Something a little more cheerful

Thought it was time for a more cheery update from the Lester house. Here are some random pictures from the last month.

Theses are the "wedding" dresses Nate brought back from Guatemala for the girls. They twirled and twirled, and Emma even set it out with tights and shoes to wear the next day. They've enjoyed dressing up, and they look beautiful! {if I do say so myself}

This was a day in February while Nate was gone. Sam was just getting better from "not pneumonia." It was actully nice enough to be outside. We enjoyed the sunshine that day.

Grandma, this one's for you. For the Cubscout Blue & Gold Banquet this year our ward was in charge of the food. I really couldn't stomach the thought of serving store-bought apple pie, so I volunteered to make pie for 100 people. Lara said she would help. Then Dana said she would help if she only knew how to make pie. And then this "fantastic" idea popped into my head. I thought...what a great idea for an enrichment activity for Relief Society. We get together, learn to make a pie, and then serve them all to the cubscouts. So we did that. We had nine of us around my kitchen table trying to piece together crumbly pie dough. {I still need to work on that a lot.} Taking suggestions now. So, it really was fun, and in two hours we had 6 pies. And it was really good!!!

And March would not be March without wrestling mania. It is all that we do in March. They eat, sleep, and breathe wrestling. Sam and Clay are really pretty good. Sam turned it on a couple of years ago, and has done pretty well until this year. Clay, not so much, but this year he is really coming into his own. He's not coordinated, and is a little clumsy, but he's strong and he's smart. We started out pretty slow with all the sickness going around, and we've had to miss quite a bit this year. These are pictures from one of the meets. Clay only wrestled once before he decided he'd rather be at Reid's birthday party. Sam lost, won, and then lost to Malek, his team-mate. They are pretty good for each other. They take turns winning. Malek won this one, and then Sam beat him last week. They were both really good matches. This weekend we went to Laramie for the WAWA State Little League Finals. They both lost all their matches. Sam's first match was against the winner of Reno and Denver, so he really didn't have a chance. On his second match he was too distracted and not in the right frame of mind. He gets a little freaked out by the enormity of the venue and the level of competition. He could have done better, but it was a great learning experience for him. Clay could have wrestled in a lower weight class if we just would have cut his hair. He was barely over, and had to wrestle some bigger kids. He, too, was distracted and spent more time playing with his headgear. He did some good things, but like Sam, just wasn't at his best. They had just both won 1st place at a different match on Thursday night, and I was hoping that would give them some confidence. They had been aggressive and smart and both of them had done really well!!! And Clay was the happiest boy you'd ever see. He was so proud of that medal. It was fun.

And look, Spring is really here. {although you wouldn't know it for the snow storm we had last night} I planted crocuses, tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths in front of my house last fall. They are coming out in full force. I hope they will blossom and not get trampled or eatten by deer!!!