Freedom!!!

These are a few more pictures of Ulysses at Lake Cushman- took me forever to post!

So we backed out of the 'Dream House 2' and that feels great! It's a really nice home and if we were going to buy one, that would definitely meet the criteria. However, Justin and I decided we want to save up some money beforehand. We would like to have 20% (J says so no PMI) but we'll see if we can get there in a year.
Upstate New York is calling our names, well it always is in the plan but we never do it. I think this savings will keep up going through with the plan of a real mini-farm outside of Rochester. I'm excited and I'm not going to look at one more house this year!

Picnic at Lake Cushman

About 40 miles north from Olympia is Lake Cushman. It is so pretty. Yesterday we packed a picnic and brought the dog. It was the first time Ulysses went 'swimming'. This was just him splashing around, slapping the little waves and then full force jumping in a little deeper and swimming back! It was really cute.

The trail of mystery!! We only saw two chipmunks but we made big plans on how we'd escape a bear attack!

The view looking up.

I wish I had more than just my camera phone with me. The blue of the water is remarkable.

I don't know what to say about this one, running out of adjectives! This was a really great time, hopefully I'll post more pictures. Justin has the dog in the water pictures on his phone. I was in the water with the dog on leash!