follow the yellow brick road

this halloween marks ten years (!) of handmade group theme costumes for the wheelers. honestly, i'm just as surprised as anyone that we've held on this long. the kids have had a blast dressing up together, and i've somehow managed to stay just this side of sane gussying everyone up.

for our tenth anniversary, we went all out to celebrate the occasion with some of the most iconic and recognizable costumes of all time and a gorgeous fall, in-character photo shoot. 

i fully intended the wizard of oz to be my swan song (i mean, lasting as long as friends and jennifer garner's marriage to ben affleck seems pretty solid to me), but summer and afton already have big plans for continuing on next year...

in the meantime, i've a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.

bonus! a quick look back at years one through nine:

the flintstones, little bo peep, alice in wonderland, the cat in the hat, star wars, saturday morning cartoons, super mario brothers, scooby doo, and where's waldo?

i'd like to publicly thank all the pins and needles and seam rippers that got me where i am today. and bryan, for being such a good sport.

happy halloween!