Our last day we were in Arizona our good friends the Fryers threw us a farewell pool party. It was a perfect way to end this chapter of life in Arizona, hanging out at the pool with wonderful friends. We planned to hang out at the pool until that afternoon and then head up to Las Vegas that night. I was inside starting to pack up our stuff to head out. Someone ran in and told me Asher got hurt. Asher was watching all the big kids jump off the diving board backwards. Asher, having no concept of cause and effect, decided that he should try it. Matt was across the pool watching him. He saw Asher get up on the board backwards and yelled for him to stop and tried to get to him. Everything is slow motion when you’re swimming in the pool and trying to prevent the inevitable. Asher jumped off the board and did not clear it. It scraped his belly, chin, nose, and busted open his bottom lip. I couldn't believe it, we were in the process of MOVING that day and now we had to go the doctor. I was a little emotional. Of all the kids, Asher would be the one to get hurt. We took him to the urgent care, which closed ten minutes before we got there. We then took him to the ER where one of our friends was working. The doctor was trying to decide between gluing his lip or giving him one stitch. They decided to glue it because we were going to be so crazy with traveling and moving the next few days. We should of gone with the stitch because a three year old stuck in a car for two days will pick the glue off his face. Now he will have a cool scar and story to go with it. Too bad the party had to come to such an abrupt end. It was a fitting way to end our life in Arizona, swimming, friends, and Asher hurt in the ER.
After we got home from the hospital we loaded up our car and said goodbye to the house. I didn't even have time to clean up after our Empty house party the night before. Thank you for good friends who came over later to clean it up for us. It was 3:30 in the morning when we finally got to our hotel in Las Vegas. It was an emotional, draining, and exhausting day.
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