Here's the before......
When I originally painted the stripes this was Cameron's room. The stripes took me forever to paint and I was a little sad to be painting over them already. But, the red, blue and tan didn't really fit for the girls.
I think when Megan offered to help she didn't know what she was getting herself into. Here she is applying the third coat of primer......
All smiles once we actually got to start painting a color.....
Maleah and Rena really wanted to help. They did a great job during their 30 seconds that I let them paint before they started dripping......
After 3 coats of primer and 2 coats of paint we were finally done!Here's the after.....
Megan had the idea for these cute stars. We bought just metal stars and then covered them in different pieces of scrapbook paper. They turned out really cute......
The girls room is done! We also painted Cameron's new room while Megan was here, but that one is still a work-in-progress so it might be a while for pictures! Megan definitely helped to make the painting process of the make-overs more fun......thanks Meg! :)
Megan was nice enough to let Maleah use her laptop so that the girls didn't have to fight over mine -- and actually they don't usually even use mine, but they were searching for books so I gave in.....
I couldn't resist this picture of Maleah with her birthday bear after a busy fun day..... 
We spent some more time at the pool swimming and relaxing.....
Cameron did a lot of relaxing this day taking a little nap.....
We spent some more time at the cul-de-sac......
We took the heavy-duty wagon so that we could take Cameron's skate ramps this time. Rena was giving wagon rides while we were there......
Maleah was taking pictures......
She likes to take "crazy" pictures...... :)
We spent some more time snuggling while watching movies......
Of course, we spent some more time with Jacinda, Gabby and Benjamin.....
One last swim before heading to the airport.....
And, unfortunately, we had to go to the airport......
We had a fun visit with Megan and Alex and can't believe it's over already. They've only been gone a day, but it's definitely time to start planning our next get-together! :)
It was really busy at the cove and we didn't get the best parking spot so by the time we got hungry and were done at the beach the car was parked clear down at the other end of the beach. Soooooo, I walked back, got the car and we ended up eating lunch in the car. Luckily the kids were fine with it.....
After lunch we went to the "Sunny Jim Cave" at the cove. You have to walk down (and then back up) a tunnel with 145 steps to get to the cave.
Headed back up to dry land.....
Because the beach in La Jolla was busy and because I didn't want to carry all of our stuff down to the beach in La Jolla (way too much work!), we headed back towards home and stopped at Ponto Beach in Carlsbad to play in the sand and surf......
Sandcastle building.....
Time to rest.....
Time to play -- the girls (Megan, Rena and Maleah) spent a little bit of time chasing each other with buckets of water.
Rena gets Megan......
Then Megan gets Rena.....
Then Rena gets Megan again.....
Then Megan gets Rena AND Maleah (and Cameron thinks it's funny!).....
Enough with the water fights time to get buried in the sand.......
HELP! Maleah can't get out......
Rena's turn -- LOOK! NO legs!.....
Finally, time to play in the ocean.....
