Pound for Pound Challenge

So I don't know if you guys know this or not,
but I am a huge fan of The Biggest Loser. 

Some of you may have watched BL before 
and some of you have probably not. 
If you have watched you may or may not have heard
about the Pound for Pound Challenge they are doing.

Here are the details:

1 in 6 Americans struggle with hunger.  
For every pound you pledge to lose through 
May 31, 2011, the Pound For Pound Challenge 
will donate 11¢ to Feeding America — enough to 
secure one pound of groceries on behalf of local food banks.

Everyone these days is focusing more an being
healthy and getting to their ideal weight.  Why not help
others at the same time?

I have set up a team for everyone to join.
Go to the Pound for Pound Challenge website and
click Pledge Now.  Then just search for our group
"Merkley Clan" and join! 

Get everyone you know to join our team so
we can lose our way to the top!!  Even if you have
no weight to lose you can pledge to maintain your weight
and Feeding America will donate 55¢ in your honor.

What are you waiting for?!  Get pledging!!

Gettin' ready.

B loves to help me get ready in
the mornings.

She loves to copy mom.

Brushing our teeth.

And brushing our hair.

Did you notice all her toys sitting
in front of her untouched?  She would way
rather play with mom's toys.

Busy body!!

Bridget has always been a very busy girl.
As she is getting older, she is getting busier!!

She doesn't really ever hold still...
And she is a pretty fast learner.

First she learned how to do this:

Which means there is a lot of this going on:

She can also do a little of this:

Which usually leads to this:

And her newest trick:

This baby is turning out to be a lot of work...
Good thing I love her :)

UEA

Remember a long, long time ago when I told you I would
some day tell you all about our fun UEA camping trip?

Well you're in luck!

This was my first real time fishing.

It was wiggling, in my hand!!

My hunky husband taught me all he knows.

I think I did pretty well.

Hehehe.

The babe had a lot of fun too.

She beat up on Kayson a little.

Then he beat her right back.

Then she decided she wanted to try out
this fishing thing.

She loved it.

After fishing we went on a nice little walk.

All that fighting and fishing wore that
little baby out.

When we got back to the camp site B had
to try out her new chair.

We picked this up last second as we were driving out
to Tridell.

The baby just had to have her own chair!

Man, I love camping.

She's on the move.

Ever since little Bridget has been mobile I have
wondered how long it would take her to find
Toby's food dish.

She surprised me..

She found the water dish first...

With her head.

I am glad her first encounter was with the water and
not the food.  Although I am sure it will come
sooner or later..

Yep, it's going to be one of those posts.

Random picture time!!

Enjoy!!

Back in August Kari and I took a ton
of small children to Discovery Gateway.

Wyatt and Bridge found a mouse hole
to watch.

B loved that there were chairs her size.

She also really loves food.
I love when the baby eats her lip.

She loves to grab the camera.  Anything to "help."

She also loves to share.

That is a Fun Dip stick by the way.  For those who were wondering.. :)

Sunny St. George

At the beginning of November the babe and
I traveled down to St. George with Brandee
to cheer on the "other" Merkley girls as they
raced in the Butch Cassidy 10k.

While the girls were running we hiked around
with Aaron, Eliza, and Nora.

Bridge got pretty sleepy.

We had a blast! Thanks for inviting us Merkleys!!

Can't wait to do it again!!