For this weekend’s Parent Blogger’s Network Blog Blast, we’re supposed to talk about our family holiday game traditions, what games we play when we get together for Thanksgiving or Christmas. But my extended family doesn’t play games when we get together. We eat and talk, we clear the dishes, then we set back down with plates of pie and cups of coffee and talk some more. And that’s exactly what we like about getting together!

Instead, my family’s game tradition is Friday night Pizza and Halo Night. For the last three years, almost every Friday night, we order pizza, and then while I poke around online, Chris and the boys play Halo. They meet up with their friends on Xbox Live and form parties, take on other teams, talk trash into the headsets. It’s a weekly tradition that we all look forward to. In fact, any suggestion to have pizza any night besides Friday is always met with incredulous looks and protests that we would be disrupting the flow of space and time if we ate pizza on, say, a Tuesday.

Parent Bloggers Network wants to know what games you play during holiday gatherings. Email your post to parentbloggers@gmail.com by midnight tonight and you could win the Grand Prize:

Boogie SuperStar
Boom Blox
Brain Quest
Hasbro Family Game Night
Littlest Pet Shop
Monopoly
Nerf N-Strike
Travel Games for Dummies

plus 3 runners-up will get to choose one game from the above list! So hurry and write up your post and send it in for your chance to win!  You can read more stories about family game nights here, and check out more awesome games from Electronic Arts here.