Happy Birthday to the Sexiest Man Alive! Part II

(This is part II. Read part I above, first.)

You left for college a brilliant and rough-edged farm boy, with a wonderful smile:


And turned yourself into Joe Cool. 70s fashions were so over the top! This is Tom in 1971:


This is Tom in his Rutgers Letter Sweater. You were a walk-on going out for for football, and they put you on the 11th team. So in your sophomore year you dropped football and took up crew--where you made First Boat and wound up NCAA National Champion in 4-Man Heavy Crew.


Then you went to Madison to study accounting and become a Yippie. You always did pull off contradictions so well. I can't find a bearded Yippie picture just now. Darn! You accidently married the wrong woman for a couple of years but became a very successful CPA.

Then, we met and fell in love. But that's all back in my Meet Story.

Sometimes you're kind of goofy:


But you are always the shining sun at the center of my world. Wonderful man, wonderful father, wonderful husband. I love you more every day.

My sweetie, on vacation!
I love you, Tom.