Chapter One: Life Goes On
Life has gotten settled into a nice little routine. Tobias Duff has moved into the household in preparation of his upcoming marriage to Grace and got a job at the local business office. Grace is settling in quite nice into her police career. Even though Tobias and Grace will be moving to Sunset Valley after the wedding and Mom's funeral, they wanted to get a head start in their careers. I've also been promoted to resident status at the hospital. Vaunda is settling into her internship at the science lab in hopes of becoming a top notch scientist and robot creator someday. She has become friends with one of her co-workers, Mikhail Starke and we'll have to wait and see if this new friendship develops into anything more.
Well Grace's big wedding day finally arrived and she got the most beautiful wedding dress and Tobias outfitted himself in a smashing tux. The evening quickly turned to tragedy as the Grim Reaper had to crash yet another wedding and took two guests. Why he couldn't wait until after the ceremony I'll never know. This time it was Tobias's father who passed away leaving him to mourn his loss. My heart breaks for my new brother-in-law as I had lost my father on my wedding day so I know what he is going through. With lots of love from Grace and support from the rest of us, we will endeavor to ease the pain of Tobias's loss. Grace's police partner, Erika Talon was the other wedding guest who past away.
Instead of having three separate memorial services, we decided to have one service for the recently deceased a few days after Tobias and Grace's wedding. I sent out the invitations and many came to show their respects. Of course, Mr. Reaper had come and get two more of my guests, one of whom was Mikhail Starke, who recently aged up to a senior. Grace was so upset that she had a pillow fight with the Grim Reaper to release her pent up grief and anger over the recent deaths. I personally can think of other things than a pillow to club that party crasher with but who wants to get arrested for causing bodily harm to the Grim Reaper. You can imagine the news headlines if that happened.
After things settled back into a routine, Tobias and Grace moved to Sunset Valley to begin their new jobs and to raise a family of their own. I'm happy to report that I already have a new niece as Tobias and Grace adopted a baby girl who was abandoned at the Sunset Valley Hospital. They named her Genna and sent me pictures of their precious little bundle of joy. Isaac and Carol are doing well in Twinbrook have adopted an orphaned baby boy whom they named Ian. Vaunda has received a job offer at the Science Lab in Sunset Valley that she has accepted and has moved into a nice little starter home. To help her get settled, Alicia and I gave Vaunda a portion of the money that Dad and Mom had saved for their children to help her get settled into her new home. Charity just moved to Twinbrook to take a job offer she received to work for the local government there. She also plans to further her writing career by writing mystery stories on the side. Charity knows how to surprise everybody in that she met Frank Hardy on her flight to Twinbrook and they fell in love and are now married and expecting their first child. Johanna is the only sibling left in town and hopefully her true love will come to sweep her off her feet so she can start her own family as well.
Alicia and I are thinking of buying a new home as our yard has become a graveyard with all the deaths that have occurred recently. We will take Chris and Jan's tombstones with us, of course but are tired of being left with the tombstones of everyone that have died on our property. I want the home that we raise our children in to be one of life and not death.
I am now a trauma surgeon at the hospital and am keep quite busy as the ER is full of trauma and regular patients that need to be attended to. Alicia is also busy with taking care of Tyler and finding time for her sculpting, inventions, and painting. My boss asked me to go to Egypt to get some scarab beetles for their research department and I readily agreed and was given three days off to complete my mission. I had a lot of fun exploring caves and making new friends on my first trip to Egypt even though the desert heat was almost too much for me but enjoyed learning about a new culture and even got to go inside a pyramid.
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Chapter Two: A New Place to Call Home
After Alicia and I got our lives back together after Mom's funeral we decided to build a new house to raise our family as we want our home to be house of love and life and not of death. We purchased some land on Applewood Drive and built a beautiful new home with a two car garage, swimming pool, made a garden plot for Alicia, and a little memorial garden for Chris and Jan's tombstones so that Alicia and I can teach our children about the wonderful legacy of faithfulness they left behind.
eternally faithful to each other, just like my dad and mom were. The legacy that we want see past down from generation to generation is one of faithfulness and we pray that each of our family heirs and children will be faithful to whomever they marry. In a world where marriages fall apart and is seen by many as a game, it is wonderful that there are still those who know what true love is and value marriage as a life long commitment to love each other until death do them part.
Tyler has aged up into a bright young boy who is already earning A's in school. He already has chosen is lifetime wish to become a Creature-Robot Cross Breeder and with his natural inventing abilities and ambition, our son will no doubt achieve his goal. Please join Alicia and I in welcoming our new little pride and joy into the world, a baby brother for Tyler named Ryder who has genius capabilities and has a good spirit like his mother. Alicia has developed a love for caffeinated beverages and sometimes as the doctor in the family I have to make her go to bed when she is tired or she would stay up all night on a caffeine high. Due to the current airline strike we are not able to travel but that's OK as I miss my family when I'm away and we'd rather spend quality time together at home anyway.
Now for some news from our siblings. Isaac and Carol have been offered new positions in their respective careers in a the seaside town of Barnacle Bay and will be moving there with Tyler in a few days. Johanna has settled in nicely with Oliver Day in Riverview and I wouldn't be surprised if we hear wedding bells from them in the near future. Charity has moved back to Frank's hometown of Bayport to help him set up his private investigator business with his brother Joe and Vaunda decided to quit her job and travel around the world and where she'll end up nobody knows.
Please join Alicia and me as we raised our children and strive to meet our lifetime goals. Raising our family with lots of love and teaching them good moral values is the most important desire that we, as parents, have for our lives.
Since we've last chatted, I've been promoted to Gene Therapist at work and now have extra responsibilities like providing some free medical and vaccination clinics for anyone who has a health issue. Sometimes these clinics make me late for work afterward, though and then I get chewed out by my boss but that's the life of doctor, too much work to do and not enough time to do it in and you're expected to be in two or more places at once. Alicia has become quite good in her sculpting business, she just crafted an ice sculpture of The Thinker worth 998 Sim dollars. Tyler is also showing a talent for sculpting as well but he'll probably do that on the side as he wants to be a top scientist when he graduates from high school.
A couple of years after Ryder became a toddler, Alicia and I welcomed our third boy into the world whom we named Kirk. Ryder will soon be starting school and Kirk has already aged up into the cutest toddler with a full head of dark brown hair. Kirk was sent a special doll from his Uncle Isaac to play with. It's hard to believe that Alicia just became a senior and I'm not too far off from that age bracket, myself but it seems like yesterday that we were just married. Alicia and I went out on a date the other day to the newest restaurant in town, The Scrumptious Nibbles Cafe which is already becoming a popular place to eat. As always we ended our evening watching the stars together. We will probably be adopted a baby girl soon as Alicia has always wanted a girl and I know of an orphaned little girl who is currently recovering at the hospital from the house fire that took her parents. She will soon be well enough to be adopted.
Tyler can be quite the troublemaker when he goes through one of his teen hormonal imbalance. Just yesterday, he pulled a prank on the shower with some dye that turned his dad's hair blue when I took a shower. Luckily it washed out easily or I might have been a little upset. Apparently he also did something to the shower in the main floor bathroom, so we'll see what happens there. I can't complain too much has Tyler is really great with his little brothers.
Chapter Three: Twilight Years
My how time flies, it just seems like yesterday that Alicia and I were teaching our children to walk, talk, and party and I guess it was for Felicia but we now have no more toddlers in the house. It makes my eyes water to think that all of our children are growing up. The three boys all wanted to be master scientists when they grew up, however Tyler has changed his mind and now wants to be a painter, which suits him well due to his artistic capabilities which he gets from his mother. Ryder is just starting high school and still wants to be a robot-creature breeder someday and Kirk also wants to follow in his brother's footsteps. Felicia just celebrated her birthday as well and starts school, tomorrow. She developed the technophobe trait so we'll what career path Felicia will take as she grows older. We will all be headed down to the City Hall later to see Tyler graduate from high school with honors.
I am now a neurosurgeon at the hospital but still hold many vaccination, free health clinics, and give seminars at local business on workplace safety. Alicia is a wonderful sculptor and her last piece was commissioned by the local police department as she was asked to do an ice sculpture of a fellow Sim and of course she chose her husband to be her model. The sculpture turned out great and was worth more than 800 Sim dollars.
One of my close co-workers passed away at our son Kirk's birthday as the Grim Reaper came and took two of our guests. Fortunately only one gravestone got left behind. Alicia and I decided not to let our yard become a local burying place so I took the tombstone to the local cemetery where it belongs.
Life has been pretty busy at the Steel house. Alicia's sculpting career is going well and has recently created a masterpiece stone sculpture of Hercules worth (you might want to sit down for this) 4531 Sim dollars. We have it on display on our front walkway and Alicia was sent a special reward for her work. The other day, I was awarded a special trophy by the city for the work that I put into my vaccination clinics which help to keep our fellow citizens healthy.
Tyler was valedictorian of his graduating class making his parents and siblings proud of his accomplishments. He has started his science career and has already been promoted to the third level which is a 'Useless Contraption Manipulator' where he makes everything useful, I guess. Ryder and Kirk are both doing well in high school. Felicia has just aged up into the most beautiful teenage girl and is also off to great start in her classes as well. Shortly after Felicia started elementary school and young homeless girl by the name of Patricia was brought into the hospital after she was found unconcious down on the wharf. She became very special to me as I was treating her and after discussing with Alicia, we gladly adopted her and Patricia now has a loving family and place to call home. She is a bright young girl and always brightens everyone's day and has a great sense of humor.
Alicia decided that housework was getting to be too much for her, so we hired a butler by the name of Antione Ward to help us out. He does a great job but all the cooking he does for us, the family is sure to gain a lot of weight but his meals are so scrumptous like his lobster thermador and French Toast for breakfast we are certainly being well fed. Antione is also very handy as he fixes things that get broken.
With Alicia and I nearing the end of our lives on earth, we wonder which of our children will be heir to our estate and carry on the Steel legacy of faithfulness. I'm sure that will be revealed though in time. Since we now have five children, Alicia has changed her lifetime wish to raising them all to successful teens preparing for their lives that are before them. This will be accomplished in a few days as Patricia will soon be starting high school.
Chapter Four: Preparing for the Third Generation of the Steel Legagy
A person doesn't realize how short life is until they are nearing the close of their lives and then wonders where did the time go. Alicia and I are coming to that time where we will soon say goodbye to our family and friends and hand the legacy of our family to the next generation which will be headed by our second eldest son, Ryder to continue our story. Our children are all growing up will soon be out in the workforce striving to fulfill their lifetime wishes while carrying on with the values that we, as parents, have endeavored to teach them. I have finally fulfilled my lifetime wish of becoming a world renown surgeon and will probably continue to practice medicine for awhile longer as there are many patients left for me to care for and we have a shortage of doctors here in Bridgeport.
Tyler has settled well into his career as a scientist and has already had a few promotions in recognition of his hard work. He is also the first to move out on his own and has found a nice apartment at 32 Canal Street and we helped him move in just the other day. Kirk will be graduating from high school in a few days along with his sisters, Felicia and Patricia and they are all currently on the honor roll. Felicia has decided that her goal in life is to be an astronaut so she will be joining the military upon graduation. Patricia has yet to decide what she wants to do but Alicia and I are confident that she will succeed at whatever she chooses. She also seems to have crush on our butler, Antione so we will have to see what happens in that regard. Kirk has been communicating with Mitzi Cal from Twinbrook via email and they have become good friends and they plan to get together when he moves to the new town of Hidden Valley to work at the science center there. Mitzi is planning to open her aquarium there at around the same time, so we'll what happens with their relationship from there.
That leaves Ryder to carry on our legacy, here in Bridgeport. Things were looking pretty grim in the romance department for awhile until Oliver Day called to ask me if his sister, Vicki could live with us for awhile as she had just been offered a job with the Bridgeport police force. Alicia and I both welcomed her into our home with open arms and since she moved in, Ryder has been smitten by her beauty and they have become fast friends. We will have to see where their relationship leads but are hopeful that Vicki turns out to be the one for our son as Oliver has been a great blessing to our family since he married my sister, Johanna.
Alicia and I would like to take this opportunity to thank our friends for joining us in our story and helping us make through both the good and difficult experiences of our lives. It has been an honor to carry the legacy that my parents left through the second generation and the time has come to hand the reigns over to Ryder to continue the Steel legacy with faithfulness continuing to be the underlying theme.
With best wishes for all of your Sim families may each generation make you proud and carry on the values that important to all of us throughout their lives.
Take care and stay healthy, with love,
Keiler and Alicia
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