The Halogen staff members share their Thanksgiving holiday traditions. What are yours?

Josh Acuff: “My Thanksgiving tradition happens the day after. For lunch on Friday, I always make a Thanksgiving sandwich: Two pieces of toasted bread, leftover turkey, leftover stuffing, gravy, mayonnaise and a tall glass of sweet tea with lemon! Happy Thanksgiving!”

Christie Legg: “Our family always made it a tradition to invite at least one person to T-Day dinner who would have eaten alone otherwise. Nothing worse than spending the holiday away from family or at IHOP with the rest of the lonely people.”

Lindsay Fisher: “Our family tradition is to get together with all our family and close friends around 10am and play touch football at the local park for a few hours. Then we all head back to the house and have a huge Thanksgiving feast while watching the Turkey Day football games on TV!”

Heather Shelton: “Our holiday tradition is shopping. The day after Thanksgiving, my mom and I get up really early and leave the boys at home and hit the mall. We usually don’t find much but we enjoy our time together!”

Tyler Garnett: “Our Thanksgiving tradition has to do with multiple families. We get together in one house with about 30 people, spanning about four generations and have a grand feast. Then afterwards we play board games and laugh until our bellies hurt even more then they did from stuffing them with turkey.”

Cara Davis: “My wedding anniversary falls during the week of Thanksgiving, so I usually take a look through my wedding album – in between bites of deep-fried turkey, sweet potato casserole and chocolate pie, of course.”

Tamara Park: “Thanksgiving typically means that Park family members trek from both coasts to take over the Breeden Inn, a B&B my aunt and uncle own. In the midst of our tryptophan coma we rattle off family stories, spicing them up each year. Usually there’s at least one new kid, someone gets hurt playing sports and we all overeat. Cheers.”

Todd Lewis: We always had the Thanksgiving meal at my Grandmother’s house. Our traditions were playing football, stuffing our ourselves, then seconds, my mom’s awesome chocolate pie, then playing football again to work it off. Even after my Grandmother passed, the house stayed in the family and we still have Thanksgiving there.

Marshall Nord: “Thanksgiving usually involves the guilt of leaving food on my plate, followed by the repentance of gluttony.”

Rob Deason: “Not really a tradition but we often have the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on in the morning while my wife prepares the big meal. She cooks. I clean up.”

What is your Thanksgiving holiday tradition?