Rose Athena Martinsen-Burrell

Welcome Rose! Pictures from Rose's first week are online at Neil and Lara's Gallery.

We have a mailing list to announce updates to this webpage and to our picture gallery. If you would like to be included, please email Neil to be added to the list.

News

Neil and Lara welcomed Rose Athena Martinsen-Burrell into their family on Monday August 1st at 4:31 pm. She weighed 8 lbs 1 oz, stretched 19 1/4 in. top to toe and was cuter than anyone could ever believe. It was a long labor that finished with a caesarian section, but mother and baby are both healthy and recovering. We will be quite busy for the next couple of weeks (years) but feel free to give us a call, email or visit if you are willing to wait a while for a response. We look forward to introducing all of you to this bundle of joy that has entered our lives. More pictures and info will be available here in the future.

Gifts

Giving and receiving gifts is a treat for everyone. We love receiving presents and we hope that you love giving them. We have many of the things that we know we will need, but one thing that we do not have enough of is cloth diapers. The following two websites sell gift certificates for the various kinds of diapers that we will be using on Rose's delightful bottom:

Gift List

As always, we encourage you to indulge your imagination and creativity in buying gifts for Rose. If you would like some gift ideas, check here for some things that we would like. If you do buy some of these things, please indicate it on that page so that we do not get too many of any one thing.

Baby Pool

Here are the guesses that we currently have for the baby pool. Email us with your guesses and we'll add you to the list. The winner gets some sort of prize.

Name	Gender	Length (in.)	Weight (lbs)	Date	Time
Janet Carlsen	M	21	7 lbs 6 oz	Aug. 5th	6:00 AM
Will	F	17	5 lbs 3 oz	Aug. 5th	4:00 PM
Marlis	M	21	8 lbs 2 oz	Aug. 7th	3:30 AM
Donna Bower	F	10	8 lbs 8 oz	Aug. 11th	5:00 AM
Alisa	F	17	7 lbs	Aug. 11th	7:15 PM
Heavenly Kevin Lee Martinsen	M	22	6 lbs 13 oz	Aug. 12th	1:06 AM
Robyn	M	18	7 lbs 8 oz	Aug. 12th	1:39 AM
MomLee, Grandma to Be	F	21.25	8 lbs 4 oz	Aug. 14th	1:15 AM
MomLee, Grandma to Be	M	21.75	8 lbs 6 oz	Aug. 16th	5:12 AM
Megan	F	8-4?	7 lbs 8 oz	Aug. 16th	6:45 AM
Sara G.	F	18	6 lbs 8 oz	Aug. 16th	7:19
James Mearing	M	19	7 lbs 2 oz	Aug. 16th	9:14 AM
Jennifer	F	21	8 lbs 6 oz	Aug. 17th	6:00 AM

Under the system of 3 points for closest, two for second place, one for third, the winner is:

Will Thayer

with 7 points. Look for your prize in the next couple of years. Second place was Marlis with 5 points and third was Alisa with 4.

Contact Us

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