After this post, I promise to leave you alone.

Tomorrow I'm heading off on my Alaska mission adventure and so if you want to keep updated, here's how:

my mission email is caitlin.dunlop@myldsmail.net if you want to email me directly (please do)

OR

my mission blog is sisterdunlopalaska.blogspot.com and you can subscribe to it 

with your email or check it every so often to see if I've eaten muktuk or not yet.

That's all. I love you. Bye.

Love, Caitie

It's Not Goodbye, It's See You Later

SATURDAY NIGHT: party and fiesta at my house filled to the brim with desserts. 

And Spike Ball. And tramp jumping. And the Olympics. And humans.

my little baby girls who will be all big and grown up when I come home

SUNDAY MORNING: I spoke in my home ward (which is the greatest ward ever) and then Hannah Jane and my uncle Paul sang/played "Nearer My God to Thee" which made my tear ducts run dry and then Elder Oaks of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles and his wife spoke which was so cool. After church, Elder Oaks and I had a little one on one chat which was super amazing and I feel so lucky. In the words of Abbey, "THE CHURCH IS TRUE FOLKS"

 SUNDAY AFTERNOON: After church on Sunday, my whole family headed over to my house for lunch and games before they all headed back home. Sad and so bittersweet.

*most of* the Jacobsen family

the fam bam

By the time I come home from my mission,
Ashly will be like a real adult and that's insane.
You go girl.

Allie is going to go and be big and great and wonderful in Alabama and I am
so, so, so excited for her and her sweet and loving spirit.
Those southern peeps are the luckiest to have her.
ROLL TIDE

Thank you for believing in me Mama Karli

pike pike pike pike pike @jackiedean

I LOVE THIS SQUAD WITH ALL MY HEART

sQUAD

See you in a little while my nap puddle cousins. I love you.

So, that's it y'all. I will be set apart as a missionary on Monday night and then my family and I will head down to Utah on Tuesday and I'll be dropped off at the MTC at 12:45 on Wednesday afternoon. 

Thanks for reading and laughing and crying and loving with me. 

This is not goodbye, it's see you later. 

Love, Caitie

Always in Paradise

I seriously am the luckiest. I am always in paradise- from JH to Utah State to the cabin to Alaska. Like seriously so, so, so blessed.

This week was our Jacobsen family reunion up at the cabin in Hebgen Lake (outside of West Yellowstone) and it has always been one of my favorite parts of the summer. It was a little bittersweet to know the whole time that it was going to be my last time there for a little while. But the cabin will still be there when I come home from Alaska. Max and I headed up there a few days early to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa and go for a Friday night waterski with the Belfry Jacobsens. 

you fish those fishies Spence

jumping with Johnnie

the always classy John Jacobsen

Friday night ski with bae

Everyone started to show up Sunday evening and Monday morning so it was time to party. Jumping off the pier, slider rides with Grandma Charlotte driving (a scary fun experience), kneeboarding, sunsets, fishing, Harry Potter reading, paddle boarding, canoe flipping, hikes, tie dye shirts, and everything in between. So here's some photo evidence for you:

new boat woo woo

I don't know about your grandma, but mine makes us laugh so hard we stop breathing and drives 50mph while we are on the tube with no mercy. It's great.

the legend

Mama Laura and her "favorite time at the lake"

ADVENTURE SHOES

May May about to drop some sick beats this early cabin morning

photobomb on Lionhead

fambam

classic tradition

@salomon

our pier-amid crumbled

See you later cabin. 

Thank you for the happiest summer memories ever.

Love, Caitie