The twins age up, and now hold control over the house that their older sisters and brother have left behind.

They waste no time in renovating the house’s interior, replacing some of the older furniture while repairing some of their old stuff, like the TV and the stupid karaoke machine that Gaby is so fond of.

Ramona dug up some of Vinca’s old paintings and proudly displays most of it in the living room.

Here’s a pic of the newly-renovated kitchen with Ramona, who still scrutinizes the room in its entirety.

There’s no scrutinizing for this room though.

Ramona takes over their old bedroom that she shared with Gaby and Lukas and gives it a big splash of yellow all over the place. The room was too big for her, so she had one side of the room walled up.

Her old desk and computer is still intact, and she has taken one of her father’s firefly collection to spruce up the place. Buster the goldfish’s old bowl is here too, just for the sake of having something there.

Gaby’s room is significantly redder in comparison.

She also bought this secondhand DJ booth on a whim.

Gaby starts her day with music, and goes out early to grace the world with music as well.

Even as a child, Gaby already knows that she wants to take the path of the singing industry, a decision that is partially inspired by her mother and aunt’s successful careers in music.

For now, she starts with performing sing-o-grams for rich teens. Lana Hart-Alvi pretends to be surprised, but she knows there’s the new video game system she begged her parents to buy for her.

Gaby’s excitement for her job is contagious, and Sommer Helton can’t help but grin at her.

As soon as the rest of the snow thawed off, Ramona sets off to work on the garden. The little seating area in the backyard got renovated as well.

In a few days, Stanley’s garden has doubled in its size compared to when he first grew it. He would have been proud.

Gossiping with mom after all that hard work.

She looks so much like her father, Miranda looks on fondly.

She used to question how on earth that silly hair dye that Stanley used got passed on to their daughter, but now any explanation doesn’t matter, for it simply serves as a reminder of her late husband.

Lukas visits the family again, but this time as a newlywed and a father. Kenton Su-Ramos was born just yesterday, and they are excited to let everyone know.

Gaby gets to know her older brother’s wife, Lacey.

She knows the woman as his high school sweetheart, having seen some of the love letters that Lukas was trying to hide, but is still surprised to know that they got married and had a kid almost immediately. It feels weird seeing her dorky brother start his own family.

She leans in to whisper something to her sister-in-law, who giggles in response as they glance at her husband.

Lukas has a dreaded feeling that his wife has found something new to tease him with.

Ramona sneaks out of her studio to snuggle her nephew.

Then she goes back inside to continue painting. Lukas follows her to hang out, but is momentarily surprised to see that the room has gone through significant changes as well.

Ramona made sure that Stanley’s rare insect collection gets prominence, and has removed some of the walls to breathe in more space.

At the back of the room, Gaby’s old chemistry set is still there, along with Vinca’s art club trophy, Lukas’ debate club trophy, Gaby’s drama club trophy, and this random molecular model that Ramona got from the field trip to the science center as a souvenir.

Chelsea’s prom queen crown sits between the older twins’ prom pictures.

One of Sunset Valley’s many parks holds a highly-anticipated SimFest, something that Gaby has been excited to attend for a while now.

Arriving at the actual venue and seeing this pathetic smattering of an audience deflates her enthusiasm for a bit, but she decides to stay.

One of the performers is an acrobat named Jayson Hooks, who really hopes that he can pull off this trick this time. But he did, and there are no accidents (unlike last time).

Just as soon as he gets down from the stage, Gaby rushes to him to congratulate his performance. “That was really amazing,” she gushes. “I didn’t think that there’d be acrobats in town.”

Jayson blushes. He never really expected that the cute woman among two elderly ladies would notice him. “Thank you! Judging by your outfit, I thought you were going to be competition at first.”

“Oh, no,” she laughs. “I don’t have enough experience to audition yet. And besides, I’m having fun with sing-o-grams.” Almost right on cue, her phone rings to let her know that a customer wants those sing-o-grams.

“Duty calls,” Gaby smiles apologetically at her new acquaintance, who’s a bit disappointed to see her leave. They wave each other goodbye, and Gaby runs off to work.

All that running from house to house since yesterday leaves Gaby a panting mess, so she starts to jog out early in the morning to prepare herself for future sing-o-grams.

She passed by these adorable beach cottages on their street, and remembers that one of these is where her Aunt Eva lives in with her husband Stiles.

Eva is pleased to know that at least one of her sister’s kids is making music.

Author’s note: Gen 2 is finally starting! I am so excited for this.