Growing Sims

I just realised that I've been writing this blog for just over a year.  Amazing.  In that time I've reached generation 5 with the Collies.  And since that name might not reach generation 10 I'll just reflect back on the generations.

It started with Manon and Shannon (remember the rhyming theme there for a while?)  Their kids were Mellon, Ben, Steven, Helen and Ken.  Ken died in a fire so no kids from that branch.  

Mellon's kids were Penny and Devon.  Her grandchildren are Harriett, Richard, Kane, Alex and Victoria.  Great-grandchildren are Caitlyn, Brianna, Briony, Brett, Mairead, Seamus, Reefer, Peyote, Alexis, Mikhail and Elizabeth

Ben's kids were Darlene and Denny.  His grandkids are Zen and Denim (Len drowned).  No great-grandchildren.

Steven had one child - Kenny (named after his deceased uncle).  Steven's grandson is Damien.  Grandkids include Demonica, Romania, Lithia and Ebony and another on the way.

Helen also had just one child - Daniel, and her grandchildren included Leon, Helena, Shana, Deon, Dana and Margareta.  Only three of them survive.  Great-grandkids include Shona, Fukita, Neil and Jess (Lena drowned).

The other major family of Veronaville (and this blog will now concentrate on that neighbourhood) has become the Champignon family who are intermarried with the Collies.

Raoul was the founder and he lived with his son, Jean-Philippe, before marrying Katelyn Go and having twin boys, Francois and Pierre.

His grandchildren are Henri, Monique, Guillaume, Amelie (now deceased), Philippe, Emma, Antoine and Antoinette.  His great-grandchildren are Stella, Artois, Hollandia, Reefer, Peyote and Sativa (Philippe's daughter).

So if you were confused as to who was who before this might help.

Zen of course graduated and moved back into his uncle-brother's house.  He's got a job as a rookie.

At Denny's old place, his widow, Emily, died age 66.

Denim is still a teenager.  No-one will miss her mother - she was the annoying one who poked people for looking through the telescope (nowhere near her house).  Denim might have to get a job...

At Dana's, Jessie Greaves moved back in with his (still) wife and son.  (can't find the pic)

At Deon's, Fukita grew to school age.

Larissa Landgraab moved in with Kane and they got married.

Kane's ex-wife, Siobhan, also married but had a proper wedding.

Alex was there as a fellow victim of betrayal.

Over at Damien's mistress' place, Serena was pregnant.

Lithia grew to a teenager.

At Alex's place (his grandmother was a Collie after all) the headmaster approved of the house (with a score of 136/90) and Alexis and Mikhail now go to private school.

Actually the Collie name is in danger of dying out.  The current Collie surname-bearers have actually got their name through females (Deon from his father, Daniel, who got his from his mother; Zen from his mother, Darlene; and Damien actually has the surname Tan, a name his father took from his vampire wife).

Finally, although not from the Collie family except through a tenuous link to Daniel, Jan's son, Danny, grew to a teenager.

His stepfather, Greg, got overheated while working out and collapsed.  He got up after Danny doused him.

I've been around all the families in Veronaville updating them all (except for Philippe Champignon who I haven't played for some time).  I tend to play them one Sim day at a time until I decide to focus on one.  Which family to start with?

Well to begin with, Artois, Reefer and Zen graduated from university.

Artois above (with Serena DeMarr who he fancies).  He looks more like his grandfather.  Reefer below:

Artois at first moved into Roxie's place (until someone told him she's his mother) and he quickly moved out and into Reefer's little bachelor pad next to Jan's place.

Meanwhile, Reefer's bro grew to a teenager:

At Emma's, the twins grew to school age. 

Antoine above and Antoinette below:

Emma continues to lust after others - regardless of gender.

She now has 5 lovers but of course wants 10.

At Artois' dad Henri's place, his little sister, Hollandia, finally made it to teenhood after getting perilously close to failing at school and a visit from the social worker.

She looks like her auntie Monique.