At breakfast the next day the temperature has risen a bit, so they can see through the windows. It's the last day of winter today, and they're enjoying it at the Bluffs.
After dinner it's time for dart and blocks. This time Leona is the teacher.
Lennart has been nominated for a music award, so he's invited to the Starlight Accolades for the first time. It's a great opportunity to make some new connections. And even better - he wins the award!!
When the ceremony is done, he plays an improvised concert for his fellow celebrities. This is a huge moment for him!
With the fame and money he has achieved at this point, it's time to upgrade the living conditions. So they've moved to Del Sol Valley and bought a celebrity mansion in The Pinnacles!
It's one of those houses that tourists come to look at. Feels unreal.
The magnificent hallway is an appropriate place for all their family portraits. With these kind of staircases it's a good thing Ylva already has pretty good movement skills.
There used to be only two bedrooms in this house, so they've had a lot of renovation done to it to make it suit their family of five. Lennart and Morgan have made sure their bedroom looks both modernly stylish and classic.
(A big thank you to Brainamp87 who built this house and uploaded it to the gallery. I like tweaking and decorating, but not building from scratch. So the way it looks now is my full renovation of their original)
The kitchen is a family friendly, down-to-earth sort of room like they want it to be.
After living in an apartment with not even a balcony, it's pretty amazing for them to have such a big garden.
Living room.
There's a purely formal dining room to match the style of the hallway, but in the rest of the house they've tried to combine this style with a more family oriented vibe.
The craziest part of this house is the basement. They've build a huge music and recording studio down there, which is such an upgrade from being squeezed into corners of the apartment.
And right next to it they have a great gym area. This house is going to be such a dream to live in!
Life is beautiful in the garden. They've prepared a classy little birthday part for Ylva, where the cakes match the furniture. Because that's how their life works now.
Ylva is all ready to start school! She's also joining the scouts like her oldest sister Leona.
It's time for Marlene to age up, and they're throwing a birthday party for her in the backyard on the one day in spring it doesn't rain in Willow Creek.
She can't wait to start school and learn to read properly.
From the very start Marlene does brilliantly in school, she's very motivated and does her homework every day. Her dad is eager to help her. They also love playing chess together.
Marlene has taken over grandpa's old room, that she keeps nice and tidy.
Matilde has had her very last acting job. She's had some success with it, but lately she's been thinking a lot back to the social media work she did before she started acting - a kind of work she feels combines much better with family life. She never had the greatest actress ambitions anyway, and if she's going to change careers she better do it now before it's too late.
She's decided to start doing freelance writing, and hopefully be able to write some screenplays in the future. With the writing skills she has from her social media work in the past, she's off to a good start and her first gig is ghost writing a motivational book.
On Love Day, Sigurd and Matilde hire a baby sitter and go out to enjoy a movie.
It's important to have some time to focus on each other even in a hectic family life.
The kids are growing and learning so fast. Little Edvard has a talent for both shape recognition and climbing things. It's great to be able to use the back garden more now that it's almost summer.
With both parents heavily focusing on their careers (Sigurd got a promotion recently and is now a level 8 investor!), they cherish family moments like this.
It's high time for a family vacation, and they've decided to spend the weekend at a cabin in Granite Falls. Unfortunately the weather outside isn't great, so they're spending most of their first day indoors.
But Matilde and Marlene put their raincoats on and take a little fishing trip while Sigurd deals with Edward's bedtime.
Matilde is incredibly happy about changing her profession. Freelance writing means she can work whenever it suits her, and always from home - which gives her a lot more time with her family.
She loves helping her children learn new things.
She's also learning new things herself: She's planted a little flower garden on the terrace and started practicing flower decorating.
She's made herself a spacious office area upstairs in the little tower of their house.
It's almost midsummer and the forecast says they'll have heatwaves almost all week. Better eat light dinners in the shadows and use the kiddie pool at the park.
Sigurd's sisters are joining some of their park visits.
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After dinner it's time for dart and blocks. This time Leona is the teacher.
Once the kids are back in school, Lennart and Morgan hire a baby sitter for Ylva and spend a day of pure relaxation at the spa.
My story on my sims family, the Engles!
When the ceremony is done, he plays an improvised concert for his fellow celebrities. This is a huge moment for him!
His fame has definitely had a boost, and the fans are starting to get more eager.
He's made some powerful friends too. Olivia and Holly are both so much nicer than he always imagined them.
Lennart is really rocketing to the sky now, and it's so much fun!
It's one of those houses that tourists come to look at. Feels unreal.
The magnificent hallway is an appropriate place for all their family portraits. With these kind of staircases it's a good thing Ylva already has pretty good movement skills.
There used to be only two bedrooms in this house, so they've had a lot of renovation done to it to make it suit their family of five. Lennart and Morgan have made sure their bedroom looks both modernly stylish and classic.
(A big thank you to Brainamp87 who built this house and uploaded it to the gallery. I like tweaking and decorating, but not building from scratch. So the way it looks now is my full renovation of their original)
After living in an apartment with not even a balcony, it's pretty amazing for them to have such a big garden.
Living room.
There's a purely formal dining room to match the style of the hallway, but in the rest of the house they've tried to combine this style with a more family oriented vibe.
But they still like to visit each other and play together.
And right next to it they have a great gym area. This house is going to be such a dream to live in!
Susan has joined a drama club, and is eagerly rehearsing her few lines.
Saturn the kitten has grown into the strangest looking cat. She's kind of cool though!
She's also very demanding.
Ylva is all ready to start school! She's also joining the scouts like her oldest sister Leona.
And Marlene is so skilled now she can actually "read" the picture books herself.
Her younger brother Edvard is a toddler now too, but he needs a lot more help with everything.
Night-night, totties.
She can't wait to start school and learn to read properly.
Marlene has taken over grandpa's old room, that she keeps nice and tidy.
She's decided to start doing freelance writing, and hopefully be able to write some screenplays in the future. With the writing skills she has from her social media work in the past, she's off to a good start and her first gig is ghost writing a motivational book.
On Love Day, Sigurd and Matilde hire a baby sitter and go out to enjoy a movie.
It's important to have some time to focus on each other even in a hectic family life.
With both parents heavily focusing on their careers (Sigurd got a promotion recently and is now a level 8 investor!), they cherish family moments like this.
But Matilde and Marlene put their raincoats on and take a little fishing trip while Sigurd deals with Edward's bedtime.
The cabin also has a nice tub for Edward's bath time.
But you can't just stay indoors your entire vacation. So they head up to the national park forest to do some outdoor activities.
But it's not long until the children are sick and tired an want to go home.
She loves helping her children learn new things.
She's also learning new things herself: She's planted a little flower garden on the terrace and started practicing flower decorating.
She's made herself a spacious office area upstairs in the little tower of their house.
The summer is starting to get really hot, but Matilde still does her running regularly.
Sigurd has been extremely busy with his investor work, but he still has some piano gigs once in a while.
A great thing about the investor work is that he's always home in time to have dinner with his family.
Sigurd's sisters are joining some of their park visits.