This is the story of Sandy and Goldie Redford who moved to Riverview to start a family to get settled in their careers. With help from their real estate agent, the Redfords bought a nice home on Dogwood Lane known as the Chihuahua Teacup house. After fixing it up to suit their family needs, Sandy and Goldie moved in. Riverview is a nice little town, whose residents are very friendly and welcoming. Meadow Carpenter-Rhodes, Melvin Taft, and Norman Joy all came to welcome their new neighbors. After a nice visit, Goldie cooked up some hot dogs for supper.
Sandy joined the political career but his ultimate goal is to explore at least six tombs in China, Egypt, and France and hopes that his descendents will be able to not only complete his goal if he runs out of time but eventually do all adventures in those countries. His career is off to a great start and has already received his third promotion as is now Campaign Intern. Just before Goldie found out she was pregnant, Sandy went on his first adventure to France and found Lea Dutiel's baseball for her in the ancient burial ground. He camped out in the tomb the first night and finished his task the next morning. The tomb also yielded several bottles of aged nectar. Nectar merchant, Manon Goddard asked Sandy to harvest some Cherimola grapes and then proceeded to teach him how to make nectar. Sandy had so much fun making the nectar that he bought a nectar making and storage shelves for the nectar. Manon had asked him to make nectar from some limes she gave him and he did that when he returned home, so when Sandy returns to France he will deliver it to Manon. Sandy has been developing his charismatic skills and has also earned his first celebrity star. He just threw his first party for his friends and neighbors and they had a wonderful time.
Goldie has joined the local police force and is now best friends with her best friend, Hal. She has been promoted to patrol officer. A natural cook, Goldie wants to learn all the recipes that are available if she can and if not hopes that someone in her legacy's family will continue her dream. The Redfords are also happy to announce the safe arrival of their first child, a daughter named Lacey who is brave like her father and friendly like her mother. Sandy has taken up gardening to grow the ingredients that his wife will need for her recipes. It looks like Goldie will also be the handy Sim of the household as she enjoys fixing things.
The Redfords have settled quite well into their new home in Riverview and have made some friendships with their co-workers and other townsfolk. Sandy has been invited to a few parties. The first one was at Meadow Carpenter-Rhodes' party where he met Hope Carpenter and they quickly became really good friends. A few nights later, Sandy was also invited to an evening of fun at Norman and Elaine Joy's place where he gained his first celebrity star and has since progressed to being recognized as a 'Notable Figure' due to his natural ability when it comes to making friends. Goldie has been happy to live her life humbly in the background of her husband's growing popularity but has also managed to get her foot in the celebrity world as well. Sandy threw his first party for his friends shortly after getting settled in town and was very pleased that everyone had a great time.
Both Sandy and Goldie are doing well in their respective careers and have received several promotions due to their hard work and dedication while on the job. Sandy is now a town councilman and is planning to have a campaign fundraiser in the near future. Goldie is a lieutenant in the police force and is planning to join the special agent division on her next promotion. She has to go to France soon to get another relic for her boss to check for any smuggling operations.
Lacey has aged up into a cute blonde young girl. Full of life, Lacey loves to play with her imaginary friend, Penny and is doing well in school. Sandy took a trip to Egypt to get her a relic that she needed to get for her teacher for a cultural display at school and also brought a couple back for Goldie to give to her boss. Just before Lacey's birthday, her baby sister, Krystal was welcomed into the world. Krystal was sent a special doll by a distant cousin to play with when she is older.
The Redford home is always open to their friends and neighbors if they want to come for a visit and take a break from their daily mundane home lives. One day, Sandy and Goldie invited Hope Carpenter who is Meadow's mother and has become best friends with Sandy. Since she's a widow, Sandy invited her to spend the night and they had fun doing the usual things talking, eating good found and of course everybody's favorite pass time, playing in the sprinkler. Hope was even a big help in putting Lacey to bed and feeding her when she got hungry. This would be one of the last times that the Redford would see Hope as shortly after that Sandy received word that she had passed peacefully away in her sleep.
About this time, Sandy was promoted to the city counsel and enjoyed giving inspirational speeches to many of his family, friends, and new contacts. The people of the town are drawn to Sandy and drink in everything he says and Sandy always becomes friends with everyone he meets and because of this the citizens of Riverview then voted for Sandy in the towns municipal elections to lead them as mayor. Since Sandy had heard about the recent murders in neighboring Twinbrook and surrounding areas, one of the first things he did when taking office was to propose a new course of action that would prevent any organized crime cells from getting a foothold in the town by setting up a neighborhood watch program where citizens would keep an eye out for any suspicious activity and open their homes to anyone who was in trouble a safe refuge. He also introduced a zero tolerance policy to those who would exploit and threaten the innocent with their lives and because he heard that adopted children were being the target of this organized crime ring he decided to oversee all adoptions him self and keep the records safely locked in his office to prevent anyone from tampering with the papers. Since these new policies went into place the crime rate in Riverview has dropped significantly and residents are breathing a sigh of relief.
After getting settled into the office of Mayor, Sandy decided to return to France to deliver the lime nectar he had made for Manon and shocked her when he also had three bottles of very nice Renaud grape/apple nectar that he especially prepared for her. While in France, Sandy found some Meloire Grapes on the property of an old abandon mansion next to the river to use in future bottles of nectar. He then decided to visit the local museum and found a the entrance to a secret passageway and explored the tunnels under the museum. Just before leaving for home Sandy got a request to find out why the guards at the museum were quitting and will finish that mission on his next return to France.
Goldie also took a trip to France to solve speak to a local about a problem that needed solving. While there she found the third relic needed for her boss that he needed for his smuggling case. She also helped special merchant Andre Lefevre with his research project on the history of nectar making by retrieving some papers from the old Landgraab mansion. After disarming the traps, she was able to return the papers to Andre. Goldie also met and made friends with family who were the third generation descendents of one of the founding families of Champs des Sims.
Shortly after the death of Hope Carpenter both Sandy and Goldie aged up into adulthood and experienced mid-life crises because of things that they had not gotten to do that were related to their lifetime wishes. Sandy dealt with his by revisiting Egypt to finish exploring the Tomb of the Burning Sands to get the flaming fruit that Inji Fikry wanted. After spending the night in the tomb because the fruit wasn't ripened, Sandy was able to get the requested fruit also picked some for his garden and finish exploring the tomb and then paid the Fikry's a visit to deliver the fruit. Mr Fikry was making salad for supper when Sandy arrived and he was invited to stay for supper. The Fikrys became very special people to Sandy and he was sad to learn that not too long after returning from his trip that Inji had become a widow. On his next visit to Egypt, Sandy has to infilterate the MorcuCorp's database in the basement of Samir Amin's home. He plans to learn some computer skills first to aid him on this mission.
Goldie's midlife crisis was a little more dramatic but she managed to get through it by making a career change. The local Llama soccer team offered her a Rookie position on their team which was one level up on her old position as a police. She accepted and went right to work improving her athletic skills, so far her teammates are very impressed with her work ethic and her boss has already promoted her to a starter position for their games. Although Goldie played hard in her first game, unfortunately her team was trounced by their opponents but she knows the Llamas can rebound the next time.
Back on the home front, Lacey has aged up into a beautiful teenager and she hopes that someday her relationship with her best friend Oscar Alphender will develop into something more. I think it will as he offered to teach her how to drive and Lacey now has her driver's license. Krystal has aged up into a sweet child and just went to her first day of school.
Now for the big news, over the weekend Sandy went to a party at Laurel Grisby's and while there chatted the whole time with his co-worker, Lorraine Cantina and they became best friends. Out of the blue, Lorraine invited Sandy and his family to move in with her as she was lonely in her house all by herself. Sandy agreed and offered to renovate Lorraine's upstairs and add a basement to make things for comfortable for them all. Between Lorraine and Goldie they also managed to put new siding and windows in the house and redecorated the whole house. Sandy even replanted his garden and while he is waiting for his new plants to grow, he can still harvest his old plants as their old house is actually behind Lorraine's house.
This begins the next chapter in the Redford family. Lorraine is now a senior so probably won't be around too much longer. Sandy feels privileged that Lorraine wanted his family to keep her company in her twilight years.
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