Daily Archives: January 18, 2013

Skylanders, Video Game

Get Tons of Gold in Skylanders Giants

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I’ve been playing a bunch of Skylanders lately. I haven’t been playing through the story mode though, I’ve been playing all the characters through the Heroic Challenges. These are 3 – 5 minute little side stories that the characters can do to earn increased speed, Armor, Critical Hit and Elemental Power. While you do these Heroic Challenges you can also earn gold. You can do this by placing the Treasure Chest onto the Portal of Power along with your character. This only works for Heroic Challenges that were in Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. In Skylanders Giants there are 27 Heroic Challenges that were in Spyro’s Adventure. So, if you do all 27 of them and get the treasure chest in each challenge you can earn about 8100 gold (300 per Treasure Chest). Apparently there are 5 Heroic Challenges from Spyro’s Adventure that did not make it into Skylanders Giants. Continue reading Get Tons of Gold in Skylanders Giants →

Photo-A-Day

Swimming Lessons with Little Man


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We put Andrew into swimming lessons a couple of weeks ago. We missed it last week. This week however we were in a new class because the class that we were in at first ended up merging with the new class. Andrew loves being in the pool. He splashes around, laughs and shrieks. While he has no clue how to scoop and kick he is getting exposed to the water and he likes it. The one thing that he does pretty well is he climbs out of the pool. We’ll have to keep up with classes for both kids so that they continue to be comfortable in the water. He certainly was excited to get to the pool today.

Ready to Swim

Don’tcha just love that face. There is a photo that Allison took of the two of us in the pool but I look like I have a yeti vest on. Which, since I am a pretty hairy ape (except for my shoulders) would be accurate.