We Have Elders!

Well, we did it. We finally have elders in our game that we are actually playing instead of just having NPC elders, and I'm still adjusting to it. I hardly ever play a family this long so I'm so proud of myself for getting to this milestone, and I have all of you to thank for that! I also want to say thank you because we just hit 150 followers on our Instagram! Anyways we have a lot of elders now. I knew when I went into the game today that my goal was to build Maleficent's house and to age up Dina and Mickey! But in order to age up our favorite couple, I needed to also age up to their friends. J, Sage, and even Nina have been around since the game started and pretty much just let them play their own lives. Sage has actually aged up into an elder already but I bumped her back down to an adult because I wasn't ready for that just yet. Sage and Mickey in my mind are the same age and a couple years older than Dina and J but wanted to age them all up at the same time. As for the Caliente sisters, I couldn't remember who was older between Nina and Dina. I know Nina has taken her time and had children way later in life than Dina did. For most of their relationship, we didn't see because Dina and Nina were already young adults by the time that Mickey and Dina met. They had a really close relationship and we lost it a little bit when Dina and Katrina were fighting, but in the most recent years, they are super close again. So I went ahead and aged Nina and her husband up too. Since we were having such a massive aging going on I aged most of them up in cas, but we had a big double birthday for Mickey and Dina. So let's first start with everyone that I aged up in cas.

CAS Agings

Nina Estes - Elder

Eli Estes - Elder

Moriah Estes - Teen

Michelle Estes - Child

Lucas Estes - Child

Sage Huntington - Elder

J Huntington III - Elder

Jodi Huntington - Child

As you can see from the pictures above I also aged up some of our kiddos. Most you have never really seen before. Jodi we have seen from time to time as a toddler, she was the baby on the slide at the Huntington House and is J and Sage's youngest child, but we haven't really had many interactions with her since Aubrey has gotten married pretty early. We have also seen Moriah some, who is Nina's oldest child. I kind of aged her up a little earlier than she was supposed too but I wanted a teen in the house in case Nina and her husband just passed away. I don't normally keep them in my play filed so that they can just do their own thing, also I use them and the Huntington's as markers for when I need to age my own crew up. Spoiler: Sage has actually aged up once already but I wasn't ready to do all of this so I aged her back down into an adult that's why I say she's older than J. Anyways I didn't want the kids to be taken and we never see them again in either house but in the Huntington's house we already have Kassandra so I went ahead and aged up Moriah. 

The last that we saw of Nina's kids were when there were only two girls, I don't think the son was born yet, and Aubrey and Dina went to visit them at their house. This was the first time Dina has ever met the youngest and we didn't get to see Moriah since the wedding. Literally right after we left I got the notification that she was pregnant again, and we just haven't had the time or a story to fit them all in.  So I've just left them in played sims for a little bit so no one ages up anymore, has anymore kids, or dies on us. But now that he's a kid maybe he and Wendy can hang out. Wendy doesn't have many friends and I think it would be fun to have a little playdate with all of the kids in the game which would be Sage's youngest two and Nina's youngest two with Wendy. Since we are already on this train I also think we should have all the teens hang out too. I just think Sage and Moriah will really hit it off. We might have a side story soon featuring both of these. 

Before I show you our old couple I wanted to tell you why it was so important for me to age them up right now. I have a bunch of different stories in the works right now between all four kids. Two of those stories really involve Mickey, Dina, and Pluto. Since these are our three originals it was just time for them to age up. We just aged Pluto up a few posts ago and he has never had a birthday the whole entire time we played. I think looking back I should've started him as a puppy but oh well. I don't plan on them all dying instantly. I actually would love for them to meet a grandkid or two, but this is where it is kind of getting a little tricky for me. One Pluto's a dog and he has never aged up in my game until recently so his death might be a little more immediate than Mickey and Dina. I hate thinking about this but logically he wouldn't still be alive if this is real life or he would be a super old dog, I mean he has spanned over Mickey and Dina meeting, Aubrey's whole life, Maleifcent and the twins' lives, and even Wendy being born as an adult doggy! That is a lot of years!

Maleficent's story progression really doesn't intertwine with Mickey and Dina's at the moment since we just finished the big story arc that I had for them, I don't have any planned for them right now same for Maleficent herself. The only thing I have planned for her next is aging up and I'm not sure when we are doing that just yet. This is kind of the same for Steve, Mickey and Dina are really important to him and he loves them but I haven't figure out a way to work in a story with just the three of them right now. Steve is more in the bubble working on friendships with Brittany and Leo. Both of these two stories at the moment are really focused around them and their futures moving forward at the moment, that doesn't mean that something might happen that changes my story I have for them at the moment that could potentially involve Dina or Mickey but for right now I don't have anything in the works for them right now. 

Now as for Wendy and Adam I have a plan where both of the parents play really big roles in their stories, especially coming up. Since Wendy is the youngest child I was just thinking that she and her parents get into a big fight which causes her to run away to Neverland, but now I'm thinking that it might need to be something bigger than that. Wendy is just such a happy kid and really hasn't had anything big or traumatic happen to her, so far the biggest thing that has ever happened to Wendy is meeting Peter's shadow. I just don't want to kill either parent off to be that pushing factor. But at the same time grief is a really hard thing to deal with and I could see that pushing her away I just don't know if an argument will have that same impact. In the movies, Wendy was threatened with being moved out of her bedroom with her brothers so the thrill of adventure is what really pushed her to go with him. So I mean I can see it, I just never see this family argue with anyone or be strict like that. But we did just have something like that happen with Maleficent and she didn't run away she just abided her parents' rules. I just always knew that they would be elders while Wendy was a child because they had her really late in life and she wasn't planned. So I went ahead and aged them up. 

I just don't know yet. I plan on Mickey and Dina being elders for a while. As for Adam, we haven't seen a whole lot of him yet just because there really hasn't been much we can do with him right now. We find some potential Belles but that's really been it for him. I even have a really hard time thinking of stories to write for him right now because the only thing he has is to be a spoiled brat and to do whatever his whims are. I might do a short post where we just follow him around for a week just to see what I've been doing with him, which hasn't been all that fun. But his story I think is going to start pretty much at the same time as Wendy's story because I've been talking to some really cool sim builders who make these extraordinary builds in the Sims. Right now one of them is working on a home that I plan for Adam to kind of steal/buy it for himself as a really big spoiled kid moment. I think I have the story really worked out in my head for how he comes into this new home, but as for Wendy, I'm going to play it by ear because I have a lot of different ideas for her. But long story short it was just time to age Dina and Mickey up. 

Mickey and Dina

So let's look at this laid back birthday that they had. The kids sort of surprised them with a birthday party where all of the kids and their friends were there! It was out of the blue and neither Mickey nor Dina really expected this but they were so incredibly surprised by it. However, Dina being our perfect little perfectionist/chef just had to make her and Mickey's own birthday cakes! She just could not help herself and wouldn't let anyone else cook it for them!

While everyone was having a party, talking, and just having a lot of fun our old pup just had to take a nap. I love how Pluto just passed out like this! It was so cute and really reminded me of my real-life doggo.

Although the cakes were set up right beside each other and so were our birthday sims, Mickey ended up aging up first! Dina got sidetracked by Sage and the two ladies couldn't stop catching up with one another! 

As for both of their outfits, I really didn't change much. Over the years Mickey and Dina have already started picking up more comfy clothes versus stylish ones. There were a couple for Dina that I really changed completely, but for the most part I only really changed their hair and makeup. Here are their outfit collages! 

Once the pair was finally done aging up Dina just had to take pictures with everyone! Since Sage was right there she snapped a selfie with her first! These two ladies look so great! I can't believe how tiny Sage stayed. She's always been such a bean pole! Dina on the other hand stayed super muscular. Working out has definitely been one of Dina's go-to things! 

Mickey and Dina definitely have had one of the best relationships I've ever seen in the game! They had their fair share of rough patches but they always managed to work it out in the end. I think they look even better together now than they ever had! I just think they just know how to make the other one laugh which really has been the glue in this whole family! Aren't they some really adorable sims!

Next up Dina grabbed Aubrey real fast to take a picture together. I swear Dina was just in the picture taking mood because she got one with just about everyone that was there! 

While we waited for Nina to get there I was able to get some pretty cook pictures of some unexpected sims! Like Mickey who was just so happy he couldn't stop smiling! He is literally one of the happiest sims ever who just gets along with everyone! I don't think I've ever seen him mad at anything before. He's just so laid back. In the background, you can see Steve doing dishes, Travis Scott, and Dina. Mickey had to invite Travis. They got pretty close while he was married to Katrina and in my game, Katrina Scott, formerly Caliente, has already passed away. We didn't get to see too much of Travis in the game but he was always a nice guy who just didn't know the full story about what was going on. So no one sees him as the bad guy and have a pretty good relationship with him. 

Next up we got a really nice candid shot of Mr. Adam. I don't know what I was thinking when I gave him this outfit. At the time I really didn't have many 'snobby' clothes but now that I have a lot of it in my game I'm going to need to update his wardrobe soon. I just think he would be wearing all the really expensive stuff, especially name brands. Don't get me wrong I have hardly no male CC when comparing it to the girls' stuff but I have been able to find some of it here and there. 

Nina finally made it so Dina made sure she got a picture with her sister before she could disappear on her again!

As soon as Nina and Dina were done taking pictures Nina made Wendy sit with her so they could catch up. Even though Nina wasn't around a whole lot she always made sure that her nieces and nephews knew who she was and how much she cared about them. 

We even had a little daddy/daughter photoshoot right after the official party ended! It was so cute and we don't really get much of these kinds of pictures. 

Sidenote: I just did w a HUGE poses CC binge and now I have a lot of poses, I didn't really find exactly what I was looking for so I'll be doing another one soon.

After Mickey and Wendy were done taking pictures I thought it would be nice to do the same thing but with Mickey and Dina! It would be so cute and something that everyone needed! I need to learn how to make some of these pictures into the sims frames so I can hang them up around the house because they would be so freaking cute! 

Mickey and Dina aren't the only two elders in our household so I made sure to get Pluto in on this little photoshoot! It was so adorable, here are the results of those pictures. 

You can really see just how much these two love each other in all of these pictures and just how much Pluto means to them. We might not get to see a lot of Pluto, mostly because I can't control him so he just does his own thing. But he is always around and is close to all of the Disneys. He was Mickey's first baby and even helped him find Dina. In the beginning, we kept saying that whoever Pluto picked would be the girl for Mickey and he definitely had something when he found Dina. I thought it was just perfect to get some shots of the family that started everything just like this! I just adore this family so much!

Just because he is an elder now doesn't mean Mickey doesn't still get it! As soon as he and Dina were done taking pictures he came right inside and just started dancing the rest of the night away!