Happy Birthday Rod!

Since my last post we celebrated Easter and Rod's 33rd Birthday!

Easter was busy, of course! Saturday we had the Broerman Easter at Rod's aunt Pat & uncle Harry's house. They had an Easter Egg hunt for all the family kids and neighbors. Pat said she put out 650 eggs, but Paige only found 8! She seemed to enjoy it though. It was funny because she would put 1 in her basket and then go to pick up another one, but the one she already put in would fall out. Mommy had to help her out a little bit, which she didn't seem to want. Little Miss Independent likes to do thing for herself these days! Anyway, food was great I ate way too much, but I wouldn't expect anything less at a Broerman function.

Sunday, we went to my moms in Saunemin for lunch. My step-dad, Joe cooked Hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill and we had a nice relaxing afternoon. Paige and Michelle had a little egg hunt in the house and Paige got 3 Easter Baskets full of clothes, toys, and candy. You would've thought it was Christmas she got so much stuff! Then we headed back to Pontiac, to Bernardi's for dinner with my dad and step-mom and some of Edie's family. It was nice to see everyone and the food was excellent as always!

The 17th was Rod's Birthday. He turned 33 and celebrated to the fullest with his cousin, Chris (who is home for a couple weeks before going back overseas) and a couple of his uncle's. Rod didn't get home until 3 am! I'm blaming Jim for that one!

Saturday night we went to a fish fry at Scotty's. Paige and I went home after dinner, but Rod stayed out late again. Not as long this time, but he seemed to have enjoyed being out with the guys!

Sunday Rod and I went to Peoria to the boat to do a little gambling. Paige went to Grandma Peg and Grandpa Stubby's house for the evening. I played Roulette and lost $100.00 in about 20 minutes! I didn't really enjoy that at all ;o( and then I lost another $40.00 playing a stupid machine. That was it for me! I just watched Rod play cards the rest of the time. He did however win back most of what I lost! Yeah for him! I knew I kept him around for a reason! LOL :o)

Paige & The Easter Bunny

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Over the weekend, Rod had to work Friday and Saturday night, bummer! So Saturday morning I took Paige to Grandma Peg's for the day and I went to Bloomington with Holly & Michelle. First we went to the Interstate Center for a huge garage sale. We didn't find much though! I bought Paige a winter coat for $2.00, just to use from now until it actually gets nice outside and stays nice! Michelle bought a print to hang on her wall. Holly new the painter of it right when she saw it, but I can't remember for the life of me what she said, oh well! That is all we got there so then we headed to the mall. I did some damage there! I got Easter presents for Paige, Alex, & Michelle. I let Michell pick hers out, since she is getting to the picky stage! I also got myself some old navy flip-flops for this summer and a pair of loungey capri's.

Yesterday morning I got 2 steroid injections put into my very low back, but Doc said it could take a few days before I'll be able to tell difference. However, physical therapy has helped my back tons! I only have 1 more session on Thursday evening then I'm back on my own. I think as long as I continue doing the exercises I should be okay. Right now I'm just a little sore at my injection spots, but hopefully that will go away soon!

Rod has been busy working on our house & garage. We got a new back door and screen door which is so much nicer! and we have one side of the garage that now is able to open and close. Big thanks to Doug Jones for helping Rod out with that! They have 1 side of the garage left to do and then Rod can start wrapping the outside of the garage and put up some siding. I can't wait for the stupid thing to get done!

Paige is at Heather Sancken's this week for daycare. It's a little rough in the mornings because she doesn't want to let me go, but as soon as she gets Baby doll she seems to be fine!

This weekend we have the Broerman Easter at & Harry's house, which will include a fun Easter Egg hunt. Hopefully Paige will get a few before the bigger kids grab them all.

Sunday, we have Easter at my mom's house in Saunemin at noon, hopefully my Grandma will be out of the hospital by then. She went back in Monday morning, they still are not sure what is wrong, at first they thought it was a slight heart attack, but that was ruled out, and now they think she is bleeding internally somewhere. They are suppose to be doing more tests today to find where it is coming from. She might have to have a blood transfusion if he keeps losing blood everyday. Mom & Joe's anniversary is on Sunday also, so Happy Anniversary to them!

Sunday evening we are having dinner at Bernardi's with my dad and Edie and all of Edie's family. It's been a long time since we've all been together and some of them have never seen Paige, so that's pretty exciting!

Rodney's birthday is coming up on the 17th. However, I have no idea what to get him! he won't tell me anything and he's getting very hard to buy for.