Benson Family: Round 6
Time for round 6 for the Benson family. Carter and Bree have moved back home from Uni, and are ready to start their adult lives. The plantsims are continuing to reproduce aiming for that point for having 10 plantsim generations!
Carter and Bree are very happy to be graduated from Uni and finally living together! They've been dating since they were teens, went through 4 simdays of Uni living in separate housing, and now they're finally together. Life is good.
They have moved back into Carter's childhood home that he shared with his beloved grandmother, Mona, and all of her plantsim progeny. The plantsims are so used to having the house to themselves that they frequently forget there are two newly graduated love birds sharing the same space!
The youngest plantsim, Hemlock, is happy to have some new people in the house to play with. Now the cute little booger gets even more attention than before.
I was really too excited to wait much longer to make these two have babies, so Carter proposed in no time at all. And obviously Bree said YES!
So wedding spam! Carter and Bree tied the knot at the beautiful St. Eclair's Church that Leslie and Daniel Ward got married in way back when. It's such a perfect wedding venue!
Lavender Benson, oldest of Carter's plantsim family, thought it was the most romantic thing she's ever seen! Lavender has always been a hopeless romantic, but being a plantsim, we don't get any points from her, so she's never really been able to find love. But watching her at the wedding really made me sad that I've always viewed these plantsims as pointless in this challenge!
Now for the posed pictures. Here's the bride and groom, Carter and Bree (Wilcox) Benson.
Bree with her bridesmaids. Younger sister Sasha Wilcox was the Maid of Honor. Sorority sisters and best friends, April Jackson and Darcy Nolan, were bridesmaids.
Carter had his two best friends, brothers Luke and Dixon Jackson, as groomsmen.
The whole wedding party.
This is Bree's family. Mom Larke Wilcox and her boyfriend Andrew Ward, and sisters Sasha and Adrianna Wilcox.
And Carter's family, all the plantsims. Lavender, Hyacinth, Azalea and Dandelion.
Lots of guests came to the wedding. Dixon brought his fiancee, Della Harvey. Luke lines up waiting for his turn at Dixon. The brothers are enemies, and they constantly follow each other around picking fights.
Love was in the air on this beautiful summer day. All the couples were bitten by the summer-wedding love bug.
Sister of the bride, Sasha Wilcox, brought her new boyfriend Jimmy Phoenix to the wedding. These two are a new couple, established during their final year at Uni, but going strong so far.
Mother of the bride, Larke Wilcox, has a stank face while hugging her daughter. Larke is a very notorious Romance sim in town, and her feelings on marriage are not all puppies and rainbows. In fact, she's never actually been married! She has a hard time hiding her displeasure with her daughter's choice to tie the knot.
The bride and groom make a picture-perfect couple! Plantsim approved!
After their honeymoon night, Bree woke up to a strange sound. "Were those lullabies I heard?" she asks herself.
After the wedding, Carter bought a community lot and started a gym. He has a very high interest in sports and fitness, so this was the perfect business for him. He named it "Work It Out". The downstairs is full of exercise equipment, while the upstairs loft boasts a yoga studio.
Business was slow the first few days (I'm having a problem with my community lots in this town...only one customer shows up at a time), but Carter uses the time to really focus his attention on each of his clients. Ok, so he's not the best personal trainer in the world!
But at least he gets paid!
The perks of running your own gym is that you tend to get in shape very quickly too.
Carter had a want to adopt a puppy, so meet Gus!
Bree shares some good news over breakfast the next morning. She's pregnant!
The ROS for this family was for Bree to write a novel. So she spent some time working on that.
And she made some nice money off of the novel once it was published!
She also got a job in her LTW career track of Gamer. She was immediately hired on at a very high level, as a Guild Leader.
And after only one day on the job, she reached the top of the career and became a Game Designer, also completing her LTW and earning a point for the challenge!
And it was perfect timing because she went on maternity leave soon after. Look at that baby bump!
Next up, let's check in on the plantsims in the house. I really do tend to forget about them since they do not earn points for the challenge. This here is the beautiful Azalea Benson. She is generation 3 of the plantsim line.
This is little Hemlock, generation 5. He fell in love with the new puppy Gus.
And then he grew up into a very handsome plantsim adult.
Here's the other 3 plantsims. We have Dandelion (gen 4) on the left, Lavender (gen 1) in the middle, and Hyacinth (gen 2) on the right. This is what my plantsims do for most of their time if they're not gardening or helping to take care of babies/toddlers. They just sit there under the sun lamp! LOL.
But then this happened. Now I know it's a little creepy because Lavender is technically Hemlock's great-great-grandmother, but that's so far down the line that the game does not recognize them as family. And Lavender has been itching for a romance....and they do have 3 bolts naturally. So I figured, eh, why not just go with it?
Right before they took their relationship to the next level, Lavender beings to wonder if sleeping with her great-great-grandson is logical? No, it's not, but it sure didn't stop her!
Back to the humans...Bree's baby bump continued to grow.
And she spent most of her maternity leave playing on her career reward pinball table. At least she gets money for playing it!
And then all of her friends threw her a baby shower! Her sisters, mother, and all of her college friends came over for some fun.
Sasha is so excited to be an aunt! The sisters had a good time catching up. Now that they're grown and on their own, they don't get much time together anymore.
Bree had a nice time catching up with her younger sister, Adrianna, too. She remembers not too long ago when Adrianna was born....and now she's about to start Uni!
The baby shower attendees had a nice time pillow-fighting each other. In fact, that's what most of the guests were doing while Bree made her rounds talking to everyone. Also note, Sasha is having a pillow fight here with Della Harvey...the girl who stole her boyfriend just a few simdays ago! Sims will be sims I suppose.
The baby shower was a huge success, and Bree got some very nice presents from all of her friends and families.
Bree's mom, Larke Wilcox, was the last one to leave. She told Bree to call her the minute those babies were born. She's so excited to be a grandma!
And she didn't have to wait long! Bree went into labor the next morning, and what a surprise when she found out it was twins! This is the second set of twins born in Bakersfield.
And here they are....a boy and a girl! I let my husband name them, and I tell you, that was the biggest mistake! So, welcome to Leela and Erol Benson! I can already see that I'm going to have to fix the red head's skintone (I don't remember which one is which!) as it's not one of my normal skintones, and I have no idea where the other baby's blond hair came from...unless Mona, Carter's grandmother, had blond hair maybe. She was a CAS elder so I really don't remember what she was originally given.
As promised, new grandma Larke came over right away to dote on her grandbabies.
The new parents sure did appreciate her help, because it's not easy taking care of two babies at one time!
But it didn't take long for the love-birds to start being romantic again...Carter became a little kinky after waiting so long for his wife to have those babies!
And then Hemlock did his only duty in this challenge, and brought forth another generation of plantsims. This is little Lichen, another boy and generation 6.
And somewhere in this crazy busy week of weddings and births, Bree earned her silver gardening talent badge!
And lastly, Gus grew up into just about the cutest dog ever. I love his coloring!
Next round, I'm moving the plantsims out into a house of their own. I want to try to build a treehouse for them! So, the Benson family has split in two, and here are their new family portraits at the end of round 6. As always, thanks for reading!