Picasso in progress

Jamie seems to love being creative and crafting. He has his own art supply drawer with Julie's scrapbooking stash and he loves to pull out the watercolors. And, as you can tell from these two photos, he is also demonstrating Julie's ambidextrous skills as well.

saying Goodbye to Aunt Claudine

Julie's Aunt Claudine Wood has been quite ill for a few years so it was not unexpected to get the news that she had passed on January 20, 2005. She had lived with Jan (her daughter) in Wisconsin for a while and was, most recently, living in an assisted living home in Amarillo, TX (where other daughter Glenda lives). Everyone returned to Albuquerque for the funeral service and to bury Claudine next to her husband, Julie's Uncle Elmo.

pall bearers were family friend Mike Goodson, grandson Douglass, son-in-law Steve, Ross Cox, nephew Jimmy and son-in-law Joe


Even though Claudine had not lived in Albuquerque for a few years, she still had lots of friends from her church and from the business she owned with Uncle Elmo. Her church provided a nice lunch for friends and family members before the funeral service. The service was held at 2:00pm on Januaury 25th at French's Mortuary with internment at Sunset Memorial Park.


Front row: Jan & Steve Deyoe and Glenda & Joe Hutcherson


Jimmy, Ross & Joyce Cox


Aunt Velma Wood, Joyce Cox & Douglass Toya


Jan Deyoe & Glenda Hutcherson


Jamie & Julie Brooks


Family gathering at Uncle Cliff & Aunt Velma Wood's house.
Front: Crystal Cox
Seated on couch: Jimmy Cox, John & Jean Wood, Cliff Wood
Kneeling behind couch: Joyce Cox, Glenda Hutcherson, Jan Deyoe, Jamie Brooks
Standing: Velma Wood, Jamie Cox (with fiance Brian), Ross Cox, Kathy Cox, Joe Hutcherson, Julie Brooks and Betty Thomas

Crystal, Glenda, Kathy & Joe having fun with Uncle John, seated next to Jimmy

Claudine Wood obituary
Elmo Wood obituary

Let's PLAY!

Jamie & Julie having fun together!


Hide and Seek

Wrestle-mania

Cutie patootie!

Isn't he adorable?

All Aboard!

No doubt about it...Jamie loves trains! He loves to play with his Thomas Wooden Railway trains on the living room floor.



He loves to hook up his Take Along Thomas trains and run them on the kitchen floor, using the stripes in the tile pattern as the "track".



Finally, he loves his Sesame Street Railroad set. It can run on batteries but he much prefers "kid power".

Look what I can do...

Jamie was so excited to show me what he had done...colored his face with a red marker. Good thing little boys can be cleaned!

Happy New Year 2005!!

Bill's best friend, Billy, and his band were playing for the homeless in downtown Albuquerque in a special New Year's Day concert. Bill & Dan (in red), as former members of "New Commandment", were asked to join in and sing old favorites.

Family Photo - 2004

We had this great photo taken last year and then didn't get our Christmas cards mailed.
We're hoping to be more on the ball this year!

Boldly going where I've never been before...

I’m venturing out into new territory and hope that you will take a chance and follow me. I’ve tried doing a web page for family updates and sharing photos but was having trouble with bandwidth limits and other little problems. Enter the web logs (or blogs) that seem to be the “in” thing right now. I’m hoping that this format will be easier for everyone to access as it seems that it will be easier to update, at least once I figure it out. It might not be as fancy as the web page format but I’m hoping that we will be able to share more photos and information with more of our friends and family members. Bookmark this site and check back often!