Ice Rinks & Family Reunions?

Today James' recreation team played the Davis County Wind in Bountiful. The kids on the Davis team have their names on the back of their jerseys, so Heather and I started reading them to see if a kid who used to play with James was on the team. While we didn't see the name "Henderson" we were looking for, we did see the name "Gruendell." WHAT? A Gruendell playing hockey? Who? Another mystery cousin? (Yes, we tend to run into cousins we don't know frequently!)

With Gruendell being the very uncommon name it is (unless you are related to us), we started looking around the stands to see if we saw anyone we recognized. Nope. No one. Heather then said she thought the parent volunteering in the penalty box looked like he could be a Gruendell. She then guessed some more and decided it had to be our second cousin Jeff. How does she do this, figure this stuff out? I really don't know, but, she's good at it.

Here's a photo of James and the mystery cousin on the ice (James is #29, Mystery Gruendell is #47) with Jeff watching from the penalty box:

And here's a photo of the two of them after they, well, crashed:
After the game Heather went up to Jeff and introduced herself. And, when Jeff saw our dad he remembered that he had met him before. James got to officially meet his cousin Nick after the game. And for those of you with enquiring minds, James' great-grandma Bessie and Nick's great-grandpa Albert are brother and sister.

This is Nick's first year playing hockey and he's very good and seems to like it, so we'll probably be seeing each other at the rink again sometime soon. What a small world!