Thirty Grandchildren Badge Attempt - ongoing so it now has its own playlist

30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt Part 16 is now available for you to watch on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/WcPWCmN6dog

This episode starts at home - there are only 7 teens left in the household at the beginning of the episode and by the end there are only 5. But they did gain 2 young adults. This was due to two birthday parties.

We see Demetria achieve her Lifetime Wish of having a Perfect Private Aquarium.

Demetria (Teen)
https://i.postimg.cc/YSVjwDqG/Demetria-Fishing004.jpg

Perfect Private Aquarium
https://i.postimg.cc/mrv28wcj/Perfect-Private-Aquarium-LTW-Achieved001.jpg

Demetria and Dolores age up. Dolores has completed her lifetime wish ages ago so it was about time for her to age up. She got to level 10 in guitar and painting.

Dolores (Young Adult)
https://i.postimg.cc/Bv2RqXJT/Dolores-Holden002.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/9Q6v5GHX/Dolores-Holden003.jpg

Byron attends the first birthday party but moves out to live in his own house between parties. He is Wilfred's Imaginary Friend made real.

Byron
https://i.postimg.cc/52ktF1bZ/Byron-Honlden001.jpg

Wilfred
https://i.postimg.cc/FHd2BTqn/Wilfred001.jpg

There is tension between Javon and Gwen due to the activities of Robbie's genie, Elsa.

Gwen
https://i.postimg.cc/h41CMrGr/GwenRichards002.jpg

Javon
https://i.postimg.cc/02d3JnpD/Javon001.jpg

Elsa
https://i.postimg.cc/vmCkDD06/Elsa001.jpg

Javon and Gwen decide to get away from the mayhem at home. They need some personal time to sort out their relationship. They head for China and some adventuring and lots of flirting happen. By the end of the video they are officially Girlfriend and Boyfriend. They travel to Egypt. They have a dual quest. One is to foster their previously endangered personal relationship and hopefully become engaged to be married; the other quest is to find 20,000 simoleans worth of relics to assist Coby achieve his lifetime wish of Perfect Museum. Their visit to China didn't get them many relics so they head for Egypt next in the hope of finding more relics and maybe getting engaged to be married.

I hope you enjoy the video. Next video will see Javon and Gwen continue their adventures.

Coby Holden
https://i.postimg.cc/s2BDKP9V/Coby-Holden002.jpg

Tony McLean - their almost absent father (doesn't appear in this video - but you can see where many of them got their looks)
https://i.postimg.cc/j2Y5DWfR/Tony-Mclean004.jpg

30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt Episode 17 is now ready to view on YouTube

https://youtu.be/EDlNtqiXluQ

Javon and Gwen are in Egypt where they search for relics and have fun together. They move on to France where they continue their fun and getting to know each other.

Especially good fun was had in an empty sarcophagus in one of the tombs.

Not much tomb exploring was included in the videos as the focus of this story is the relationship between Javon and Gwen and the urgency of having them become boyfriend and girlfriend and progress to marriage by the end of the episode. We have 14 more couples to go through this process before we can start having official grandchildren that can be counted for the challenge.

One side activity Javon and Gwen are up to is collecting relics to add to Coby's private museum in the hope they might trigger his lifetime wish.

Some of the relics in Coby's private museum by the end of this episode
https://i.postimg.cc/P55Mrfsp/Cobys-Private-Museum003.jpg

Felicia makes her imaginary friend, Peanut, real. Peanut becomes known as Pauleen.

https://i.postimg.cc/GhQQC8Nn/Pauleen-Holden-IF001.jpg
Pamela

Dell Douglas is occasionally spotted around town.

https://i.postimg.cc/Y9yYnX4v/Dell-Douglas002.jpg
Dell

She is the extra sim I made to assist with the unpacking of the Packed population of Cake Island II when I moved them all to a new save. She has been dating one of the Imaginary Friends made real. I think it is Byron she is dating.

https://i.postimg.cc/52ktF1bZ/ByronHonlden001.jpg
Byron

Javon and Gwen
https://i.postimg.cc/MKLqwtjR/Javon-And-Gwen-Wedding002.jpg

I hope you enjoy the episode.

Hello All.

I was up until 2:30 am getting my most recent video ready for upload. I added the music, rendered it, saved it as an mp4 and then watched it. I hope I was sufficiently focused at that time of the morning to successfully remove anything that needed to be removed. Mostly I worry about me repeating myself a few times - a bit like stuttering an entire sentence. And things like that. Anyway, the video seems ok. I watched it again after loading it and am reasonably happy with it.

It is now ready for you to watch on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/rcMFWRa1Kms

I'm motivated to get this story done. I had played ahead so far without making videos that I had to stop my game play to get the recorded videos made into YouTube videos before I forgot what was going on in them. This video is different in that I had just moved the entire population of Cake Island into a new save. I took the opportunity to introduce you to all of them. I didn't count them but there are not many of them. I think just about half of the world's population live together in the same house - the main Holden household. So it won't take long for you to meet all of them. One of my aims as the game progresses is to increase the number of sims living in the world. That's why I'm turning all of the imaginary friends real and moving them out to their own homes.

In the beginning of the video we catch up with Javon and Gwen on their wedding night in their new home. They are the active household so we get a good look around their house and see them there together. They will be townies for the rest of this series of videos. I can still use mods to control them to a point, but their story from now on will be mostly up to Story Progression. I'm thinking the main reason I might have to control them will be when it's time for them to start having babies. Babies they have after all of Javon's siblings have married and moved out to their new homes will be part of the 30 grandchildren.

Then we leave Javon and Gwen's place to meet the other townies, including the imaginary friends made real who have been moved out to become new townies by the time Javon and Gwen get married.

Finally, Robbie and Candice go on vacation together and find themselves in Cornucopia. This is a player made world and is available on the Exchange. It was made by Shalua
https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1759713

While in Cornucopia they visit a roller coaster. This lot is also available on the Exchange and is one of my builds.
https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=7880852

One of the townies you'll meet was recently added to the game by me. She is Claudette Cameron and she is in my studio on the Exchange.
https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9154928

The main world in this series of videos is Cake Island by Rflong13
https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8442687

I hope you enjoy the video.

Please give it a like if you do enjoy it as that helps with the survival of my channel.

If you download any of my items from my studio please think about recommending it. None of the builds or sims I've loaded to the Exchange have 3rd party CC on them. I made them all before I added CC to my game to be sure none could attach to whatever I load to the Exchange. The Roller Coaster definitely has lots of Store Content and Claudette is not a base game only sim and might have some store content.

Happy Simming.

Episode 19 of the 30 Grandchildren Badge attempt is now available to watch on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/b0UzwWC5XHA

This is a busy episode. We start out where episode 18 left off with Robbie and Candice in Cornucopia. They go fishing and head to the festival before Robbie gives up on his attempt to extinguish a paparazzi who had self combusted at their front door.
Back in Cake Island Robbie and Candice move to their new home and we have a quick look around that.
Then we are back in the main house with the remaining 13 of Robbie's siblings and a few others.
This episode is sort of a housekeeping type of episode. The main activity in my gameplay was getting them to learn skills and to read recipes and fishing bait books and I didn't want to show you all of that. It would have taken a few very boring episode to get through all of that so you do get a couple of glimpses of it but that's all.

We have a birthday for Sharonda, who needs to join the law enforcement career to get her lifetime wish, and Coby who got his lifetime wish when Javon and Gwen returned from their vacation and filled his private museum with so many valuable relics.

Then we see a little gardening, mostly featuring Larry who was recently added to the household as a future spouse for Lynette. Larry needs to learn many skills.

Sharonda and Coby's graduation happens in the same episode in which they aged up to young adult.

The graduation is followed by Wiggles being made real and then being transformed into Win. She won't be in the household for long but I kept her for a while and she's reading books and going to work. She wants to be a creature robot cross breeder.

Since Alecia has developed a worry about Dennis suffering a premature death, Alecia is determined to learn the recipe for Ambrosia before she goes on vacation and eventually marries him. Meanwhile poor Dennis is battling me. He wants to get to the top of his painting career but I won't let him sell all of his paintings. They are so pretty I want to keep a lot of them to decorate the family home.

In the end Alecia goes stir crazy so I send her out to the festival to pick wildflowers. And that's it for now. I've started working on episode 20.

By the way - this is Wiggles after she is made real and after I gave her a makeover.

https://i.postimg.cc/4NVq2xWc/Win004.jpg

Happy New Year to everyone. It'll be here in about 1 hour from now.

I just posted my 5th video for December. It's now available for you to watch. I'm in a bit of a hurry to get this series completed. I hope I can keep up the pace.

30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt Part 20 is now available for you to watch on YouTube

https://youtu.be/iX66FLjC6Qc

Life continues in the main household.

Wiggles becomes real and turns into Win in the previous episode. In this episode she continues to read recipes and fishing books after learning some cooking and fishing skill.

https://i.postimg.cc/xdTZdynG/Win005.jpg

Win joins Felicia and Robbie and gets a job at the Science Facility. All three of them share the lifetime wish of 'Become a Creature Robot Cross Breeder'.

Robbie no longer lives in the main household as he recently married Candice and they now live in their own home near Javon and Gwen.

https://i.postimg.cc/Jn0yzH8h/Robbie-And-Candice002.jpg

Javon and Gwen announce the birth of their first child, Brendan. Unfortunately Brendan won't be counted as one of the 30 grandchildren as he was born before I was ready to start counting the grandchildren.

https://i.postimg.cc/0j5z132L/Javon-And-Gwen-Wedding002.jpg
Since they are now townies I don't have any recent pictures of Javon and Gwen, but here's another pic of their wedding that I haven't shown you yet.

https://i.postimg.cc/7hbhyYH1/Wiggles2.jpg

Win moves out into her own home and another imaginary friend, Bobo, is made real and becomes Ben. Ben joins the culinary career as his lifetime wish is to become a celebrated five star chef.

https://i.postimg.cc/gjDxpd0z/Ben-Holden-IF-Made-Real001.jpg
Ben Holden - Imaginary Friend Made Real

Wilfred is invited to visit his imaginary friend made real, Byron.

Wilfred
https://i.postimg.cc/9FJ6Cxqp/Wilfred002.jpg

Byron
https://i.postimg.cc/BnPX324Q/Byron003.jpg

It turns out Byron was lonely. He still lived alone in the colourful 2 bedroom house I first moved him into. Since the game had recently advised me that Byron and Edith were now a couple I decided to merge their households. Edith turned up at Byron's place while Wilfred was talking to Byron. Naturally Byron only had eyes for Edit from that point on and, since it was very late, they went upstairs together to sleep. Fortunately Byron has a double bed. He also has a spare bedroom with a crib and a single bed. Maybe there will be some little Byrons or Ediths running around soon. Wilfred wandered off home after a while.

Edith
https://i.postimg.cc/wvgvDPJ7/Edith003.jpg
Edith is a sim I made years ago and pulled out of my library to add her to this game as a townie. I expected her to maybe pair up with Dave Webb, but he ended up with Ursula Gammin instead and now they have 2 children together and live opposite Robbie and Candice. I am somewhat surprised the game put Byron and Edith together but that's what happened without any prompting from me so I'll go with it. They add to the population of the town and hopefully will have babies.

Larry continues to learn skills and reads many recipes and fishing bait books.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZnjMYR0R/Larry005.jpg

He recently got to level 10 in gardening. So he doesn't have to garden any more. Fortunately, a few of the others still need to build their skill.

Towards the end of this episode, Meagan and Latoya age up to Young Adult and graduate. Their graduation happens immediately after their birthday due to me cutting out almost all of the time spent by sims reading books or recipes and also time spent by sims discovering potions on the chemistry tables.

Alecia and Dennis leave on their pre engagement vacation.

Now I'm working on Episode 21.

In the next episode there will be a wedding - Dennis and Alecia will finally tie the knot. I'll miss them but they will move out to live next door to Robbie and Candice. Their houses will be similar, although I'm trying to mix up the children's playground equipment in their back yards to try to encourage the little cousins to visit each other to play.

When Dennis and Alecia move out I'll be moving in another of the potential spouses I made for them. Felicia's potential husband, Frank will move in. I will try to get Wilfred's potential spouse, Wendy too. They are both designed specially for Felicia and Wilfred and are sitting patiently in my library. They'll have lots of learning to do when they move in as they are brand new sims.

Happy Simming and HAPPY NEW YEAR All.

30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt Part 21 is now available for you to view on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/ZrbNXAvX9dE

In this episode Alecia and Dennis go on their vacation to get to know each other and decide if they want to spend the rest of their lives together or not. It is up to them. They have a very busy and at times scary vacation. It turns out they are devoted to dancing with each other. It continues to be their number one joint default activity. In this video they learn surprising new skills and have some adventurous new experiences they are not likely to have back at home in Cake Island. The video begins as they travel to their vacation location and ends with them traveling back to Cake Island.

Next episode will include their wedding plus the preparation for the next couple, Larry and Lynette, to go on their vacation.

I hope you enjoy this video.

Happy Simming.

30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt Part 22 is now available for you to watch on YouTube

https://youtu.be/K4fmi0-cimg

Alecia and Dennis have returned from vacation. They are now an engaged couple and will have their wedding ceremony in this episode.

The final two teenaged sisters of Alecia will age up to Young Adult and graduate.

Alecia and Dennis move into their new home after Alecia picks the forbidden fruit seed she planted before leaving for their vacation.

Ben moves out to become a townie - he moves from the house I put him into.

Sharonda finally is able to use the potion she made ages ago to turn her imaginary friend real.

I hope you enjoy the video.

Happy Simming

30 Grandchildren Badge Episode 23 is now available for you to watch on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/zk81hZqW8i0

I hope you enjoy it.

The story opens with Kendall who missed the school bus. The thing is, he is the only teen left in the household of 15 children. All of the others have now aged up to Young Adult.

The Imaginary Friends of each of the 15 children are made real after they age up to Young Adult if there is room for them in the Cake Island house.

In previous episodes Javon went on vacation (to the 3 World Adventures worlds) with Gwen and were married when they returned to Cake Island.
They then moved out and have since had a baby son who will unfortunately not count towards the 30 grandchildren as I was not logged in when he was born and I have since changed households numerous times.

After Javon and Gwen Robbie and Candice had their vacation to a player built world, Cornucopia. They eloped there and moved out to their own home on their return.

Next Alecia and Denis had their vacation in Isla Paradiso. They returned home to have a wedding in my build, the Indoor Outdoor Wedding Venue. They chose the garden to have an outdoor wedding. They moved out with their plant sim baby who will not count towards the 30 grandchildren for the same reasons Javon's son won't count.

This episode is for Lynette and Larry to go away somewhere to get to know each other and decide if they want to be together for ever and raise a family. They go to Oasis Landing in the Normal Future and while slowly getting to know each other they explore the Wasteland and my Rainbow Gondola build in this episode.

https://i.postimg.cc/VLxFB6cY/Lynette-And-Crow001.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/xTJRzmhx/Oasis-Landing-Sunset001.jpg

Pictures of the Rainbow Goldola build were not necessarily from Oasis Landing

https://i.postimg.cc/ydvfmyqw/Gondola44.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/76K5qf73/Gondola40.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/C1vgWfXk/Gondola26.jpg

I hope you enjoy the continuation of this story.

Happy Simming

30 Grandchildren Episode 24 is now available for you to watch on YouTube

https://youtu.be/QmJp-Abc3k8

This is the second, and final part of the vacation of Lynette and Larry. They explore Oasis Landing in the Normal Future. It is a fast paced episode with lots of different activities.

It starts with them in the wastelands at the crashed ship. They watch the stars then Larry heads off to do a class in bot building. He decides to go shopping in the EP XI Emporium and we get to see him enjoying it and buying some items to take home with him.

Lynette leaves the crash site to meet up with Larry at the bar in the Rainbow Gondola hangout. They investigate a nursery and compete with each other in a friendly game of Arcade Hoops. They are served by the chef in the restaurant where they eat lunch before heading off to find the waterfall that Lynette has heard is somewhere in the hills near town. They find a whole suburb of old fashioned houses up in the hills and a herd of wild horses near the waterfall. They have some fun flying high with their jet packs and their romance continues to advance.

As evening falls they go to a local bar where they find lots of locals, many of whom are descendants of Lynette's mother, Gerri, as well as some descendants of Ursula Gammin, the witch who lives near Javon and Gwen.

They end the day back at the Rainbow Gondola lot. They have a wonderful time there and at the end of the video they are playing a game together down in one of the underground hallways. The video ends with them playing happily together. We won't see them return home, but they will reappear in Cake Island some time in episode 25. I didn't want to interrupt their activities so I just left them there for now. There is a lot of romance in this episode, particularly towards the end. And a new type of kiss as well.

Not all of the scenes depicted in these screen shots made it into the video. I had to cut over an hour out to make a video of about 32 minutes of the best bits.

Eating breakfast at the community center
https://i.postimg.cc/Z5ZCbTbw/Breakfast001.jpg

A couple of locals in the wasteland.
https://i.postimg.cc/wTD1Ytpt/In-The-Wasteland001.jpg

One of many kisses between Larry and Lynette
https://i.postimg.cc/HxJLZnzk/Kiss001.jpg

The end of the video they play happily in a hallway of the Rainbow Gondola lot
https://i.postimg.cc/Bv76BHxz/Larry-And-Lynette001.jpg

A view of Oasis Landing at night from near the waterfall up in the hills just out of town
https://i.postimg.cc/jqpD1HG0/Oasis-Landing-At-Night001.jpg

Something is wrong with the way Larry was planting his flag
https://i.postimg.cc/g02jhN6R/Planting-The-Flag001.jpg

The Wild Horses that live near the waterfall.
https://i.postimg.cc/RZRqqjq4/Wild-Horses001.jpg

This is Part 26 of the 30 Grandchildren Badge Attempt. It is now ready for you to view on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/6hz_rYowUBk

It is another busy video but it is mostly set in Cake Island by @Rflong7 . At the very end we see Felecia and Frank at the Base Camp in The Great Southern Land by @Frogprincess_q . Next episode will be mostly in the Great Southern Land.

Activities in this episode include lots of work by the household members on gaining a variety of skills and reading of recipes and fishing bait books. Cathy and Percy move out to live as townies. Each has their own new home and we have a quick look inside their new houses.
Two of the Imaginary Friends Made Real who previously moved out have decided to have a baby so I decided to give them a wedding in my build, the Indoor Outdoor Wedding Venue. Kendal learns to drive and completes his lifetime wish, he celebrates his birthday and begins a new career as a magician. This means there are now no teens left in the family. All 15 of Gerri's children are now Young Adults.
There are two babies born during this episode and we visit their homes and meet them briefly.
At the end Felecia and Frank explore the Base Camp in The Great Southern Land. They seem to enjoy tossing vials of 'stuff' into the bonfire.

In the next episode we'll fully explore the world and the various venues I've placed in it.

I hope you enjoy Part 26.

Here are a few pics from the video
https://i.postimg.cc/g2MHGw23/Constance-Wilfred-Gerri001.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/YC2xcNMp/Josie-And-Son001.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/rpKCs8D3/Wendy-Percy-Cathie001.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/BZ7YdsNj/At-The-Park001.jpg