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fundielicious-simblr · 26 days

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(Valentina's POV)

We celebrated our gorgeous bride this weekend! Macie and I found a cabin in the woods and coordinated with everyone on schedules, a few weeks later the 12 of us gathered to celebrate Celeste finding the love of her life! While not everyone that was invited could make it, I'm glad that we got to have time with our family!

We all transformed into girls for a weekend, having snowball fights, making snow angels, and making snow people. It was a great period of relaxation and bonding, the togetherness that Celeste specifically asked for before entering a new season of life.

All the 'Paulson girls - current and former' were able to get together and it was so special! Having 6 brothers means that us sisters have been welcoming more sisters with each wedding (and hopefully Kelsey joins our crew in the future). Having Tessa, Sabrina, and Madison be pregnant still making the effort to be with us made it even more special!

We all took turns cooking, and Macie and I had prearranged the cooking groups so each day we had 4 people cooking per day. We were definitely spoiled when it came to food, we had everything from homemade doughnuts, fresh bread made daily, great soup, and homemade lasagna - to name a few. The kettle was constantly going so we had an abundance of hot chocolate and coffee available over the weekend too.

We're getting closer and closer to the big day, we've got all of our dresses and suits for the bridal party. Since it's a winter wedding, we're praying that we have nice enough weather that there's a nice blanket of snow but no inclement weather. Macie and I have cherished this time as her maid and matron of honour, we've managed to grow even closer with her (as if it was even possible) and can't wait for her to marry the love of her life in a few short weeks!

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(Lana's POV)

With christmas fast approaching, I've taken it upon myself to start decorating for the season. Parker and I decorated the tree together and it was such a great activity for us to bond as we start the celebrations of our first christmas as a married couple. We're planning to be with my parents for christmas, we'll head out to Oasis Springs immediately after Celeste's wedding for the holiday season with my family.

Our church recently had a women's bible study hosted by Casandra and a lady from a neighbouring church. Though it's been a year since Parker and I got engaged, and almost a year since we got married, Lori and I still celebrate how blessed we are that we married in to the same family and get to grow in the Lord and in life together. Recently she shared that she and Charles have been praying for another little blessing, so I've added that to my prayer list.

I love these girls, it's been amazing getting to know Parker's extended family and having them become true friends. Ruby Rae is going to nursing school and is really enjoying it, she's mentioned wanting to be a labour & delivery nurse and help mamas bring their blessings into the world. Kyra is a teacher and has a hand in shaping young impressionable lives, she and her husband are enjoying married life, it's great that she's still able to attend her home church even after being married. Celeste is counting down how many sunday's she's got before she gets married and moved away, her bachelorette party is next weekend and a lot of the girls are going. I'm not able to attend because of scheduling conflicts, but I'm happy to help her with wedding planning so her last weeks at home are peaceful.

Parker's family is full of such Godly men and women, during the ladies conference we got such great biblical gems to help us in our journey as women, wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, and friends. Casandra spoke from the perspective of a pastor's wife on the need to balance life at home with shepherding a congregation, Elaine spoke on how to fully take advantage of homeschooling children to give them the best education possible, and Claire covered how to introduce music into the home in a way the glorifies the Lord.

#fundie sims #fundiesims #quiverfull sims #collins family #modest sims #quiver full sims #sims 4 legacy #collins legacy #homeschool sims #sims 4 church #sims 4 newcrest baptist #gen 3 #parker and lana #post #i like these random events cause then i get to throw in the other external family members #Lana must show that she's fully integrated herself into the extended collins family #there might be more christmas decor idk yet i havent decided

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fundielicious-simblr · 2 months

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We dedicated little Bethany back to the Lord! My parents managed to make it for the dedication service, and Aaron Sr even brought up my dad to give a small charge to all the parents dedicating their children that day. Since we're blessed to have so many children being born into our church, we dedication services happen every 3 months. With our travels and various schedule clashes, little Beth was 6 months when we put our names in for it. We aim to do it for all our kids before their first birthday so that we have ample time to plan for it, instead of being under time constraints.

My parents love being grandparents, and my kids are so blessed to have such godly, loving grandparents that are dedicated to nurturing their grandchildren to live for the Lord and give him glory in all they do - like I did. It's a blessing to have them here with us, my grandparents went to heaven when I was a child so our time with them was short, but my kids will (Lord willing) grow up with their grandparents there for loving direction. My parents always said that a great benefit to marrying and having children young is that by the time they're getting married and having kids of their own, you're still young. If Noah were to get married at 20/21 like his father and I did, Mason and I will be in our forties! We'll still have kids at home (maybe even more than we currently have now) and will still be actively parenting, but we'd hopefully get grandbabies when we're still young enough to run after them!

Molly is just about ready to pop! Her little boy should be joining us any day now and we're all so ecstatic. She's been right there with us when our boys were born, even when she married Elijah and moved away she was always sure to come into town to help whenever she could. She's been cleared for a homebirth, so we've packed her a bag and I've got babysitters in place to come be at the house with Mason and the boys while Angie and I are at Molly's. She's asked us to be part of the birthing team along with her midwife, so we're all praying that things happen safely for mama and baby.

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fundielicious-simblr · 2 months

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Not one to miss a chance to let the world know about her grandchildren, Claire races to facebook as soon as she had permission to share with the world that her son and daughter in law (who are also the fastest reproducing family and might just be claire's favourite) are having twins as their 4th and 5th children that will be born in the couple's 4th year of marriage. They're going to have a hand in giving her a bulk of her grandchildren, and no one has any problems with that. Her grandbaby count is steadily rising, with 4 that will be born in the new year, and she can't wait for them to arrive.

Caption: "Rejoicing in the Lord as my son and his wife have announced they’re pregnant and are expecting twins! Children truly are a blessing and it warms this mama’s heart to see her children maintain the same mindset that we raised them with. Tessa herself is a twin and has triplet siblings, so combine that with us having two sets of twins in our family and it was only a matter of time until they were blessed with them. I now have two daughters-in-love that are carrying twins! PTL!"

Allan Casandra Collins "Praise the Lord! So excited for them and their growing family!" - Claire's sister-in-law, mother to 13

Trevor - Guiliana Hobson "We are over the moon to be expecting two grandbabies for the price of one! Isn’t God so good?" - Tessa & Tabitha's parents, parents to twins and triplets.

Faith Schwartz "Congratulations to them! Praying for a healthy mama and healthy babies." - Member of Newcrest Baptist's congregation

Kathy Frye "Congrats! This is what we hope for when we raise our children and send them out into the world." - Family friend of the Paulsons who lives in a nearby town.

Tessa Paulson "Thank you for your well wishes everyone! We are all so excited to welcome these two little ones to our family next summer" - Claire's DIL & the focus of said post, mother to 3 (soon to be 5) children.

#fundie sims #fundiesims #quiverfull sims #collins family #quiver full sims #sims 4 legacy #modest sims #collins legacy #homeschool sims #sims 4 simstagram #gen 3 #alan and tessa #gen 4 #these are quite fun to do #i do so much fundie stalking to not do this

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fundielicious-simblr · 2 months

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c_paulson

So happy that these ladies were with me as I said yes to the dress! They've been such a great encouragement to me and I thank the Lord for them! My matron of honour [vtownsend] and maid of honour [macie.collins3] have made this such an amazing experience for me. My mama and future mother-in-law have been such a comforting presence in this time and have been such sources of wisdom! #futurebride #isaidyestothedress #bridalparty #praisethelord

maddiepaulson Can't wait to be together with all of you ladies!

mason_adalynn_leonard So happy for you! This is such a special time and I can't wait to see the dress!

vtownsend It's been a privilege to be by your side as you get closer to marrying the love of your life sis!

tessap87 I just know the dress is going to be beautiful! See you ladies soon!

#fundie sims #fundiesims #collins family #quiverfull sims #modest sims #quiver full sims #sims 4 legacy #collins legacy #homeschool sims #sims 4 simsta #sims 4 social media #gen 3 #reid and celeste #post #next is the bachelorette party #which was a TASK to do because of the volume of people

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fundielicious-simblr · 2 months

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tessap87

Our family is growing by 20 little fingers and 20 little toes this summer! We have twins joining the family and couldn't be happier with this double blessing from the Lord! #pregnancy #twinpregnancy #blessingsfromthelord #childrenareablessing #twinhavingatwin

tablovest My twin is having twins! Praise the Lord for children! So happy for you sis ❣️❣️

maggiecwright Twins are the best! Praying for a smooth pregnancy!

bkcfamily Welcome to the twin club! Congrats to you and Al, praying for healthy mama and babies! #childrenareablessing

stacie_c So happy for you guys! Next time we're at the park, we'll have double the croissants!

#fundiesims #fundie sims #quiverfull sims #collins family #modest sims #quiver full sims #sims 4 legacy #collins legacy #homeschool sims #sims 4 simstagram #sims 4 pregnancy announcement #gen 3 #alan and tessa #gen 4 #post #i had forgotten to roll for a pregnancy so we're just going to go with the natural ups and downs of ones natural fertility to explain #why theres such a large gap between the 3rd kid and its younger siblings #i definitely didn't plan the twins #it's just got a higher chance of happening for them because there's multiples on both sides of the family.

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fundielicious-simblr · 2 months

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(Valentina's POV)

She said yes to the dress! My mum, sisters, cousin macie, and I travelled to be there for Celeste's final dress choosing. She was between 3 options and wanted us all to be there as she made the final choice between the 3. The dress she ended up choosing looks absolutely beautiful and if she looks beautiful in it now, she's going to be absolutely gorgeous when she's all done up for her wedding day. She found her dress in a cute boutique in between Northbury and Britechester whilst on a visit to Reid and his family, and because of where the shop is we were able to visit with Reid and his family while we were in the area.

Celeste is the last of the sisters to get married, so we all got together for the final time that we're going to have this moment as sisters. We all joked (and got a bit teary eyed) that the next time we do this with any close families it'll be us with our daughters! It's cool to see how the wedding trends have changed over the years, I got married in the summer 10 years ago, Kristyn got married in the spring almost 4 years ago, Sabrina got married in the autumn 2 years ago, and now Celeste is getting married in the winter. She's chosen Macie and I as her maid and matron of honour, and it's such an honour to be there for her and stand by her side as my little sister marries the man of her dreams.

Celeste's future mother-in-law, Beatrice, is such a wonderful woman! It's a blessing to have a good relationship with your mother in law, and we thank the Lord for them! According to Celeste, our mum would randomly get emotional at the thought of going to see Celeste in her wedding dress for the first time, and when we saw her in the dress we all immediately understood! Not long now until she's changing her last name!

#fundie sims #fundiesims #quiverfull sims #quiver full sims #collins family #sims 4 legacy #collins legacy #modest sims #homeschool sims #sims 4 bridal boutique #sims 4 bridal #sims 4 shop #gen 3 #reid and celeste #post #ive been loving the random creative ideas that i'm getting when it comes to planning 'content'#i create the people's parents for the wedding and keep them long enough for the first child then delete the family hehe

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(Kyleigh's POV)

I'm pregnant! Baby number 12 will be joining our family at the end of next summer. I didn't particularly feel any of the symptoms, I just had the feeling that I should take a test and it was positive! I called my OB and went in for an ultrasound, and we have one healthy baby! My blood work hasn't come back yet, but with my history of preeclampsia there will be more monitoring done for this pregnancy and any subsequent ones that I'll have.

You'd think that by my 9th pregnancy (and 12th baby) I'd be used to the rollercoaster of morning sickness, but it definitely is something that's a constant reminder of the new life that's growing inside me. Thankfully I cook in bulk and have a rotation of leftovers and fresh fruit and veggies, so I don't need to cook daily which definitely helps with my aversions to smells.

The kids are doing great with their school, the triplets are in grade 4, the twins in grade 3, Daisy is in grade 2, and Marigold has started grade 1, the littles do skillbuilding work so that they don't feel left out. The big kids do their work after breakfast, i sit with each set and explain whatever concepts they dont understand, and afterwards they will finish their workbooks while I sit and explain more to those who don't understand. The littles are in their room having quiet time or napping whilst the oldest are doing their work.

Barrett and the boys (AJ, Benji, Preston, and Jefferson) are enjoying little Jackson, no matter how many children we have we'll always have so much love and gratefulness for babies in our hearts. They're also happy to have another little brother to love on since they're currently outnumbered by the girls.

Little Jackson is growing so fast it's so hard to imagine that he only joined the family earlier this year! He's been hitting milestones so quickly that soon we'll be celebrating his birthday and he'll be a walker!

My belly definitely shows a lot faster the more pregnancies I have, but I'm not complaining since I love feeling my belly when I'm pregnant. The kids are constantly asking me to feel my belly and constantly asking to be the new baby's buddy, with little Olivia turning 5 next year the kids love being able to help their little siblings. Rose has especially been loving on my belly and talking to her little siblings, the kids sometimes repeat their scripture memory verses to my belly so that the baby will come out the womb having memorised it all!

Chloe has started writing in a journal, she's shared with me that she wants to do a scrapbooking project so that she can journal her journey in her relationship with the Lord. They had mentioned the idea in sunday school and she couldn't wait to come home and let us know what she wanted to do, the other kids also knew about the project but wanted to wait a bit before they started their own.

Chloe is doing so well with her knitting, we try and sit down 2 to 3 times a week for an hour so I can watch her knit and help her as she goes along. Her goal right now is to finish a jumper for one of her younger sisters, and to continue to make hats since we're in winter now. It's so great that the kids are now becoming older and can pick up skills, Violet expressed wanting to learn how to cross stitch, so we're working on that as well so by spring she'll have some nice pieces finished. Rose has been asking to learn how to cook, but since she's still quite young she helps me with meal planning and the easier prep items.

#fundie sims #fundiesims #quiverfull sims #quiver full sims #collins family #sims 4 legacy #modest sims #collins legacy #homeschool sims #gen 3 #barrett and kyleigh #gen 4 #post #are we surprised shes pregnant #of course not #what do we think this baby will be #i accidentally saw the gender when she went for her ultrasound so i know #the kids actually do very well at doing their work and helping the toddlers skill build #chloe is also like a level 4 knitter but i have to make it semi realistic cause why is a 9 year old knitting a rug in one sitting

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fundielicious-simblr · 2 months

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(Lana's POV)

As we near being married for almost 9 months I've been trying to make more of an effort to cook a variety of recipes. My mother spent the last few months of my time at home teaching me how to cook and going over different recipes that I loved as a kid. I've been motivated to do more for Parker's sake growing up Casandra, Adalynn, and Macie did the cooking and their food tastes amazing so I'd like to be able to replicate that for Parker now that he's moved out of the house. My most recent experimentation has been a classic carbonara, I've never made one before so I was following the recipe to a T. Thankfully it came out amazing, it tasted like it was almost restaurant quality! With winter around the corner I'd like to get into the typical winter cuisine like soups and casseroles, growing up in the desert we never really got weather that was cold enough for typical winter food. Casandra has given me one of her many recipes for chicken casserole, due to busy schedules we can't meet for her to walk me through it so we're going to hope and pray that it turns out alright.

Parker's cousin Celeste got engaged just before harvestfest and already has her wedding planned for a few weeks time! I've been helping in any way that I can whenever my schedule allows it, and recently we've been each others workout partners. Annette is a faithful gym goer, so she's been helping celeste get regular workouts in before the wedding. My usual workout is stretching work with some light weights and low impact workouts like long walks, so working out with Annette really puts me through my paces. I'm so thankful that the Lord has blessed me with a husband that has such a close-knit, godly family. His cousins feel more like siblings than cousins, and they've been so sweet and welcomed me in with open arms.

I finally stopped procrastinating and got some of our wedding pictures framed, aren't they great! I've yet to frame some of the smaller pictures, but these are a great start. It feels like our wedding was just yesterday, but we're close to hitting our one year anniversary in less than 6 months from now!

I've been working my way through this daily devotional that my mother gifted me at the start of the year when we got engaged, it's amazing and I feel like I've learned so much. I do my daily bible reading then go through the devotional, Parker's parents also gave us a devotional to go through as a couple when we got engaged as part of our premarital counselling, so we do that together either after our breakfast or before we go to sleep.

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fundielicious-simblr · 3 months

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Here’s the video for the gender reveal, the sun had set but there was no way I was going back and changing the time so I’ve edited the brightness. @pandasamacc did such an amazing job with the animations that I felt they needed to be seen. The guy at the back randomly running to join in also made me giggle, I'll have to do this again for one more pregnancy but with the weather it'll have to be inside. You guys also get to see how the labour & delivery mod works when this new batch of babies are being born!

#fundie sims #fundiesims #quiverfull sims #collins family #modest sims #quiver full sims #collins legacy #sims 4 legacy #homeschool sims #gen 3 #elijah and molly #post #i couldnt even pretend this was a social media post cause my laptop mightve exploded #but yes enjoy the video #i need to do another one thats angled so you can see the guests but lets see if i manage #the guests all react and celebrate all at the same time

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Little Beth is such a joy! Everyone in the house wants to always be around her, Angie and some other older women at church were joking that she's going to have quite the difficulty when it's courting time, she's got (atleast) 8 very protective older brothers! After we got home from Newcrest, the boys took turns being under the weather, so we kept them away until they felt better so we didn't have to deal with a sick baby. As the weather gets colder we're going to be seeing more and more sicknesses doing the rounds, since a lot of our congregation travelled to their families for the holiday period there's always someone who gets awfully sick.

Thankfully I've got my recipe for chicken & dumplings and chilli on demand, they're what the boys ask for when they're not feeling too good, the food warms them from the inside out. I make large servings of both dishes so that I'm not cooking a whole new meal from scratch by the morning. I'm used to making enough servings for 15+ people, so we're constantly flowing with an abundance of leftovers, which is amazing for when guests drop by unexpectedly. Being able to show hospitality is one of the things that my mother impressed on us was our duty to excel at as wives and mothers, we show the goodness of God when we extend an invitation to others to sit and fellowship.

The boys are absolutely in love with their little sister! It seems they all grew overnight when we brought her home, they finish their chores faster, finish their homework faster, and have upped their handwashing rate by a tonne (which I'm eternally thankful for!) The little boys have been practicing being gentle when holding her, and they only hold her with either Mason or I there. Little Titus calls her his baby, which makes this mama's heart glad that he's not so burned at having his spot as the youngest being taken. I've been spending more time with him and the twins as they've adjusted to having another baby in the house, and thankfully they've done so well.

Little Beth is hitting so many milestones! She's quite stubborn and doesn't want to start, but as soon as we get her on the floor and try and get her waving, or even crawling, she puts her heart and soul into it. The boys love cheering her on, and she loves the attention so she pushes until she's overstimulated. Her stubbornness means she fights sleep because there's so much happening in the house, so nap times have to be enforced or else she'd never get any sleep and would be an overstimulated mess.

Molly, Mason's sister, is in her second trimester of her first pregnancy and is absolutely glowing! She's been in the throes of morning sickness since she announced to us at easter, and she's only just recently began feeling better. She and Elijah have completed their move to Newcrest, now they live around 20 minutes from us. Her belly is so wonderfully small, we laugh that she hasn't popped yet so she hasn't had to go shopping for a whole new maternity wardrobe. Angie and I, along with some ladies from church planned a gender reveal/baby shower for Molly as the first event to celebrate them moving to Newcrest.

(AN: There's a video but is absolutely refused to load and the gif drove the quality into the toilet - that may be a post on its own tomorrow, for now there's a screenshot form the video)

And it's a boy! The boys were so happy to get another boy in the family. Molly and Elijah haven't picked out a name yet, so they've got more work ahead of them before the little mister makes his appearance.

Angie was ecstatic getting to plan this gender reveal, we only had one when we were expecting Noah before choosing to not find out anymore with the subsequent pregnancies. She and Aaron have such a love for children that even with 9 grandchildren, they're over the moon everytime they're told that there's another one coming. Aaron pastors our congregation, and many families have adopted him and Angie as their grandparents, so they have many 'grandchildren' that they're nurturing and helping to grow in the Lord.

#tz rb #i keep forgetting to do this OHO

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