Hettler Tamalada 2008

This year the Tamalada was hosted by mom and Juan and it was a blast.

The first night we made preparations and officially started the

tamalada off with some karaoke. The following morning

we started bright and early and made tamales into the night.

We officially made 90 dozen tamales!!!

Here are the aunts and uncle Joe!

The cousins before we started cooking. Missy, Becky
and Angelica weren't here for the picture.


The karaoke crew! We sang all night!

Sat. morning before we started!

Missy and Aunt Terry with Mater

Again with Mater

And the cooking begins! Here we are chopping the meat.

Aunt Machi is explaing how to make the masa.

Yes, I cooked too! We are spreading the masa.

Me, mom and Jen!!!

Here are the cousin tamaleras!

The Aunt Tamaleras and Uncle Joe!

We're almost done, we've been making Tamales

all day long!

The night ended with more karaoke. Yes, Juan sang!

The Grand Finale with Uncle Newcomb singing with

Uncle Joe wearing his Gator hat!!!