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Layne & Maureen
We got our "trip of a lifetime" in September 2006, spending nearly 3 weeks in Germany and England. We visited Heidelberg, Schwenzingen, and Karlsruhe, Germany; Strassbourg, France; Bern, Switzerland; and 10 days in England; visiting lots of "old" friends from our time living there over 20 years ago. We took well over 800 pictures during this trip. You can see a few of our favotires here.
We spent our 30th Wedding Anniversary at Death Valley in March 2003. This was our first trip there and we found it very fascinating. There are a few pictures on our Death Valley Page. We spent our 35th Anniversary in 2008 in Paris - the one in Idaho ! (See photo below.) We started Geocaching (www.geocaching.com) in 2007, so did some geocaching on the way up and back, 16 in all, though we didn't find many in Idaho or Wyoming because of 1-3 feet of snow, which we often trudged through in searches. But we had great fun ! We have taken several weekend trips since then. Check out our progress and photos of places we've visited on our Geocaching page.
After spending 20 years in the Air Force, working on airplanes, living in Texas, England, New Mexico, England, and then Las Vegas, Layne retired and worked eight years in the office of an ear, nose and throat and allergy doctor, doing most everything in the office. This picture was taken in December 2002 on the Las Vegas temple grounds. He is now working at the LDS Church Printing Press running the book trimmer, and has also cross trained on some of the other machines. In 2004 he got the thrill of his lifetime, a 30-minute ride in a B-17. This has always been his favorite airplane. He said it was the most exciting thing he'd ever done. He even poked his head out the top of the plane - while it was flying ! ! (See pictures below.) He has gone on some "Civil War" campouts. He has made some canvas bags (hand sewn) and has collected quite a complete "kit." He dresses as a civilian, does his Dutch oven cooking, and helps shoot off cannons. This has been fun for him. He has a black powder musket (Civil War era replica). He volunteered at the Pioneer Village at the This is the Place Park this summer in the Deseret News office and plans to do it again this summer.Maureen worked in the office at the Las Vegas Nevada Temple 14 years and 1 day. She still misses the interaction with the employees and ordinance workers even after being gone over 4 years now. She is working for St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City doing medical transcription. She is able to work at home doing this. She is also still an Accredited Genealogist(R) in English research. Six years in England and all the hands-on research she was able to do there gave her the experience needed to become accredited. She has several clients and is enjoying doing this work. She has really enjoyed being close to the Family History Library and tries to go at least 1 day a week, though it is never enough. Much of her genealogy work is on her genealogy pages. She recently cracked a proverbial "brick wall" on her Hatch genealogy which was an exciting project. On their trip to England she stayed 6 days on her own and spent 4 of them in the record offices in Chelmsford and Northampton, finding bits and pieces, but enjoying her time researching. She got to go to Newfoundland in February 2008, where she has done lots of research for a friend. See photos.
28 February 2003, Death Valley (1 March our 30th Anniversary)
1 March 2008, Paris, Idaho, our 35th Anniversary
