Stacey Holiday is the daughter of Hande Holiday and a descendant of Summer Holiday. She is married to Valentin Holiday (who is related if one goes back a few generations) and have two have two children, Chandler and Julissa (who I call Jewel-Licious). I needed a photo of the two children on Julissa’s birthday, so they posed in the backyard for their mother.

I do need a better male pose, for all I have are model poses. After the party, Valentin finally gets a piece of the birthday cake late at night. Valentin is a Sim that seems to show up at every event – without his wife, Stacey.

Now a teen, Stacey gives Julissa a hug. I’m currently going though a period where the children are now becoming teens. This is a critical time, for I like to find out what characteristics they obtain and better that I get to choose the traits of at least the main teens. Julissa ends up wanting a family and looks to be a mother who stays at home.

Over from school, Chandler, Julissa, and Briana Hanks build up their fun level by watching a movie. Now, Chandler, has the Romancing trait, which should be interesting for a teen. He also has the active trait, so with that he formed the Letter Club, and got all his fellow teens to join. Julissa formed the Glee Club for all the teen girls, which will help out Chandler.

I was a bit interested in genetics and wanted to see how closely Stacey and Julissa looked in appearance. I bit tough since the hairstyle gets in the way, but there is some similarity between the two.

With them all together at the table it was a good time to look for similar attributes between the parents and children. I find that Chandler got a lot of his looks from his father, Valentin and it appears that Julissa got her mother’s nose. But in Julissa, I see more of Summer Holiday than I do in Stacey, again the hairstyle is distracting.

Umm, just don’t know. Think Julissa has a bigger nose.

While at the Holiday house, thought I would take them over to the Patel’s for a visit.  Jamie Patel is one of the last surviving elders (my beloved Kelly Simpoke has passed) and has pretty much let Leah Patel take control of the house. Leah is a outdoors type and being at the Patel house, she has a full range of plants to take care of. Leah is married to Caiden Lehman, a sim that I’m not positive where he came from, but they have two children, a son Wesley and a daughter, Kristyn. Kristyn looks like her mother, but she also looks like an ancestor Sim named Mckinley Hanks.

She has the Family trait but also has the gloomy trait, a trait I don’t care much for.

The Patel’s have their house in Willow Creek up where an existing house was. Zoe was one of my favorite Sims at the beginning and followed her and her descendants closely. I believe one was a scientist and went through that career and obtained all the ‘extras’ one gets for completing that career. This is a two story plus an attic that is used to store said equipment.

One of my first wedding parties was given here and the backyard has been updated with the water slide. The water slide seems to be a popular item for the Sims, if left alone, thats where they will go to.

Wesley Patel is a genius with the want to do everything including eating everything. Believe me, the Holidays are here, its just that they are all at the water slide.

Valentin takes a break from the slide to chat a bit with Wesley. I think Kristyn is about to go back out after eating.

The Holidays and Patel’s are deep in generations in this save, going back six generations. There are other Patel’s and Holiday’s running around town, such as Juanita Holiday, Tamika Patel, and Greta Patel.

For beginning families, I limit the number of children to just two. If the first born is a female, then they have just one child, if the first is a male, then they can try again for a female. It is possible to have four children (or more) if one has triplets on the second try. So far I had only one family with triplets (on the first try) and all were girls, and that is the Villareal family.  Names are randomly given by the game’s name generator.

Thanks for reading.

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