The Montez Family

Location: 1357 Birchwood Road
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Full Name: Reneé Sophia Montez (neé Garcia)
Age: 42
Height: 5'7
Weight: 121 lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown Black
Skin Color: Light Tan Brown
Ancestry: Mexican and Puerto Rican
Birthday: May 15, 1974
Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas
Current Hometown: Long Beach, California (since 2013)
Occupation: Businesswoman
Relatives: Barbara Garcia (mother, deceased), Francis Garcia (father), Oliver Montez (husband, deceased), Gabriella Montez (daughter)
Bio: Reneé Garcia is the daughter of Barbara and Francis Garcia, originally from San Antonio, Texas. Her mother sadly died from breast cancer when she was 8 years old, so Francis had to raise his daughter on his own, and didn't regret it raising her in a good nurturing home in spite of the troubling conditions of the city at the time. Reneé proves to be intelligent and great in the business aspect: she worked 2 part-time jobs to help her father and pay for her education in high school and college; at the same time, she even make jewelry for her friends who began to see her potential in the jewelry business, something she didn't thought of then. She tends to get stressed out a lot that she almost suffered a burnout and nearly fainted while in her third year in college. She managed to pull through and started working for a local branch of a international clothing brand when she met her husband Oliver Montez during their training days and he was impressed by her smarts and wit. Soon, her efforts were recognized by the company that they promoted her to being the head of operations in the San Antonio branch, with Oliver becoming her assistant. Oliver went on to wow her with his waltz dance moves during a friend's wedding while whispering to her ear if she want to be with him forever. The answer was a resounding Yes!, and they married in a small setting with friends and family in attendance in 1999. They later had their daughter Gabriella in 2000. Both enjoyed their days with her, but sadly, all that changed when Oliver had a stroke while assisting a friend on a project, which led to a fatal heart attack when Gabriella was 7. This left Reneé in the same situation as her father faced years ago with her. Still, she took her father's advice to raise Gabriella well no matter what happens. At the same time, she quit her old job and started making her jewelry making hobby into a profitable business, and Dazzling Jewels was born from there. When she gets a new offering to move to Long Beach, California to expand Dazzling Jewels, she took the chance and bring Gabriella along with her. Three years passed, and Dazzling Jewels have proved to be a success, and Reneé couldn't ask for more, as she works to promote the brand, and even gets some business help from neighbor Gonzalo Miravelez.

Full Name: Gabriella Aimee Montez
Nicknames: Gabby, the Gabster
Age: 16
Height: 5'6
Weight: 115 lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown Black
Skin Color: Light Tan Brown
Birthday: January 23, 2000
Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas
Current Hometown: Long Beach, California (since 2013)
Occupation: Student at Oceanview High (Sophomore)
Relatives: Barbara Garcia (grandmother, deceased), Francis Garcia (grandfather), Reneé Montez (mother), Oliver Montez (father, deceased)
Bio: Gabriella Montez is the daughter of Reneé and Oliver Montez. Beautiful as she is giftedly smart, she was exposed to the arts with her dad teaching her how to dance the waltz as a toddler, her mother's then jewelry making hobby, and was a part of her church choir for a short time. The family was later torn apart when Oliver died from a heart attack when she was 7. Taking after her father's steps as a single parent, Reneé decided to raise Gabriella on her own in a nurturing environment, leave her old job as a head of operations, and turned her hobby into a thriving business in the form of Dazzling Jewels. Gabby's intelligence also gave her some unexpected attention for the two women when her elementary school Math teacher noticed her brilliance in Science and Math, as well as her special talent in singing that she suggested to put Gabriella in the Academic Decathlon team and the School Choir. Despite some reluctance, Gabby got her mother's approval to tell her to go for it, and she got amazing response from the two different teams that one team will support her in one event of the other team, and vice versa. Finally, when Reneé got an opportunity to expand Dazzling Jewels to the West Coast (in Long Beach, California), Gabriella was worried that the people in her new school will see her as the freaky teen genius. Still, once moving West, she experienced nothing but amazing great times and meeting new friends like Isabelle Miravelez, Delbert 'Super' Snooper, Jenny Silverfur, André Harris, Ventus and Apple White. She is unsure of the future, whether she should be studying law in Stanford University or following a different path, but one thing is sure: she is going to be in for a wild ride in high school.