Girl Talk (Round 14, Fall 2012)

Fall 2012: Marcus and Jill Craig are 30, Glenda Craig is 68, Lucas Craig is 5, Charlotte Craig is 2 (Tammie Austin is 30, Baine Austin is 4, Cynthia Morris is 25)

Lucas Craig and Baine Austin have become best friends since their moms are friends. They spend a lot of time at each other’s houses, playing tag and catch and making up stories about robots and aliens.

A proposal (Round 14, Fall 2012)

Mini-update, Fall 2012: Tucker Craig and Cynthia Morris are 25; Violet Craig is 3

“I wanted you to hear it from me first,” Darin West says. He surprised Tucker by coming over unannounced on a Sunday afternoon and now he seems nervous, crossing and uncrossing his arms as he speaks.

“What is it?” Tucker asks.

“I asked Annette to marry me yesterday,” Darin says. “And she said yes.”

Compromise (Round 14, Fall 2012)

Fall 2012: Orion and Bessie Gates are 54, Xander and Chelsea Gates are 23, Kat Gates is 3, Caleb Gates is 7 months (Belinda Smith is 30)

Bessie Gates smiles down at her grandson as she gets him ready for bed. “You look just like your daddy when he was this little,” she says, sighing wistfully. There was a time once when she and Orion had tried to have another baby, but it had never happened. Now her only baby is grown with babies of his own. Bessie loves these days, when they’re so small and easy to cuddle. She wouldn’t mind if Xander and Chelsea decide to have a few more!

School days (Round 14, Fall 2012)

Fall 2012 School update: Zane Smith is 30, Carol Smith is 27, Xander Gates is 23, Anna Sutton and Madison Craig are 17, George Tang is 15, Lexi and Sammy Smith are 8, Lucas Craig is 5, Baine Austin 4 (Townies: Dewey Richard, Connor Dawn, Mona Wiggins, Ervin Burgess, Bryant Smith, and Jamie Tellerman are all 17; Ethan Carter and Anita Davis are 15)

Pine Hollow Public School is back in session and Sammy Smith decides to welcome pre-K student Baine Austin to school with a few jokes. Sammy thinks it could work to his advantage to become friends with a younger kid. Little kids are more likely to do what you tell them just because you’re older!

Behind them, Lucas Craig looks up at all the older kids, amazed at how giant they are!

Sims 3 pictures

I played Sims 3 for the first time in a long time last night, so I decided to upload a few pictures from the game over at my neglected Sims 3 blog.

Summer 2012 Birthdays

You already saw Silvia Howell in the spring PSU update, but here she is again since she’s now officially an adult this summer. She’s taken a job as a campaign worker.

On that dizzy edge (Round 14, Summer 2012)

Summer 2012: Jason Lloyd is 24 (Nathan Gates is 22)

Jason likes how cute she looks when she smiles. How her face scrunches up into all these adorable little curves and crinkles.

He and Lilly Do have gone out a few times, spent many nights staying in either at his apartment or hers across the hall, but he still hasn’t worked up the courage to actually talk about their relationship. Whatever it is.

One day in Arcadia… (Round 14, Summer 2012)

Mini-update, Summer 2012: Edwin Chase, Emma Sutton, and Audrey Sutton are 22; Sinjin Couderc is 32

She’s the last face he sees each night and the first he sees each morning. He loves the smile on her face from that day. They were married right before the picture was taken, a spontaneous decision during a two week vacation in Takemizu Village. They wore kimonos and recited vows in a language they didn’t know.

Drown Me in Love (Round 14, Summer 2012)

Summer 2012: Jessica Craig is 26 (Glenda Craig is 67)

His name is Richard Norman. He’s a musician — if you define musician as one of those guys who sits under the shade of a tree, strumming an acoustic guitar, and singing sappy songs about heartaches and love, causing all the girls within the vicinity to sigh over how sensitive he is.

He’s really not the kind of guy Jessica Craig ever imagined herself falling for.

Truth and Hot Dogs (Round 14, Summer 2012)

Summer 2012: Eric Lloyd is 54 (Sunny Sutton is 53; Audrey and Emma Sutton, Ian and Seth Lloyd, and Nancy Crawford are 22; Darcy Sutton is 19; Anna Sutton and Madison Craig are 16)

One afternoon, Eric Lloyd has what he thinks is a brilliant idea. “Let’s get all of our kids together and have a big cookout.”

Sunny Sutton raises one eyebrow at him. “You do realize we have six kids combined, right? And when you add in boyfriends and a girlfriend, that’s eleven people. Do you know how hard it is to have a cookout for eleven people?”