MyCouportiera Pre Baby Shower Giveaway

Mrs. MyCouportiera is expecting a baby girl in October. To celebrate, MyCouportiera is throwing a Virtual Baby Shower on 9/8 from 11 am to 11 pm ET. Mark your calendar and join us for 12 hours of AWESOME giveaways, games, and instant win prizes!

Take a peek at the great sponsors she has secured so far.

-Nuby USA

-Daddy Scrubs

-Fisher Price

-Action Baby Carriers

-Baby Magic

-Overstock.com

-Avent

-GreenPea Baby

-The Juppy

-Baby K'Tan

And more to come.

Redbox Summer Family Fun Sweepstakes & $125 DVD Prize Pack Giveaway

Have your entered the Redbox Summer Family Fun Sweepstakes? You could win an all expense paid 8-day, 7-night trip of 4 to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida! You could also win a home entertainment system consisting of an Insignia 42” 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV, a Sony Blu-ray Disc Player, LG 1000-Watt 5.1 Channel 3D Home Theatre System, and a XBOX 360 4GB Kinect Bundle; or a $100 gift card to the Space Store (www.thespacestore.com)!

Two ways to enter:

1. Rent a qualifying item from a Redbox kiosk and provide your email address;
Qualifying Items include:
• Shandar the Shrunken City
• Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (Warner)
• New Super Mario Bros. (Wii)
• Mario and Sonic: London Games
• Sonic & Sega All Star Racing (Wii)
• Disney Universe (X360)
• Club Penguin (Wii)
• Animals United
• Big Miracle
• Freddy Frogface
• Scout Camp
• Smitty
• The Adventures of Chris Fable
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• Donkey X
• Epic Mickey (Wii)
• Amazing Spiderman (x360, Wii)
• Radio Rebel
• Kiara the Brave
• Space Dogs
• Life's a Jungle
• Dino Dan: Dino Trackers - Ready Set Dino
• Cinnamon
• Flicka 3: Country Pride
• We Bought a Zoo (DVD & BLU-RAY)
• Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2
• Tooth Fairy 2
• Seeker & Fetch
• Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
• HOP (DVD & BLU-RAY)
• Alvin and The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (DVD & BLU-RAY)
• The Adventures of Tin-Tin (DVD & BLU-RAY)
• Sea Level
• Hugo (DVD & BLU-RAY)
• Puss In Boots (DVD & BLU-RAY)
• Happy Feet 2
• Dolphin Tale (DVD & BLU-RAY)
• Mr. Popper's Penguins (DVD & BLU-RAY)
• Treasure Buddies
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Spy Kids 4 (DVD & BLU-RAY)
• Cars 2
• Judy Moody and The Not Bummer Summer
• Rango
2. Enter without renting by filling out this online entry form.

Deadline for entry is August 26 at 11:59 CT.  US only. Limit 5 entries per person per email address.

The Giveaway

In addition to the sweepstakes, Redbox has generously offered to give away a Summer Family Fun DVD Prize Pack valued over $125. It includes 7 family friendly movies on DVD, all of which are on the list of qualifying titles for the sweepstakes.

Please use the Rafflecopter form below to submit your entries. A few things to note:

*You must enable JavaScript to see the widget and it may load a bit slower than the rest of the webpage. Thank you for your patience!

*Please make sure you fill in the "Extra info" field in the form as instructed. I moderate all entries and only valid ones will count in the drawing.

* Comments are for feedbacks, questions, etc. but NOT for entries unless otherwise indicated. Thank you for following the rules and making things easier for all of us!

Earn Unlimited Free Movie Rentals from Redbox Lucky to Have Friends Like You!

Redbox is known for $1 a night movie rentals. But what's even better? Unlimited FREE movie rentals! Redbox just kicked off a new promotion called Lucky to Have Friends Like You, which offers everyone the opportunity to score as many free one night movie rentals as they can from now through St. Patrick's Day (March 17th).

Here's how it works:

1. Sign-up at www.redbox.com/luckyus. The free online account allows you to see movies that are currently in redbox kiosks near you and reserve your picks before you get there.
2. Redbox will email you a unique web address that you can share with your friends.
3. Every time someone reserves a movie online through your unique web address, you’ll receive a free one-night DVD rental credit. 
Rental credits are valid for ten days after they’ve been deposited into your account.
4. If it is their first time reserving online, they’ll also receive a free one night rental credit.
5. Obviously you can't earn free movie rentals without the help of your friends. So put your social network to work. Share your custom link via email, Facebook, Twitter, blog, and whichever way you can think of!

Spread the word and you'll start rolling in free movies this March. Hope you'll enjoy a post-Oscar movie marathon with family and friends at no cost to you. Good luck!

Disclosure: I was compensated for my time by Redbox through Global Influence.

Nanny McPhee Returns DVD Review #CouchCritics

Last week, Collective Bias offered me the opportunity to review Nanny McPhee Returns on DVD. It looks like an interesting movie, which we hadn't seen in theater, so I gladly accepted this offer. I rent the DVD from Redbox with a free one-night rental coupon, watched it together with my family, and tried two new dishes from Marie Callender's. I also bought 2 Cokes from Murphy USA for $2.22 and made a couple coke floats. We had an awesome movie night at home, thanks to Collective Bias.

Starring veteran Oscar winners Emma Thompson & Maggie Smith, Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal, and a bunch of cute child actors, Nanny McPhee Returns tells a story about how Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) came to the rescue of Isabella (Maggie Gyllenhaal), whose husband is away at war, whose children are driving her crazy, and whose brother-in-law is trying to steal the family farm to pay off his gambling debts. With the help of magic, Nanny McPhee teaches Isabella's 3 kids and their 2 spoiled cousins five important lessons: to stop fighting, to share, to work together, to be brave and to have faith. She and the kids also succeeded in saving the farm from their uncle.

Nanny McPhee doesn't appear to be a likeable character at first. Her ugly face makes it hard to believe the role is played by Emma Thompson, who often impresses me with her graceful, warm smile. But as the story evolves, Nanny McPhee turns out to be very kind, loving, and powerful!

There are quite a few funny scenes in the movie that stick in my mind. The two that are particularly worth mentioning are: piglets dancing water ballet in sync (parody of Bathing Beauty 1944) and Nanny McPhee driving her motorcycle around London. You've got to watch these! We couldn't stop laughing at those scenes and even replayed the piggy scene twice. The movie includes a lot of animal magic, which makes my son very excited.

Overall, I think this movie is a great choice for a family movie night. It's entertaining and educational. I'm deeply impressed with the performances of the child actors and actresses. They've got talent! The country scenery was fabulous! Although I have to admit that things are too slow-paced at a few places in the movie and it's a bit too long for a young toddler, we truly enjoyed watching the movie and would recommend it to anyone who wants a good laugh.

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Disclosure: I was compensated for my time by Collective Bias. Thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

Free Redbox Rental Code for Facebook Fans

Redbox is giving away free one-night rental codes to their Facebook fans. To take advantage of this great offer, just click on the picture above and "like" Redbox's Facebook page if you haven't already done so. Please note that the code is to be used on June 21 only. Enjoy!