What we wore.

Here's the result of my day of desperation yesterday:

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.

Cheap? $2.50 for the box from Home Depot... the rest I already had.
Easy? Relatively.
Fast? Uh, no. It took me a good chunk of the day to get these babies together.
Clever? Haha... I had at least 3 people use that exact description last night.
Done and done.

I also whipped up this beauty... thanks to my fave idea source Pinterest.

I had everything on hand for this, too, although my olives, which I thought were bigger, are a bit underwhelming. I also thought I had a boatload of cheddar cheese, but when I went to pull it out, I only had sliced cheddar. Looking back, I should have just used it, but I went for the Swiss (ham and Swiss go together, right?). It turned out very Swiss-y, so not as crowd/kid-friendly as I had hoped, but I certainly gave a good effort. I also made some spinach dip (coming out of a pumpkin's mouth, thus looking like puke), but in my rush to get out of the house on time (since I was also baking 2 Costco-size boxes of dino nuggets for the fall festival/trunk or treat), AND trying to get my cheap, easy, and clever costumes together, neglected to snap a photo. Bummer.

Mar almost didn't go, since none of the friends she invited could come.

But that girl can whip up a fast, cheap, and easy costume, too.

 

(I LOVED this costume... but had a tiny concern that she might frighten the littles at the fall festival. Thankfully, none of them ran {screaming in terror} from her!)

I was glad to see she wasn't the only creepy person there.

(We also had an awesome Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein... but, sadly, I didn't get a picture of them.)

(I made the potato heads with interchangeable face pieces, and the kids got just as much a kick out of it as I had hoped. Bill and I were constantly having our faces changed. Bill even had a set of "angry eyes" haha. None of the pictures I snapped had him in the BYU hat... that was his favorite, but the kids seemed to really like the green hair.)

It was a good time.
Poor Slim tho.
Toward the end of the night, after Mar had danced his legs off, he snapped.
Literally.

I kind of like the creepiness of his torso-less legs and his legless torso.