Workouts

Swim: 7,000 yards

Pullups: 175

Situps: 300

Pushups: 325

Well, Abby is still sick. Drowsiness and overall inactivity still prevail. We are praying that God will help her recover. Levi is so cute and active, if it were not for Josiah, he would have gotten into many things. J is really developing into such a great big brother.

Workouts

Swim: 14,000 yards

Pullups: 200

Situps: 400

Pushups: 400

Abby has been sick for about two weeks. It all started with a prolonged seizure, 45 minutes to be exact. Since then, it has been followed by vomiting, constant sleepiness, and just an absence of Abby. I am worried that after about 20+ prolonged seizures for my little girl, some type of damage has finally occurred.

I am so grateful that the Lord provided a new home for our family last summer. We were looking for a house close to the hospital. We moved in 4 days before Levi was born and had a contract on the other house within 2 days of listing it. Well, it was all worth it when it took 4 minutes to make it to the ER and not 20 as from the old house.

Workouts

Swim: 12,000 yards

Pullups: 50

Situps: 100

Pushups: 100

Why am I posting this? I am training for a open water swim in Chattanooga this summer, the River Rat Race. What do pullups, pushups, etc have to do with swimming? A lot more than I thought.

It all started last summer while at a playground with Patty and the kids. I tried to go across the monkey bars and succeed at impressing my wife. My attempt at demonstrating my prowess on the playground was rudely interrupted when I fell off after two rungs...

Now that my pride bruised, I had to do something to reclaim any dignity that was lost. I began a challenge with a good friend.

50 pull-ups, 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups EVERY day for 3 months.

The first day I could do 3 pull-ups (only the first 3) in a row and I spent about 1.5 hrs in the gym to complete said task. Every day that I miss I need to buy David (challenger) lunch. Well 3 months later, I finished by doing 24 pull-ups in a row.

When I finally did get back in the pool in December after being out a year, I could tell a difference with my strokes. So pull-ups are now included in the workout, though this week was pretty weak.

Josiah learning to dive.

Namesake...

You might be wondering where the name saturnjunkie came from.  You see I work at NASA and part of my job is to research the Saturn V rocket.  This has become one of my favorite parts of daily work.  To date I have collected over 17,000 pages of drawings and 1,000s of documents.  Of the 2,200 boxes of data saved by NASA from the saturn program, we have only looked through about 500.  You may ask why is this important....well I am working on the Ares Rocket and understanding the design of previous rockets is vital to a good design today. 

Josiah also shares this love of rockets with me...  As you might have heard President Obama is attempting to kill the Constellation program that I am working on.  We really HOPE that this does not happen.  Josiah blurted out the following comments the other day while at McDonald's with my mom and dad..

"We need to pray for Obama, he is making bad decisions".  Well,  J is right we do need to pray for our president, it really has nothing to do with voting or agreeing with him.  It is commanded by scripture to pray for our leaders

"I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— ²for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness" 

 --1 Tim. 2:1-2

Here is my bride and Levi.