Love Like Liam

09/14/2025

Forever grateful for the Carson Strong Foundation and the Gift of Time Together program! We were able to spend a lovely vacation at Myrtle Beach as a family and get pictures taken on the beach. We will cherish the memories and the pictures forever 💚💚

This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we pause to remember the children whose lives were far too short but whose spirits left a lasting mark on all of us.

Through the CarsonStrong Foundation and our Gift of Time Together program, we honor these families, celebrate the moments shared, and carry forward the love, courage, and joy each child brought into the world. Their memory inspires everything we do, reminding us to cherish every moment and continue supporting families facing unimaginable challenges.

09/14/2025

9/14/2025

It's been one week since Liam's Memorial golf outing.

We are so grateful for all of you who came out and spent the day with us! It was an absolutely beautiful day and we could definitely feel Liam there with us!

I want to give special recognition to Mike Scheck and Thomas Kemp for all of their hard work! Without them we never would have been able to make this event a success!

We can't wait to do it again next year and spread Liam's love to another family!

09/07/2025

9/7/2025

Today is the day!

We are so overjoyed by love and support that is pouring in!

We can definitely feel Liam here with us today 💚💚

Zoey and I are getting ready to hit the first ball! 🏌🏼‍♀️⛳

09/06/2025

9/6/2025

Hi friends!

We hope you are all doing well. We have been trying our best to get through the last couple of weeks. This time of year is really hard for us. It's full of lots of memories of firsts and lasts with Liam.

All within a matter of 19 days we have Liam's diagnosis day, his first surgery day, his birthday, and his first day of chemo and port placement day. There's also a lot of other trauma that has happened over the years during this time also. Like last year just a few days after his birthday we almost lost him that day due to a reaction to blood products and fluid backing up into his lungs. That was probably the scariest day of my life.

Fall was also Liam's favorite time of year. He loved pumpkins, apples, leaves and Halloween. He took Halloween very seriously!

It's just a hard time but also a beautiful time to remember our sweet boy. Tomorrow will be a big day honoring him! I'm nervous to do this without him but excited to see so much love pour out for him in one place. If you haven't already signed up but don't have anything to do tomorrow you can still sign up in person. We have plenty of room for you. I know Liam will be smiling down on us as we are out there trying our best to be as good of golfers as he was!

We hope you all have a safe and fun weekend. Hug the ones you love and remember to spread awareness for Childhood Cancer this month!

08/15/2025

8/14/2025

Hi friends!

Tomorrow would have been Liam's 8th birthday. We know that he would have loved seeing everyone in his Liam merch!

If you have Liam merch please wear it tomorrow if you are able to honor Liam and bring awareness to Childhood Cancer!

We hope you all are well!

-The Whitworths

08/14/2025

8/14/2025

It's almost time friends!!

Please please please sign up! We want to meet you in person and spend a day remembering Liam!!!

08/04/2025

8/4/2025

Three whole months without our sweet boy Earth side! We miss him so incredibly much but we see him walking by us through everything we do. We've continued to try and do his favorite things to make us still feel close to him.

As many of you know one of his favorite things was golfing. Which, is why we have set up his annual golf outing to spend a day doing one of his favorite things and remembering him!

It would mean so much to us as a family for you to join us playing golf to remember Liam!

We still have a few more weeks to add teams! We hope to see you there and to meet some of you in person! 💚

08/01/2025

8/1/2025

With August comes 3 months since Liam passed, his 8th birthday, and our first ever Childhood Cancer Awareness Month merch!

So many emotions rolled into one. I can't believe the summer is almost over. I'm not sure how 3 months have gone by since Liam went to Heaven. It just seems so unreal.

One of his biggest asks before he passed was to continue helping people. We are happy to honor that wish by raising money for research purposes and donating it to Akron Children's Hospital Showers Family Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders.

After Liam passed we donated King Rhabdo to research. It was important to us that something good came from this. Research is the only thing that is going to help save more children in the future!

Designing these new shirts was not easy. They are the first ones we created without Liam signing off on all the designs. I hope he is proud!

Shirt one is his official Love Like Liam logo. This shirt features Liam's actual handprint and his signature from the last time he ever wrote his name! This is a very special design to us!

Shirt two is our Childhood Cancer Awareness Month shirt! All the profit from this shirt in all sizes and styles will be donated to the Showers Family Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders.

You can find both of these designs in a number of different sizes and styles! Liam was a man of the people 😂 so we wanted to make sure that everyone could get what they asked for in our previous post!

You can also find all of his other merch still available for purchase!

We can't wait to see what you all think and to see everyone bringing awareness to Childhood Cancer not just in the month of September but every day!

Online ordering for LOVE LIKE LIAM 2025

07/13/2025

7/12/2025

Tonight we stepped out of our comfort zone and made a last minute decision to hop in the car and go to a Akron RubberDucks game. They had a fun Christmas in July t-shirt giveaway and we wanted to get out of the house. Also, Johnny Elote's corn for dinner? Yes please!

I knew that we were going to have to rip the band-aid off eventually.

The Rubber Ducks were one of Liam's FAVORITE past times. He loved to go watch a game, eat some corn, and take it all in. Oh and of course run the bases when it was kids night or you know be on their radio with Marco, in the locker room with all the players, or watch the indoor batting cages as they warmed up for a game. To say they spoiled him is an understatement. The Rubber Ducks staff and players will always hold such a special place in our hearts.

It was nice to feel at home. To feel like a human again. To feel like a family out in public living life. But, to be honest there definitely was a void.

We walked up to the Johnny Elote's booth and put our order in and it just felt wrong not ordering his corn OFF the cob butter and salt only. Man did I almost lose it.

Then we started walking away and this amazingly kind elderly lady walked up and started talking to Zoey. She had a CAT shirt on! I know Liam sent her. I had a feeling and I should have asked her for a picture. She was so very sweet.

Then we went to order drinks and I didn't have to fill up his duck cup (if you've been to a Rubber Ducks game you know the cup).

We went and sat in our seats and ate our dinner. Then the youth baseball teams started to walk around the field and I lost it. The last time Liam got to walk that same path was during the Akron Children's Cancer Awareness Game last August when Levi's Legion won the jersey decorating contest. We had gotten a day pass for both Liam and Levi to go to the game because they were admitted at the time. The rest of that month both boys went through some of the hardest things during their whole journey.

Unfortunately, we left before the game even started. BUT, I think we made good progress. This is one of the first times we've really gone out as a family and done one of Liam's favorite things without him. I know it's all about baby steps. I know he was with us. No matter how hard it was it still feels like a small weight has lifted off our shoulders.

Go Ducks!

07/10/2025

7/10/2025

Hey friends!

We hope your summer is going well!

We will be creating t-shirts for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month which is in September! 🎗️

It was very important to Liam that we continue to spread awareness about Childhood Cancer and help other kids so that they didn't have to have cancer like her did. And while we may not be able to stop Childhood Cancer we can definitely bring more awareness to these little fighters who only get 4% of government funding across ALL types of childhood cancer.

I wanted to see what kind of shirt you would potentially be interested in!

Let me know below if any of these peak your interest!

🎗️ Women's V-neck

🎗️ Traditional T-shirt

🎗️ Dry-fit T-Shirt (similar to the green camo we've done)

🎗️ Long Sleeve T-Shirt

🎗️ Crew Neck Sweat Shirt

🎗️ Any other suggestions!

07/02/2025

July 1, 2025

July is Sarcoma awareness month!

Hugs to all of our fellow sarcoma fighters both big and small!

06/05/2025

6/4/2025

1 month of Liam being free of King Rhabdo and enjoying Heaven.

Today was hard.

It seems like just yesterday, a lifetime ago and that this is all just a bad dream. It's hard to process reality some times.

The saying: seconds turn into minutes, minutes into hours, hours into weeks and weeks into months, holds so much of a different meaning now. It feels more like our reality in a weird way. Just us drifting in time.

I do find some comfort in knowing he is pain free and that he's watching over us. I never knew how much I believed in your loved ones showing you they are still around. Man, once you experience it, there's nothing like it. He's here. He's watching. He's smiling down on us.

I want to thank everyone so much for the support you've shown us. The messages, cards, kind words, flowers, gifts and food have all been so very much appreciated. I know there are so many of you who have reached out and I haven't gotten back to you yet. Please know I see your messages and I appreciate them. It's just hard for me to get around to responding right now. 💚

We hope you all are well and you are continuing to Love Like Liam 💚