eat when Marisa also made an apppearance to frighten Leilani. We have some mean ghosts out tonight! "Nice scaring, sweetie." "You too, dear!" Tony was just taking a break because he went back to scaring Brady. Can't a guy go to the bathroom in peace anymore? Brady was doing fine, too. He was about to go paint a portrait of Leilani, but with that second scare from Tony, his needs dropped and we had to scramble to get them back up. Remington had spun up the want to sell a best selling novel so I was happy to ablige to try and keep him platinum since he was nearing death. I was afraid something was going to happen here as you can see Tony in the picture, but it turns out, he was just flying into the computer, not to scare Remington. Remington finished his novel and was walking to answer the call about his book as Clay noticed the lamp sitting beside him acting funny. Tony was also following Remington to the phone. This has become a scary night with the ghosts! "I sold how many novels? It's doing how well? That's amazing, I can't believe my book did that well!" As it turns out, Tony left Remington alone so he could answer the phone and Remington sold a best selling novel and made about $2600 from it and from that he became platinum! And I'll end this chapter with the two former maids doing what they used to get paid to do. Just don't tell any of the future service sims of their fate and we'll be fine. He he.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 28

2005-09-28T19:34:00.000-05:00

Last we left off, Napua got rejected by Randy to go steady and took some action! We start off this chapter with remnants of the last, Napua is throwing a fit. Being rejected by Randy put her in a bad mood and no amount of consoling could ease her pain. And being inconsolable means that she stopped taking care of herself. She couldn't eat, she couldn't sleep, she was a hormonal mess. That evening as Remington and Joe were sitting down to dinner, Napua was in the middle of one of her now signature fits. "Don't mind her, Joe, my niece is just being a drama queen. She belongs on the stage." Even her attitude was rubbing off on other members of the family. Clay was feeling the effects and came over to tease her. "Hehe, I saw you making out with Randy and I'm going to tell dad!" So with that, the family didn't know what to do with Napua anymore, so they called one of their contacts at the college, pulled some strings and got Napua into college early. They thought maybe by being out in the real world would teach her a few things and she'll become a better person from it. So before the taxi came to take her away, some of her family stood behind her lining up to say their goodbyes. Bye, Napua. Hopefully you'll get your wants fulfilled in college to help you become happier. The next morning, Lucy described to Amy the events with Napua the night before. "You should have seen her Amy, she was so good, she could have won an award for her acting." "I managed to get her performance on cd if you want to hear it and get a laugh out of it." "You know, Amy, you're not very talkative. I'm looking for a best friend I can have a two sided conversation with and not make me feel like I'm talking to a brick wall. Do you think you can handle that?" Maybe if you let her get a word in edgewise, Lucy. "You know, you would make a great political speaker. I would pay to see you make a speech." So anyway, while that was going on in the front yard, the elders were smooching in the kissing room. Aren't they cute? Unfortunately, Clay witnessed the whole spectacle and had to leave the room. Besides, he had better things to do. Yes, Clay, that's a birthday cake. "If I'm going to grow up, I want people to be here and celebrate with me!" "My baby is growing up..." I have never seen this many reactions from a birthday cake before. And yes, there are two cakes, so there are more reactions. "Wait a minute, I just saw another cake over there!" "Two cakes, I'm going to be sick!" Well, this looks painful. He was so confused about the two cakes, when he went to scratch his head, he scratched so much it went into his head! You can tell this kid is related to Napua, he's such a drama queen! It's just a cake, Clay! So here we go, on with the transformation. How did he turn out? He grows into a teen flexing his muscles, very pleased with how he grew up. I'm not too sure about the jaw though, that may be a problem for future generations. But for now, we can try and hide it the best we can. So this would be Clay after his makeover. I gave him the longer shaggy hair and some stubble and a goatee to try and hide some of his features. Not too bad, if I do say so myself. In our next chapter, we will cover the second birthday and find out who the birthday person is.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 27

2005-09-21T21:28:00.000-05:00

Now that Napua is in love, she doesn't hide how she feels about herself. Look how she stands there with her pool cue while she plays a game with Brady. Ha! Won't last long. Do I have you intrigued yet? Hey, look who paid his first visit since the house was rebuilt! It's Mr. Hotstuff, Anthony Cavanaugh. It looks as if he is cheering about the renovation and look of the new house. I didn't know ghosts had feelings about the house changing. I guess as long as you keep the bed, they're happy. I don't even want to think about what he's doing in there with her. Let's just say he went in to tell her about the new house and leave it at that. Watcha doin' Brady? He's watching his wife take a shower, but in an almost creepy kind of way. I don't think I like it. This sure is a popular bathroom. Joe Carr came home from work with Brady, I think, and has been doing nothing but causing trouble. "Hey, Leilani, check out this new water balloon I got!" "Heh, heh, I got you." His elation didn't last long. Leilani used her infuential power to get him to clean up his own mess. Serves you right, Joe Carr! And once he got started cleaning, he just didn't stop. He went over to the bed and made it. And he even cleaned up the dirty dishes! Who needs to pay a maid to clean when Joe will do it for free? Uh oh, Napua is getting some aspiration points taken from her. It could only mean one thing. It's the Cavanaugh family curse, anytime anyone gets the want to ask someone to go steady, they always get rejected on the first try. Napua thought she was ready to go steady with Randy, but he turned her down, thus shooting her aspiration way down as low as it could go. "Maybe if I ask him in front of the fire place, he'll feel differently and say yes to me." Good theory, but didn't work. And look at him smile as she's crying her eyes out! Back in the sleeping room, look at sweet little Clay sleeping in the chair. Aww, how cute -- but what is that noise in the living room? I have no idea how this happened, but by the time I got back to the living room, Napua and Randy were in the middle of a full out brawl on the living room floor! Get him, Napua! Care to take bets on who is winning this fights? Place your bets, last chance. Those of you who bet on Randy winning the fight, well you guys suck for rooting for the bad guy, but you were right. Napua lost and cried about it for sometime afterward. But not before giving him a piece of her mind and retaliating in her own way. I'll let you think of a caption for this one. hehe. "Reject me for going steady, will you!" "Oh, Randy, darling? I have something for you but you can only get it by pulling my finger." "Oh, where did that come from? That came out of nowhere!" "He did it! It was him!" What is this? Maya is taking Randy's side! This came as a surprise to me, too. Purely autonomous. So was this. I guess what they say is true - hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!

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Generation 3 - Chapter 26

2005-09-21T20:14:00.000-05:00

We ended the last chapter with Leilani and Sheldon talking about the weather. They are still at it. I guess if you're a mailman, the weather will be your main concern. When school ended for the day, the kids brought friends home with them and wanted to be entertained. "Do you like the new house, Ivy? My family spent a lot of money on it to make it so much better! My family has a lot of money, you know." "Hey, Mr. Bear, tell Napua we don't care about how much money her family spent on this house. We just want to go swimming." So swimming they went. First up on the board - Maya. Let's see how she does. Belly flop. Ouch! Napua is next, will she make the dive? Looks as if she's second guessing herself. Will she go through with it? Oh, she wimped out. Little does she know a higher power is going to throw her in the pool. Ouch! I can see why she didn't want to go in. Another painful belly flop! And next up is the heir. He sure looks cute in those trunks, doesn't he? Will he follow the lead of the girls, or will he do a dive? Nope, but it sure is fun to watch their flops! Napua is thinking of a way to get Randy in the pool. I don't know, I think telling him you love him will keep him far away from the pool. But let's see if he takes the bait. Ouch. What a way to bruise the ego in front of your love interest. After the swimming and belly flops were finished, Randy and Napua spent some time together in the kissing room. They wanted to see if grabbing each other's butts would freak out Ivy at all. It didn't the first time, so they thought they would try it again. She's too enthralled with what she is watching on tv to even notice what's going on around her. But what she did notice, however, and turned her head when it happened, was Randy and Napua fell in love. She felt that it was a private moment between them and instead turned her attention to Clay and Maya in the pool. It turns out that what started out as the kids bringing friends home from school turned into a pool party and even Lucy participated in the fun by breaking out the new grill to make dinner for the kids. Clay sat down with his sister, cousin and Randy and started to eat dinner, but Brady just arrived home from work and he couldn't wait to go out and greet him. Say it with me now, Awww. With Clay gone from the table, the teens talked about more important matters at hand. "I had the best milkshake today. It had chunks of bananas and strawberries in it as well as spinkles and whipped cream on top." Wow, Randy, you had to wait until Clay left the room in order to the girl this? "My psychic told me I would try something orgasmic today. I didn't want to bring it up in front of the kid." So here ends this chapter. I will end with a picture from the kissing room. Enjoy this picture, because it aint gonna last.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 25

2005-09-20T20:22:00.000-05:00

In our last update, Brady, the Generation 2 heir, became an elder and the legacy house went through a major reconstruction and renovation. We start this update off with a pillow fight! To celebrate the new house, Leilani and Remington have an old fashioned pillow fight in their front yard. And who do they run into during their fun, wonderful "always there" Goopy. "Out of our way, Gilscarbo, or you're next!" "What? Huuuuh? I was just here to see Brady and he suddenly got a phone call he had to take. Funny, I never heard the phone ring! You must have one of those silent ringers.." So this is what the house is like when the kids are at school. I can't wait until I retire, I can sit around all day. The elder years just drag on forever! The day seemed to drag on forever until finally the kids came home from school. And look who stopped by as well! Why, it's Brady's old fling, Meadow Thayer. "Did I ever tell you about my first woohoo? Too bad it wasn't with you!" "DAD!" Um, Brady, your son is standing right behind you, you might want to watch what you say. And here are Leilani, Sophie and Napua all crammed into the master bedroom tv room watching a little tv. I seem to remember building a spacious living room complete with a tv and couches which nobody ever uses. They don't seem to complain, so I'll let them be. That little tv room isn't only used for tv...it's also the kissing room! Here is a newly aged Brady with his lovely wife, Lucy, after a hard day on the job. She's still got a couple years left before she becomes an elder, so he'll have a hotter younger wife for quite a while! After the adult/elder makeout session, the perfect child, Clay, came over to his mom to ask her to teach him how to use the medical surgical station. "Hey, mom, how's about we go over and see what we can pull out of the dummy!" Lucy agreed to teach him and off they went to the front yard to start the lesson. "Wait a minute...what is this? Is this thing defective?" "Ew, mom! That's gross and smelly!" "Ohmigosh! Do you know what this is? This is a hamburger! Do NOT eat this, I'm calling the manufacturer!" "So you see, Clay, this is the right way to do CPR. And when you are doing this procedure, you are supposed to say, 'Breathe, damn you, breathe! Don't you dare die on me!' Can you remember that, sweetie?" "Mom, does CPR mean you have to kiss the person, too? Eww!" "So this is where the phone went! I am writing a strongly worded letter to the company who made this mannequin!" With the lesson being conducted out in the front yard, the elders were currently occupied in the house. Leilani and Remington were taking up space in the kissing room. And Brady was having a breakdown. Ok, he wasn't having a breakdown, but he was having a hearty laugh at a painting he came across. Just what painting was he looking at? "I can't believe I ever wore that outfit!" He's laughing at a painting that he was in! Maybe he is going a little crazy. The following day Maya maxed a skill on the plant thingy. Clay, the perfect child, has already maxed that skill. Now it's not a competition, Maya, but your cousin is more skilled than you were when you were his age. No pressure, just letting you know. I've heard some of the benefits of the noodlesoother, so I thought I would try it out to see if it worked. So Lucy straps on the trusty soother right before she hops into the carpool. Yes, I'm sure Brady would still want to kiss you if he saw you wearing that. He's been a bit randy lately, I don't even think he would notice it! Once again, the elders are in charge of the house and they can do as they please. Leilani tracks down the mailman to talk about her children and how well they are doing in school. It seems Sheldon would much rather talk about the weather. "So how about all those hurricanes the south is having. Those are something, huh?" We'll just let them talk to themselves while I try to bust out another chapter. More stuff happens later on, I promise.

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Noelle - The College Years

2005-09-19T20:42:00.000-05:00

So this is the story of Noelle during her years at Sim State University. Remember Noelle? Daughter to Tony and Marisa, sister to Leilani, Brady and Mckenna. She left home to go to college after her sister Mckenna's firey transition into adulthood. And this is Noelle on her first day at uni. Kinda formal, right? Don't worry, she doesn't wear this outfit much, she relaxes a little. She chooses philosophy as a major as it doesn't have a lot to do with her LTW, except that she gains skills for her classes. Somewhere along the line as she was moving to college, she decided what she really wanted to do with her life was learn as much as possible and max out her skills. I don't remember what her old LTW was, but it changed on her way to college. So anyway, after deciding to go after a degree in philosophy, she meets a fellow dormmate, Robert. Here they are discussing if A+B=C and B+C=A, then A+C should equal B. That conversation fried her brain so much, she forgot a cook came with the dorm and she didn't have to make her meals anymore. She cooked a lot of meals in the beginning of her college career. She also liked to go off on her own to eat her meals. This also didn't last long. Ah, here we go. After a while Noelle loosened up a bit and just stopped dressing for class. I admit she had a nine o'clock class one semester and slept until it was time to go, but she really had no morals. And here she is coming back from another class - with even less on. This girl is going to be the death of her fath--oh yeah, he's already gone. I guess that's what happens when Sim State has a long waiting list, you kind of hang there in limbo until you're accepted. Meeting people isn't difficult when you're wearing nothing but underwear. Here is Cristopher admiring her. Even the school mascot, Blake, couldn't help but notice her attire. I don't suppose this will be going in the 'ol family album. This one either. It doesn't hurt her friendship with Cristopher at all, though. Luckily she did manage to put some clothes on to play chess with Angie. Luckily, it's decent enough for the album, especially since she maxed out her logic skill. Noelle is often surrounded by her male admirers. Here Cristopher, Goopy, and the cow fight for her attention. Blake manages to throw a pillow in her face, so he wins. And what is this? This would be the female bathroom with a male occupant! Who could it be taking a shower in the women's restroom? So this is what is under the cow mascot uniform! Not too bad looking and he sure is taking his good old time, isn't he? Ok, so here's what happened to result in this picture. Noelle was happily eating a meal when Angie came up and threw a water balloon at her. Noelle, in turn, poked Angie to retaliate. Noelle's poke made Angie cry so Noelle turned her attention on one of her many male admirerers. Nobody has any respect for the service sims. You get gossiped about right in front of your face! Let's see if they do it to Noelle. Nope, instead, after her shift she struck up a conversation online with Blake. She's busy telling him she Miss Moneybags now that she has a job. "I can still sleep in since my class is in the afternoon and I work after class!" "No, I won't play video games with you." "So anyway, I've calculated it out if I work a couple hours each day and then continue to get my scholarship, I'll still be Miss Moneybags. It's all simple math, really." "No, I don't want to test out your new handcuffs!" You see, Noelle, people get the wrong impression of you if you strut around in your underwear. She may like the additions of the Nightlife expansion. If she's dreaming about how much she doesn't like the sun...I'm just saying. "What, Goopy. Where? What am I looking at? You just want to check out my butt, right?" "Oof, Goopy, you jerk!" That didn't last long since Cristopher came around to admire her. Admire her hind quarters, perhaps. Look at his facial expression. You can't tell me he's not checking her out. And now, Noelle's college years are over as she is racing off to her last final - in her underwear. She graduated with honors and she rocketed into platinum. And her favorite courses over her four years at Sim State? Existentialism: Depressing Yourself on Purpose and Senior Project: Preparing for a Career in Fast Food. You know what she liked best about Sim State? In all her four years, she never had to pay one bill. She also struck up a friendship with her professors and never had to write one term paper. Now that college is over, Noelle becomes an adult as she heads back to her home town. She seems really happy with how she turned out - in her underwear. And here she is getting into the cab to go back home - still in her underwear. Face it, this girl is never going to get dressed unless she has to go to work. Maybe we'll get lucky and she'll mature with age. Well, that's Noelle's journey through college. My next update will be back at the Cavanaugh household.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 24

2005-08-21T20:28:00.000-05:00

Last we left off the family had a bunch of ghost sightings by Tony and Marisa, Clay had a birthday and turned into a child and Leilani had some fun with the new fingerprint scanner. Here is Brady maxing out his creativity skill. And what exactly is he painting? He's painting the "old couple" picture that was started by Tony and Marisa and will continue with all couples residing in the house. This painting came out too far away when the pcture showed up, so that won't be the picture to be hung up, but it's still a very cute picture. Remington took a break from being painted to play the guitar. Doesn't he look very distinguished doing so? And today is Brady's birthday as he becomes an elder and one of his wants was to become best friends with Napua. He manages to accomplish the want before 6pm sky rocketing him to platinum status. Look at all those candles the poor guy has to blow out! Enjoy these last few pictures of Brady before he transitions and becomes old. "What should I wish for? I wish my family would look at me as I blow out my candles and transition instead of having several different conversations behind me." "Excuse me, guy about to transition here. Can we pay attention to me, please?" Well, at least Ivy is watching and she isn't even part of the family! As Maya is complaining about the counter, Brady begins his transition into elderhood. "Honey? Leilani? How do I look?" There we go, we get to have a look and see how Brady aged. He aged pretty well it appears. And as Brady is the first to grab a piece of huge cake, we cry softly because we realize Brady won't be around for much longer. "Miss Leilani, does that hurt?" "Does what hurt, Orlando?" "Your daughter's arm going through your head!" Ouch, that's gotta hurt. That night, no ghostly apparitions appeared to spook the family, so Remington and Brady spent some tine together painting. I know who is who, but can you tell the difference between the two? Here are Brady and Napua dancing the next morning before Napua goes off to school. They are celebrating the fact that their house is *finally* getting that makeover it so badly needs. Take one last look at the house as all their belongings are strewn about the yard. It's almost like back when Tony first moved into the neighborhood, but this time a better looking house comes out of it. "Aren't you excited, Rem? We're getting a brand new house! What will it look like?" And here is the aerial shot of the brand new house. On the right side of the house you will notice the master suite, which the current adult heir and spouse will occupy, with the dark green carpeting which leads into the master bath. Below that in the room with the dark red carpet is the room occupied by Leilani and Remington, which has its own bathroom. Next to their room, we have the study, which contains the computer, the treadmill and the chess table. The great room contains a new fireplace and that room leads to the breakfast nook and the kitchen with all new appliances. Underneath the kitchen we have the formal dining room for dinners with the headmaster and such. To the left of that we have Clay's room with the dark blue carpet, another bathroom above that and next to the breakfast nook we have Napua and Maya's bedroom. And finally, we have the big fun room with the piano, bar, guitar and the easels. Would you like to see some pictures? Here we go! Here is the great room and you can see the hallway that leads into the master suite. This is the breakfast nook and you can see it leads out to the pool. The great room and the master suite also lead outside to the pool. Here we have the study and you can play chess while looking outside the beautiful windows. Here we have the kitchen with the upgraded appliances and a lot of counter space and two fridges and you can see it leads to the formal dining room. This would be half of the fun room which looks to the left of the property and you can look out the great windows while playing the piano. If you turn around you will see the bar and to the right of the bar is the guitar. And if you walk down the hallway, it takes you past the two bedrooms into the breakfast nook and then into the great room. Well, there's your tour, part of it at least. Other rooms were too small for me to get a good picture. And here is the finished product from the outside. It has a front and a back porch, has a big pool out back and has a brick exterior. Hope you enjoyed the tour, and, until next time.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 23

2005-08-17T21:30:00.000-05:00

I'll start off this chapter with a little bit of fun from the ghosts because it was fun for me to watch. And then it was back to business as usual for Marisa and Tony. Napua doesn't care, she just got another kiss from Randy just before Grandma showed up. You guys! Leilani JUST finished mourning you! "Great job scaring everyone, honey!" "Thanks, wanna do it some more?" "Watch out, Joe. The ghosts are out in force tonight!" Thank goodness Joe had left the table before Tony came, or he would have been his next victim. After dinner, Brady worked with Clay on his homework, which he was done in no time...because he's the perfect child. And Rem and Leilani were going about their business when Tony decided to interrupt it. Gosh darn it, Tony! Go to your urn and think about what you did! They sure got over that quickly, didn't they? Later that night, the resident "tucker inner" said goodnight to Clay as he went down for the night. And Brady put himself in the corner. He must have been punishing himself for something because out of nowhere he went and stood in the corner! And thankfully everyone survived the night of a thousand scares. Look what we got! It's fun for everyone! Do we really need to know who touched the lamp last? "Wait a minute, the maid hasn't been playing the piano, has she?" She's a maid, Leilani. They do tend to dust every once in a while. After a night like last night, I'm sure Remington wasn't the only one to hit the bar. Oh, come on. Only two people have been on that thing - Rem and Lucy. It has to be one of those two. "Ah, Lucy's the culprit!" Ok, enough with the scanner, quick Remington, distract her. "The hills are alive with the sound of muuusiiiic..." Aww, I love it when they serenade each other. Looky what we have here. "Hi Aunt Mckenna! I'm your nephew and the family heir, Clay!" "Hi Clay! The only time you may see me is when I come over since a truck crashed into my house and until that is fixed, I may be coming over more!" (Still haven't been able to fixed that, although I haven't really tried.) "Excuse me, I'm trying to go to the bathroom. Mind not staring?" "Agh! That is the scariest thing I've ever seen!" What are you looking at, Mckenna? Apparantly tv guy brings fear to everyone watching. Who knew? I guess Napua isn't as smart as I thought she was. You need to open the curtain before turning on the water! Where's your head? heh heh.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 22

2005-08-17T21:06:00.000-05:00

Now that Clay is a child and is getting older, Brady has been talking it up with Katerina, the maid, to try to butter her up for his son. Something about this picture reminds me of when Tony just moved into the neighborhood and was greeted by his neighbors. Clay didn't miss an opportunity either. "If you want, I'll let you teach our kids to talk. Did you want to do that?" "I'm sorry, kid, what?" "And house rules clearly dictate once you move in, you can't move out. So how 'bout it hot stuff? Marry me some day?" "I'm sorry, kid, what?" Out front, Napua was on a conquest of her own. She had spun up a want to become best friends with Randy London, which I interpret to mean she wants to have her first kiss with him. Here they are crushing on each other. A little hand holding to get to that first kiss a little faster. And some sweet talk. Are you ready, Napua? D'oh! Looks like Randy isn't. Is this going to be a repeat of Brady and Meadow? Randy's rejection causes Napua to plummet so far down, she's in need of a shrink, but not quite. To cheer up, she does a little pranking on Sophie. She's the first so far to actually like getting joy buzzered. Her relationship with Napua went up! How did I forget to put this in? Here is the heir on his first day of school. No private school for him yet, but maybe some day. Uh oh, look who came home with a demotion. Lucy got a bad chance card. Now this one I should have ignored. Now really, what is the best answer to choose between yell loud and yell really loud? I chose to yell loud and she got demoted. Yeah, I can't understand it either, Lucy. Oh stop crying about it. Your sister-in-law is doing something that is really worth crying about. In hopes to get the ghosts to stop all the scaring, Leilani has gone to the mausoleum to mourn her parents. Doesn't she just look plain mean here? But when she goes to her father's urn, she looks so sad. Can you tell who her favorite was? She does seem to enjoy the artwork, though. Meanwhile, back in the house, Napua finally scores that first kiss from Randy. And she's platinum and out of shrink danger. And the wonder child maxes his creativity skill with Remington's help. Sigh, looks as if Leilani wasted her time in the mausoleum. Marisa looks proud of herself as she was just playing with the tub. You can still see the suds in the tub. Ok, I have to admit I do like these pictures. Do you think if they ever got pets, the family dog would run out when someone came home from work? I don't think I want to find out. And finally, to end this chapter, Clay was not the only one to max creativity. Napua maxed her creativity as well. It's not a competition, guys. I love you both equally...well, maybe Clay a little more, but we won't tell Napua that.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 21

2005-08-17T20:48:00.000-05:00

You didn't think that would be all we would see of the ghosts in the last chapter, did you? I found Tony in Leilani and Remington's room watching over Leilani as she slept. He wanted to make sure she was doing ok before going about his roaming business. Leilani woke up from a sound sleep with a start after Tony left wondering what was going on. She had felt Tony's presence as she was sleeping and it was such a nice feeling. That feeling would not last, however. Leilani got up and took a shower and went into Clay's room to play with him when Marisa jumped out in front of her. And we also solved the mystery of that Cavanaugh nose. Can you see the resemblance? The whole family has that nose. Thanks, Marisa! Great, thanks again, Marisa. And she wasn't done. Can't forget the birthday girl! Marisa is on a rampage tonight! Thank goodness that was it for the night. The next day, Lucy reached the top of her career! I have no idea why she was in the medical career when her LTW has to do with being a cop, and for the life of me, I can't remember what it's called! So she promptly quits her job to start her career in the appropriate field. And look who maxed his charisma skill! I told you he would be a perfect child. Clay was so tired after maxing a skill he took a quick power nap and Maya came over to tuck him in. What? Another birthday? Who's birthday could it be this time? It's Clay's birthday as he becomes a child. It looks like he maxed that skill just in time! Let's watch as he does his thing and leaves his toddler years behind him. And the heir has become a child. Now let's see what he looks like. Aww, look how cute he is in his duckie pajamas! He looks just like Brady and has Lucy's mouth. Let's do something about that hair, though. A quick trip to the bathroom and a little change to the hair and he looks a lot better! He seems to like it as well. He's got the learning bug just like his sister and asks Uncle Remington to work with him on the plant thingy. I still can't remember the name of it. And, once again, we have a house full 'o learnin'. Look who's out again. Thankfully, if memory serves, this is the only thing he does tonight. Later, Clay is still up when Brady gets home so he goes out to greet him to show how well he transitioned. And here is someone else going crazy on a musical instrument. He is so skilled with his creativity, his hands go flying about the piano keys. And I'll end this chapter with some married couple lovin'. This house sure is full of love, isn't it. I may have coerced that kiss between Leilani and Remington, but the kiss from Lucy to Brady was purely autonomous and I happened to have the game on pause at that moment and was able to catch a picture. It's another "awww" moment.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 20

2005-08-17T19:51:00.000-05:00

Last we left off Clay turned toddler and Remington became an elder, we had some elder lovin' from the house elders and we also had some teachings from Brady to Clay. And we start this chapter with everyone's favorite object. Lucy is so good with the guitar, she can play it behind her back! Show off. Meanwhile Brady figured he'd take advantage of his platinum status and put on those attractive glasses. Those glasses plus the thinking cap equals supreme geekness, but that makes him all the more cuter! And since the family just got the whatcha-call-it, Brady also used his platinum mood to use that so he could look into the sky in the off chance other beings may be watching as well. Aww, look, daddy and son are matching! Thanks to Brady's slacker profession, he can stay up all night searching the sky and still get some sleep before work the next day. Unfortunately, no aliens that night. And poor Clay is being ignored and stinky in his crib. Look at that sad little face. Here Leilani goes, off to work back at the beginning of the medical career thanks to that awful chance card while Lucy is just getting home from work. Looks like Lucy has been doing very well in her career. She's one step closer to the top and has also reached a financial milestone again. And I know the parent/child hug is really cute and all, but there are times when I have them set up to do something to help them out, but they don't care and go run to hug the parent. But this is awfully cute, isn't it? I'm sorry they're not coming to get the groceries, I told them to. Don't look at me like that! Doesn't that just freak you out sometimes? And hey, look! It's a birthday cake again. And this time it actually is Napua's birthday. And here she goes, let's see how she turns out. She came out cute, interesting outfit though. Looks like she took a page from the "How to Dress" manual by Meadow Thayer. She'll be definitely getting a makeover shortly. She appears to be happy with her transition which would probably include her clothes. There's no accounting for her taste, huh? Leilani proves you're never too young to dance as she gets down with Napua shortly after her transition. They didn't even cut the cake! That's alright, they didn't need it anyway. And here is the birthday girl after her makover. Ah, much better! Agh! Not again! I thought it was called eternal slumber! Turns out, for these ghosts, it's just daily slumber. But here are Tony and Marisa out again to check things out the night Napua transitioned. Do you want to see some more elder lovin'? "Watch it, woman! You'll throw my back out!" Leilani autonomously jumped into Remington's arms. Awww. And some old people dancing. Awww. Enjoy it now, because pretty soon I'll be itching for them to die to make some room in the house. Afterall, Remington doesn't have a job and he may go first. But who could pass up some elder love?

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Generation 3 - Chapter 19

2005-08-15T18:50:00.000-05:00

Would you look at this? We have two more birthdays on the same day again! Nope, not Napua's, she's just over there looking at the cakes wishing she could have some. Today our birthday boys are Remington and Clay! Remington ignored the command to go to the cake and chose to go his own way. And before Lucy could get Clay to the cake, he toddlerized in his bedroom. Let's see how they both transitioned. He turns fifty-two and he suddenly has grey hair and an aching back. Nice legs, too, huh? And let's see how Clay turned out. He turned into a blonde haired, brown eyed cutie and looked just like his sister. While Remington and Clay were busy aging, other people in the house were having fun of their own. Obviously Brady is feeling better. Jan came home with Leilani and had been building a friendship with Brady. Meanwhile, in the background, Napua is still watching the cakes expecting someone to cut them, but thanks to the two birthday boys, those plans were nixed. Now that both Remington and Leilani are both elders, they can't keep their hands off each other! And Brady is in the dining room eating while all this flirting and kissing was going on. Do you think he was embarrassed? He was too preoccupied to notice. Leilani and Remington got so heated by that kiss they shared they headed off to bed. They haven't spun up wants for this in a long time. I guess their woohoo drive speeds up as they become elders, huh? While the house elders were otherwise occupied, Brady set to work on teaching Clay his skills. Yeah, Clay, he's going to teach you how to talk! Don't look at me like that! Clay's first word is appropriately "daddy" and he learns just as quickly as Napua did, thanks to the smart milk. And, boom, Clay is talking and already asking daddy to pick him up. Taking a break from learning, Clay and Brady play with the bunny head to build up Clay's charisma. "Daddy, I want more toys." "Keep getting those skill points, I want more money." "But, Daddy, I want to play games." "We'll be working on your cooking skills next." "This will help you for when you start going to school so you can get good grades and you can keep your aspiration up. When you become a teenager you can get a job and we can get that money rolling in and then you can become an overachiever and you'll be set so when you become an adult you can head out into the real world with a big person job like mommy and daddy." "So I can get a promotion?" "Daddy, I want to fly to work." "We can work on that." Leilani is the "tucker in" of the family. Whever she doesn't have anything to do, you can find her wherever someone is sleeping. And where is her other half? He's sandwiched between two pretty ladies. Remington, the ladies man, manages to max out his cooking skill at the same time. And thanks to that darn guitar, Jan managed to play all night into the morning until she passed out. As most of the house had gone off to school and work, Brady sat down with Clay and taught him to walk with help from the smart milk. And also did the potty training to get all three out of the way. Clay is well on his way to being the perfect child.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 18

2005-08-10T19:07:00.000-05:00

The morning after the big scaring spree Napua and Leilani sat down to play a game of chess. "Have you met your brother yet? He was born while you were asleep last night." "Maybe we can get him into private school just like you and Maya and Moana." Meanwhile, Brady was talking to Katerina about how many bags and bags of money the family will have by the time Clay is old enough to get married. Oh, and if anyone is interested, I named the C named generation 3 heir after Clay Aiken. Nobody was interested? Oh well, just a bit of trivia. Back to Brady and Katerina. She doesn't seem to be interested in the financial aspect of marrying into the family. She doesn't seem to be the nicest maid, does she? And later, since Remington seemed to enjoy painting the masterpieces and Leilani enjoyed the monetary benefit, I let Leilani sell the painting. She reached a financial landmark of soome kind as you can tell by the money doodad. And she also got credit for selling the masterpiece. Remington doesn't seem to care, so why not. While he was busy pianting, I caught a profile of him and he looked like he had gained some weight, so I directed him to the treadmill to work his butt off. No reason for this picture, I just thought it was funny that he looked like he was flexing his muscles as he was answering the phone. What's going on with Leilani? Is she now bringing home people of lower ranks now instead of just her level? Nope, all because of a stupid chance card, which even though it said she got fired, she was actually demoted to EMT. You would think that if you weren't feeling well, you would pass the rest of the surgery to your assistant, right? Because you don't want to rush the procedure to get out of there because remember what happened to Dr. Corday on ER when she wanted to go skiing with Dr. Green? She rushed the procedure and the guy ended up paralyzed because his spinal fluid was leaking. We didn't want that to happen, but I guess the right answer for that chance card was to just ignore it. Stupid assitant for leaving things inside the patient. Well, lesson learned! Nothing makes you feel better except for the caring touch of your husband. Say it with me, awww. Look who came home with Napua today, although Marsha isn't wearing the private school uniform, so maybe she was called over. But anyway, it was purely for friendship making for promotions, we don't actually want to be friends with her. "Are you best friends with Marsha yet, Napua?" Who could Brady possibly be lecturing? Poor Clay! All he did was get a dirty diaper, mean Brady, don't yell at the baby. Bad feelings quickly rectified with a little tummy blowing. Great, now Leilani is going to be thinking of this until the day she dies. I still don't understand what it means when an adult congratulates a child like this. Is she saying congratulations on her new sibling? I'll just say it is. Looks like Brady is sick! Also looks like he's about to hack up a lung! Get to bed, mister and don't talk to or hang around or breathe on anybody, especially Clay, don't want him getting sick too. And would you look at that, she even invades their dreams!

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Generation 3 - Chapter 17

2005-08-10T18:29:00.000-05:00

Later that night, after Leilani and Maya transitioned, we got another visit from the great beyond. I swear, if I was allowed to get rid of the tombstones/urns, I would because Marisa is really starting to irritate me. But, it's not just Marisa out tonight. They of course went to their old bed and cheered for it. Do you think I should just put the bed in the backyard and buy a new bed so the ghosts won't come in the house? They wandered around out back for a while together, so I was hoping they would stay outside. But, unfortunately, they didn't. Tony, who doesn't show up in ages, manages to scare Lucy who was making herself some dinner, and of course was close to giving birth. Marisa stayed busy for a while outside levitating things. And then, as Lucy was in the bathroom... ...she goes into labor. Actually, I think it was that same spot where Mckenna was born after Marisa took a shower. If you notice in the background Tony floating around. I guess he wanted to be there for the birth of his fourth grandchild. And here he is, the generation three heir, Clay Cavanaugh. Looks like brown eyes and blonde hair again, same as his sister. And the first thing Lucy did after giving birth? Put him on the floor to go do something. Is that the solution for everything for this woman? After Lucy put Clay in his crib, Tony seemed to hang out in the nursery almost as if he was watching over his only grandson. Turns out he had other plans than just watching over Clay. Brady got home from work and went in to meet his son, but got stopped along the way by Tony. But Brady overcame his fear and went in and picked up his son. And poor Napua, she got double teamed. First, earlier when she was playing the piano, she got scared by Marisa. And then after she had gone to bed, she got scared by Tony. Poor kid, the ghosts are after her! And poor kid, she even got scared by Tony so bad that she wet herself afterwards. Those two are on a scaring spree tonight! That's the worst I've ever seen it. I hope you're proud of yourself, Marisa. I would love to delete your urn, but I won't. This will not be the last we see of her.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 16

2005-08-10T18:07:00.000-05:00

Here we are, the morning after the headmaster visit and the girls are now private school students. "Did you really think the headmaster would have cared whether or not you had sold a masterpiece?" Seriously, Remington still thinks about those masterpieces he sold, but never spins up the want to paint any. "Couldn't you have discussed literature with him? Mark Twain, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tale of Two Cities, anything else?" " I did talk about literature, but I wanted to talk about my paintings more." "I seem to remember Napua taking him into the painting room and him not liking it, ending the tour on the spot. Lucy, did you hear that the girls got into private school?" "It's always a beautiful day after the headmaster comes. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping." Later, after breakfast, Leilani and Remington sat down for their portait so it can be hung somewhere. But did you know that if the painter stops painting it before the picture shows up, the subject comes out smaller? It's happened to me a couple times, one of the reasons Lucy and Brady had to be painted three times. I only mention it because Lucy was the one doing the painting and she stopped to eat before the picture showed up and now the painting is small and seems far away. No wonder why she had to stop, look how huge she is! Maya: "Sshh, don't say that to your mom, stay quiet!" Lucy: "I'm starving, if I don't eat I may die." "Mom, you're almost as big as an elephant!" "Napua, don't tell your mother that. She's in a very delicate condition, she may be carrying the heir to the family." "It's a good thing they teach us manners at school!" Look what time it is, two birthdays! And who would be celebrating birthdays today? No, not Remington. He's just reacting to the cake as all other people in the house do - with utter disdain and disgust. Today the birthday girls are Leilani, who turns elder on us, and Maya, who becomes a teen. They both went at the same time, although Leilani a little faster than Maya. Let's see how Leilani turned out. Not too bad, a somewhat pretty elder, although I'm kind of iffy about the yellow and purple, but it may grow on me. And Maya? I like it, it suits her! And she rolled Fortune with a LTW to be a celebrity chef if I remember correctly. It's been a while. "Congratulations on aging well, dear!" "Thanks, congratulations to you, too!" They both aged well, although I don't think either were platinum. That's it for this chapter. It was kind of short and there were a lot of family eating shots. It'll get better, I promise. =)

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Generation 3 - Chapter 15

2005-08-10T08:39:00.000-05:00

In our last update Lucy and Brady conceived baby number 2, Marisa showed up yet again, and Napua became a child. First thing we did with Napua as soon as she transitioned was change her look. She seems to be pretty happy with it and I think it suits her, so the pigtails stay. Because of the smart milk when she was younger, Napua had built a lot of skills and had almost maxed her charisma. On the same night as her transition Napua set to work on getting that last charisma point by playing with the execuputter Brady had gotten through work. And thanks to that smart milk, that last point came very quickly, and she was maxed out. That same night, as Lucy was sleeping, we got proof that Lucy was expecting. "Oh, what could possibly be happening?" Do they have to be surprised every time? I think that after the first baby, the surprised expression should be eliminated, kind of like that A+ dance. Let's take a look at what other people in the house are up to while Napua was maxing out her charisma and Lucy formed a bump. Leilani and Remington weren't getting older, they were only getting younger. Brady watched tv with his eternally youthful high school girlfriend. "So, Brady, my new boyfriend gave me money when he asked me to go steady. I remember when we started going out you had just gotten your inheritance from your dad. Isn't it funny how it worked out like that?" I seem to remember she agreed to go steady with him after he got his inheritance, but whatever. And since Lucy was up, she went over to the living room to keep an eye on things. After Napua maxed her charisma, she went and started to tackle the creativity by asking Remington to teach her how to use the plant thingy out front. Why didn't I discover the smart milk before? "Uncle Remington, you're the most creative out of all of us, can you rub some of that off on me?" Napua is making the most of her childhood and obtaining as many skills as she can...and it's still her birthday! In the short amount of time they were out there, Napua gained about 4 creativity skills, they came one right after the other. Back in the house Meadow and Lucy were having a converstaion. "Did I tell you about my new boyfriend? He and his family live on the rich side of town and he always buys me stuff. He tells me I'm pretty all the time and he loves the way I dress and he always buys me stuff...hey, you're getting a little pudgy, did you know that? Anyway, did I mention my boyfriend is rich?" (I still don't like Meadow from when she rejected Brady for his first kiss and request to go steady all that time ago, can you tell? hehe) After her conversation with Meadow, Lucy had to release her frustration. What better way from a pregnant woman to release tension than to run on the treadmill. She spun up the want to get in shape, and since she had a great pregnancy with Napua, I figured she could handle it. And she did, she was on that thing for about an hour and a half! Am I a slave driver, or what? It's still Napua's birthday and everyone in the house is skill building. And later that night, the dreaded phone call. That's right, now that Napua is old enough to go to school we can kill two birds with one stone and call the headmaster to get both Maya and Napua in. Here is Leilani at 5 o'clock the next day waiting for the headmaster. Thanks to Remington's shopping trip, she now has a new formal dress instead of that hideous purple one. Wait, where's Korey? We were hoping for Korey to show up because of his friendship with Remington, but we got Mr. BJ Ryan. Did anyone realize that the name of this headmaster is the same as a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles? However, this guy doesn't seem to be interested in sports. What is it with the headmasters and women's clothing? Korey didn't like Leilani because she wasn't wearing a hat and BJ wanted to talk about dresses. And women's shoes. Fortunately, fashion was not his only topic of conversation. They talked about art. "I hear that your husband sold a masterpiece!" And they talked about the theatre. And finally discussed Maya and Napua's education. "So Mr. Ryan, will the fact that I sold a masterpiece help the girls get into your school? I would like them to get a good education." Oh, get off the subject of that stupid masterpiece you sold, Remington. Next up at bat (hehe, baseball pun...BJ Ryan, pitcher for the Orioles, next up at bat...oh never mind), Napua has the highest charisma so she will be schmoozing and giving the tour. He liked the living room, but then when she showed him the music/painting room he ended the tour. I think we got a 44 for the turkey, and then tour and schmoozing was ok. I didn't write down the score because I didn't realize the scenario was over until he was leaving. I do know, however, that the girls got in to private school. I think the score was 105/90 or something close to that. Doesn't matter, though because we made him happy and he would then call the family about every other day or so asking to speak to Napua.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 14

2005-08-08T08:33:00.000-05:00

In our last update Lucy and Brady went for baby number 2 and were successful and Marisa could not be more of a pain in my butt. She's out haunting more and she shows up pretty much every night now. Here we are with everyone's favorite person, Remington. I accidentally clicked on "skip here" and was entertained by the fact that they actually skip. He wasn't going anywhere in particular, it was strictly for my amusement. So after Brady and Lucy had some fun in the bedroom, they discovered they were famished and came to eat with the family. "Aunt Lucy, Uncle Brady, I know I'm a good student and all, but why are you at the dinner table in your underwear?" "Don't you watch tv? I thought kids these days learned life's lessons from television." "Do you have to be married to do it, Daddy?" "Hmm hmm, just cleaning here. Ignoring the conversation, go put some clothes on Lucy..." "Well, you see, Maya. Your Aunt Lucy and I were just having a pillow fight!" And while all that was going on, Marisa was hanging around still, like always, and went back over to her bed while Lucy was getting some much needed rest. Lucy, having just gotten to sleep, thought she heard something she couldn't quite place. She got out of bed and looked around, but didn't see anything, so she got back into bed. It always scares me when the ghosts are out and about, but the only thing Marisa did that night was this. Meanwhile, Napua was busy skill building and making friends with Chandler, who came home from school with Maya earlier in the day. I didn't know toddlers could make friends with people other than their family, but after checking in her relationship panel, Chandler sure enough was a friend. And hey, that helps with promotions! Later that night, as Marisa was floating about the house (she was out until about 6am - great for the nerves, especially since Napua had the ghost fear) she went through Maya's room. Maya must have felt her presence because she woke up. What's the first thing anyone does when they wake up in the middle of the night? This whole family is a bunch of cleaning freaks. After cleaning the tub, she did what all little kids like to do. I let her have a little bit of fun before sending her back to bed. What is it with Meadow and Brady? Meadow was only walking by, nobody had to call her over, but Brady is always getting these wants to talk to her, invite her over, dance with her. So as she was walking by, I had Brady greet her and invite her to stay a while. Who's it going to hurt, she's still a teen, nothing can happen. "So I found this bottle and a genie came out and he told me I could make one wish. You know what I wished for Leilani?" "No, what did you wish for Meadow?" "I wished I would never have to grow up and he granted my wish! Um, are you ok over there Jan?" "Oh, sorry. I was laughing because I heard a joke earlier and it made me choke." "Maya, did you know that every year about 3,000 adults die because they accidentally inhale rather than swallow food? The food gets stuck and blocks their trachea, making breathing impossible. Death follows rapidly unless the food or other foreign material can be displaced from the airway. This condition is so common it has been nicknamed the "cafe coronary."...Maya? Maya? Oh, well I found it interesting." You think she's thinking of what Leilani read to her earlier? She'll probably think twice before eating anything again. But the appearance of the birthday cake only means one thing. Napua is becoming a child today. "So, Korey, I was thinking. You can come over tomorrow, we'll feed you, schmooze you a little and you'll let both Maya and Napua in, how's that sound?" Remington and Korey have become quite the friends since his visit since all Korey seems to do is call...and call...and call. Remington, get off the phone, it's your niece's birthday. Here is Brady with his only daughter as she is about to blow out her candles. And let the celebrating and aging commence. And poof! Interesting transition. Something needs to be done about the hair, of course. But it looks like she's got Brady's nose and you can see the resemblance to Brady. She didn't turn out to bad! *wipes brow*

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Generation 3 - Chapter 13

2005-08-03T21:31:00.000-05:00

"So honey, did I ever tell you about the first time daddy and I did woohoo?" "Sorry mommy, I have to go to school. Maybe you can tell me years and years in the future? Or maybe never?" This being Brady's day off, it was his turn to teach Napua something. "C'mon, baby. Let's see that smart milk work and bring home the good grades!" Just as quickly as she learned how to talk, Napua learned to walk. Thank goodness for that smart milk! Aww, isn't that a sweet picture of my Brady and his little girl? Ok, so I'm looking at my watch, the mailman is here...is he late? What is Lucy doing home at a time like this? Turns out she got a really good chance card, I think she chose to go for the putt instead of letting her boss win. Who knows, I get so many of the darn things. But, she got promoted to Vice President, hence the little money doodad. "Sweetie, what are you doing home in the middle of the day? Shouldn't you be at work?" "I love my job. I got promoted playing golf with the boss!" "Oh, my wife, she's a keeper!" Go ahead, Sophie. Eat the rotten food. I'll just sit here and watch and not let anyone intervene...hehe. Well, the time has come for Moana to leave the nest as the teen years are long and tedious and what I really want is for Lucy and Brady to have another baby and I do not want to have 8 sims in a house. "Bye, Moana. I'll be the only one to say bye to you on your way to dorm life, so enjoy it." And so goes Moana off to college. Maybe we'll visit her at college some time to see how she turns out. Or she may just be like one of my friends and be a professional college student. "Daddy! Daddy! I got an A+! Aren't you so excited for me?" "Zzzzz...mmph, that's great honey..." I hate that stupid A+ dance...grumble grumble. Even though I hate that everyone brings all the townies home from school and work, I think the kids playing together is too cute to ignore. Now that Moana is gone, someone has to take care of the plant thing. So I elected Brady, or whoever may be around it when I remember. Brady hasn't complained yet, so he may just be the newly elected tenderer, we'll see. This would be the second attempt at the painting for all eternity. Just like the first one, it came out too far away and they looked too small. But it's still a cute picture. I couldn't resist slipping this in. Isn't it cute when the adults put the kids to bed and give them a kiss? So Napua is going down for the count and that would be one less sim to keep track of. And here comes Marisa...again...two nights in a row. Enough with the bed. What do you want me to do? Make a sign telling you the bed stays forever? "Hey, I remember you! Don't mess with my daughter!" Earlier Brady and Lucy had an important discussion. "I want someone to play baseball with." "Honey, Remington told me he likes to ski..." "No, I want to have another baby and try for that boy." "We're going to have to put up with that A+ dance on a constant daily basis, aren't we?" And it's go for baby number 2 and hopefully the heir. Lucy reluctantly agreed and they successfully concieved on the first attempt. And this would be the third and last attempt at their painting for all eternity. This time it worked so we no longer need to worry about this painting. This angle looks like someone might be watching them...who could it be? It was just Marisa, no need to worry. And I will leave this chapter with Marisa floating around the grounds and Lucy and Brady snuggling as the second baby is on it's way.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 12

2005-08-03T20:51:00.000-05:00

Well, today is little Napua's birthday as she poofs into toddlerhood. Since she is the first child for Brady and Lucy, I'm a little worried about what she may look like. Brady is here to celebrate the birthday and it looks like he is the only one. "I'm one crazy and wild guy!" I picture Steve Martin right there next to him...hehe. Ok, so it's at least seven o'clock, the candles are blown out...so...when is Napua going to poof? Maybe a second cake would help. "You expect me to eat two cakes? Bleh!" Sorry Brady. "She doesn't know what she's doing. I bet I could do it better, I've had two kids." Leilani was no help at all, so off she went. "Maybe if I put her on the floor..." "Help me, my mommy doesn't know what she's doing!" Pick the baby up, Lucy and try it again. "It's about time. I want some cake! Then I'm off to get an aspiration boost and go clothes shopping!" And what will Napua look like? We're about to find out. So brown hair plus red hair equals what? Blonde hair? Ok, so Napua is a cute little toddler with blonde hair, brown eyes like her mother and her father's nose...just what I was afraid of. Oh yeah, and her mother's gaping void of a mouth. After Napua's birthday, Remington went downtown to buy the family some clothes. Who are you looking at, Rem? Hey, that's Brady in the shop with you! I thought you left him at home! I see, now we know why Brady didn't tell anyone he was coming here. Looks like he has a thing for pretty dresses and doesn't want anyone to know. We'll just let Brady do his own thing and not bother him and let Remington go shopping for some much needed clothes. "Hey, don't mind the man in the dressing room. He's just trying on some clothes. But, hey - do you think maybe if I have a nephew he can stop by and butter you up a little?" It couldn't hurt, everyone needs a first kiss, right? While Remington (ahem, and Brady) were off trying on and buying clothes, Lucy took to potty training Napua. And easy as that, Napua is potty trained. Why do I always do the easy stuff first? Oh, the joys of toddlerhood. Moana gets home from her after school job and heads over to her fate. If she had just left well enough alone, I might have chosen someone else to tend to the plants. And hey, we finally figured out how to use smart milk! I was wondering why they would never give the toddler the milk while they were sitting in the high chair. And thanks to the wonder that is smart milk, Napua is talking in no time! This kid is going to be a genius, I know it.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 11

2005-08-03T20:09:00.000-05:00

In our last update, Remington sold a masterpiece and that was all he could think about, Moana insulted Marsha and Moana also decided that she would continue with school and go on to college. Why, Katerina, you're a maid. You've smelled all kinds of bad stuff, what could possibly have you acting like this? Oh, I see. Lucy is cooking and burnt the hamburgers. Her cooking skills are almost maxed out and she can't cook hamburgers. These sims really mistify me sometimes. "Maya, how is your quest in getting best friends?" "Not good, Aunt Lucy. I've been too busy reading Harry Potter and the ending traumatized me! I can't believe who died!" "What about you Moana? Since you're going to college soon, will you be getting engaged, too?" "No, I'm thinking about coming back home after college." What bothers you more Lucy, the burnt food or your niece's answer? "Should I tell her I think her hamburgers are gross?" "Nyah Nyah, I have more best friends than you!" Ah, sisterly love. They're usually really nice to each other all huggy and stuff, but Moana did this all on her own and I have yet to figure out why. Then they ganged up on Katerina and watched her work. "Our mom and uncle used to do what you're doing right now. Maybe you'll get lucky and Aunt Lucy will have a baby boy and you can marry into our family just like the two previous maids!" I'm sure Katerina can't wait. "Hey sweetie, you know how much I love you right?" "Yes, my love. I love you, too!" "I love you so much I want to show you and embarrass my family at the same time!" "Sweetie, turn around and you can see how much we embarrassed Leilani and Remington! We got 'em both in that one grab!" And of course Leilani and Remington could not be outdone and left out in the loving embarrassment activities. "I wonder what we could do to embarrass Moana..." "Oh, honey, I know what I could do!" I love the look on Leilani's face as she did that! And we all know what Moana's reaction was. And they got Brady and Lucy too! After such loving public displays of affection, what could possibly come next? And although they were having so much fun embarrassing each other, all fun must come to an end. Lucy and Brady have yet to have their picture painted for the mausoleum, so they asked Remington to do the honors. This was one of the three attempts at getting painted, so this will not be the picture depicting them for the rest of eternity...or until I have to move due to a buggy lot (crossing fingers that never happens). But they looked so cute, I thought I would take another picture. Not to be outdone once again, here are Leilani and Remington displaying their love for one another. Ok, maybe they're just skill building, but Leilani is always up for a skill point. =) Thanks to Brady, who got a job in the slacker career, here is the third career object in my quest for points. And since Moana made it a point to go over and clearly express her disgust with this new object... ...she is now the designated plant tenderer. I know, I'm a horrible person...hehe. And to end this chapter, let's take a look at what our founder and his beloved are up to. Does the floating urn really mean anything? I have a theory...does it mean the ghost will haunt more? We'll find out in upcoming chapters.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 10

2005-08-01T19:53:00.000-05:00

Last we left off Lucy and Brady welcomed their first child, a girl named Napua, into the world. Now we all know the most powerful women in the world conduct meetings in their pajamas at the breakfast table. The Cavanaugh household is no different. "Now sweetie, if you want to ever run a major corporation, you have to eat your omlettes!" "Can't I just get men to buy me pretty things, like necklaces?" "That's not respectable. You need to work your way up in the world like Simdoleeza Rice. No gifts." "Well, that's how they do it on tv. I was just saying..." "You do realize what you see on movies and tv is not real, right?" "But what about Julia Simberts? She worked her way up by sleeping with Richard Sim!" "That was a movie, it wasn't real." "But she just won an Oscar a couple years ago! Don't tell me that she did all that by herself." That's good, Lucy. It's always best to let her think she's right and just ignore the situation. "Hey Marsha, I just found out that the movie we saw the other day wasn't real! I have to go to school to get a good job." "Yeah, I don't want to end up driving a school bus like your dad does." (hehe) So Moana told Leilani her plans for going to school and getting a good job later and Leilani gave her daughter a big hug greatful Moana made such a mature decision. While the women were discussing important wordly matters, Remington was busy as well. He sold his first masterpiece! It looked like a bunch of lines and squiggles to me, but I don't have the artistic eye, but who am I to judge? Later that night, it was Maya's turn in the spotlight. Here she is at six o'clock taking a nap. Should we let her sleep and do it later? I sat there watching her sleep anxious to see how this would work if the birthday girl was asleep and she was supposed to be transitioning. She eventually woke up and we held the birthday a few hours late. Remington did the honors as he helped Maya with her toddlerfication (credit to SmokerKat on the BBS as it seems to be a popular word) and helped her blow out her candles. And here she goes. I seem to get that picture a lot, don't I? And Maya as a pretty child. Who is that in the distance out the middle window? Could that be Marisa making an appearance? Yep, here she is headed to where else, but her bed? If she scared the pee out the headmaster on his visit, I'm afraid to know what she would do if I ever got rid of her bed, so no worries, the bed stays. She doesn't seem to mind that the new residents of her and Tony's bed are her son and his wife. Luckily, she only came to check out the bed and went back to roaming the lot. "Look at the nerd making his dinner. Should I tell him I sold a masterpiece?" "While you were making dinner, I spotted your mother floating around. Did you see her?" "Of course I saw her, I don't have blinders on. " "Her painting will never be as good as mine, I sold a masterpiece." Geez, Remington sells one masterpiece and that is all he can think about! Can we say one-track mind? And that is the outcome. It's hardly something I would call a masterpiece, but again, who am I to judge? And now for some shots of family love. A little Leilani and Remington lovin' in the baby's room. Nothing cuter than a hand holding shot. After Moana got home from work, she went into the room she shared with Maya now that she has grown up and tucked her in as she was sleeping. Awww. And as Brady is coming to bed, he sees Lucy sleeping and thinks about how beautiful she is. Awww.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 9

2005-07-22T15:56:00.000-05:00

Today is Moana, the talkative cleaning general's, birthday as she becomes a teenager. All kinds of people are at the house who followed the family home from work and school so it's not only the family who celebrate this birthday. Leilani bought the birthday cake and everone was excited to see Moana blow out her candles and transform, but like her grandfather when he aged into an elder and her mother almost for every birthday, she couldn't wait to grow up. Moana was sitting on the couch when she got the feeling, only Jan was in the way and she couldn't go anywhere! So she transitioned with her face in Jan's back - I wonder how Jan felt about that. "Hey Jan, you wanna move out of my way? I'm the birthday girl." After that glitchy transition was over with, she went over to take a look at her cake and blow out her candles. Look at all those candles! "Check me out, I'm still cuter than you!" "What shall I wish for...what shall I wish for?" "Oh, I know. I'll wish that I'll always have friends and stay as cute as I am now." As Jan and Christy cheered her on, Moana made her wish and blew out her candles and rolled the Popularity aspiration. After the cake was extinguished, the guests and the guest of honor dug into the cake each giving themselves huge portions. If you guys don't watch out, you may have to jump on the treadmill! Looks like Christy is ready. And look who dragged herself off the piano, only a little late. Doesn't she notice there are chunks missing from the cake and that everyone is busy doing something else? So that night, as most of the family is in bed, after sleeping the day away, Lucy gets up in the middle of the night and cleans the tub! This woman is cleaning the tub only hours before giving birth. I want Lucy to have all my kids, she has been the easiest pregnant woman I've ever had. She is always in the green, never threw up, and as you can see, cleans like crazy. She also goes over to the guitar and plays like mad. Can't keep this woman resting. And here we go. It's baby time. "Uh, honey...I think something's happening." "Oh really? Well, let me get into position." "Ok, I'm ready to stand here and freak out while you do all the work. Oh, wait, here comes Remington, he can help!" "You aren't helping! I might as well just have this baby by myself!" "Is the worst is over...are we done?" "Agh! It's a baby!" Look at the baby, just born and already has thought bubbles. Probably thinking about how useless dad is. Please welcome Brady and Lucy's first child, a baby girl named Napua, which means The Flowers in Hawaiian. She will not be the heir because we are going with first born sons, so they'll just have to try again. Aww, look at mommy and daughter. Brady came over to meet his daughter and see how beautiful she is. "Hey Baby! I'm your daddy!" Where did Jan come from? Was she here this whole time? And finally, to end this chapter, a picture of Brady holding his brand new daughter.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 8

2005-07-22T14:05:00.000-05:00

Last we left off, Lucy and Brady got married, started on the third generation and went on their honeymoon. We also got a visit from Tony, and Maya - Leilani and Remington's second child - became a toddler. Remington, being the family man that he is, spun up the wants to train Maya so he started on the potty training. Bored, Rem? Easy as done, cancel the potty training action and you're done in no time. All that training left Maya feeling very tired and overworked. Next time we'll pay attention to her energy and try no to work her so hard. Later, Moana and Remington were sitting down to eat and Moana was curious about love and boys. "Daddy, what's it like to be in love? Will I have a boyfriend some day?" Remington told Moana what he thought of the male population because he didn't want any of them dating his daughter. "Daddy, if all boys are rats, then how come mommy married you?" Isn't it kind of freaky how Lucy just appeared as if out of nowhere? Later, as Lucy was in Maya's room playing with her, she had this feeling she couldn't quite place. That would be the bump of Generation 3 forming. Lucy went to show Brady what happened and found Brady in the kitchen. "Hey little baby. I'm your daddy!" Meanwhile, Remington noticed he porked out a little and did a little exercising to lose that belly. Actually, he did a lot of exercising. Lucy, who paid more attention to Maya than Leilani did, took her in to give her a bath. I just love the adults giving kids a bath pictures. Leilani, while all this was going on, was playing on the piano where she spends most of her time. Maya wanted to spend some time with her mom and get a little mommy attention so she crawled over to where Leilani was sitting and Leilani was either completely ignoring her daughter, or was playing the piano for her. We'll jsut pretend she was playing a song for Maya and not make her look like such a bad mother. And Moana, who takes after her Aunt Mckenna, went into the bathroom after Maya's bath and cleaned the tub. Oh, and here is another of the career rewards the family acquired, just can't remember who got it. I think it was Leilani. And here is another shot of Moana, the cleaning general, cleaning in the kitchen the next day. It's like having two maids again with her. While Leilani was off at work, the boys once again stayed home with Maya. Note: Since Leilani is the only one bringing in money, Brady will soon be getting a job. So Brady, who loves his little niece, spent some time with her that morning. Something weird about this picture is that Maya is fully clothed, but her top is blurred. This is a cute picture of Brady and Maya though. Remington, still spinning up the train Maya wants set off on teaching Maya to walk later. And once that was done, Remington got Maya dressed since she seemed to always be in her pajamas. Now that she was a walking machine, Maya got into everything, especially the toy box, which she loved to play with. After Moana got home from school, she sat with Remington and talked about the new baby that would soon be coming. "Once the new baby comes, you might have to share a room with Maya when she gets old enough for a bed of her own." "Will she follow me to school and want to be in the same classes with me? Do I have to do my homework with her?" She sure is a talker, isn't she? Brady sat down with them and was thinking the same thing. The boys got a reprieve when Leilani came home because Moana ran out to greet her. "Mommy, I'm so glad you're home!" That night, Remington got to work on his final cooking skill by cooking some pork chops for anyone that was hungry. Doesn't that make you want some? And once again, the only two to sit down to the dinner Remington made were Moana and Remington. "And furthermore, I do not wish to eat fish because the factories choose to pollute the rivers and lakes and oceans." I'll end this chapter with the opinions of Moana.

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Mckenna Has a Baby - Chapter 2

2005-07-19T10:24:00.000-05:00

Last we left off in Mckenna's house, she just started to show early in her pregnancy. Also a reminder, the father of her baby is Ashley, the person on the other end of her family's telescope for so many years. She also received word about her mother's passing and sometime in the middle of the night, she received inheritance money her mother had left her. Marisa had left her daugher a good amount of money, which would help with the new baby on the way. The next day, as Mckenna was taking her nap (very difficult to keep in the green, this one) someone forgot to pay the bills and we got a visit. The repoman with a very evil smile stopped by taking two items from the house. Luckily, Mckenna had the money from her mom's inheritance to replace the items that were taken and we vowed to always pay the bills. Not too much later, Mckenna grew more and looked humungous! The baby would soon be arriving. If only Ashley would commit and put a wedding ring on her finger! Mckenna wanted to marry Ashley before the baby arrived so he or she could take his last name. Well, that night, it was too late. Mckenna woke up to sharp pains and knew at once that the baby was coming. I'll save you the pictures since we all know what they look like and, besides, I don't think I took any. Mckenna gave birth to a beautiful baby boy who she and Ashley named Taylor. He looked just like his parents, blue eyes and dark hair. Mckenna couldn't help but look at this baby and wanted even more to marry his father. Just how was she going to get him to do it? And another picture of mommy and baby. A few hours later, Mckenna called Ashley over as soon as she could since she knew he slept until 7. He came over to the house and went immediately into Taylor's bedroom. I think it's so cute that they just know. =) He picked him up and went over to the fridge to feed his son. Mckenna joined her new family and the men in her life both took in the sight of her. Now I know what Suzicat said when she had the thinking-est baby because this kid is always thinking about something! It was then that Mckenna wanted to have a discussion with Ashley about them getting married because they have been engaged since before Taylor was born. Ashley walked into the nursery and Mckenna followed, but Ashley couldn't put the baby down. He loved holding him. So Mckenna went off to make some plans and think. During her interactions with Ashley, she became platinum and thought that maybe if she put the thinking cap on, she could think of something to do. After doing a lot of thinking, she decided she would throw a wedding party and maybe then Ashley would marry her if he knew she was serious about it. In the background Ashley is looking for the missing guitar and drums that Mckenna just sold...hehe. Mckenna invited her brother and sister, Brady and Leilani, to her wedding and Brady (still wearing that awful pink tux) is hoping Ashley will make his sister very happy. I didn't take any pictures of the party because, well, it was a real dud and Ashley even left in the middle of it! And poor Mckenna drowned (hopefully not literally) her sorrows in the pool. Why didn't Ashley want to get married? Will they ever? Find out in the next update.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 7

2005-07-14T11:22:00.000-05:00

The next day, the family's new maid, Katerina showed up for work. She is a pretty blonde, which Lucy took notice of and went over to talk to her. "Here, have some simoleons so you can marry my son later." "Ma'am, do you have a son?" "No, not yet, but you can never be too prepared!" Meanwhile, Remington and Moana were sitting on the couch and noticed the interaction between Lucy and Katerina. "Daddy, is Aunt Lucy making a new best friend?" "She's trying to. She's looking to see if Katerina is interested in joining the family in the future, so we need to tip well!" That night, Brady and Lucy decided to get things moving along and wanted to get married right away. Since Mckenna is so close to giving birth, she was excluded from the festivities, but Noelle was invited to witness Brady and Lucy get married. Remington hadn't made it to the ceremony yet, so we're just waiting for him to come and sit down. As Remington makes his way to his seat, Brady looks at his family and exclaims, "Check out my bride in her dress! Isn't she beautiful?" I'm so glad I chose Brady as the heir, he is definitely my favorite! Everyone is seated and the wedding gets started and Brady and Lucy exchange their rings. Isn't that a cute picture? So they exchange their rings and then they seem to act bashful or they're enjoying the way the other looks, I'm not sure, I can't remember. And finally they are married. Once married, the family stands up and applauds their union. As the happy couple head over to the cake, Noelle and Remington talk about all the friends she has made while at college and is enjoying her time there. As Brady is cutting the wedding cake, he is thinking about how beautiful his new wife is and how happy he is. Have I mentioned I love Brady? Because I do, he's my favorite. =) And now the traditional "stuffing the wedding cake in the mouth" picture. After everyone goes inside to eat their cake, Noelle stops and reflects on the wedding and is happy to see her brother married to the woman he loves and is happy for him. She's got two neices and now she's hoping she will finally get a nephew. As Leilani, Brady, Lucy and Moana sit down at the table for some cake when Leilani notices Tony roaming around. She didn't want Moana to be afraid so she expained to Moana that even though her grandfather may be gone, he tends to show up every once in a while to check up on his family. "That's ok" said Moana "I'll just marry a sumo wrestler and he can protect me!" After dinner as Moana was walking over to the radio, she sensed Tony's presence and froze on the spot. Even though her mom had told her about her grandfather, it was still pretty scary. But as you can see, Tony just wanted to see how Moana had grown up. He wanted to save his scaring for someone else! Even though their wedding party was still going on, Brady and Lucy wanted to have some alone time, so they went off to the bedroom. They wanted to up the party score so they did a little more than cuddle. They got to work on the official generation 3 and were quite successful. They were even successful at having a great party! After Brady and lucy's active workout, they fell asleep and missed the rest of the party and they had to run to the limo so they wouldn't miss their honeymoon. As he ran past, Brady noticed Lucy changed into her naughty maid's outfit for their honeyoon! But for some reason, Brady stayed in his pajamas and that's how they went to their honeymoon. While they were gone, Moana noticed Tony was still hanging around but once he saw everything was fine and he was happy with Brady's bride, he went back to his resting place. But not before he played a little music for the family.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 6

2005-07-14T09:41:00.000-05:00

While Leilani went off to work, the unemployed men of the house took care of Maya. First, Remington gave her a bath in the sink isn't that adorable? and Brady gave her a bottle. Ok, I just threw those in because I found them to be so cute and even though Brady can be unfortunate looking, he's becoming my favorite of the house. Now back to regularly scheduled programming. After Lucy was done with her daily tasks, she stayed to spend time with Brady which he appreciated because he realized he was in love with Lucy and wanted to always be with her. And guess who walked by again? She looked about to burst so I just let her waddle by. I didn't want to invite her in and then end up not feeding her and have her die before getting back to her house, so we just waved to Mckenna as she walked by. Over lunch, Lucy serenaded Brady as he ate (she did this autonomously). Remington doesn't seem to enjoy it, does he? And later after Moana came home, she went in to take a shower and Remington, for some reason, followed her in there. He's watching Moana get into the tub while thinking of Lucy. Then, I guess he shook himself out of his trance and realized where he was and what was going on around him because he was shocked to find Moana in the tub! Weird. Nothing too exciting to report about that day, just that Brady fell in love with Lucy, just no love for Lucy yet. Later that night, Leilani went over to the crib where Maya was sleeping and tucked her daughter in. I love those pictures. The poor little baby was all tired out because earlier her daddy was playing with her and blowing on her tummy. Don't you just love pictures with babies and their parents? So anyway, Brady asked Lucy to stay the night and the did some cuddling on the bed. They did some kissing, and finally! Lucy must have some shield around her to wait this long to fall in love with Brady. And now that both Brady and Lucy were in love, they shared their first woohoo together. (Note: I'm trying to get Brady to focus on Lucy because he keeps having all these wants that have to do with Meadow and it's driving me crazy!) So, they got their first woohoo over with and all the nervousness out of the way. Lucy spent the night and left very early in the morning so she could go get ready for work and come back to the house in a few hours. After Lucy got off work, she said goodbye to Brady and he told her he would call her later. Brady called her later like he said and invited her back over. Brady surprised Lucy, and everyone else in the house for that matter, when he asked her if she would move in with him and she accepted. She brought no friends and only $1000, but he didn't mind, he loved her and wanted to be with her. Brady didn't wait long to propose because he did it right away. And of course she said yes and took the time to admire her ring. Look how sparkly! And don't they look so happy? And since she is not a Romance (whew!) no red ring! Brady then sits down to study mechanical so they don't have to keep paying a repair guy and thinks about how lucky he is to be engaged to such a wonderful woman. Not only is today the day Brady and Lucy got engaged, it's also Maya's birthday as she transitions into toddlerhood. "Sorry, kid. I'm spoken for." And as Remington tosses Maya, Lucy is thinking about Brady...awww. And as Maya comes down, she comes down as a cute brown-haired (yawn) toddler in a cute little pink outfit. What is Brady looking at back there? Why, Lucy is smiling at him! Don't you just love these two? And a cute picture of Maya and daddy after she transitioned. Later that night, Brady and Lucy cuddle and a little on the couch with Moana sitting next to them. Who is getting tired of Lucy in her maid's outfit? She's not a maid anymore, so Lucy goes to change and goes into the bathroom and take off that darn thing on her head that went with the outfit. There, that's better. She kept the maid uniform in case Brady ever wanted to see her in her naughty maid outfit...hehe.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 5

2005-07-05T19:45:00.000-05:00

Ok, this is the chapter with the headmaster. You can't even begin to imagine what goes on when the subject of the headmaster shows up. Here begins the adventure. Leilani had been spinning up the want for Moana to be accepted into private school and for a while she had also had rejection from the private school so I held back. The house was nicely decorated, the walls had wallpaper and paintings were on the walls so I was ready when Leilani was ready. Leilani got pregnant and her main fears had to do with the pregnancy so her private school rejection fear spun out. Leilani gave the headmaster a call and invited him over and they started cleaning the house with the help of Lucy. Moana came home from school and did the majority of her homework, but was too pooped to finish it so she headed off to bed to sleep through the visit. Remington had the highest cooking skills so he was elected to cook the turkey while Leilani was chosen to greet the headmaster. Five o'clock came around and Leilani went out to the curb to wait for the headmaster. Leilani greeted Korey Jitmakusol, but didn't make the greatest first impression. "Oh no, ma'am. I'd rather you were wearing a hat. If I come back, please wear one or else I don't want to talk to you." Leilani thought it best to start the tour since Remington was still working on dinner. Leilani showed him the front room and then noticed Remington sitting down to eat the dinner - which he burnt by the way. So Leilani ended the tour (I didn't know that you couldn't restart it later) and got a score of 2 for the tour. They sat down to the burnt turkey dinner, which the headmaster didn't seem to like. But they managed to hold a steady conversation. After the meal Leilani continued to *not* impress the headmaster. She let one rip right at the dinner table. Trust me, this is not the worst of it. The dinner, even though it was burnt, managed to get a score of 39 so Remington, also with the highest charisma points, had to work his magic on Korey. While Remington was talking and schmoozing with the headmaster, who should make her first ghostly appearance but Marisa. It's only been a couple days since she died, so I was a bit surprised she was there. Her first order of business was, of course, to check out her bed. Then she kind of floated around the house almost as if she was checking to see if everything was in order. And then as Remington thought he was doing pretty well with the headmaster, Marisa made her appearance known. I won't even tell you what happened because the pictures are better. (Check out the PINK suit Brady is wearing in the background...sigh) Notice the piddle at the headmaster's feet. You would think that that would turn the headmaster away, right? I wouldn't let it because some time during the visit, Leilani spun up the private school rejection fear so I could not lose. Thank goodness for Remington and chasing the headmaster around the house and schmoozing like a mad man because with 0:38 left in the scenario, Remington scored a 60 on the scmoozing giving a total score of 101/90 getting Moana into private school. Whew! After the headmaster left, Marisa roamed about some more, even managed to scare Moana as she got out of the shower, but I didn't get a picture of that. Here are some pictures of Marisa roaming. Is that an evil smile? And finally, she shows her powers of levitating a teddy bear. And later that night after everyone had gone to sleep as Leilani was watching tv. Once again, a solitary Cavanaugh birth. Leilani and Remington's second child, a girl named Maya, came into the world. This one looked just like her sister, but one differnce is she has the Cavanaugh eyes. And Remington? Sleeping again. And now we have Moana our little Private School child. You better appreciate the hard work we had to go through to get you in, young lady!

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Generation 3 - Chapter 4

2005-07-05T18:58:00.000-05:00

Once the birthday cake was spread around and everyone had all they wanted, Brady once again tried to make a change to his looks now that he was an adult. This time he didn't like what he saw. I barely changed it, but oh well. And now that Leilani and Brady were both adults and Leilani had already started her family with Remington, Noelle was feeling a bit crowded and decided what she really wanted to do was go to college and be the first in her family to go. So she made a quick phone call and got some scholarships and quickly enrolled and no sooner had she hung up the phone did a taxi come to take her away. Brady was sad to see her go so she walked her to the cab to say goodbye to her. A little bit later, to comfort himself, Brady went shopping and bought some new clothes because he didn't want to be stuck in that track suit during his adult years. When the sun fell for the night as Brady was walking to the kitchen, who should appear but good ole Tony. Our first sighting of him. I was wondering when he would make an appearance because it had been several days since he died. And the first place he went to? He just wanted to make sure the bed he shared with Marisa was still there and he was quite happy it was. He didn't do much his first night out, he just roamed around the front yard watching out for the family as well as roaming in the back yard. And I liked this next picture because as Remington is serving dinner, you can see Tony floating by the dining room window. Now that Brady was officially an adult, he called over Lucy to get things started between the two of them. Remember that fire fighter Marisa befriended back when Moana had her birthday? Turns out Marisa was the only one who had any relationship points with her and Marisa died before she could call her over. And we weren't going to be starting any fires to get her to come over because the family starts enough fires of their own. So Lucy is the girl for Brady. "So Lucy, do you like my new look? I called you over here to talk about our relationship. What do you think of the idea of you and me?" Brady and Lucy didn't talk for long, only because he felt he was ready to make his move on Lucy and moved in for their first kiss. While Brady and Lucy were busy falling in love Leilani and Remington were in their room busy doing other things. They had decided they wanted to have another baby and they decided that tonight would be the night. They succeeded in conceiving and Leilani woke up in the middle of the night to make herself something to eat. She had been spinning up the want to buy an expensive stereo and I thought I would test something I thought might work. I bought a stereo while in the pause mode and then when she got the aspiration boost, I sold it and got the cheaper one back. Didn't work, those points got taken away, but it was worth a shot. Surprisingly, Leilani knew about the purchase because she walked over to the radio and wished for the expensive stereo back. The next day, Brady asked Remington to work on his portrait to be added to the family collection. When the portrait was done, Brady was happy with Remington's work. Really, I think that Brady is happy whenever he looks at himself in any form be it in the mirror or in a picture. Remington continued to paint because he was so close to maxing out his creativity and he achieved his goal. Brady managed to catch Lucy in the kitchen as she was working and expressed his interest in including her in the family some day. And ever since he became an adult, he has been spinning up wants to see Meadow so I thought I would oblige so Meadow came on over. "I'm sorry, Brady, we just can't be together now that you are an adult." "I know, Meadow. I guess I just needed to get you out of my system." When Meadow went inside, Lucy came out to see what his conversation with Meadow was about. "I just told her that I couldn't be with her anymore, and that I found a great woman who could make me happy." Today would also be Moana's birthday and time for her to become a child. Brady was spending some last minute bonding time with Lucy so Remington took Moana over to her cake to help with her transition. When everyone assembled around the cake to watch Moana do her thing, Moana, well, did her thing. =) Do you think that is painful? And now for a child Moana. Such a cutie and she grew up well, which made her parents happy.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 3

2005-07-05T18:16:00.000-05:00

After Moana transitioned and Marisa was taken away by the grim reaper, Leilani and Remington thought it best to focus on Moana and keep her happy. Remington took on the task of teaching Moana how to walk and Leilani played with her to make her laugh and help her get over her grandmother's passing. Since Remington wanted to be the one to teach Moana all her skills, Leilani let him do it because it made him happy. It was any other normal night when Remington thought he might as well get the potty training over with when a funny glitch appeared. Moana wasn't sitting on the potty, but she was situated inside of Remington, somehow, but she wasn't at all affected by it and was successfully potty trained. He even went on to finish teaching Moana to walk with no problems. The next day was the same as the day before - Remington keeping Moana happy while Leilani focused on going to work and bringing in the money now that she was the money maker. Remington made sure to play with and cuddle Moana and worked on her final skill of talking. Moana's first word - highchair. After all that teaching, she was so tired Remington put her to bed for her nap while all the kids were coming home from school. While Noelle worked on her homework, Brady was spending time with Ivy who he brought home from school and found himself being admired. It was about that time that Brady felt he needed a makeover and went to the bathroom to see what he could do. I'm just trying to do anything to not make his nose stand out so much! I might just have to deal with it because you really can't hide it. So while Brady was off in the bathroom, Ricky and Ivy are having a conversation in the living room. "Hey, Ricky, pull my finger!" Meanwhile, Brady was *still* in the bathroom checking himself out and liking his new image. And look who I caught out front reading the paper! She came and left so quick that I didn't have time to get anyone out to greet her and have her stick around. And here's a cute shot I got of Remington and Moana. And Brady, still admiring himself decides to go on the internet to brag about his new look to anyone that would listen. Could this kid love his look any more? The next day is Brady's birthday as he transitions into adulthood, but first a birthday noogie. And one last A+ as a teenager with no homework ever again. And now what we've all been waiting for. Brady's birthday cake and what this awkward teenager looks like as an adult. Will his face grow into his nose? Will he look the same and be an awkward adult? But first, the typical expression associated with a birthday cake. And now here is the birthday boy doing what we've been waiting so long for him to do. Before the transition And the moment of truth, Brady is an adult. Well, here's hoping the next generation doesn't get his nose.

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Generation 3 - Chapter 2

2005-07-04T19:50:00.000-05:00

It's been a couple days since Tony's death and although everyone is still sad, life must continue and that being said, today is Moana's birthday as she jumps into toddlerhood. But first, Marisa has been spinning up wants to beat Noelle at a game. So a quick trip to the store and we have a game console. So we sit Marisa and Noelle down and hope Marisa wins because her life bar is getting pretty full and we want to keep her at platinum. Marisa wins the game and it looks as if she is not a very good winner since she is yelling at Noelle during the game! Meanwhile, Brady decides he is hungry and wants to make some breakfast, although he doesn't do too well. Yet another fire on a birthday! Because of the fire, all household members stop what they are doing and panic ensues. Marisa notices that the responding fire fighter is an atractive young woman and thinks of Brady. Maybe Brady can meet with her and build a relationship and maybe something more later on. Marisa approaches the fire fighter and gives her a tip and hopes to give her a call later to have her come over and talk to Brady. "Thanks, ma'am! That's mighty nice of you. Just be careful next time!" After the fire everyone wanted to clean up, which took a while since they only have two bathrooms and there are more than two people who want to take a shower at the same time. After it was all worked out and everyone was clean, it was time to take Moana to her cake. Brady is getting older and closer to adulthood so he wanted to be the one to do the honors. After all, it was his dad who helped with the transitioning before he died and since he is the heir he wanted to follow in his footsteps in more ways than one. So Brady takes Moana to her cake helps her blow out her candles and waits for the family members to finish what they are doing and make their way to the cake. And then finally transition time! And look at the cute outfit she transitions into! She doesn't have the Cavanaugh eyes, she got her daddy's eyes, but she turns out really cute. After Moana transitions, Brady puts her on the floor to get some cake, and then... uh oh...grimmy's here! Marisa sees him, but is ok with it because at least she can be with her husband now. With other members of the family, it's a different story. Even though she wasn't sad about it, she was a bit surprised since she was only 66 and younger than Tony was when it was his time. "Oh, you're here early!" "Oooh, a drinkey-poo! Don't mind if I do!" And with that, she was gone and in her place she left a beautiful platinum urn. After the Grim Reaper left, the family placed her urn next to her husband where they could rest for eternity next to each other. After the death of Marisa, the family dealt with their grief separately. Once again, Reminton seemed the hardest hit and he wasn't even blood related!

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Mckenna On Her Own - Chapter 1

2005-06-28T10:05:00.000-05:00

Mckenna has just found her new dwelling around the corner from her family's home and is ready to begin her new life on her own. She's worried, though. Not about her life, she's worried about making friends, seeing as she is a Popularity Sim. Not to worry, Mckenna. With the house she had built, there is plenty of room for company. After her new house was built, she was visited by Joe Carr, Goopy (ick), and Ivy Capor. Oh yeah, she also called an old friend, Ashley. Remember Ashley from previous chapters? Seems she took a liking to the verbal tongue lashing he gave to her on many occassion. Who knew? She didn't feel like making anything, so she thought maybe she would treat her new friends to some Chinese food. And a tip for any housebuilders out there - don't put a bathroom with counter space next to the front door because that would be the first place a delivery will be put. And then poor Goopy will cry because he can't go potty. But this shows you how stupid Goopy is because there are two other bathrooms in the house! Although it is quite fun to make Goopy cry! Now that the crowd in the bathroom has diminished (although Goopy still can't go to the bathroom) Mckenna has started her conquest on an unsuspecting Ashley. "I'm going to be mayor some day, Ashley!" Was that a pick-up line? Over the course of a couple days Mckenna would call Ashley as soon as she got home from work and invite him over and they would have the most entertaining conversations! Ashley would demonstrate how to make eggs told Mckenna about his baseball playing days and Mckenna would tell Ashley about the funny looking bird she saw that day. I had so much fun watching them talk, I couldn't help but take a lot of pictures! And this girl had the constant want to tickle Ashley and entertain him. She would tickle him and then she spun up the want to entertain. When I did both of those things, she would spin up the same wants over and over. I think it's pretty safe to say that she was platinum for a couple days there. So after Mckenna has focused so much attention on Ashley, what comes next? Aww, their first kiss. And then some more tickling. And then some more kissing. What's this? A new want? She wanted to appreciate Ashley. Is anybody bored yet? One more thing. She has told Ashley so many jokes, she finally got the chance to tell him a dirty joke. Here is her reaction to getting the command to tell a dirty joke. Has our sweet little Mckenna turned into this?? Who would have thought a dirty joke would have led to love? When Mckenna isn't busy telling Ashley her favorite dirty joke or tickling him, she is busy swooning over Ashley. Ashley even likes her in her nerd hat! Now I don't want you to think that Mckenna only gets visits from Ashley, members of her family also stop by or walk by on occasion. "Mckenna, aren't you wearing my hat?!" Marisa stopped by and Mckenna greeted her with a hug since she had heard about her father's passing. Mckenna also told her mother of her plans with Ashley. And since Ashley was over, Mckenna wanted to introduce her mother to Ashley, although we all know they have met before. But Mckenna wanted to make it official and do it the nice way. "Ashley, I'd like you to meet my mother, Marisa" "Hey, aren't you the same family that has been spying on me all these years?!" They let bygones be bygones and bonded over their love of music. Isn't it funny to see an old lady and a young guy jamming on musical instruments? Mckenna also invited her sister, Noelle, over on occasion since she hadn't talked to her in a while. They relived old times and gossiped about Leilani and how she burnt the spaghetti and started a fire on Mckenna's birthday. And... *GASP*...what is this?? Gossiping about Tony! Shocking, isn't it, Noelle? After Noelle left, Mckenna invited Ashley over. And finally, after working so hard they fell in love. Mckenna knew that is was now over never. So after dinner, Mckenna got down on one knee. I'll spare you the pictures since they all look alike, but he said yes and then... ...doh! A red ring! What have you done Mckenna! Well, it's done, now off to bed! After one attempt, Mckenna and Ashley are expecting their first child. And this is all she does during her first trimester. But, hey, at least she's platinum. =)

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Generation 3 - Chapter 1

2005-06-28T09:04:00.000-05:00

With his father's death still fresh in his mind, Brady headed outside to greet Meadow who just happened to be walking by. He told Meadow about what had just happened and invited her in the house hoping she would cheer him up. When they got inside, Brady had some news he wanted to share with Meadow thinking it would change her mind about how she felt about him. "Hey, Meadow baby, my dad left me money after his death! How's about we try again for that first kiss?" Looks like it worked. Brady needed this aspiration boost since his father's death put him just at the border line for aspiration failure again. I have never had a sim this hard to keep happy before! Twice now he's almost gone into aspiration failure! It was pretty much smooth sailing after the kiss. He worked his magic on her and she soon realized it was love. And they did some more kissing. After his first kiss, Brady wanted to ask Meadow to go steady and he was slowly working up his nerve to do so. When everything looked good to go with Meadow, he took the plunge and asked her to go steady with him. Only, Meadow wasn't quite ready for that. Poor kid loses his father and gets rejected yet again from Meadow in the same day. If he doesn't stop crying over everything, some people will start to see him as a cry baby! Brady is not one to give up so quickly though. He thought that maybe Meadow would like a meal first before being asked an important question such as this. So he made some sandwiches and sat down with Meadow to eat. Sure enough, the key to this girl's heart was through her stomach. A sandwich and a kiss got Meadow to change her mind. "Surely, Meadow, you can tell I care about you. I'm still dealing with my father's death and I feel that you are one of the most important people for me right now. Can you reconsider and go steady with me now?" Meadow accepted and Brady got another needed aspiration boost. And they were so happy, they made out right in front of Noelle who was just now starting to show emotion over her father's death. I thought maybe that inheritance money she got earlier would make her happy. But, I guess not. Maybe she has a heart afterall? We'll see. The next morning, the house was quieter than the family was used to. Remington continued to paint and was working on a painting for Moana's bedroom. Noelle worked on some homework while Brady watched a little tv while doing some thinking. And Leilani just woke up and learned what she had missed the previous night. The first place Leilani headed was to the family's new mausoleum to visit her father's resting place. "Oh, daddy! Why didn't you leave me any money?!" or something to that effect. Marisa and Brady shared a hug in the baby's room, while the baby was off somewhere, probably getting fed. Marisa has done a good job of keeping this family together in the aftermath of Tony's death. After Leilani left her father's urn, Marisa made her way over to see him. And that night... ...life sure is boring now that Tony is gone.

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Generation 2 - Chapter 20

2005-06-25T16:24:00.000-05:00

We start off this chapter with Tony meeting his first grandchild, Moana, since he was sleeping when she was born. He thought she was so beautiful and was so happy that he was alive to see her come into the world. And now that he was an official grandfather, Tony felt it was finally time to retire his position at the company. He had made it all the way to CEO and now he was ready to spend time with Moana. Leilani, even though just having Moana, felt safe enough to go back to work since there were so many people in the house to take care of the baby. The nanny service had heard that there was a new baby in the Cavanaugh household and sent Karen over since they had also heard Leilani went back to work so quickly. They were unaware, though, that not everyone was going to be leaving so Remington did the honor of ending nanny services with them. "Good morning, sir! I hear there is a new baby and my services are needed!" "No, Karen, you are not needed. I would appreciate it if you left and next time we need a nanny, we'll call the service." So off the nanny went and off in the nursery, I caught Noelle doing the cutest thing. Noelle was over at the crib tucking in Moana as she was sleeping. Isn't that sweet? Noelle looks as if she does have some emotion somewhere deep down inside of her. And just like Mckenna had done before, I caugh Brady checking himself out in the mirror. So while everyone was at school and work, Remington and Tony were left to the manly duties of watching the baby. Tony's life bar was also getting pretty full and he had just dropped out of platinum so I was working on one of his wants of becoming Remington's best friend. And then... Why, Remington, why are you crying? OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! I'm not ready for him to leave!!! This would be my first sim death, so please excuse me if I get a little over dramatic...but I'm so attached to Tony! Everyone came running to Tony' s side as the grim reaper came to collect Tony and take him away forever. And all Tony could think about was his wonderful marriage to Marisa and how this would affect her. "So I get to take my things with me to the after life, there Grimmy?" "What about this hula chickie? Is she coming with us?" "No, she is mine, but be my guest, please accept this delicious alcoholic beverage we like to call a drinkey-poo." "Ooh, don't mind if I do!" And then he was gone. "Hey guys! What's going on?" Ok, maybe I was wrong about Noelle. She was the only person to not shed a tear at the passing of Tony. She even had the audacity to try and dance with Remington! Sometimes, I just don't understand that girl. Poor Leilani slept through the whole thing so she didn't even get to say good bye to her dad. That's ok, though, because Tony remembered that in his inheritance. But the person hit the hardest? Don't worry, Marisa, you'll see him again soon.
Tony died at the ripe old age of 72 - left no platinum urn. Darn grim came too soon.
List of inheriters:
Marisa - $20,000
Mckenna - $8,600
Brady - $8,800
Noelle - $9,500
Moana - $1,325
And for Leilani and Remington? Zippo.
But to cheer everyone up, let's end this chapter with a cute picture of a baby. Did that cheer anyone up? No? Me neither.

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Generation 2 - Chapter 19

2005-06-25T15:37:00.000-05:00

Leilani is now close to giving birth and Noelle has come into the bathroom with her nerd hat on and wanted to tell her how happy she was that she was going to give her a neice or a nephew. And because Noelle talked her ear off, Leilani felt the urge to make some spaghetti because she was getting so hungry. Unfortunately, Leilani had low cooking skills, and you know what that means... ...panic time. If you notice in the background in the bathroom, Noelle is the only person not fazed by the fire. Luckily, the fire department was quick so nothing was lost. But it was quite a full house when the fire occurred so everyone got quite a show. And while all this was happening, poor Mckenna was all but forgotten. Today was her birthday and she quietly transitioned into an adult during all the uproar. Let's watch so she doesn't feel too forgotten, shall we? She did turn into a pretty adult, didn't she? She didn't grow up too well, though, but thanks to Leilani she didn't get that last minute aspiration boost that she needed. Mckenna was working on becoming best friends with Tosha when the fire started and Mckenna was all but forgotten. After everything had calmed down, Mckenna decided that it was time to find her own place. She couldn't live in this mad house much longer and didn't know how long she would be able to take it. "You know, Kennedy, I think it's time I move out. With all the madness - my little sister constantly in her nerd hat and spying on people through the telescope (notice Noelle in the background), my other sister starting fires endangering our lives, and my parents turning senile. I can't take it anymore!" So Mckenna found a place on her measly salary in her career in politics and off she went. And the only people who noticed she was leaving were Brady and Remington. Kennedy Cox noticed, though, because he didn't waste any time in gossiping about it to Marisa. And then we finally see some emotion out of Noelle. Maybe if she took that hat off once in a while, she would notice things going on around her. Later that night, after everyone but she and Brady had gone to bed, Leilani was in the kitchen having just finished eating when she knew it was time to have the baby. Brady heard her screams and came running to watch the birth of his neice or nephew. He didn't know what he could do to help and he wished Remington was awake so he could be there with them. And where was Remington? Sleeping blissfully in bed unaware of anything that was happening. He almost looks bored, doesn't he? So finally, after what seemed like forever, Leilani finally gave birth to her baby. Into the world came Leilani's daughter, and Tony's first grandchild, Moana Cavanaugh, meaning Ocean in Hawaiian and keeping the tradition of first born daughters being given Hawaiian names like her parents had wanted. She's a cutie, isn't she? Brady was honored to be the first one to welcome little Moana to the family. And Remington kept with tradition of not being there for the birth of a Cavanaugh child as Tony had missed three of his four children being born.

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Generation 2 - Chapter 18

2005-06-25T14:38:00.000-05:00

Just wanted to throw in a picture of Tony coming home from work in his limo because who really goes to work in a limo? So Tony comes home in his limo as President of the company and he and Marisa try again to pose for a picture so Remington can paint them. Aren't they cute? Remington is finally ready to paint their picture and they are just waiting for him to finish so they do a little cuddling. After several hours of painting, Remington decides to finally change into the clothes he bought when he went downtown and Brady decides to make a change as well. Hoping to hide some of his features, Brady changes his hair. He doesn't look too bad, but you can still see his face. Hopefully he can find a girl with pretty features so their kids won't look so bad. Remington, however, cleans up nicely and he likes his new look! Leilani figures that since both Brady and Remington have made changes to their appearance, she should as well. And here she goes. And being the kind and sensitive husband that he is, Remington gives Leilani a back rub to help her aching back. After all the changing, I thought it would be fun to gross out the kids. What on earth would make Brady's face do this? Or this? With Remington, Brady's friend, Tosha, and Brady in the same general area as Marisa, Tony decided to go up to Marisa and give her a big kiss! As all parents like to do, they had fun embarrassing the kids and had a good laugh. Tosha was so embarrassed, she couldn't even watch! I had so much fun, I took a lot of pictures, so here are a couple more. Even poor Remington was embarrassed! I'll keep this chapter short since the next couple chapters will have a lot going on.

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Generation 2 - Chapter 17

2005-06-23T12:34:00.000-05:00

The next day, Leilani invited Remington to stay after he got off work because she wanted to spend more time with him and they didn't waste any time! See the hearts? They fell in love to the music Sophie was playing on the guitar. As you can see, both Leilani and Remington are definitely in love. And what do you think happened next? "Tony, dear, what is that our daughter is doing?" "What, honey? What do you mean? Which daughter, we have three?" "Leilani, dear. Looks as if she is kneeling down to get something perhaps?" Leilani was kneeling down, but it was, she decided, to propose to Remington. She loved him and she had no doubts that he loved her. She wanted to marry him and she didn't want to wait for him to propose, so she decided to just go ahead and do it. "Remington, our relationship has moved rather quickly, but I know I love you and I want to marry you. So will you marry me?" Leilani (and I was too) was a bit worried he would say no and reject her, but he quickly answered her question with yes. Tony was happy to see what happened because he had been wanting one of his daughters to get engaged. As you can see, it made him really happy. And it made me happy, too because yay! no red ring! Both Leilani and Remington were both pretty hungry after all the excitement, so they made themselves a quick lunch and, after eating, Leilani surprised him yet again. "Remington, how about we make it official, right here, right now? I don't want to wait for a big wedding. I want to be married to you right now. And I even have a ring!" Remington agreed and they got married in the kitchen. It's wasn't the most romantic place, but they loved each other and they didn't care. So they said their vows and exchanged their rings. Leilani had been wanting to marry a rich sim, but Remington only brought $1000 with him and ZERO friends so no aspiration boost for Leilani. Lucky for Remington, Leilani qualified as a rich sim. So in moved Remington, a Family Sim with no job, but high cleaning skills (is anybody surprised?), no friends, and is a complete neat freak (again, surprised?). While I was focusing on Leilani trying not to get her rejected in any way, I lost track of Mckenna. When I found her, she was in the bathroom checking herself out and liking what she saw. Now back to Leilani and Remington and their first kiss as a married couple. Remington's immediate want was to have a baby and Tony also wanted a grandchild, so let's get to the baby making! But first, here is a view of the house as it looks now that Remington has moved in. Seven people and two toilets, something needs to be done quick. But anyway, back to more important matters at hand. The wedding night. Took two tries, but Leilani will be bringing in the eigth member of the house in a couple days. The next morning at breakfast - "Isn't today such a beautiful day?" "I think I'm going to go get a check-up because I feel nauseas." "Is that because you and maid have decided to procreate and were successful with your attempts last night?" So that is how Leilani gave her family the news that she was expecting. And now that Remington has married into the family, the maid service has sent over a new maid, Lucy, to do the cleaning. Could she be a potential mate for Brady when he comes of age? I'm not sure about the lips, though. Can you imagine her lips and Brady's nose on a kid? Yikes! Now that Leilani and Remington are expecting and about to make Tony and Marisa grandparents, Tony decided it would be best to get their portrait painted to hang on the wall for later generations to admire. Remington came with high creativity, so they asked him to paint them. You will not, however, be seeing this picture painted, because Remington decided he was too hungry to paint so he quit before he even started. But while everyone was off getting ready for work and school, I stopped paying attention to Tony and Marisa. When I came back to them, I found them still cuddled on the couch. Aren't they cute? Say it with me, now...awww.

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Generation 2 - Chapter 16

2005-06-23T09:59:00.000-05:00

After Noelle transitioned and became a teenager, Marisa walked over to her youngest daughter and gave her a hug. Marisa was happy Noelle had chosen to be a knowledge sim and now maybe one of her kids would go to college. (Yeah right, at least not while Marisa is alive and still has the want for her kids to go to college.) And being the Fortune Sim that Noelle is, her favorite item in the house is the unfortunate looking thinking cap. She wears it to read. And she wears it to cook. She wears it just about for every occasion, as long as she is platinum, which is most of the time. One of Noelle's favorite past times is to skill build and she decides to bring Brady into the mix, so they decide to play a little music together. Meanwhile, Mckenna has a delayed reaction. Is she just now noticing the couch or what? It's been there for a couple days now and she has even sat on it, so her face was kind of funny. I'm starting to think her hair is the wrong color...hehe. So anyway, while the family was bonding in the house, another member of the family was doing another type of bonding. "Hey, we're best friends now, so can we get this show on the road?!" Leilani is advancing her relationship with Remington quite quickly and is rather anxious to go further. Aww, isn't that sweet? She did that all on her own. I guess she did want to move things along. Meanwhile, Noelle had just gone to bed and Mckenna and Brady decided to hang out in the room he shared with Noelle. Marisa also decided to join them, but what she really wanted to do was play Red Hands with Noelle even though she was sleeping. While while Brady and Mckenna talked about babies, Marisa watched Noelle sleep. Back outside, Remington was taking the initiative and making the move on Leilani. Say it with me now, awww. And to end this short chapter, I thought I would put this in because I have yet to have someone be this excited. I told Leilani is give Remington a big smooch and she was more than happy to! And then she proceded to, what looks like, swallow him whole. And it looks like it took him by surprise to!

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