The Waiting Game

Hello Coppercreek Friends and Families,
Spring has sprung at Coppercreek, and we are all starting to get excited about summer. Only 5 1/2 weeks until the first camper's arrive. Along with all of the work to get camp up and going for the summer, we are also waiting for our newest arrival. Our (Craig & Becky's) second child is due to arrive on May 13th, but as we all know, nobody tells the baby the date it is supposed to come. There is nothing quite like waiting for a baby to come! Everyone at camp is so anxious to meet this new little person, but no one is as anxious as me!!!! So, I am playing the waiting game, answering the camp phones and hoping that today will be the day.... :)!
For those campers who have already enrolled for this summer, the Parent's Guide and all of the forms are going in the mail this week, so watch your mail box.
I will post again soon. Hopefully with photos of our newest camper!!
Becky

One of the things I do in the winter other than staring at the snow melting is coach volleyball. I am currently coaching a U14's club team as well as our junior high volleyball team at the high school. Many of the girls are the same, just in a different configuration. Well, my u14's team had their first club tournament last weekend and what a blast we had. After the girls stared fear in the face, letting many balls drop left or right and looking at me in sheer terror with expressions of; "Where do I go?" "Am I here?" "Am I an outside hitter?" "Isn't Sammy supposed to be on my left?"; we started to play and ended up the day with 5 wins and 4 losses to take 5th place. I was very proud of the girls and had a good chuckle knowing at the next practice, I will have 10 girls paying VERY close attention to their offensive positions! It is amazing how much you think you know until you have to take the test. Lauren

Christy's winter vacation

Christy was smart this winter and headed down the hill with Mel to live at Kalli's in Elk Grove. She has the fun job of teaching Kalli's students how to ride. Here she is with Bailey during a lesson.

The new Tahoe!

WOW! Enough is enough! We haven't had snow like this in years. Craig spent the entire day plowing, plowing and plowing again. My poor little Chihuahua, Lola, and Pomeranian, Jasmin, have to burrow out the back door whenever they want to go out. I keep an eye on them because I am afraid they will disappear in a snow bank and never return. The deer all wait on the outskirts of the Equestrian Center until we are done feeding and then graze on the hay we drop. They are very happy there are 40 horses that need feeding everyday. We actually have a young Bobcat living in the rafters of the goat pen hoping to catch an errant pigeon. Well, the kids are happy though because our schools are closed tomorrow for a "snow day". The power of the computer generation. I think our principal told one student and by text messaging, MySpace and Iming, the entire student body heard the word in about 15 minutes. At least there are 230 happy students in our town...and a herd of deer. Ahh, life in the mountains! (The photo on the left is our middle arena. You can just make out the fence line on the right. Craig has been plowing it in the hopes I might be able to ride before June!)

Feeding in the snow!

Hi Everyone,

Sutter and I had so much fun last night feeding in the snow. We haven't seen this much snow in a couple of years but it didn't slow us down too much. We only got stuck once, had to retry the hill coming up to the mini's three times (the key is speed!)and definitely were distracted by the mandatory snowball fights. Here is what the Equestrian Center looks like during chores in the winter! All the horses are managing the snow very well but are itching to get out of their paddocks and run a bit. That is on the schedule for today. We will take a camera to capture the ponies out in the Ranch pasture.

Lornie

Winter Wonderland

Lornie and I are sitting in the office today watching it snow and snow and snow and snow. We have gotten between 6 and 7 inches already this morning and it is showing no signs of letting up. Craig decided to take the day off and head down to Truckee to catch a day at Northstar. He sounded very happy a few minutes ago when I talked to him. After spending the last few days trying to clean up all of the snow around camp, I think he is excited to be skiing instead of shoveling. Camp fared very well in the early stages of the storm. We had lots of rain and snow, but we never even lost power (knock on wood, of course!)! Lauren is pretty grouchy about the whole business though as lots of rain and snow means no riding today and possibly for several days to come. We are thinking about shipping her and Valor to Southern California until April!
We hope you all came through this series of storms safely! We will post some photos of our winter wonderland once we see the sun again!

What's a girl to do???

I think all of my equestrian friends will understand today the most. After 21 days of rain, snow, and mostly just ice, lots of ice...morning, noon, afternoon and evenings full of ice...so icy, one can only hold their breath as their beautiful, (but very stupid) dressage horse tries to run and buck around his pen as all four legs go in different directions; today finally grew warm enough to bust at least one horse free from her paddock. Chassis (because she is actually smart enough to watch her footing in the slick conditions, unlike Valor, and doesn't need shoes and snowpads) and I took to the cross country course and had some fun. I thought everyone would enjoy some photos of today and how beautiful camp looks (I grudgingly admit it even as I am wishing for 60 degree days to return...).

Happy New Year Everyone!!!
Lornie