Scenes from the lives of the Silverrings

Trigger bonded with Felicia the day before she was to age up. He caught that butterfly just for her, and can't wait until the day they can both go hunting for bugs.


The party was HUGE. Trigger knows a lot of people, more than I expected! But the adults seemed to care very little about Felicia's aging up.
Trigger was the most excited (and only one celebrating).
Tada-- little Felicia as a toddler. I think she takes after her father the most. It'll be hard to tell until she gets older though, I think.
The family sitting down to breakfast.
I love taking the toddlers outside in Sims 3.

Felicia is a genius virtuoso. Too bad that when she's a kid she won't be able to play any instruments like the piano.



Also, in other news, remember my original test family with Maggie and Norm? Maggie's dream was to become Leader of the Free world. I am proud to announce that all on her own, she has managed to do it! She reached the top of the political career. Amberle read it in the paper. I was doubly happy that it was a sim I knew.

Guess what day it is!

I'm totally stealing this idea from Laura, but I played the game for a bit and of course I have a new sim dad today.

Happy Falker Satherhood Trigger!

They happily welcomed a young girl sim which they named Felicia.


Amberle also gave him a new desk and had one of his fish mounted. Doesn't a mounted fish over his desk just say "Dad?" Now we just have to get him into golf.


But that wasn't all. Amberle also made him his favorite food for dessert: cookies.

I should have gotten video of him eating his favorite food 'cause OMG it was cute! He had this dopey grin, and he'd clap his hands before he'd take another bite.


Also, these two had one of their first serious conversations while over lunch... but I was too amazed to get pictures. Having a baby has put some added tension on their relationship. Amberle seems a little perturbed that he can do whatever he wants while she has to stay home. So shortly after that, I had her take a "me" day. (For Amberle, that meant going fishing up near the mountains.)

Second Life

So Amberle did it. She took the plunge.

She asked him on one of their very innocent dates. He was certainly surprised. What did he think they were working towards all this time?


The wedding was something of a sad affair as it was only attended by one person-- Aiden Jones who happened to be their boss.

I have always gotten the feeling that Aiden really liked Amberle. It was just bad timing that landed her in Trigger's arms instead of Aiden's. And now Aiden seems to feel he's just too old, so he's happy to support the married couple and wishes them well.



Married life in the little house by the river is amazing.


Now Amberle has someone to help her with her garden, someone to cook her breakfast in the mornings, and an extra tinkerer in the house to repair the things that break.

Sometimes she can't believe it. She'll stare at her ring and just sigh. When he's in the room, she feels so happy it simply hurts. It is possible for one bad luck sim to hold all that love in one sim heart?


Well, you know what follows after.

She just got the news, and she can't believe it. The first night, while Trigger sleeps, she slides out of bed to stare at her flat stomach. Hard to believe that while she sleeps, a little life is growing in there. Something that she and Trigger both created.



These two are SOOOOOO excited. I have to admit it's pretty cute. He right away got the want to read a parenting book and buy a stuffed animal (nevermind the fact that we hadn't added the extra room yet). They now both have the want to have a girl.


Both of them are in the science career, and Trigger has heard that eating watermellons ensures a girl. It is scientific fact-- he heard it at work. So she snacks on these little mellons like crazy.

Other cute wants: Amberle read a parenting book then wanted Trigger to read it too. She also randomly had a want for a high chair. And then Trigger, in the second day of the pregnancy rolled a want to specifically "Have a child with Amberle."





Notice, new eyes? These are SO much prettier than the flat colors from before.

Living another life

I've been focusing on Amberle's sim these past few days. Making her garden and cook, and having her fixing stuff has been really fun. As sims improve their skills, they can do more. Like Amberle can upgrade things so they'll never break. She's already upgraded the dishwasher so it runs silently.


So Amberle went to work one day when she was feeling unlucky, and there was an accident. It wasn't too bad, she came away only "slightly singed" and with a matching moodlet. XD


Her garden is absolutely coming along. The stuff she has growing: tomatoes, cabbage, grapes, limes, watermelons, onion, garlic, and apples.

She's still not a great cook though she does keep trying.




Amberle has been romancing her co-worker Trigger Broke. They went out to the bistro and ate inside which is fun because you can get change cards.

Amberle was served some bad food, but she kept quiet about it. The waiter noticed, and so their food was on the house plus she came away with some excellent veggies. Unfortunately, she got sick on the side walk.

Trigger didn't seem to mind, he still comforted her even though he seemed rather confused about it.



Maybe he was just surprised to have a girl this cute in his arms, because Trigger often does not know how to behave.

He's moody. He's rejected her kiss already once, but it might have been this night here where she vomited on the sidewalk.


Just WHAT is Billy (that guy on the right) laughing at?


Also, he's boring. She invited him to her birthday party, and he sat there reading a book rather than socializing! (Although, he does get points for bringing food to the party.)



Amberle was only thanking this guy for her promotion. I'm a little worried about this relationship. I don't like the way he's watching her. And he kept trying to get between them all night.

Also, everyone else who left said they had fun, but Trigger only said it was "...nice." Just like that!

Will these two get married? Amberle isn't a young adult anymore. It's time to think about starting a family.



Other cute pics:



The animation for the handy sim. I think her face is cute, and rather appropriately Amberle actually. XD I imagine that would be the look on my other Amberle's face the first time she surprises Henry by fixing his car or something.


This here was darn adorable. The maid for some reason decided she would brush her teeth while on the job.


The problem was that Amberle was going to take a bath and had just hopped in. Amberle screamed while in the tub, then climbed out.

I told her to take a shower once the maid had left, and Amberle had this thought bubble over her head:


Then I noticed she had an embarrassed moodlet!

Finishing one and starting another

To finish up with the Felix house hold-- I played her last night and so I know her name. It's Aubrey Feliz. And she's pretty awesome. She's the only sim I have that will actually use all of her outfits regardless of the occasion. She seems to enjoy wearing her swimsuit to work on her book.

So I sent her out to check on Norm, Angie, and Maggie because she only lives down the street.

So guess who's a teen?



I hadn't realized that that much time had passed. Here she is politely trying to explain that she's a loner and no she would not like any company.


When Aubrey got home, there was a burgler already at her house!



What does she take? The precious stones on the table behind her? No, she runs off with Aubrey's stove!

Well along with being insane and inappropriate, Aubrey is brave, so she kicked the robber's butt.




She didn't get her stuff back, or any money or anything. Just a negative moodlet because her stuff was stolen. :(


So I also spent some time redecorating her house because I think she's love a more colorful house.



I had a lot of fun just trying out different things. On the front of her desk, she's using contact paper she found which inspired her to stain her desk and chair green.


Other neat things about Aubrey-- she enjoys making inappropriate forum posts, and if she doesn't get a response, she gets a negative moodlet. When she does get a response (she got one from someone who said people like her were the reason he would no longer visit the forums) she gets feindishly delighted for a few hours.

And she likes talking about people's mothers and conspiracy theories and asking if they've caught anything even if they haven't been fishing.

Oh and she's over emotional. So any moodlet she gets gives her more of a boost.




So then last night, someone gave me the idea to try re-making someone in Sims 3. I'm not good at these things, but I think you might know who this is.



I need to work more on her hair, but that's as close as I could get to Amberle. I used this and this as a reference.

The actual Amberle has this awesome mesh by H.Lin that I got from TSR. The texture on the mesh looks brown, but under direct light looks red. It's such an amazing texture.

Anyway, Amberle is clumbsy, unlucky, a green thumb, handy, and she loves the outdoors.


So I then proceeded to build Amberle a house (possible premonition of future events).



I'm weird. I like the building sparkles.

Her house has a spot for gardening and she's close to the river (it is right behind her house.)



This is the inside her house. I clearly need to have the coloring tool taken away from me. XD Green is Amberle's trademark color and her favorite. So I figured I should make the house interesting. Not everything is green-- just most things.

And what's nice is that the recoloring is free, so a poor sim can redecorate too if they want.