This new baby bump (names)

IT HAS HAPPENED! Steve and I are having another bundle of joy. We are sooooooooo thrilled. I don't think that it is a secret that I love pregnancy and babies. I have started the countdown to labor already. We are not finding out the gender again with baby 3, which makes that delivery day that more exciting for Stephen and I. We have picked our names already.
We are staying with Elsee Ren (which would have been Cyrus' name if he had been a girl). "Elsie" is a family name but when researching it, I found the spelling Elsee and loved the look of it, so it does have our spin on it. Ren is from my middle name, Renee, but I like one syllable middle names for girls (Evie Rae).
Gage Alton for a boy. Gage is a name of a friend of Stephens brother, Caleb. He has always loved the name and I had to agree, it does fit our little family. Alton is my Great-Grandpa's name, which I have always loved.
I have had minor nausea a handful of days and been a little tired. This pregnancy had been totally different from both of my other pregnancies, which makes it hard to guess the gender. But I am sure as my belly grows I will have a stronger opinion one way or the other.
We are praying for a healthy baby and healthy birth. So thankful for such a wonderful pregnancy so far. More pictures and updates to come (hopefully some side by side comparison belly shots from previous baby bumps.) Here is 12 week belly shot.

This mom's END TABLES

So I dabble in woodworking thanks to ana-white.com. We were borrowing end tables from the Johnston's which was so kind of them to loan them to our sparsely furnished home. They had glass on the top though, and the older and more curious the kids got, the more nervous I was to have borrowed end tables. I found the following plans on Ana's website and fell in love. They are small, simple, and unique. I also found this "recipe" for a homemade stain (which I had hoped would turn out more gray, but unfortunately didn't) Weathered Stain. It was still fun to make my own stain, and I may try using it again on something else to get a grayer look from it.

Sorry the first couple are sideways

So I added the stain and it continued to get darker the longer it sat.

My little helper

They are a much warmer color than I wanted but I have thought about painting them eventually

I made the coffee table too, they go together well