Life is busy as usual and I REALLY hope to update the blog with the many things that have happened this year very soon, but the big news of the week can't wait. We now have a new niece (Eric and Jasmine are finalizing an adoption this week). With that, we welcome Jenavieve Ruth Kapri Sovel-Charnesky to the Charnesky family. She was born on May 6th at 1:34 pm, weighing 5 lbs, 7 oz and is 18 inches long. We look forward to meeting her in August when we are scheduled to return to Michigan.

Last Thursday, Grace was in a musical with about 150 other kids in her 5th grade class. It was really fun and she had a great time.

Saturday Grace ran a 5K in Olathe and did really well. She took 4th place with a time of 26:49 in the 14 - 9 year old category (after they changed the original age categories... with no change she would have been 1st).

Monday, Uncle Gary came to visit for a few days. Wednesday we celebrated Grace's 11th birthday and stuffed ourselves silly with our favorite barbecue at Jack Stack and finished off the stuffing process with the big chocolate cake from Costco (you know I would have baked her a cake if I had the appropriate pan, but things are limited here).

Last night Grace played in the spring orchestra concert. It was excellent as always.

Grace, Anastasia and I are entered in a 5K race on Mother's Day. It is a "girls" only event. I will try to post news on this soon after it happens.

There's a brief update. Hope everyone is having a great spring!