The Lillywhites Blog (Cody and Kiara)

Smaugust Cody did a month of sketching, painting, and making graphics of dragons to celebrate Smaugust. Great Cycle Challenge The Great Cycle challenge happens every year in September and this year Spence is partisipating. Please come be a part of this effort with me! Crocheted blankets Kiara has been making blankets for family members for Christmas this year! They look incredible! It is a ton of work and I am very proud of her work. Eyeball hats You see some strange things on social media. Here is a fun and silly creation Kiara Crocheted. Feeding the missionary zone Kiara loves baking but this was a serious challenge. SHe made more than 80 bundt cakes for these missionaries. They best be grateful. Toastmasters Cody got an award for his second toastmasters speech. Of course, he was the only one who didnt get disqualified and that means he got first but thats beside the point. Kiara is starting school again with the intent to become a Nurse or hygeniest....

Kiara finished her crochete for her father. Kiara got me a 3D printer which I had been wanting. I plan to make baskets, measuring, cups, DnD figures, and whatever other useful things I can find. Let me know in the comments if you have any ideas for 3D prints. I am doing a coding bootcamp called Nucamp to learn and create projects using React, JSNode, MongoDB, and other technologies starting Sepember 22nd. We had the fourth of July with the Bettenhausens. Of course, as always we have lots of pictures with Spence and his antics so enjoy!

Sundy, Scott, Kiara and I have started playing Betrayal at house on the hill Legacy edition. This means that the game builds on itself every time you play. It has been a little nuts because it really throws a wrench at us every game with unexpected shifts in the gameplay. Thats part of what makes it really fun though. Kiara and I now are each others teachers and students. She teaches me Violin and I teach her programming with Python. We do this because we both are paid to teach and want to help each other get feedback on how to improve the way we teach. It also helps us relate and understand each others struggles and passions. The Renaissance Festival is a fantastic event that I went to many times in Texas. You go back to the mideval days with all its singing, performance, and blacksmithing glory. Now, I have found one in Kentucky! In my opinion it is one of the best events you can go to but Kiara my suggest One Republic concerts would beat it. We will agree to disagree. Anyways, w...

The 17th of April marks Kiara and my aniversary. We had to celebrate early due to her and her family taking Katia, her sister, to school at BYUI. We went to Texas roadhouse and discussed what we learned over these three years and the fun times we had at BYU-I. Kiara and her parents also got to visit some grandparents and relatives while they went off to bring Katia to BYU-I. I also started another semester while they were out. I most excited about my small business creation and world religions classes. I will be finishing school sometime near the end of next year. We played a new game called Planet. I am thinking of transferring schools. In any case here are the pictures over the past few months. Biking along Floyds park Traveling in the wilderness for general conference Hot dogs are fake, instead, eat the tuna dog! Biking to the nearby creek To the Golf club we bike! Traveling to drop off Katia May day

 The most notable things that happened this week were going on a 5k, watching Izzie, playing games, and Spence learning to say new things. 5k: This time we went to Pope lick park for a change in scenery. I didnt go especially fast but I had the privledge to have Spence along with me. We went to the soccer fields and I let him get out and walk around the soccer fields as I attempted to explain what soccer is. He enjoyed saying hi to the people we passed and playing on the playground. Kiara pushed Izzie this time. We learned a new game called Rise of Tribes. It has some aggression in it so not everyone liked it but it was a great chance to experience something new. If you are interested in board games you may recognize the other games we played: 7 wonders and trains. A great lds game is search ponder and pray. Spence learned to count to 3 (skipping one to my dismay). He also learned cilantro which sounds more like sancho but that still progress right? (Again not the kind of thing you...

 We finished tidying up the kon-mari way just a week ago. I ran 20 miles. My car started having issues starting up so I took it in to Meineke and had the battery checked and replaced. Kiara made bundt cakes and delivered the missionaries and some of the workers at Speedway (where her family will get drinks from throughout the day). Here is some of my work on the family tree boards, Kiara's crocheting, and the replacement designed mugs:  Kiara's blanket she made Cody's Family Tree head Kiara's family Tree Head Cody Mug Design's What are some of your hobbies and when did you fall in love with them?

Hello again everyone and a late greetings to 2021. Despite the troubles of last year we plan to make it the best year for our family yet! Here are some memorable things since the last post. Enjoy! New years goals: Kiara - Finish 6 crochet projects Cody - Complete 12 programming projects and run a marathon Spence - Learn to go potty on the toilet Christmas in Texas   We played D&D with my dad, put together a trampoline, played love letters, played racketball with my dad, and went to Space center Houston. Unfortunately we were not able to make the trip to see my cousins in Arizona but we still had a lot of fun! We will have to go there later. We got plenty of wonderful gifts. We was definitely spoiled with our new cowboy clothes and D&D books. We were blessed enough to see Conrad as well who allowed us to binge watch the Mandalorian. Christmas in Kentucky Wait I thought we just had Christmas?! Well... now we had Christmas in January. What a blast! With Katia back home we watc...