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Hello and welcome back to the Easter Egg challenge with Tara Cobb! We are blazing through some of these updates, but we are going to go over to the Sweet Lips challenge with Dawn after this. I hope you will enjoy her story as well. The last time we were with this family, the twins grew into children, Tara started winning gaming tournaments, and the family got Thimble the hedgehog. Let’s dig in!
Week 8
When we join the family, everyone is working in the garden. The boys are old enough to start doing things like weeding, while Tara tends to the bees.
Tara and Don took their boys to the bluffs, and there they saw the sea monster and took a picture. I tried to get Tara to take a selfie that could catch him, but she always turned away from him to take it, no matter what I did, so these are what we got, and since the boys are in the pictures, I’m counting it! That’s 10 points!
They then took the boys up to Mt. Komorebi, where they took selfies with Yamachan and even attempted to find voidcritters. Neither completed the task, but they had a lot of fun anyway!
Now that the boys are kids, we have removed most of the toddler items and replaced them with things like these monkey bars. I am looking forward to having modular playgrounds with the new pack, but this family won’t get to enjoy them.
Tara hasn’t opened her little stand in quite a while, so she opens it rather late in the evening. She has been trying to clear out the lower-quality stuff and just sell those items outright to make space for the higher-quality things.
The boys came home from school with B’s. I don’t think either will experience any issues with getting to an A in school.
Tara won her first professional tournament for BlicBlock. One game down, so very many more to go. I wonder if we can get them done?
I decided to take a look at the professional tournaments that you could complete and, HOLY COW, we have a ways to go. So I gave Tara a list and will be tracking them as we go.
We decided to give Cad a bike so he could work on his motor skills. He can get it in multiple ways, but I like the idea of him learning to ride.
We got a notice that Thimble was getting older, so Tara went and grabbed an anti-aging treat, and Robin got to feed it to Thimble. I do not want to be dealing with replacing Thimble all the time.
Tara gets started working on playing the next game, R.E.F.U.G.E., on the computer. She ends up getting the mastery perk of In The Zone, which I almost forgot she had, and we might need to use it in the future.
Tara still has to tend the garden herself most days, now that the boys are in school, but it’s nice that she can focus on other things as well without needing to always tend to them.
In an effort to try and bring in some more funds, and just to see how it might work, Robin and Cad get a little drink stand. Using the drink set from Spa Day, we are able to make up lemonade and stock the food stand, which is called Cobb’s Cold Drinks.
Robin runs the stand, and it seems everyone was interested in some lemonade this evening. Cad was also on hand to try and mix up some more if it was needed, but he was searching for Voidcritter packs.
Tara manages to finally max out her career. She is officially a champion gamer, and I believe the gaming mat actually gives another game we compete in. Either way, maxing her career gives us another 25 points!
A job well done, and Tara sits down to read a new book in the Dusk Glow series. I love the description of this one; it’s just too funny. Also, Tara learns a bit about werewolves thanks to this book. That I will go ahead and count at the 5th’s Easter Egg book (we will keep reading them) for a final 5 points.
Cad managed to complete his first aspiration. After rolling for a new one, he gets Mind and Body, which means he was going to need to learn to ride a bike after all!
The boys sit down for some fun after a long day and play some games themselves. We are going to have to add a few focused items eventually in here so that Tara can work on tournaments here as well.
That might take a bit, though, as sadly her first try with R.E.F.U.G.E. ends in a second-place finish, but that’s ok, she just needs to work a bit harder.
I have never seen this action before, but Tara goes and snuggles with Robin on the couch. It’s just so cute as they sat and watched TV. Cad was too busy playing by himself to care much.
Tara finally gets a chance to open her stand again, and this time, we have lots of Voidcritter cards we can sell as well. The boys have been working on collecting them, searching the trash, and having Tara buy packs. We have a pretty good collection, but extras are being sold.
Thimble has been very proactive in getting us postcards. We already have 5 of them from him, and I think we are in good shape to finish the collection before too long.
The boys came home from school with their grades up to an A. I didn’t expect it to be hard for them. They are smart boys.
Tara takes another chance at the R.E.F.U.G.E. tournament, but this time Tara won! Game two completed, we might make this yet!
Tara immediately starts learning how to play Sims Forever, which I don’t know how you really hold a tournament for that game, but whatever. This game is obviously a play on Sims itself!
Tara sits down to read Llamabelle, which is very much a play on Annabelle. While not a book, it is very much a popular horror story and is based on a real doll.
Tara was going through a midlife crisis and wanted to work on the woodworking bench. I went ahead and had Tara do that to get a task marked off.
Tara attempted to play a tournament for Sims Forever, and this time she got 3rd place. It’s not a bad result, but not a win either.
It was Cad’s turn to mix up some lemonade so they could open up the stand again. This time, he also mixed up some Citrus Swig as well to sell alongside the lemonade.
The stand is open, and Don even came by and grabbed a drink from his son. The stand made some decent money, and Citrus Swig was pretty popular. It also has a nice price tag to it!
Tara woke up in the night to investigate some weird lights and got abducted. Luckily, Tara cannot get pregnant by alien abduction, but I seem to have a slew of these happening lately.
When she came home, we finally got our first Easter Egg painting!! This is obviously a play on American Gothic in real life, and thus gives us 10 points!
Tara has occasionally been sending the bees out to go find her collectibles, but there is one we still need to find. The bees will not really be helpful in this, I don’t think.
You could spy our start on the Voidcritter collection in the shot above. We have found a few more in the meantime. There are still more to find, but it’s kind of a fun little collection that I have never completed before.
The family takes a little trip to Innisgreen, and the boys get to splash around in the water. We don’t have any place for them to do this much in Oasis Springs.
Tara was on a different kind of mission. She needed to get a certain seed. Luckily, there was a plantsim around, and after Tara performed some flirtatious actions with him, he was willing to give her what she was looking for.
The flirty magic bean now has a prominent spot on our bookshelf. It has a Friends reference and will now be kept. It also brings us 15 points!
Tara opened up her yard sale table again, now mostly full of honey, wax, lemons, and a few extra voidcritter cards.
Robin finally finishes up his first aspiration and picks up Social Butterfly next. He isn’t likely to complete it. There just isn’t enough time!
The boys work on their lemonade stand and hold 2 sales back-to-back. Both were pretty successful. This time around, they also mixed things up by adding iced tea, which wasn’t a big seller, but it did bring in a fair amount of money.
It was the end of the week, and also the end of spring again, so Tara went out and used the weather machine and reset the season to the start of spring again. Since we have done this once already, I won’t take any additional points for it.
That wraps up this week! Tara had another good week, gaining another 65 points, I believe, and bringing our total to 300 points! Tara has done really well the last couple of weeks, and hopefully, with her video game skills, she will be able to complete the video game tournaments! Thank you for reading, and I hope you will join us in the next update soon!
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