Re: Tell Us About Your Favorite Sims 4 Families

@Ellupelluellu I have to admit I am a bad influence with the CC.👿😇

I know you enjoy my builds, but it still means a lot to me when you mention it. It makes all the time and effort feel like they were worth it.<big hug> 

The gowns are lovely! @DaniRose2143 🙂 I don’t use cc myself but it is enjoyable seeing other simmers using it for their sims.

Oh, I love hearing about everyone's special Sims😎! I will post something about my main Sim family later this week 🙂!

 I forgot to include my sims other half doing what he loveswhen the chores are done. 

It is a great ranch photo of your sims enjoying playing his guitar @Bluegayle 🙂 Playing music is a great way to relax after doing the day’s work. 

My favourite Sims family started with 2 best friends Vitalia and Ora. They've been in my game since Jungle Adventure came out.

Ora is a travel writer and Vitalia is an Archaeologist. They travel around collecting, exploring and studying together. But originally, one day I sent Ora to the jungle alone and she died tragically. I wasn't running a backup save at the time and I was on Xbox so she was gone. She had a death flower but it was such a long time ago and I didn't then realise that it takes 2 to use a death flower now (unlike Sims 3). So I sent Vitalia to look for her ghost but she was just gone, leaving her empty tent 😭.

Weeks later Vitalia was at the Spice Festival when up popped Ora's ghost! In all these years she's the only ghost to ever appear at the Spice Festival in my game. So Vitalia moved her in to her home which is an updated Yuma Heights and learned the skills and got the ingredients to restore her best friend to life.

After all that they became special Sims for me. Vitalia married a Sim named Fernando who she met in the jungle and adopted Rohan, Haven and little Rico. Ora married Vitalia's brother Nico and rescued some jungle strays. I added their parents and more siblings and kept building the family from there with Fernando's siblings and new partners and their families too. Vitalia's Dad Hugo's younger sister, Illiani becomes a beloved celebrity chef and marries a widower, Leo who has a little boy named Rafi. Rafi is one of my absolute favourites and the first time I saw him at the Sims Hospital looking very sick I literally freaked out! I had to take a few deep breaths and remind myself he's just pixels!

I've lost my game a few times and had to start again but I always look forward to replaying their story. Ora always dies a few times now and her bestie always saves her! But the great thing about adding new family members for them is that I get to check in on them and throw a few family parties with them 🥰.

I've got half of them remade in this current game but I've got Leo and Rafi and Fernando's family all still to make again. 

I've only got a few images of them handy as I'm on my phone here but Vitalia is in red and pictured with her youngest, Rico in one image and with her husband in another. Ora is in blue in the 3rd image visiting her parents Marcello and Graziana and her brother Federico for Harvestfest.

It was lovely to read the background details of the two best friends that are in your game, and each of their families. @simsplayer818 The photos of them are very nice. They sound like they are very lovely families and would be very special for you to have and play in your game ❤️

@rosemow thanks! I just adore this family. 

@Ellupelluellu I couldn't imagine playing with another family. Love all your family pics. And the doggies are adorable.

@SheriGR it does seem our playing styles are very similar. With only 8 household slots I'm always moving sims in and out of the main household when I want to focus on a particular sim.

Nugget is a cutie! 🙂

@Bluegayle what a sweet little foal. 

@DaniRose2143 great to see Londyn and Danielle!

@MoonlightGraham lovely to meet your family. 🙂

@simsplayer818 so happy to hear you were able to get Ora back. I'd hate to think of losing any of my sims.

It’s still the Reeds for me. I play them since 2018 in different parallel universes.

Originally there was Daniel Phillips, a character from a different videogame, whom the player cannot save there. I wanted to give him the best possible life in Sims 4, but had not specific plans whom to pair him with. Well, Daniel chose the detective Gavin Reed, and was very adamant about that. (I swear they recognize each other in every new save.)

Despite everyone having an occult life state, and my story often involving them in world politics, at the core Daniel and Gavin are a stereotypical couple of homemaker and career focused partner. Since both partners work (Daniel teaches from home, Gavin maxed the detective career), they are well set money-wise and can enjoy life to the fullest (whenever I let them). Financial security has also softened them a bit. Admittedly Daniel is a hot-head and Gavin’s goofish nature can cross into bullying way too easily, so I need to keep a close eye on them in conversations.

Since I play them so long now, I’ve grown attached to the Reeds like one would to co-workers or next-door neighbors. When Gavin needed glasses, for example, that was a major emotional event. In the main save they won’t ever die.

Household 1 consists of Daniel, Gavin, Daniel’s daughter by alien abduction, Peggy, and their adopted son, Hendrik, the neglected son of the previous Chief of Police. They also have two cats (Argus and Stopthat) a horse (Plum) and a fishtank. It's mainly Daniel, who brings the animals, Gavin would have been satisfied with Argus.

Household 2 consists of Gavin’s parents, the redeemed ex-criminals Jim and Dorothy Reed, whom I added later. With them lives officer Tina Chen, Gavin’s BFF/former alibi-girlfriend, who is also Daniel’s Fated Mate. It sounds like a recipe for trouble, but those three are really close-knit. And finally there's Tina’s and Gavin’s teenaged son, Jin Reed-Chen, a future marine biologist.

The Reeds are connected to many other families in that save, and in some cases the line between friends/neighbors/co-workers and family blurs. They’re all one big pile of trouble!

The Reeds family are great sims @EnkiSchmidt 🙂 It is very nice to read about their background details. 
Peggy and Hendrik are cute! 
We do become attached to our sims households, and all that is happening in their lives. 

Thanks @simgirl1010 and @rosemow!

Here are some better images with their households and the rest of Vitalia's children plus her brother Nico who is married to Ora, pictured with their adorable little jungle rescue dogs 😢. Vitalia's dad Hugo is a famous screenwriter and I use Google translate to write Spanish titles for his screenplays, I imagine him as pining for his South American homeland and writing about his childhood. Her teen sister Malin is snarky about family tradition and heritage and will be aged up and go to University (I make Briny Tower into a flashy penthouse for her). There's also the Soldado matriarch Marlene who is the heart of the family and always has the doors open and food on the table. And Hugo's younger sister Illiani is living with them for now but she gets a castle on the big lot on the Crumbling Isle in Windenburg when I get around to it. I've only got about a dozen more of their households to add back into the game. Luckily they are a labour of love for me!

It lovely seeing the pictures of your sims families and reading about their lives @simsplayer818 🙂 The dogs are cute! 
I hope that Malin enjoys living going to University and living in her penthouse.