Books and Cheese

Welcome Back to School! BYU started up again this week and Alex and I plunged right it! It will prove to be a challenging yet rewarding semester. Alex is busy taking his last required classes this semester and next that are required for the MCAT and medical school applications. I am finishing up my business minor this semester with a bunch of finance and management classes. Needless to say our book amount for this semester was tremendous! I have never spent so much on books in all my years in school and combined with Alex's new edition of organic chemistry ($240) we paid more than our house payment on books! We'll survive I'm sure but wow! books are expensive!

To start out our week back we also took a big shopping trip to WinCo! If you have never been there I highly recommend it! They have the lowest prices by far and it is such an enjoyable place! I have so many great memories shopping there with my Mom and it is nice because every store looks the same! Well one of our favorite traditions is cheese shopping! WinCo sells a lot of things in bulk and cheese is one of them. It is much cheaper to get a big block of cheese than to get a smaller name brand packaged kind. Well this is what we do: We first decide on a kind, colby, sharp cheddar, mild cheddar, pepper jack etc. Then we dig through all the cheese and the person to find the lowest price or smallest brick of cheese is the winner. This week was an exciting cheese search! I thought for sure I had the lowest with a $4.84 but then Alex found the better block at $4.77. Alex usually wins. Okay he always wins :) This seems like such a silly game yet I look forward to it every time we go to WinCo.

Well this week will be a busy one! Happy Labor Day to everyone! We are going to watch an Owls game in Orem. We'll head to Brigham City on Saturday for my cousin Brant's farewell and see family! It will be a great time! Take care!