Celebrate the Rec Center’s One Year Anniversary January 22

January 18, 2016 by 273 Comments

This Friday, January 22, will mark one year since the opening of the new Agoura Hills Recreation Center up on the hill behind the library. All classes and programs have moved over to the new building. It has been a joy for our family going up there twice a week for most of the year to participate in programs and sports classes.

Look how beautiful.

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The event space is large and looks out over the city. The reception area is spacious and well laid-out. And a new space that opened last year, The Garage, is reserved for teens and pre-teens and gives them a place to hang out after school and play games or just relax.

On Friday there will be a whole schedule of tours and events to celebrate this milestone, capped by a movie night in the event space – showing E.T. and featuring free popcorn and hot chocolate! If you haven’t been up there yet, now is the time to check it out!

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Win Free Sharky’s For a Year!

January 17, 2016 by 13 Comments

To celebrate its new Get It Naked and Power Plates menus, Sharky’s is giving away free food for a year to a lucky Instagram or Facebook user! Enter soon because the contest closes on January 31!

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Take a photo at Sharky’s Woodfired Mexican Grill between January 1, 2016-January 31, 2016 and tag #SharkysShare and @SharkysSocial via Facebook or Instagram for your photograph to be entered into the drawing. Here are the official rules.

The winner will get almost a thousand dollars worth of Sharky’s meal certificates for the year, for Power Plates or Get It Naked menu items. Both are nutritionally sound, lower fat, lower calorie and still highly flavorful meal options and a great way to incorporate healthier options into your lifestyle. Check these nutritional powerhouse items out at www.sharkys.com.

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This Isn’t Your 80’s Carmex

January 13, 2016 by 29 Comments

Remember Carmex, those little pots of medicine-y lip balm that you’d carry around in your backpack in the wintertime when the air was cold and dry, because your sensitive skin made your lips extra susceptible to getting chapped? And the way you got used to that medicine-y smell and taste and started to kind of crave it a little, and feel out of sorts when you realized you left it in your locker or at home?

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Huh. Well, even if you’ve never heard of Carmex before, if you’re a person with lips, you should try it. It’s all modern and fabulous now, coming in tall thin tubes with great decoration on the outside.

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In fact, my kids both really liked the less girly tubes and each one claimed a tube for himself. Both of my boys get pretty chapped lips, so I’m glad.

The flavor has had an update too – it still has that Carmex-y scent, but they’ve added aloe, vitamin E, and shea butter to a soft vanilla flavor. Carmex Moisture Plus also has an SPF of 15. These are available for $2.49 per tube at drugstores.

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I received a glam care package to facilitate this feature. All opinions and obsessive lip balm applications are my own.

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