State Champion Parade

On Saturday our community celebrated the State Championship all together at a little parade in the town square. I knew it was going to be great, but had no clue how special it would be... or how weepy I would get. :) It was a great way to wrap this all up though... The Championship game was on Friday Dec 16th. Because it was in Cowboys' stadium with a game immediately after ours we never really got to celebrate as a community. Then it was Christmas holidays.... So, this was so nice to all join together one last time (tears) to rejoice and share the amazing gift of this season. Over the siren/speaker, the sheriff's deputy announced: "THE 2011 STATE CHAMPIONS, THE MIGHTY WIMBERLEY TEXANS!!!"

The band remains one of our favorite parts of this whole experience. I already miss them. They were top notch and Joshua still runs around the house yelling, "HIGH SCHOOL BAND!"

Here's Coach Nelms in a convertible corvette. Very cool. And also very funny. He looked a little out of place. I was relieved when he actually made a joke about it later and admitted how funny it was for "this old country boy to be riding in a corvette". By the way - he was the epitome of humility. His wore his heart on his sleeve when he spoke, unashamed to let the tears flow about what this had meant to him. He gave credit for the championship to his coaching staff, the community, and to the hard work of the team.

Here's #79 waving like a maniac to Joshua. That's his buddy and running back Dennis Smith next to him.

Here's our Mayor congratulating the team and introducing others...January the 7th was declared Wimberley Texan Day. We had a couple of county commissioners present, the entire school board, principal, superintendent, and our State Rep Jason Isaac. Mr. Isaac presented Coach Nelms with the flag that flew over the State Capital the day of the game.

Here's the big trophy... notice that the UIL misspelled Wimberley. :D

Here's Tay and good buddy Nico Alana. Arguably one of the best middle linebackers in the state.

Tay and the Lambert boys Brady (qb) and his little brother West that got moved up to varsity for the playoffs and was the leading tackler for special teams (he's only a freshman).

Now... these last 5 pics are my very heart.

I should turn this one into a postcard that says... "Welcome to Wimberley, where the beauty of the Texas hill country abounds, championships are won, and the 5 most beautiful children in the world reside"... It's not a bad idea.