Pumpkins and apples

 I am catching up on some more fall activities.  We had our annual  

Pizza @the Perry Park and Picking Pumpkins @ Pettingills Party. 

Every fall all of the Jenkins women and grandkids meet up at a park in Perry and My Mom treats us to hot chocolate, pizza, and my grandma Dixie brings dessert.  After the kids eat and play for a while, we go to Pettingills on the highway and my Mom gets the kids pumpkins. We had to install a rule last year where the kids have to be able to carry their pumpkin that they pick out.  Otherwise we just had kids pointing the the biggest one and asking me to carry it.

 Abigail took this very seriously and took FOREVER to pick out the perfect one

 Hailey's at this great stage where she pulls her hair out every time we get in the car

 Luke also took quite a while before finding his

 Hayes and little Ems

 All the kids

 Kael's out of here

This is only a small amount of the apples picked this year, but these are the ones the kids helped with

 Next up was picking apples.  My Aunt Becky and Uncle Scott have two apple trees.  They don't need them every year, so they let us have them this year.  My kids are always trying to devise plans to earn some money, so I told them to come and pick apples.  Shannon and Beau came with us, and these three kids were apple picking champs!

At first I told them they could earn 3 dollars per bucket, but I quickly realized Abigail was going to clean me out.  So I adjusted the pay scale a bit :)  

Later, all of us women (Jess, Shelley, Shan, Mom, Me, Ab, and Car) made applesauce.  Abigail and Carly were excited to be able to help this year, in the past I've just made them watch.  We made a ridiculous amount of applesauce.  Then I brought more apples home and made more by myself (which isn't nearly as fun).  Needless to say I'm sick of apples for a couple of years.  I'm just glad that my kids like un-sweetend homemade applesauce better than store bought.