A rash of burglaries

I was planning on doing a long update this time and spending lots of time with each family, but most of them just weren't doing anything interesting.

Menuchah at least had another exciting interlude. Last time it was a fire; this time it's a burglar. I made her wake up and call the police as soon as I heard the burglar music. The cop came, and then just stood there for so long that even the burglar got bored. Menuchah turned her head and gave a deadpan look into the camera as if to say, "Can you BELIEVE this?!"

Then he had the gall to stand there and check her out.

She's thinking "oh, you are SO busted just as soon as I call your boss tomorrow."

Rachel and Max's son Riley is a big boy now. He's disciplined, friendly, and he has the photographer's eye, which is one of the new WA traits. I changed his hair style but nothing else. I LOVE the way he dressed himself. That's Rachel's son, all right. I wouldn't have known him for the same child, though. Everything about him looks different, right down to his skin color. Rachel is actually watching TV with him in this shot. I didn't know they could watch TV in bed.

I saw another ghost there. Apparently, the entire Remington family is buried on the property and I never noticed. I found some other headstones in the flower bed.

Max is still unemployed. I can't keep him away from the books, but all he will read is pregnancy books even though he has a pack full of skill books. Rachel isn't even pregnant. Every time I take the pregnancy books away from him, he gets another one.

Lexie and her son Freddie enjoyed a nice afternoon at the park. I might have gotten a better shot of them had they not both kept choking on their hamburgers, leaving not much for me to take a picture of. While they were eating, I got a popup message saying "William ran into Menuchah Muleskinner and chatted for a while." I've never had a message like that before. Menuchah was at work and William was having drinks inside the diner rabbit hole, so this may be something new - the game letting me know of things my active family is doing that it knows I can't see for myself. I wish it would do that more often!

I got that message twice, then when he'd finished his drinks, William stayed in the parking lot and started playing his guitar. Suppose he's serenading her? Hehe.

Tyler and Talia had a great day. They both landed promotions. Tyler also got a hefty bonus and a cool new food processor. Stephanie got too hungry to wait for mom and dad to get home, and cooked dinner herself. She looks pretty pleased with herself.

I don't know who this lady is who was at home with the kids, since Stephanie's plenty old enough to do any babysitting needed. Whoever she is, the kids decided to have some fun with her. Stephanie staged an insane fit and freaked the poor woman out. Carter was amused.

Sharla Sharma came over for a visit and she and Carter got acquainted. Those sim kids are so polite. They invited Sharla to stay for dinner, but she had to go home.

A nice family dinner. Mom was eating at the diner. If anything could make Tyler less sexy it would be that hat, but he's still damn fine.

I was right: the cute girl at the protest rally, Georgia Pickett, is officially Ronnie's girl now. I didn't get to see them together, but I'm sure I will soon.

Ronnie got hit by a burglar too. Fortunately, he had an alarm designed to incapacitate burglars by splitting their eardrums and blinding them with radiating pulses of neon light.

Ronnie got a kick out of it all.

I noticed he got another promotion, too. And a commendation from the General for doing a good deed.

Honestly, this ghost is everywhere. I liked it when they stuck to their own property.

Just because Ronnie gives me such good photo ops and I love taking pictures of him ...