Lily Ann Hester spent 98 days in the hospital’s newborn intensive care unit after being born two months early with a congenital heart defect. During that time, the Hester family became familiar with their daughter’s nurses and doctors and the work of The March of Dimes. The Hesters are Hall County’s March of Dimes Ambassador Family this year at the organization’s annual March for Babies fundraiser happening at Longwood Park at Wilshire Trails in Gainesville on Saturday morning, “We’ve just been so blessed by all the research and medicine and technology that they have today,” said Melissa Hester, Lily’s mother and an art teacher at White Sulfur Elementary School.