Christmas Eve, Minus One Turkey

Well, after a long December, Christmas Eve has finally arrived -- and Mr. Walker was all ready to play Santa Clause.....

After much discussion and research on BigGreenEgg.com, Mr. Walker was all set today to cook up the BIG BIRD for our Christmas Feast...........Thank God For Ham !!!!!

Apparently, the BIRD didn't want to be cooked and eaten for dinner THIS YEAR and decided not to cooperate with Mr. Walker and what was suppose to have taken 3 1/2 hours, was still not ready to be eaten after 4 1/2 hours on the smoker. I wonder if opening and closing the top of the smoker every 15 minutes had anything to do with it ????

We finally held a family meeting around 8:30 PM to take a vote about whether or not to proceed with Christmas or to call it off completely.......but, Christmas Cheer prevailed and we decided to have our dinner with HAM only and save the BIRD for turkey sandwiches at a later date.

After a fabulous evening of Christmas movies, candy making, lots of eating, gift giving and spending time together, we tuned into the 11:00 news to find out where Santa's sleigh was and then all jumped into bed to make sure none of us were awake when he popped down the chimney !!

MERRY CHRISTMAS from the MILNER side of the FAMILY !!

(MOOSE MUNCH....another Tradition !!)

(Christmas Lovin')

(Mr. Walker....proud of his new cologne)

(Sorry Pierre....camera man must not like you...)