The Bottjens

Our fave months have passed and we are saying goodbye to 2024! Averi cheered at her final football game which was so very bittersweet. She ended her 1st semester with all A’s and headed into her LAST semester at Southside. These lasts are so much more painful than I thought they would be!!! She did get going with her cheer comp season though! They did great at all of their comps leading up to state where they won runnerup! WOOT! That means they are headed back to Nationals in ORLANDO! SO excited! Sydni wrapped up her 1st semester of soph year at UofA with great grades!! We are so incredibly proud of how hard she worked this semester!!! Now she is gearing up for the spring!

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Lots of pics to share this time of my senior! Football season is almost officially over… it just doesn’t even seem real how fast life has gone. Homecoming pics are in this post too. I loved seeing Averi and her friends all dressed up! Her hoco night fell on the same weekend as Lucas’ but they couldn’t attend each other’s dances… so they just did pics and dinner. The fun parts!

Sydni is doing so well in Fay! She is loving her townhouse and having the best time with her friends! Hopefully school is mixed in there as well 🙂 She got a job this year too that she really likes! Looking forward to the holidays with our whole fam together again.

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Our summer came to an end and it was a busy couple months!! Averi started all of the senior things… cheer pics, parking spot painting, senior sunrise, pep rallies, etc… SO FUN! Shes also had her first football game of the year vs NHS!! We WON …AGAIN! So that was super exciting while bittersweet because cheering Lucas and the Grizzlies is also fun! Sydni moved back to Fayetteville and into a townhouse with some of her sorority sisters. Her place is beautiful and right by campus! She had work week for rush then of course rush itself… it was a very busy week for her but she had a ball. School started for both girls right after that 🙂 SO excited for this 2024-25 year <3 oh and Jim and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniv! We managed to fit in a date night amid all the fun!

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Well in May the girls wrapped up their school years! Sydni moved back home for the summer so its nice to have one more summer with her <3 Averi had comp team tryouts and cheer camp and finally had her ring ceremony for their National Championship! SO COOL!! I hate that I missed it but I got to go to Vegas for the Workday DevCon convention. It was so interesting and I met so many very smart people!!! I learned so much! Jim and I went to Crystal beach while the girls stayed home but Ave did get to go with Lucas and his fam to San Antonio. But we are looking forward to our upcoming 2024 cruise!!!!

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