Netflix sent me this offer in my email that I figured I’d share with you. If you haven’t tried Netflix here’s a good way to give it shot for free, for a month.

Dear Don,

We’re offering you a special opportunity to give your friends and family one month of Netflix service for FREE - that’s twice the length of our regular free trial!

This limited time offer expires 06/15/2008 so forward this email today.

-Your friends at Netflix

We’ve uploaded a lot of great new pictures to the April album.

Yes, here’s yet another new financial service vying for your attention. This time it’s RevolutionMoneyExchange, which is a person-to-person payment system similar to PayPal. It’s free to send, receive, and withdraw money, but the only funding source allowed is your bank account (no credit cards). It will be interesting to see if it gains some traction (and if eBay allows them as a payment option). Currently, they are offering a $25 bonus just for signing up. Here’s mine:

However, you’ll have to submit your Social Security Number to verify your identity, so I had to do a little digging first. According to this article in American Banker, it is backed by Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Bank AG, which participated in a $50 million venture capital round. The parent company was formed by bajillionaire Steve Case, co-founder and former CEO of AOL, and the son of the former CEO of Mastercard. Also mentioned in USA Today.

Also, there is no hard credit check done using your SSN. It says clearly at the top “This information is not used to review your credit history or to establish new credit.”

You also get $10 for referring friends. So be sure to sign up using my link to get your free $25. Then generate your own referral link that you can send to your friends, etc.

Also, just as proof here’s a screen shot of my withdraws so far ($75 total). You can get up to $500 in referrals, which I’m shooting for! These funds have already been put into my checking account, so this is definitely not a scam!

I just wanted to give all of our friends/family/visitors a heads up about some new posts you’ll see here. Being the Internet gurus (read junkies) that Jen and I are, we come across lots of interesting things. One of those things are links/referrals to get free money online. Generally we’ll pass these along to friends/family via email so that they can take advantage of these good deals, and we get some kind of referral bonus too.

Anyway, I’ve decided that there’s no reason we shouldn’t post such deals/opportunities up here so that they can reach more people. Ultimately these deals will help you and then help us. For example, we’ve been using ING Direct, an online only bank, for years now. It’s a fantastic bank that has great interest rates (much better than you generally find from your traditional bank). Well they always have the ability to refer friends so that they can get $xxx free when they open a new account. These generally result in you (the referrer) also getting a bonus for referring a friend. These are obviously not scams or anything, they’re just one person telling another about a good service that’s worth checking out, while getting some free money at the same time.

So, you can expect to see a post ever so often describing such offers. If you think it would be useful, and you like to get FREE money, hopefully you can check them out.

These posts will all be filed under the new category “College Fund”

A short clip of Adam smiling at us.

Just got word from Jen that Adam’s 2 week checkup went great. He packed on another 10 or 11oz in the past week and is up to 10lbs 12oz. According to Jen the doctor said “he’s a big boy” and was surprised when she looked at the paper to find that this was only his 2 week checkup. She initially thought he was 2 months!!

His lack of pooping and occasional discomfort weren’t a concern for her at this point. She wants to wait a few weeks to let Jen’s milk flow stabilize and to let things settle a bit more (Jen can probably provide a more accurate description).

I do however have his recent stats. He’s 75th percentile for height and head size and 97th percentile for his weight. What a bruiser, huh? He’s going to be bigger than Alex and Avery in no time!

Aunt Ann from Arizona has been staying with us all week and helping out with stuff around the house, the kids, etc. She is such a great help and has really made this week a nice and easy one for Jen, which definitely helps with the recovery, etc. She returns home this Saturday and will be greatly missed!

Other friends and family will visit over the next week or so, hopefully providing help all through next week too. Keep checking back in the April album for more pictures. I think we have some that need to be uploaded from the computer. I’ll try to get them up tonight or tomorrow.

Thank God Its Spring!

Alex has a BLAST on the “big mower” with dad.  Don’t worry, it was on low speed, without the blade turning, and not very loud at all.  That came much later after the cameras were off and mommy wasn’t looking!

Man, sometimes it stinks that they’re getting so big. Alex and Avery show that the front gate is no longer a problem for them.

Alex and Avery test our their new bikes that Great Grandma gave them for Christmas (we waited until spring to open and set them up). They LOVE them by the way!

Alex and Avery show Baby Adam how to eat like big kids on his first day home.