Sassy Pants Shinsel

Mama Shinsel commonly refers to her three younger boys as sassy pants Shinsel. Today I asked Sydney to go do something and without even a pause she said, "If you give me five dollars." - She wasn't being rude; she said it very matter of factly and was serious. I have no idea where she learned that, I know I didn't teach her that so perhaps Mama Shinsel is right. Sydney got the sassy pants Shinsel gene from her daddy. :)

Southeast Alaska State Fair

We flew over to Haines for the day last Friday and checked out the southeast Alaska State Fair. The kids had a ton of fun. Sydney got to ride her first Ferris Wheel and Wynn his first carousel. Sydney was laughing hysterically on the carousel for some reason this time, and Wynn liked it until about halfway through when he wanted down... that wasn't so fun to handle a wriggling boy one a spinning ride. Apparently Wynn doesn't like animals that are bigger than him since he said no to getting close to all the goats, alpacas, and miniature ponies, but Sydney enjoyed feeding them and holding some bunnies. We had a fun time and then walked around Haines for a bit after before we flew back home. We hope to go back to Haines probably next summer and rent a car for a day to explore its "out the road" adventures since the town is just that, a town.