Showing posts with label van straaten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label van straaten. Show all posts

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Birthdays - October 2025

Ada van Straaten and Christopher Grey are getting married this month. Since they both don't have any family, they decided on a quiet ceremony with Ada's son, Lucas.

Friday, May 9, 2014

Birthdays - August 2025

Ada van Straaten and Christopher Grey are enjoying the rare moments they have together.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Birthdays - June 2025

Since her break up with Jason Draper, 3 years ago, Ada van Straaten has been dating Christopher Grey. After the couple found out they were expecting their first child togerher, Christopter moved in with her and her son, Lucas.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Draper - February 2022

Last update/Next update

The Draper Family
Jason and Ada are 44 and Lucas is 8
Narrated by Jason

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Draper 1 - July 2018

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The Draper Family
Jason and Ada are 40 and Lucas is 4
Narrated by Ada

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Draper 1 - Spring 2016

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The Draper Family
Jason and Ada are 38 and Lucas is 1
(Andrea Zanobi is 37 and Krisitanne Spits is 29)
Narrated by Jason

Monday, April 26, 2010

Birthdays - Fall 2014

Another brithday-post, and there are 2 announcements this time!
Ada's pregnancy was rather easy, the only thing going wrong, was her cooking, she always let everything burn.
But this alls went into nothing when she welcommed little Luke Draper into her family. Jason was happy he didn't have to talk to a belly anymore when he wants to talk to his child!
Little Lucas is the joy in his parent's life. He has black hair, like Jasons ancestors, and like Jason other children, Anabel and Anthony, of wich he knows nothing.

At the Roque household, Fran's belly is the confirmation of her pregnancy, a pregnancy wich nobody really expected at this stage in her life. Their baby is due for the spring of 2015.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Draper 1 - Winter 2014

Last update/Next update

The Draper Family
Jason and Ada are 36
Ada: Jason has been working really hard lately, and after taking out a loan, we were able to add an extra floor to the house. The furniture upstairs is spare, but I like it.
Adding the extra floor made me realise it was time for me to get my life back together. I started looking for a job againg, without finding any good ones, so I called my old boss. I practically begged him for a second chance, and to my surprise, he gave me my old job back!
So life is finally getting beter, I stopped feeling bad for myself, and stopped thinking about the fact that I don't have a college degree. It wasn't easy but I needed to do that. Looking at Jason, and seeing he was able to buy a house all by himself and add a floor without any financial help from me, made me realise that you can get a good life without a degree, so instead of talking about university, Jason and I are now discussing vacations.
I think he really likes the new me, actually the me I used to be. I never saw that woman around the house anymore since that last time, and I feel like he's spending all his time on me. Sometimes I think about talking to him about it, or even go looking for the woman myself, but then I think about how my life is at the moment, and I don't want to ruin that.
He still does a lot around the house, but this time around he has help. I'm a terrible cook, so I leave that up to him, but even though I have cleaning, I still do it, we are saving every penny to go on a vacation so we can't afford a maid.
Recently I also felt the need to meet knew people, so I have been going about more too, sometimes with Jason, but a lot of times on my own too. I'm meeting all this new people here, and they only live one hour away, and I never knew that!
Jason felt the need to celebrate the fact that I was working again, and to me out to diner to the Greenhouse, I think he just needed an excuse. It's a nice restaurant right around the corner from where we live. I never knew it was there, I really need to get out a lot more!
We toasted on the littlest things, and had a great time! Since it was so nice, I desided it was time to bring up the big topic I had been thinking about a lot lately; having children. I know Jason isn't a guy that gets married, but I had no idea how his idea was about children, and ever since his sister had twins I have been thinking about children of my own.
Well, he wasn't completly against the idea, I think he was most looking forward to making the baby. So back home we immidiatly started practicing!
At work things are going really well, my boss was so happy about my change and about the work I did, that he gave me a promotion! I feel a little bit bad that I have to tell him I won't be comming to work in few months because I'm pregnant!

Notes:
  • Ada and Jason are expecting their first child. Well, Ada's first, Jason already has 2, Anthony and Anabel, but he has no idea they exist. The baby is due in the Fall of 2014, and I'm really looking forward to this little one.
  • They have been saving to add an extra floor to the house, ever since Jason bought the house. Since I wanted them to have child I thought it was the perfect oppotunity.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Draper 1 - Fall 2011

Last update/Next update

The Draper Family
Jason and Ada are 34
Ada: I always thought my life would be a little bit different from what it turned out to be. For example, I thought I would go to university, but I'm 34 now, and I never took the oppotunity to go. I also thought I would get a really, really good job, but those are for sims with a college degree, and I don't have that one, so that's not for me either.
Jason is great, I like living with him. I hope one day to get married, but he's not the marrying kind of guy, so that's another thing that probably will never happer to me. He's constantly looking in the paper, for solutions to get me happier. One day he actually found one, some kind of program, where you have to write a number of articles, and if you do that you can get a college degree, but it costs §10.000, and that money we don't have!
So I keep my work as it is, not liking it in any way! I start working at 8pm, so I actually have the whole day to work on a promotion, but I just can't put myself to it. I'd rather sleep untill noon, and to absolutely nothing. It's not that I'm a lazy person, I just can't put myself to it, because it's not what I want in my life.
So when Jason gets home from work, he also does all the work in the house. He never complains, he just takes it all as it comes along. Sometime I do feel guilty, but then I think about the life I could have had, and don't have, and that feeling is replaced by a miserable feeling.
On top of it all, I think Jason is cheating on me. When I went to work one day, I saw this woman stopping by, and Jason greeting her really friendjy. On the other hand; who can blame him? Living with a miserable person all the time, makes you long for a happy one.
But at work, I could only think about that woman and Jason in bed together. It got me so distracted that I did everything wrong. That combined with my constant 'happiness', as my boss puts it, was enough to get me fired.
When I came home, I found Jason alone in the house. He was so sweet to me, that he made me forget all about the red haired woman.
The next day, I did nothing, absolutely nothing. I went to lay on the lawn and watched the clouds go by.
But of course, the mailman still knows our adress, and the bills still come in. Thankfully, Jason has gotten 2 promotions in a row, so we're not low on money.
Later that day, after his work, Jason sat me down to have a chat. He told me that he understands that I don't feel to good right now, and that he can understand that I'm not in the mood to go jub-hunting, but he wants me to do something about it. He told me that I don't need to look for a job, and that it's fine if I sort myself out first, but he wants the happy Ada back, the one he fell in love with.
Maybe he's right, maybe it's something I can do myself. So after our chat I started writing down everything that had happend to me, and what I was feeling. I know it may sound silly, but I already feel a little bit happier!

Sunday, January 1, 2006

Playable NPCs

Since I have a whole list with all my playables I thought I'd introduce you to my playable NPC's too. After all they only become playable NPC's when they get involved with some of the playables, so they all share something with one of the playables.

So what  are playable NPC's? They are sims who get involved with my regular playables for a significant amount of time (not just girlfriend/boyfriend of the week), but where the relationship ends for one reason or another, or where they have been in a relationship for quite some time but they aren't engaged or married yet.
They are also sims who start a relationship all on their own, when I play a dorm or a community lot, or something else.

My playable NPC's don't have their own updates, but I do play them the exact same way I play my regular playables, which is 1 week per round. I follow the same rules with my playable NPC's as I do for my regular playables for everything. So they aren't that different from my regular playable, they just don't have their own updates.

At the moment I have about 18 playable NPC-family. I know that is a lot, but from some I'm sure they will eventually end up with one of my regulars.
But I do love them, I just couldn't write them off, and I love adding new genetics to my game and playing them without having to worry about getting out a good story.

 
The Benson Family: Emily Robins is the girl for who Berend Lillig left his girlfriend, and mother of his daughter, Ella Rai. Berend saw the relationship very different from Emily, as for her it just was a fling. They lived together for a short period of time, before breaking up. Not long after Berend moved out, Emily met Aaron Benson, and in 2023 they got married.
In November 2023 they became the proud parents of Julia and Liam.

The Bleek Family: Niels Bleek used to date Tina Mishoen when they were both teens. When Tona became pregnant, very unexpectedly, their relationship cooled down quite a bit, and Niels never took much interest in Zoey. At the same time Niels was dating Tina, he also met Belinda Stevens and Samantha Bradshaw.
When Samantha left SimsVille in August 2021, Niels decided to go with her, and cut off all ties with SimsVille, and all his women there.
In 2025 Niels returned to SimsVille. He now lives in a trailer park in Simmeria, and is trying to get some kind of relationship again with his ex-girlfriend, Tina Mishoen and their dautgher, Zoey.

The Brems Family: This family consisted originally of Magdalena and her twins sons, Cole and David. This family was created to give Cole a family, because I wanted him to have family. Cole started dating Madeleine Rai in 2019. In 2023 they moved in together and got engaged, leaving David and Madgalena behind. Cole is now a regular playable. Cole and Madeleine got married in 2024, and they had a first son, Damien, in 2026, giving Magdalena her first grandchild.
Magdalena and David live in Simmeria where Davida also owns a car dealership.

The Collins Family: When their parents dies, Logan took it upon him to look after his borthed an sister. They moved to SimsVille where Logan works as a veterinarian, and runs the SimsVille Equestrian Centre, Logan is currently dating Melina Mokara.
His younger sister, Alana still lives with him. Alana is very passionate about dance. She teaches it after school, and hopes to one day turn her hobby into her career.
Their brother, Finn, the middle one, moved out in 2026, to move in with his girlfriend, who became pregnant when still in high school. Finn works as a firefighter in Simmeria, where he now also lives with Emma and their son Austin

The Dawson Family: Bea started dating Stephan Belio when she was 16. She always saw more in their relationship, and started dreaming of a future together when Stephan moved out on his own. Unfortunatly he didn't think about those things the same way, and even though  they are still dating, things aren't going too well. When Bea graduated high school in 2027 she found a small apartment in Simmeria, where she also works in a restaurant. She hopes to one day open her own restaurant. 

The Forman Family: Robin Sims used to date Yuan Zang when they were teens. When they broke up I aged her along with him and moved her into her own place. Not long after, she met Bruce Forman. Robin and Bruce got married in 2016, and welcomed their son, Nathan, not long after. In 2021 they welcomed their dauther, Jill, and in 2022 their family got even bigger with the addition of their twins, Cédric and Daniel. The family lives in SimsVille, Bruce works in politics and Robin is a realtor in Simmeria.

The Grey Family: Ada van Straten is one of Jason Draper's ex's. They got together in 1996, and even had a son together in 2014. But they broke up in 2022, when they both decided the relationship wasn't working anymore. Their son, Lucas, mostly lives with Ada, but goes to his dad's 3 days a week.
A few months after she and Jason broke up, Ada met Christopher Grey. After 3 year he proposed to her. They got married in October 2025, and welcomed their dautgher, Hope in February 2026.

The Lamberts Family: Ingrid Carette used to date, and even live together with Marcus Young. When Marcus started talking about getting married and having kids, Ingrid realized she didn't love Marcus that way and when she met Claus Lamberts (who is the same age as Marcus, which is 10 years younger than Ingrid), she decided to end the relationship.
Ingrid and Claus got married in 2021, a year after their son, Oscar, was born. A year after their marriage they welcomed Vera to their family.

The Landgraab Family: Max Landgraab is the head of Landgraab Architects in downtown Simmeria. He and his wife Hélène moved to SimsVille Up Hill, to live closer to his job. Hélène is working really hard to open up a line of H&M (Hélène & Max) stores in SimsVille and Simmeria. Their son Malcolm wasn't too happy about the move, bus is slowly warming up to this new town, especially now that he has found friends, and even a girlfriend.

The Ooms Family: Harriët Ooms and her husband were added to my game because she used to have the same last name as one of my playables, Olaf Verbon. She's Olaf's halfsister, who Olaf knew nothing about. She came in his life after Olaf's wife died in a car accident. After all this years, they are still getting to know each other.
Albert and Harriët have 2 children; Bailey and Kevin.

The Sels Family: Magda Kievits is Mario Burrie's ex-girlfriend. Afther they broke up, she turned to her good friend, Eddy, for comfort. They moved to another house on campus because it was hard on Magda having to see Mario every day.
Magda and Eddy gor married in 2023 and are now expecting their 1st child.

The Spits Family: Kristianne used to have an affair with Jason Draper when he was already living with Ada. When Kristanna found out she was pregnant, she knew there was a chance Jason wouldn't leave his girlfriend and decided not to give him the choice and broke off all contact with him. A few months later her high school sweetheart, Richard showed up. After some dating, Kristianne and Richard got married. He's raising Anabel and Anthony as his own kids.
Later they also added Peter and Emily to their family.

The Vega-Stevens Family: Belinda Stevens is one of Niels' ex-girlfriends. She's also Margot and Melissa's best friend. When they graduated from university, the 3 of them decided to become roommates, but only after 1 year, Margot moved out to live with her boyfriend, Jason Savage, and Melissa's boyfriend, Marie Burrie, moved in.
After Niels' departure, Belinda dated a few guys, but now she's in a steady relationship with Dominic Vega. In 2023 their relationship became serious and a year later Dominic moved in with Belinda, Mario and Melissa. Later that year, the roommates decided to split up, and Belinda and Dominic were able to buy a nice house in Simmeria.
Dominic is working in the political career, and Belinda tries to make it as a rock star.

The Willis Family:

Saturday, January 1, 2005

Ada van Straaten

Name: Ada van Straaten
Birthday: May 1978
Age: 46 years old
Personality: 2-3-9-7-4
Romantic history: Jason Draper
Partner: None
Children: Lucas Draper
Education: High School Graduate
Job: Law Enforcement
Employment History: n/a
Businesses Owned:
n/a
Aspiration: Knowledge/Family
Lifetime want: Max out 7 skills
Hobby: Sport

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