Days of Our Sims Part 7

I forgot to take any pictures, but Makenzie and Lukas got married. Presenting Mr. and Mrs. Brinkley:

As a wedding present, I bought the Brinkleys a new hot tub:

Apparently one of the options is skinny dipping, which the newlyweds promptly took part in. One thing lead to another:

Lukas approved:

Then the game informed me it was SimMe's birthday! What to wish for? Hmmm....

How about aging gracefully?

Party!

Then came the Birthday Sparkles:

Whoa, whoa...wait a minute!

This isn't what I wished for!

What the hell, Birthday Sparkles?!

Oh...wait...that meddling woman in the sky will fix it...

More party!

Cake!

At which point the party abruptly ended when Jeff peed on the floor:

Ew.

Anyways...Makenzie went back to painting:

It was so cute I hung it up on the wall:

Mackenzie finished her painting just in time for a successful family meal where no one peed on the floor:

While Jeff cleaned up after dinner and Makenzie practiced her guitar:

Lukas went outside to also practice guitar on his adorable little leopard print guitar:

As you can see, I fixed Old SimMe as best I could.

Then SimMe and Jeff decided to partake of the hot tub:

And things progressed...

Ew....

Lukas and Makenzie officially got jobs. Makenzie joined the Music career and Lukas is now a Ghost Hunter. One of the things he was given as an official Ghost Hunter is a Ghoul Gobbler(?) gun, which he promptly ran out to show Makenzie:

She was impressed:

They then proceeded to play a concert for the house:

Since both the ghost hunting and music careers are night gigs and SimMe and Jeff work days, Makenzie and Lukas had the house to themselves all day. They had a lovely breakfast of waffles and birthday cake:

Makenzie then went downtown to pick up the profits from the family owned bookstore and buy some new guitar songbooks. Lukas decided to try his hand at painting:

This is his finished painting. I think he needs some more practice:

I have no pictures of Makenzie running her errands but I did take a picture of the family bookstore:

Finally! Nightfall! Mackenzie has a career, which means she disappears to work and reappears when her shift is over. Ghost Hunter is a profession, which means I can go with Lukas to work. Here goes the happy Ghost Hunter in his...gross...new uniform:

Our first client lives in a creepy yellow glowing house:

Surrounded by equally creepy mist:

Lukas was strictly professional and got to work right away, capturing ghosts in his gun thingie:

Until finally the mist disappeared and the house stopped with the creepy yellow glowing:

The we moved on to the second house and guess who we ran into:

Stupid Breslin and the now toddler Maia:

It turns out that this new client was Breslin and Liam. Liam was MIA and Breslin was just returning home from the community pool with Maia. It quickly became apparent that Emily had been left home alone in the haunted and glowing red house:

Speaking of their house, look at what Liam traded up to!

What the hell?! Why so fancy?! And...why no cribs? Where do the twins sleep? Ugh. I hate them so much!

But once again, Lukas was a professional, not only hunting down all the ghosts but protecting the twins, who were left unattended (and also unfed, exhausted and in dirty diapers) by Breslin so she could eat sandwiches in front of the TV:

The house went back to normal, without the red glow. There were no high chairs, changing tables or cribs in the house, so Lukas really couldn't do anything for his nieces. He left the house quickly and returned home to his lovely wife. They both went to bed and dreamed of their respective jobs:

The next morning, I had SimMe work on a new scuplture just for you guys:

And I end the story with a shot of Lukas enjoying the hot tub, waiting for Makenzie to join him:

Days of Our Sims Part 6

Today I redid the first floor bedroom for SimMe and Jeff. While moving their furniture, wallpaper and carpeting from the second floor, I realized I didn't like the living room. So I redecorated it again.
SimMe and Jeff's bedroom:

The newer living room:

While doing all the redecorating, I was able to sell most of the furniture I was no longer going to use, with the exception of Mackenzie's bed. Poor Lukas had spent the entire night in the cemetery looking for ghosts and had gone to bed before I started redecorating. So all I could do was move the bed out into the backyard. Luckily, Lukas didn't seem to mind:

(I have the option while decorating to cycle between day and night, which I change back and forth to determine whether the lighting I put in a room is enough or not. For the sims themselves, it's mid-morning.)

Then I redid the second floor master bedroom for Mackenzie and Lukas (I also added the stone fountain/well in the backyard):

Then I worked on the rest of the second floor. What was the children's rooms is now an open den area, with the old sofa set for reading and, of course, the sculpting area (the green arrow is the wall tool):

Overhead view of the second floor:

I have a bunch of small round rugs that look like records, so I piled them up to make the bigger rug by the stereo.

Overhead view of the first floor: