The Delarosa Round Will Officially Begin Posting Tomorrow! The Queue Should Put Up One Post A Day, And

The Delarosa round will officially begin posting tomorrow!  The queue should put up one post a day, and there are 17 posts in the queue at the moment.  I’m going to start playing the Tinker round now, so maybe I’ll be able to queue up those posts as well. I’ll let you know if I add more to the queue.  Otherwise, consider Florence’s round your Christmas/holiday gift from me.  Enjoy!

The wedding is coming up soon, diary.  Herb and I can hardly wait.  I know that I’m making the right choice.  

Florence

Dear Diary,

It’s been a while since I’ve written, but I have loads of news to share now!  Herb and I are engaged!  I wrote Mom and Dad about it and they came down from Riverblossom Hills to meet him!  

Just so y’all know - I am visiting my parents for the holidays and only have my iPad to check tumblr, etc. I’ve been replying to replies on my post today, but a real reply post will have to wait until I get home to my desktop.

This concludes Round 3 at the Delarosa house!  Look below the cut for thoughts on this round, as well as some extra pictures.  Next up, the Tinker house!

The burglar breaking in was completely random and unexpected.  I opened the lot and had it on speed 3 because Florence was sleeping.  The robber took me totally by surprise.  Obviously, though, I ran with it.  I love the picture of Florence on the phone with the cops.

It also gave her a reason for a quickie engagement with Herb, which was something I wanted to do.  We’re on round 3, after all, and Florence hadn’t even gotten married yet! 

Because Florence was getting married, I recreated her parents in CAS and placed them in an alternate version of Bluewater.  Most of the round was actually played in that alternate Bluewater so that I don’t end up with William and Mary running around in the regular neighborhood when they’re supposed to be in Riverblossom Hills.  

To create the older Delarosas, I started with Florence for both of them and mixed her face with the face template the original William and Mary sims were apparently based on in the original Bluewater Village.  (I based that on the pictures of them on the Sims Wiki.)  I could have sworn I’d seen versions of her parents recreated by someone else, but I couldn’t find them when I looked.  (Admittedly, I didn’t look very hard…)

Naturally, one thing I had William and Mary do was help Florence with the garden.  This used to be their house, and they’re plant lovers just like their daughter. It was nice to have some additional gardeners.

Florence and her mom’s conversation in the clothing store was another spontaneous thing.  I now imagine that Florence is closer to her dad than her mom.  

Florence and Herb’s staged wedding happened at Hunter’s Park.  I tried to get good pictures, but, well…

Yeah.  Between the dip through the wall of the gazebo and the strangely-dressed townies, it was an interesting wedding. 

Florence had Breanna Custer for a bridesmaid, and Gilbert was Herb’s best man. I love these guys as friends.  I’m hoping that the Delarosas will play the same roles for Breanna and Gilbert when they get married.  (Also, Breanna looks really good in that Egyptian outfit.)

Flo and Herb’s actual wedding happened in the greenhouse, which I thought was fitting.  (They need some lights in there, though!  Whoops!) They didn’t have the fancy formal wear, but it was still a really cute wedding. 

And naturally, after the wedding (in either neighborhood), there’s the wedding night.  I love their photobooth pictures on the wall and the way they look at each other.  You can tell they’re just so in love.

We’ll have to see what that woohoo leads to next time, though.  (I’m pretty sure you can guess…)

Thanks for reading, and thanks for waiting so long for this round to post. I hope you enjoyed it.  (I’m writing this before it even posts, so I’m sure I’ll have replies to send as the round goes up.) 

Next up, the Tinkers, where I’m sure chaos will reign supreme.  What else can you expect with two pregnant sims who might have bought cheesecake, plus two toddlers and a child. Yay!?

Herb and I are settling in pretty well as a married couple.  He’s helping out in the shop.  With him at the register, I can focus on selling.  We got up to a level 6!  Herb wants to start selling our produce from the garden, and fish from the pond, but I think we’ll wait until spring for that.  It’s nice having a gardening buddy, though.  Things go much faster with two of us.