(If you're looking for previous Sims 2 entries, tagged by username of LJ friends in it, go to http://tacoangel.livejournal.com This is where I keep the Sims 2 archives.

Scenes from Sunrise is the ongoing picture saga of my Sims 2 game. I have lots of custom content- check out simscclinks to snag some for your game- and have made my Sims from people I know in RL and/or from my LiveJournal friends list. I always have room in my town so if you want me to Simitize you and/or your loved ones, send me an email! These photos are being hosted quickly and easily through Our Doings picture sharing/hosting service.)

First we peek in on laracee who has recently split from her fiancé... (I have to write them out somehow when they drop me off their friends' list. XD)

( And here comes baby! )

Now let's peek into 2 new members of our neighborhood

( One of whom I can't remember who it is! )

Now saskya has moved out on her own into a beautiful palacial estate. However, she needed some help around the house and thus hired a Swedish personal assistant named Jorgen.

( Sparks fly?? )

Now let's peek in on jmcphers & his family. As you may know, they have an adopted son, a little girl, and his wife JUST gave birth to twins! (And yes, i modified your sim wife so she now looks like & has the same name as your real wife. Ah the powers of the digital world! XD)

( A day in the life for the happy suburbanites! )

Life is truly a final fantasy in THIS household! Here we have Sephiroth engaged to turk_elena and her sister princess_rinoa married to Squall. Rinoa & Squall have little Auron, their son. turk_elena & Sephiroth are about to get hitched!

( Fun in Fantasy style! )

On the next Scenes from Sunrise, one couple can't keep their hands off each other! Some newbies join the neighborhood. surlyride gets engaged and moves out, moredetails gets married!

Since this is a catch-up entry, I have bits from various sims I have been using to test my new Seasons expansion pack!

Sims featured: Saki, Yuge, Tempest, wbahner & family, julieo, Tracy, bojojoti & family, Lord Voldemort, jenda, firework_kid, Shiva, raglar, thetypogoddess
With guest appearances by: Ted, sistersolace, kur, musikdork228, imageego

( First, let's say hello to some of my friends I have imported from Second Life )

We'll hear much more from them later (in fact, I'm going to dedicate an entire post to them soon). Let's move on, however, and peek in on bojojoti whom we saw in the last installment briefly.

( It's business as usual in a traditional house with 2 creative teens )

Now let's peek in on wbahner and his family, since we haven't seen much of them at all either.

( Another typical family... or is it? )

We'll have to find out another time- so stay tuned! Let's quickly switch over to the house of firework_kid, his wife Shiva, thetypogoddess and her husband raglar. It looks like Shiva might give birth any day now!

( Shiva's about to burst! )

Let's look at the domestic bliss of julieo and her husband Tracy. As you may have remembered, they kicked Wes (the floating box of fries) out of their house after he destroyed it. Now it seems they're planning for the future...

( Julie and Tracy... getting serious? )

Fall is in the air and people are having fun! No matter the season, everyone in the Sunrise area can find something fun to do...
( Manda, Ted, Alex, Andy and Jenda! )

Scenes from Sunrise will pick up next week with princess_rinoa, Squall, Sephiroth, and turk_elena throwing a dinner party, mellyjc and Sol make their debut, saskya meets a mysterious gentleman, and moredetails has her bachelorette party!

(Scenes from Sunrise is the ongoing picture saga of my Sims 2 game. I have lots of custom content- check out simscclinks to snag some for your game- and have made my Sims from people I know in RL and/or from my LiveJournal friends list. I always have room in my town so if you want me to Simitize you and/or your loved ones, just take these polls! If you want to share pics/videos of these, I archive them publically in my tacoangel journal.)

This post brought to you while listening to Shortwave Dahlia, and eating a lunch of pimento-stuffed manzanilla olives, Italian flatbread, Carr's table water crackers, Pecorino Sardo cheese, and freshly cut apple slices. (I could totally live in Europe and be happy.)

So many pictures, I might have to make 2 sims posts today.
Sims featured: bojojoti, kothoga, alcamar, lebonheurbum, neuromancer901, crosswolf, tuxmatt, jessamine, cafemusique, reflextoresist, michellinator, nixtress, and infect1980
With brief appearances by: John Gately, calced, Ultimecia, Azanet, Emma, thatguy, and faerieface

( First, it's Erynne and Scott, sitting in a tree... )

Let's meet our newest family, bojojoti's!

( They live next door to Saint Magenta )

After rockin' with Julia (kothoga) and Paul (alcamar) for several months, Bonnie (lebonheurbum) moves in with her boyfriend, Danny (neuromancer901). This causes changes in his household as well...
( Julia and Paul's mountain fortress )

Meanwhile, let's check up on Bonnie at Danny's...
( Matt and Julie move out as she moves in... )

We'll leave those two lovebirds alone and move on to a family celebrating their own new beginning!
( The Royal Metal Baby is born )

Next on Scenes from Sunrise: julieo and Tracy's domestic bliss, princess_rinoa, Squall, Sephiroth, and turk_elena throw a dinner party, mellyjc and Sol make their debut, and saskya meets a mysterious gentleman!

(Scenes from Sunrise is the ongoing picture saga of my Sims 2 game. I have lots of custom content- check out simscclinks to snag some for your game- and have made my Sims from people I know in RL and/or from my LiveJournal friends list. I always have room in my town so if you want me to Simitize you and/or your loved ones, just take these polls! If you want to share pics/videos of these, I archive them publically in my tacoangel journal.)

Also, I'm going to be changing the tags system over at tacoangel. If your sim is in that post, your LJ username will be one of the tags. This will make it easier for you guys to see all of your character's posts and to follow various storylines. Can you believe we now have over 200 sims and 49 storylines? And I still have several of you to make & plenty of room for more! This has been a pretty successful project, I think (if I could only keep up with my posts!).

Once upon a time there was a lovely Sim named Meredith (megadith). Her sim was cursed it seemed- her first personage died while being frightened by a ghost and the second had her lesbian lover murder her husband. After Mike's murder, she decided to rent out rooms in her house that Scott (scottobear) and Matt (thatguy) eagerly took- most likely because her house is the most haunted house in Sunrise. However, the guilt appears to be eating her alive...

( Poor Meredith! Will she ever be the same...? )

Let's meet our newest family, that of wbahner

( ...plus a few unexpected relatives! )

One extra, unexpected fun aspect about The Sims 2 is when the game gives me glitches. Most of mine, thankfully, are funny more than they are annoying. We had the toaster that made Greg's (calced) character walk around naked & bypass the default game blur. We had the teddy bear that embedded itself in Sean's (dawankler) stomach and the floating milk carton in Jonathan's (jmcphers) house. Now we have the...

( psychadelic-colored objects! )

Speaking of Aimee (mistresstrixe) & Chris (manzilla), let's peek in on them and their little girl, Elise.

( Toys, toys, toys! )

While they discuss how best to reach their flag-wielding constituents, let's look in on the exciting lives of Rogue (rogue1717) and Britta (alectoerinyes).

( Love is in the aiiiirrrrrr! )

Eileen (bellablu) and her boyfriend Steven have just moved to Sunrise!

( And already, they're fitting right in with everyone! )

On the next Scenes from Sunrise: Nix and Jeff welcome a new member of the family, Julie and Tracy and their domestic glee, Julie and Matt and Bonnie and Danny- oh my, Megan (Rinoa) and Squall around town, and welcome Bojojoti and her family!

First, let's check in on John and Eric (whom have been dying for an update).

( What's that in the sky?? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a rogue alien spacecraft insistent upon inseminating the men of Sunrise? )

Meanwhile, another one of Sunrise's residents is also having issues! Liz (autrice) has just discovered that she and her husband, Gary (mephisto63), are expecting. However, the surge of pregnancy hormones has overloaded her brain! It's a dark and stormy night, and Liz has a nervous breakdown...

( Girl's gone CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY! )

What will happen now that Liz and John are off to the nuthouse? Will What exactly DID the aliens do to John? Who else will join them in the Fort Lauderdale/Sunrise Mental Health Facility? Tune in to the next Scenes from Sunrise! =)

(Part 1 of the Halloween Two-Part Spooktacular)

When we last left poor Gary (clauderainsrm), evil Sorceress Ultimecia had broken up his marriage and cast a spell on him that gave her control over him. Now she is...

( TAKING HIM SHOPPING! O THE HORROR! And are there wedding plans in store? )

You may remember that Eric (puckdewd) resurrected his wife as a zombie and then kicked her out of the house.

( She's living as a vampire zombie in the haunted cemetery! )

Today on Scenes from Sunrise we have a TWO-PART HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR! That's right, you get TWO Sims 2 posts from me tonight featuring YOU, the lovely people of my LJ friends list! (For those of you who are new, Scenes from Sunrise is the ongoing picture saga of my Sims 2 game. I have lots of custom content- check out simscclinks to snag some for your game- and have made my Sims from people I know in RL and/or from my LiveJournal friends list. I always have room in my town so if you want me to Simitize you, just take these polls! If you want to share pics/videos of these, I archive them publically in my tacoangel journal.)

( An evil sorceress puts Gary under her spell! )

Some treats for those of you who have been waiting to see your sim- newbies in the neighborhood.

( New families in Sunrise )

Speaking of Maria, let's check in on her. Her and her husband woke up to a very spooooky situation!
( Whoooooo ooooooooooooooh! It's the not-haunted-in-the-real-sense beach house! )

Speaking of moving, Jessica (moredetails) is just mere days away from her wedding to Scott (scott3437). After buying a beautiful house across town, she goes ahead and moves in her stuff so she doesn't have to worry about it whilst finishing up the wedding planning.

( But... is it HAUNTED?? )

We'll let them get situated and introduce our first metropolitan cemetery!


Velcome, my friends, to Fort Lauderdale Municipal Cemetery!

( ENTER THE GATES, MORTAL! )

...To be continued!

First, let me introduce you to some newbies in our neighborhood! (If your sim doesn't look anything like you or your significant other, let me know and I'll tweak it.)
( Welcome, new neighbors! )

The blessed union between the Sith lord, Lord Sidious (aka The Grim Reaper), and his dark Sith bride tinhuviel

( Now with less fatalities than the first wedding! )

Speaking of evil, stacye13 is amassing some evil robot minions!

( The first one is named Billy... )

We'll peek back in on them later. In the meantime, let's poke our head in at the Sigma Kappa sorority house and its primary resident, Carly (starsoohpretty)!

( Strange things are afoot at FIU! )

I just have to show you some snapshots of Edea, Seymour, and the Shinentai. =D I plan to cross-post these to adventchildren_ at some point.
( Let us go to Shinra Mansion, transported from Nibelheim to Sunrise )

We'll see more from them later. =) In the meantime, calced is our nudist sim. He and his wife are also expecting another baby!

( Thankfully, there's only one kinda NSFW pic behind the cut and all it shows is a behind! )

Next on Scenes from Sunrise: SCANDAL erupts as Sorceress Ultimecia appears in Sunrise, hedgegoth's reaction to laracee's renovations, moredetails prepares for her wedding, MANY MANY new sims, and two other exciting storylines!

I also have a SUPER SPOOKY sims post planned for Halloween as Sunrise gets its very own HAUNTED CEMETARY. Not only is it haunted, it's also infested with vampires and zombies- one of whom is the ex-wife of musikdork228 & puckdewd!

In this special part 1 of 2 part episode of Scenes From Sunrise, we have quite a surprise for hedgegoth

( Margo's DIY project! )

Rob (lavalamp27) just moved in next to Kim (matrixx) and across the street from John & Eric, and Theresa (t_jay) & Michael. However, it seems he's not playing nicely with all of his new neighbors...

( A fight on the front lawn?? )

FYI- Sims that start as University sims have odd restrictions. First, they can get engaged but not married. Second, they don't actually own their houses. So a lot of the real-life married couples I started as University sims are engaged but not technically married in the game. I don't know why that is. But I pretend they're married anyway and as soon as I can do it legally in the game, I will.

One of these couples is Brenda (chestnutcurls) & her husband Evan (derisive1). Let's check on them and see how they're doing.

( Brenda's beautiful beach house! )

Meanwhile, it seems Erin (eeyorerin) has allowed herself to be seduced by another man! Let's hope her husband Jeff (dreamsofxion) doesn't find out...

( ERIN'S SCANDALOUS SCANDAL... with embedded video! )

Part 2 of this week's Scenes from Sunrise: The Grand Wedding of tinhuviel & The Grim Reaper, hedgegoth's reaction to laracee's renovations, moredetails prepares for her wedding by buying a new house, and much more!

Since some of you were having problems with getting the videos to work (and so I could embed low-res videos in my posts), I went ahead and uploaded all of my Sims videos on YouTube. If you want the raw HTML so you can embed a video of your sim in your journal, either snag it from YouTube or email me.

His fiancée Allison and XE Manup. Then Big Daddy & AfterShock

XE ManUp is one of the administrators on our CounterStrike:Source servers as well as a great friend and forum moderator.

( He and his fiancée move into the neighborhood )

Now we'll visit AfterShock (AS) & Big Daddy (BD). Both are also server administrators and great friends.

( Hrmmm... you think their house looks familiar?? )