Honeywood Station – Week 6 – Hamilton & Fenton

The Hamilton family was essentially the biggest family in all of Honeywood.

With their two oldest off at university and Marylena on the elixir, it was the perfect opportunity for the couple to continue working on her want for 10 kids.

Elizabeth was their next child to become a teenager.  Like her mother, she adored the idea of having a family.  She thought about how, once her kids were grown up, she would want them to provide her with 6 grandchildren (something that Marylena and Sheldon were obviously going to have themselves).

This cycle of seven years wasn’t their greatest.  Life began to go downhill after Elizabeth and Niamh brought home a new friend.

“EW!  Mr. Hamilton, what’s that smell.”

Tessa DiGiovanni wasn’t the most subtle in the execution of her plans, but she did know how to exploit nicer sims.

“I swear, that wasn’t me.”

“Your home is unsanitary.  If this is how you people live, I would hate to be a customer in your restaurant.”

“But it wasn’t even me…”

Not all interactions with the neighbours were bad.  Callum and Calvin managed to make friends with Amy Tellerman and Chelsea Johnston.

Callum: Why is it that the kids in North Honeywood are so rude?

Amy: Well, they’ve been pretty nice to us.

Chelsea: Their sense of humour just isn’t for everyone.

“This place smells like diapers.”

Not even a full day after Tessa left, Sheldon was demoted from his position at work.  A health and safety representative from Sim City came up to inspect the kitchen in the middle of a busy shift only to deem it unsanitary.  Sheldon had never once had a violation, so the owner didn’t see fit to fire him.  However, he was still reprimanded.

It didn’t help that it happened the day of his elder birthday.

And the night that his next children were born.

Trey and Troy Hamilton were babies seven and eight for the family.

And their birth signaled that it was time for Niamh to head off to college to join her brothers.

Meanwhile…

“Anne-Marie Fenton, will you marry me?”

Gordon got down on one knee, unaware that his girlfriend Anne-Marie had been carrying on an affair with Oscar Bruty.

“YES!”

Harrison: Jeez… their woohooing is making it difficult to stay in the zone.

Gordon and Anne-Marie got engaged in their last semester at HCC.  Needless to say, they celebrated.

The graduation of the Fenton twins and Gordon meant that Niamh was free to move into the HCC student house for the start of her first semester.

The three new graduates moved into their new North Honeywood home in the middle of the cycle on a Friday morning.

With the combined money they brought in, they were able to afford a fully constructed house.

And that afternoon, Anne-Marie and Gordon tied the knot becoming the new Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton.

Needless to say it was a successful wedding.

Cole Fenton ending up taking a position in Law Enforcement like his sister’s mother-in-law.

And Anne-Marie a job in education.

Many of their former college roommates stopped by after long days in their shops.  It seemed like the Fenton house made for a great make-out spot.

Gordon was the last member of the household to find his dream job in journalism.  His college education gave him a bit more leeway into the career than expected.

Some in the household continued to flourish.

But some failed.  On his first day, Gordon refused to write a rag piece on the restaurant his father worked in.  He was subsequently fired for his lack of journalistic integrity despite knowing that the health and safety violations were, in a word, bullshit.

Anne-Marie ending up giving birth to her and Gordon’s first born son, Jace Hamilton, at the end of the cycle.

Back over in the main Hamilton house, Sheldon got his job back as a celebrity chef.  From then on out, he kept his nose clean when it came to his work station.  He recorded everything so he contest any allegations against him in the future until he would eventually retire.

He and Marylena only needed two more kids.  When they found out she was about to become infertile, she took more of the elixir.

The twins were the next to celebrate their teenage birthdays.  Calvin aspired to knowledge and wanted to work at the museum as an adventurer while Callum wanted to life a slacker lifestyle with lots of women on his arm.

They were followed by Trey and Troy becoming toddlers.

And then the announcement of Marylena’s next pregnancy.

On the last day of the cycle, Elizabeth moved out early for college.  She wouldn’t be able to start until the beginning of the next one, but it freed up more room in an already crowded home.

At the same time that her grandchild was born, Marylena gave birth to another set of twins.  Markus and Nestor Hamilton.  Thus ending the cycle for the Hamilton family.

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NOTE: When moving college sims out after graduation, I am using the sethour cheat to adjust the day to be on cycle without making them older.  That is, of course, unless they move back home.  Right now everything is all jumbled up in my game which is why the cycle is off kilter.  The next family to be played is the Bruty family so Richard can go to college on time.