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Goodbye Sprinkles!

Sprinkles had been adopted by Johnny before he met Aqua and had been a stalwart friend for years.  Sadly dogs never live as long as we want them to and Sprinkles had been getting greyer and slower for the past couple of years.  Somehow it was still a horrible shock when he went outside to pee and didn’t come back in and Johnny went to look for him and found him lying on the ground.  

Goodbye Sprinkles, hope you come back to visit one day...

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Romancing the Teens

Blossom loves making friends and is now discovering a new interest in romancing those friends.  Out for a game of chess in the park she was approached by Malcolm Landgraab and although she enjoyed the challenge of beating him she was concerned about the rumours that her father, Johnny, was actually a Landgraab and Blossom has no interest in dating a possible cousin.  She also finds that she is particularly attracted to girls...

Girls like Greta Laurent

Her childhood best friend Ariana Greenbury

Olivia Kim-Lewis

Yuki Behr (although Blossom isn’t sure about her taste in hats)

Kaori Nishidake

And Luna Villareal

Blossom decides pool parties are the best way to spend the summer and a good opportunity to flirt with all her friends.  

Finally Blossom decided that Greta was the one deserving of her affections.  At least for today...

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Another Round of Birthdays

Johnny is a little younger than Aqua but he’s finally aged up to Adult.  Time for a small makeover to reflect his more mature status.

And Blossom has reached the excitement of teenagerhood!

Her new trait is Romantic and her goal in life is to be a Serial Romantic.  So let the dating begin...

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Evil Scientist Alert?

Aqua insists that she is not an evil scientist but she does find a certain enjoyment in testing out her creations on her poor colleagues, especially now she’s one of the most senior scientists in the lab.

Mary is one of Ariana’s mums and she loves Blossom but isn’t always keen on being guinea pig for her mother at work.  Especially now that Aqua keeps upgrading the Aquaray and you don’t know whether she is going to turn you into a sim ice cube, mind control you to clean the toilets or somehow transform you so that you’re suddenly at work in your swimsuit.  

The way she cackles every time doesn’t make her colleagues any more inclined to trust her either!

Aqua is also determined to get her portal generator up and running so that she can finally visit Sixam.  She’s spoken to the aliens so many times, especially as they keep picking her up from home in their spaceship but she can’t wait to see the planet for herself and she does not fancy trying to get there in the rickety rocket they have in the yard.

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Happy Birthday Bay!

Although it seems like only yesterday that he became a toddler, Bay has aged up to child and is ready to join his sister at school.  His sister is getting ready to deny all knowledge of him of course, that’s just what older siblings do.

Much like his sister, Bay continues to insist on wearing pink at all times although he has decided not to colour his hair!  It’s almost as though some higher power has decided they are to be the pink generation of the family... 

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Friends for Life?

Blossom’s best friend is Ariana Greenburg and they love to sit in her room and talk for hours, or at least until they are interrupted by annoying little brothers!

They met not long after Blossom started school, Ariana was really sad because her family had just moved house and her grandparents were no longer close by but Blossom’s manic positivity was soon contagious.  Blossom loves being friends with everyone and anyone, she introduces herself to everyone she meets and is clearly the most popular girl at school (at least according to Blossom).

She also gets homework help whenever one of her mother’s work friends come to visit, one of the bonuses of having a scientist parent is never having a shortage of help with maths and science homework!

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Happy Birthday Aqua!

Aqua is getting older as well and has just had her birthday marking her move into ‘Adulthood’ (from Young Adult, yes it needs a better name!).  Work is going well and the children are growing up.  They’ve even been able to add an extra storey to the house so finally they have two bathrooms and don’t have to queue or share the bathroom when they’re desperate.

Aqua has also grown to love the two pets that arrived with Johnny, way back when he first moved in.  Now that Sprinkles is showing signs of age she knows that Shakey won’t be far behind so she’s making sure to get as many kitty snuggles as possible.  I mean the children are growing up fast as well but she can hug them anytime.

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A Fresh Family Summer

Sprinkles is getting older now and has become rather grey of muzzle and paw.  Johnny makes sure to spend extra time with his old friend as he knows this may be their last summer together.

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Happy Birthday Bay Fresh!

Before long, Aqua has survived another baby stage and Bay ages up to toddler.  He’s definitely got the looks of his father and maybe, if the rumours are true, his father’s father as well?  

Like his sister he is a chatterbox but he also loves running around after Blossom as well as after Sprinkles the dog and Shakey the cat.  

Blossom loves having someone at home who listens to everything she says.  She even sits in Bay’s room to do her homework at night, just in case he wakes up and wants to hear all about her latest drama at school.

Bay loves his sister so much that he insists on wearing pink, just like her!

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Blossom Fresh

A quick whirl through Blossom’s very pink wardrobe!

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Happy Birthday Blossom!

Aqua is very glad that she doesn’t have long with both a baby and toddler to manage (plus a man who can’t cook, a dog and a cat!).  Time for Blossom to age up into a child...

As heir for generation 2 of the Not So Berry challenge, Blossom is embracing  her favourite colour of pink.  She’s also hot-headed and loves the sound of her own voice so feels she is destined to be a social butterfly.

Her dream of course is to become President, will the White House become the Pink House one day soon??

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Feeding the Cravings

Aqua is finding this pregnancy rough, between the nausea and the backache and now her cravings for grilled cheese and sardine sandwiches.  Johnny does his best to be helpful but sadly his cooking skills just aren’t up to managing this gourmet combination.  

The fireman who attends has some tips on not setting light to the stove in future - basically “learn to cook mate!” and Aqua decides it’s safer to leave Johnny on salad duty until he’s learned the basics.

Thankfully the whole family and the house get through this pregnancy with just a few superficial burns (and a new stove) and before long Aqua is going into labour.

This time she has a beautiful baby boy!  Introducing Bay Fresh (gen 2 spare)

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Scientist Needs to Learn Some Science

Aqua had been a bit surprised to fall pregnant the first time she slept with Johnny but assumed it was just one of those very random things.  After all, her mother had always told her that you had to really try for a baby to even have a chance of a pregnancy.  But she was happy that Johnny had decided to be involved and they had settled into a comfortable relationship while navigating the challenges of pregnancy, baby and now toddlerhood.  There hadn’t been much time for woohoo but that’s how parenthood is.

Finally Blossom stopped waking up throughout the night and Aqua’s job was at a level where she was enjoying breakthroughs instead of desperately pushing all night to think of one.  So she and Johnny settled down to some romance and a bit of fun.

The next morning Aqua woke up feeling rather nauseous.  Maybe it was the tofu from last night’s romantic dinner but maybe she should just check, just in case.

“*&^%”, for some reason Aqua had always trusted her mother’s experience over the biology she had learned but finally she had proof that you didn’t necessarily have to try for a baby to get one.  So now she was going to have a job with long hours, a toddler and a new sim growing inside of her.  Not exactly what she’d planned for this year!

Even worse, she was feeling so sick that she ended up having to take the day off work.  Definitely not fitting in with the plan!

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Floating Away

Ever since Aqua started work at the lab she’s heard stories of the aliens, how they can only be contacted via special channels or maybe a spatial vortex if someone could design one that the sim body could withstand.

But the night that Blossom aged up into a toddler she heard a mysterious hum in the sky and when she went outside she felt a strange force grab onto her body.  Looking up she was amazed to see a small spaceship hovering above her and the light became a beam of energy that pulled her up away from the ground and towards the ship.  

Aqua would never speak about her experiences with the aliens but every couple of months they would come and take her away.  All anyone knew was that somehow she was inspired with the most amazing scientific breakthroughs, almost as though they had come from outer space...

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Toddler Wardrobe for Blossom

Although Aqua’s favourite colour was green, she quickly picked up on Blossom’s preference for pink and went all out with her wardrobe and bedroom.  

This is one cute toddler!

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Blossom Fresh - Gen 2 

Blossom will be the heir for Gen 2 of the Not So Berry Challenge - Fresh Legacy.  Her favourite colour is pink, she will be aiming to master the politician career and complete the Serial Romantic aspiration as well as mastering the skill of charisma.  We have a couple of adulthood aims ready for all those relationships as well... 

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Introducing Blossom Fresh

Between work and building their new relationship, pregnancy flew by (apart from when Aqua felt rubbish, cause those days lasted forever!).  Before long it was time to push and here’s the heir ready for Gen 2 - Blossom Fresh