We surprised the girls one Saturday morning by taking a road trip to SkyTop Orchard in North Carolina.  Several friends had told us that it is a great place to go apple picking so we decided to check it out!

Pausing for a moment to take a picture by the Sky Top 2011 Apple.  There were so many people and activities going on that they girls were just mesmerized.

Karlie loved picking the apples straight from the tree.  It didn’t take us long with four people picking to fill up our baskets!

Karlie and Brina looking through all the apples on the branches for the ripe and juicy ones to pick.  They got pretty good at picking out the perfect apples!

Brina found a good one!  She was so excited when she found a perfect apple to put into the basket.

There were a lot of apples on the ground.  Some of them were whole while others were turning into mush.  If you stepped on a mushy apple you feet would slide.  The girls held our hands when we were walking longer distances to help prevent them from sliding around so much on the slick apples.

You know the saying “the grass is greener on the other side of the fence” well the same thing applies to apple picking.  The perfect apple is always at the top of the tree out of reach!

Thankfully with a little boost from Daddy the girls were able to get some of those pretty apples up on top.  They thought it was neat that they could reach the apples without climbing the trees.

Another highlight for the girls was playing in the houses and on SkyTop’s playground.  They had a blast checking out all the fun houses, slides, and fun activities.

As I was watching them play I caught them peeking at me through the window.  Cute!  Love those two girlies so much and thankful for an opportunity to go on a family adventure together.  Great memories!

Brina proudly climbed up the climbing wall.  She came over to me and said Mom that is a lot easier then the ones that you have to get buckled into.  Brina loved seeing all the babies and little kids at the orchard.  Glad she had a great time!

Sweet picture of Karlie peeping out the window.  It is amazing to see how much they have grown up over the last few months.

The girls thought this giant spider was hilarious!  They had fun climbing all over it!

We had a blast together picking apples and playing at SkyTop Apple Orchard!

We picked one bushel (approximately 42 pounds of apples)!  These apples were delicious!  It was a lot of fun to eat them plain and in a lot of dishes from apple crisp to apple pie to applesauce to apple smoothies and more!