Tom (not Thomas, not Tommy) JUST Tom.

Here is the other 1/2 of our 17 year olds. TOM..

Who used to be Tommy when he was small

and only allows 1 person to this day to still

call him Tommy. Since he is also over 5'10

now, none of us challenge what he prefers to

be called. Tom is a SENIOR this year!!

For Tom's portion of this blog I searched
for photos of him smiling because as much
as Mike is goofy, Tom is SERIOUS. It's a nice balance, however when we do get comedy out of Tom, it's GREAT! I always prefer to see the smile.

Tom is FANTASTIC at this game, his fingers
FLY over the guitar. We try to play along
with Rock Band and usually end up messing
up the whole "gig".

I have raised my boys properly and they too are
Suns fans! Tom got this hat one year for
Christmas, and YES he is wearing shorts on Christmas day. As a matter of fact Tom wears shorts 365 days a year. I am pretty sure the one pair of pants he owns he wears only on welding day (because it's mandatory).

Here is another Christmas picture

clothed in our shorts again. It's what we do!

Like his brothers Tom wears the clothes that are in

style. He takes really good care of his clothes and wears
most things till they are worthy of only being rags.


This is not a forced smile, Tom is one of 3 kids
out of the 6 that needed braces. I MADE him
let me take a picture with his braces showing. He was
thrilled to do it (surely not). But like his brothers
he lets me take the pictures because he knows it's
important to me, SUCH GOOD GUYS!

Here is Tom's picture of "what broke".
He was playing basketball when the injury took place.
Broke a bone in his foot and wore this thing for what
seemed like FOREVER! Only the bravest (or least smartest)
folks would get near that thing when it was off (phew). But he is all healed up now, and it hasn't changed his desire to play ball. (Thank goodness)