Laurie is a Southern California girl, born and raised. Then known as Laurie Johnston, she was a 4-H member for 10 years; raising and showing horses, pigs, dogs and sheep; but her favorite was goats. After graduating from high school, She lived and worked on a farm in Switzerland with a 4-H Exchange Student Program. Later, Laurie graduated from Saddleback College in Mission Viejo and was Church Secretary at Calvary Chapel of San Clemente for 5 years.
In the 80's, she met Gary Zieger - a dashing young man with a great smile and green eyes on the beach in San Clemente - to whom she has been married for almost 25 years. Laurie loves being active, biking, hiking, walking and working out as well as making quilts, doing crochet and reading.