Prepping for Luke part 1 "Pimping Drew's Room"

In an effort to post something different than just places we go and things we do, I'm starting a "Prepping for Luke" series to highlight some of things we are doing to prepare for the arrival of our second child. For those of you in the know, you already know we have named him Luke Michael Spurlock.

Part of the preparation process has been to close down "Hotel Spurlock" otherwise known as the spare bedroom and move the big bed from there into Drew's room. So, Drew's bedroom got pimped on Thursday...complete with queen bed, reorganized toy shelves and just a general polishing. He is very happy with it mainly because he get s to "snuggle" at night with both Mommy and Daddy for book reading time.

Part 2 of the Prepping for Luke series will be a before section of the spare room, soon to be Luke's room...in the meantime here are some photos of Drew's pimped room...

Space Farm Zoo

In early May as the school year was winding-down, Drew and his Kindergarten class went to a neat place in northern New Jersey called Space Farm Zoo. The zoo started out as a family farm that began as one of the family members bringing home strays and eventually it became a zoo and museum. The museum portion included old farm machinery, antique cars, toys and all sorts of interesting stuff.

The strays being brought home eventually added-up and the pictures below tell the story as to all the things that Drew saw and did there...


Drew's kindergarten class from Trinity Christian School



Mr. Bear...we actually don't need to go to a zoo to see these. we can stay in our house and watch the bears on Picatinny!



Drew's class in the original Deckertown Jail!


This is Mrs. Prohl, Drews Kindergarten teacher after the class escaped and locked-up the teacher!

Drew and his friend Jon-Luke




Some sort of bison-like creature...




This picture really captures Drew in his element! Such a ham having a blast all the time!! That's why we love him so much!!

Hilton Head 2008

We took our family vacation this year as we did last year in the Spring to Hilton Head Island, SC. As we typically do in Hilton Head, we had a BLAST!

We stayed at the Marriott's Surfwatch Resort and loved the resort. I can't really remember all that we did that week since I was so lazy in posting anything since April...I just finished perusing our friends' blogs and felt really lousy. So I'll let the pictures tell the story for me...

Enjoy,
HSHLD 5


This was the view of the rest of the resort from our room





Drew and I built a circular castle and had a "battle with his Army men (look real close). I think the good guys won!


A nice picture of "the man" sitting on the porch of the main building just before our fishing tournament!

This is the winning fish caught by Drew (well, as the war story is told by him). A nice size catfish caught in the lake at our resort. I think Drew was more afraid of the fish than excited that he caught it based off of the look on his face!

Daddy and Drew on the beach

We traditionally go to a restaurant called Hudson's on the Calibogue Sound for dinner when we are at Hilton Head. It's on eof the best places for seafood on the island and has cool fishing boats to explore!

Mommy and Drew flying his Dragon kite on the beach at our resort

One of the days while we were there we took a morning kayak trip on Broad Creek which runs East/West. We didn't see any dolphins but saw plenty of other wildlife such as crabs, egrets and a giant sea ray!

Playing shuffleboard at the resort turned out to be one of Drew'
s favorite things to do! We played more games of shuffleboard than I can count! He got pretty good by weeks end!