love thursday: tivy fight

Two weekends ago, J and I hopped in the car and headed down to Kerrville. As previously mentioned on this blog, my mom’s parents, her sister and brother-in-law, and their two sons live there, and we like to go visit them every few months. Since it was an autumn Friday night in Texas, however, we drove to San Antonio for that most iconic of celebrations: a high school football game.

We arrived in Schertz, Texas (northeast San Antonio) just before sunset. The teams were getting ready – ours was clad in blue, white and gold.

My cousin Andy, despite having separated one shoulder and broken the other arm earlier this season, was back on the field. And was it exciting! He had three catches, and the Kerrville Tivy Antlers (yes, I know – what a mascot) won 38-34 over the Cibolo Steele Knights. (You can see Andy below, the gold helmet on the field between #32 and #52.)

Man, I love high school football. There’s truly nothing like it. All of us, even my grandparents, spent the entire fourth quarter standing on the bleachers, yelling and clapping and screaming the team slogan, “Tivy Fight Never Dies! Tivy Fight Never Dies!”

Jeremiah (decked out in Tivy blue) won a football when the cheerleaders tossed them into the stands.

And here are Neno and me, just before that evening of raucous cheering. It was chilly, and I drank two cups of hot chocolate from the concession stand, and was glad for my jacket, hat and fingerless gloves. But oh, it was so fun.

We spent the rest of the weekend eating, reading, cooking, talking and eating some more at Neno and Pop’s. It was fabulous. And we’re crossing our fingers for the Antlers to go deep in the playoffs. Tivy Fight Never Dies!

Happy Love Thursday, all. Please visit Karen’s blog for links to more images and stories of love.

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