If you know me, you'll know that I LOVE themes and get a little obsessed with getting them perfect. WELL a few months ago I decided I really wanted the boys to dress up like the 3 musketeers for Halloween. About 3 weeks ago we took a trip to Joann's fabric store and I let the boys pick out all the fabric and colors. Cost: about $140.oo

With a stressful week or two, I had to keep putting them off. I'll tell you, I have never been as busy as I was the last two weeks of October. Everything hit at once and I had no choice but to put certain things off and that's not my style at all!

Anyways, on Saturday (oct.29th) day around 2pm I started to finally cut out the costumes. It took 7 hours. This is because I bought 1 pattern and had to resize it for Bradley and then Calvin, plus the cape alone had 10 pieces to it. Then from 10pm-4am I sewed and sewed throughout the night. I went to sleep at 5am and got back up at 8am {3 hours later}. I sewed and sewed and sewed until 9pm that Sunday night (yes, I even missed church to finish them on time). When the last item was sewn and the boys tried them all on... I just about cried from joy.

I made sure to take pictures and here they are. The costumes that took 27.5 hours and yes... they were made with perfection! I made sure of it.

Here is Calvin-


Here is Bradley-


Here is Mr. Sonboul {looking foxy}-


And here are my 3 musketeers-




Now... what to make them next year??? I promise I'll never learn my lesson, because seeing them in these makes me want to do it again and again! I had some time to scrapbook and so I made this layout using these cute photos of my 3 heroes.

Yep- I used a lot of American Crafts :)

The end....until next year!