Jumping in feet first... and over the cliff

Hello all, Katie here.

To give a little more background information, I learned to crochet roughly 2 months ago, thanks to J's wonderful instruction after seeing her do a few projects. I jumped in feet first, by every meaning of the phrase, and started out with a sweater roughly sized for a 12 month old. (I should also clarify, I tend to this in almost every project I do, sometimes to much dismay from both J, and my husband, Carl). 

After successfully completing several projects that were small, and pretty simple, I got progressively more brave in my attempts and convinced myself I wanted to crochet a blanket. But instead of being smart and crocheting something small, I decided I was going to potentially kill myself with a 5 ft. x 6 ft. (plus a little extra) quilt like blanket.

I've made pretty good progress on it, considering I've spent roughly 2 weeks of time and energy, and have maybe a third of it. It's quite a simple little pattern, located here: 
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sunny-spread 

It's wonderfully beautiful, and I'll be very happy when I complete it, but here's where I stand:

I need 120 "squares", and am fully completed with roughly 38, so I've made a good dent, but I have a long way to go.

Each square appears like this:

And here's my ever growing stack of "squares":

(You'll notice almost all of these do not have their white borders around them yet, so they aren't technically squares).

As with most projects I attempt, I am usually very optimistic at how quickly I will complete said project, but usually life gets in the way and the project takes two or sometimes three times longer than I had originally planned. But I will keep updating as this project progresses and be updating regarding many other wonderful art related things I create (as I'm sure J will as well).


Also, feel free to check out my ravelry page to see new projects I'm working on, as well as previous projects I've finished: http://www.ravelry.com/people/twoofakind