Stick Fighting is Dangerous

Every Saturday is a practice day from 9 to 11 at the beach. So much fun. Today we also had a barbeque. I'm gonna miss this group of peeps when I have to leave.
Kash is our teacher. He's a badass.

And this is Stacy (Spaztacular), Trish (Munchkin) and her boyfriend, Matt.

I don't have a pic of Daniel, but here's a pic of him holding a praying mantis on the end of his training stick.

New Yarn Equals True Love

I got my yarn! Which means that I've cast on for new projects and left my current projects laying to the side, sobbing softly. I started DD's blanket and I'm doubting that I'm going to have it finished before we have to leave. Especially since I just found out this week that we're leaving by the 21st...... of this month. What is today????? CrAP.
The blanket is turning out beautifully though.

I also cast on for a Blossom Hat from the fall 09 issue of Designer Knitting. It's coming along and it'll look great on my daughter. I was hoping that it would be my hat, but it's looking like it's going to be too small. I tried to start a few mittens, but they were coming out too small so I had to frog them. It's my first try at mittens so I'm trying to get the basic pattern committed to memory. Maybe these can be the projects that I finish on the plane.