Once upon a time ....

(warning: this could be a little bit long (for my doing,) and maybe a little bit boring ...)

.... There were those great guys somewhere, who invented the Sims.
And somewhere in a small country somewhere in Europe there were 2 girls, who were very excited about this game. So when the game came out, those girls desided to give it a try.

Up untill now thye still remember the first family they made; The Savage Family.
The Savage family was just a man; Jason and his wife; Margot. Even today the girls still know how they looked and what their personalities were.
Other families followed the Savages, to live alongside in the premade hood, but none of them were as memorable as Jason and Margot.
With the release of the Sims 2, and those new aspirations, the girls desided to start with 2 new families. So the Mertens and the Burrie families were created. Both families consisting of only 2 sims. 
Ludo and Mia Mertens were an elderly, childless, couple, focussed on knowledge and gaining every skill possilbe. Later in game, they adopted 3 children, but Mia and Ludo were the ones who were branded in the memories of those girls.
Mario Burrie and his wife Melissa were a young couple just starting out on their own, and very eager to start their own family. Especially Melissa was very excited about that last part, and she wanted her family to be very big. Melissa was a stay-at-home mom for their 4 children, while Mario went to work, wich was something he loved doing, because he wanted to earn as lot as possible. Even though they had 4 children, it was the same as with theMertens family, Mario and Melissa were the most important sims for the girls.
Both families lived alongside in DimSimTown, the firs hood creaed by the girls. And of course they didn't live their alone, other families moved to DimSimTown, but the ones the girls still remember are Mario and Melissa and Ludo and Mia.

So now, years after their first creation, I've desided to put them back in my game; the Savages, Burries and Mertens', the first families ever created by my sister and me. Since I didn't want to create 3 seperate families, I've made them all related to each other.
So meet Ludo and his wife Mia Mertens:

Name: Ludo Mertens
Age: 52 years old
Education: High school graduate
Job: Farmer
Aspiration: Popularity
Lifetime want: 20 simultanious best friends
Hobby: Nature

Name: Mia Mertens
Age: 48 years old
Education: High school graduate
Job: Housewife
Aspiration: Family
Lifetime want: Graduate 3 children from college
Hobby: Cuisine



They have been married for 25 years now, and I think it's fair to say they have shared almost everything (more on that later), and have 3 children; twindaughters; Margot and Melissa, and a son; Lars.

Name: Melissa Mertens
Age: 16 years old
Education: SimsVille High
Aspiration: Family
Lifetime want: Marry off 2 children
Hobby: Science

Name: Margot Mertens
Age: 16 years old
Education: SimsVille High
Aspiration: Knowledge
Lifetime want: Max out 5 skills
Hobby: Science

Name: Lars Mertens
Age: 12 years old
Education: SimsVille High
Aspiration: Romance
Lifetime want: 20 simultanious lovers 
Hobby: Film




As you may see, I didn't give them all their original aspirtations but fitted them a little bit more to their personalities, and to what I see in them. You may also have noticed that Ludo and Mia's duaghtes are actually Margot Savage and Melissa Burrie, at least they will be some day. Even though I love planning my sims' lifes, I don't usually plan who they end up with, but here it's going to be meant to be.

Now a little bit more about the family:
As said before, Mia and Ludo have been married for 25 years. They weren't high school sweethearts, in fact, Ludo was Mia's best friend's boyfriend. She was in love with him for quite some time, but since she's not a mean, person, she never did something about it. That was untill Ludo said he was in love with her too. So they gavin to their feelings and starting dating. This of course meant the break up between Ludo and his grilfriend, and 2 best friends never talking to each other again. Their love won it all, and 2 years later they got married. Ludo started farming, working under a boss was never meant for him, and started selling his produce. Mia volonteerd in the retirement home around the corner, and their life was getting along fine. After 9 years of marriage, and Mia's 9 years want of starting a family they were blessed with the birth of theur twindaughters, Margot and Melissa, and 4 years later they welcommed little Lars in the family as well.
Since there were extra mounths to fill, Ludo was hardly ever home anymore, he was constantly on the road selling his produce, and getting extra jobs, just to earn a little bit more. Mia was home alone with 3 toddlers all the time and becomming very lonely. She saw every pass-by as someone to talk to, but the only one showing some interest was the mailman. Mia was starting to feel like a woman again in his attention, and one thing lead to another, untill they ended up in bed together. Mia was feeling very guilty about this, her husband was out earning money for her and the kids, and here she was, in bed with another man. She desided this couldn't go on like this any longer. She broke up with the mailman, and once her husband was home she confesses everything. Although Ludo was mad about this, he could understand how it all happened, it took him some time but he forgave her. He toot hough that they couldn't go on like this. So they sat down together, and talked about the furture.He would open a shop right around the corner, so instead of traveling to sell his produce, customers had to come to him to buy it.
Some time everything went well, the kids grew up fine, started school, and some years later Margot and Melissa even started high school. Mia and Ludo's relationship grew stronger than ever before, and the shop was becomming an enormous succes.
But then tragedy hit them. During a strom, and tree close to the house got fire, and before they knew it, their whole house was on fire. Mia and Ludo were able to get themselfs and the kids out safely but saw all their hard work fall apart in front of their eyes.
They had some savings, and with the money from the insurance, they were able to buy a piece of land and start over. The kids are still trying to adjust to a new school, and Mia is starting to becom lonely again, since there is nothing to do for her where they live, but Ludo tries to involve her in the farm as much as possible.

They will manange I'm sure of that!

This is their house:

The first ranch-style house I build myself and that I actually like, but it still needs a lot of work.

They actually live in DimSimTown, an hour drive away from SimsVille, named after the first hood ever my sister and I build in the Sims 2. DimSimTown is quite empty at the moment. I'm building a retirement home there, so Mia has something to do again, but it's taking up a lot of time since I have some other building-projects laying around, and I'm also translating all the custom careers I've downloaded since they otherwise have the texts from the original careers, and it annoys me!
For now the Mertens family will be a playable NPC's, and will age with the rest of SimsVille and Simmeria. When Margot and Melissa start uni, they will go with the rest of my sims, and in high school updates you will see them as well. This will be as long as they are the only family in DimSimTown, or untill Margot and Melissa finish uni.
Jason Savage and Mario Burrie, will start uni in 2 simsyears (I think), so you will meet them then, as will Margot and Melissa.

Well, I think this wasn't the update you all were expecting, and it sure wasn't the one I planned, but I just couldn't wait to introduce them to you all (I have them in my game for some weeks now).
I'm sorry this is so long, but it was just so easy to write.
I know I might be crazy, getting 1 (or 3) new families in SimsVille, but some time ago my sister and I were talking about those sims, and she asked me if I could put them back in my game, so I did.