Sky Top Orchard

I've been hearing about Sky Top Orchard for several years now.  I would see pictures of my friends taking their kids and think to myself that we need to do that, but every year somehow we've managed to let the apple picking season pass us by before we made it up there.  

This year I was determined to make it happen.  Sky Top is about 45 minutes from our house so last Saturday morning we got in the car about 8:30 so that we would be there shortly after it opened.  We spent the morning there and made it home just in time for lunch.  We had such a fun time!!

They have this cute wooden tree that you can take pictures in front of and measure how much the kids have grown each year.  I accidentally cut of the top of it, but you get the idea.  

Last Saturday (the day we went to the orchard) was the first day we had had of cooler temps.  I thought it was the perfect weather for our little fall outing.  

Bert's top hand marks how tall Emily is, his bottom marks Hannah's height and then you can see how tall our little Claire is.  

We enjoyed some apple cider doughnuts before we started apple picking!! We all loved them.  

A lot of the apples close to the building were already picked over, so we had to walk pretty deep into the orchard, but we enjoyed the walk, especially since this was our view.  

Daddy was showing them what a woodpecker had done to this tree.  

The girls love any chance to ride on Daddy's shoulders and getting to pick apples just made it more fun!  

Look at how proud Claire was of the apple she picked!!

We had a few hills to walk up on the way back to the main building (after we had picked our apples) and Hannah wasn't overly excited about the situation.  (Claire was in the stroller.)  Hannah kept saying "Ugh....can we take a bweak (break)?!?!  This hill is so tired!"  Ha!  She made it though and it was good for her.  

We also stopped by the petting zoo area and let them look at the animals and feed the goats some grass. We accidentally left our quarters in the car to buy the animal food, but the goats seemed to enjoy the grass and our girls sure didn't notice.  

Our last stop was playing on the amazing playground.  They have 3 or 4 different play sets for kids to play on and they were all so fun!  

She's growing up on me.  

We had such a fun family outing to Sky Top!