Moritz Family: Jeremy & Christine, Angel, Tony, Harmony, Charity, Chase, and Symphony
Moritz Family Highlights
The Highlight Reel
Some of Each Year's Notable Events in the Moritz Household
2023
Jeremy begins work as a Senior Software Engineer for Principle Studios
Angel starts work M.E. Pearson Elementary as a library aide
Symphony starts AWANA Sparks
Tony gets hired at Success Vision
Everyone goes to Branson for the first-ever full family vacation
Chase rides his first roller coaster
Angel and Tony in front of 3000 people sing the National Anthem for summer camp
2022
Jeremy's brother Robbie has his first baby--Phoenix Moritz!
Angel gets a 31 on her ACT
Symphony starts AWANA Cubbies
Family takes a vacation to St. Louis to visit the Reeves family
Charity begins flute lessons
Charity and Chase go to Kansas Bible Camp
Chase starts AWANA Truth 'n Trust
Angel starts work at Chili's
Go on a family cruise
2021
We build a new deck outside
Charity celebrates her golden birthday on June 11th
Almost the whole family catch COVID-19
Jeremy and Christine celebrate their 20th Anniversary
Harmony quits using forks
Jeremy writes and professionally records three new rap songs to include in Rhythm City
Jeremy's sister Mindy delivers her first baby: J.J. Belden!
Jeremy, Angel, Tony, Harmony, and Charity all perform in Rhythm City!
Harmony attends middle school church camp
Tony takes a mission trip to Puerto Rico
Jeremy's brother Davey starts working with Jeremy at Subsplash
Tony learns to drive
Christine and Jeremy turn 40
Tony starts his first job at Chick-fil-A
Angel becomes Youth Worship Leader
Chase earns all 8 gym badges in Pokémon Shield
Harmony has a spoon-themed birthday party
Symphony releases her binky to the sky--never to be used again
2020
Symphony plays dozens of rounds of her new favorite bedroom activity: The Floor is Lava (pronounced "Da Fyoor is Yava")
Jeremy starts a new job at Subsplash
The family watches the Chiefs win their first Super Bowl in 50 years
Angel starts her first job at Early Learning Academy
Harmony gets braces
For Charity's 10th birthday, she is given a cruise trip to Hawaii with Mimi and grandpa... But Covid restrictions force the trip to be postponed until next year
The latest video game craze "among us" hits our family with full force
Tony performs in his first musical: Footloose
Christine and Angel take a trip to Biltmore Estates in North Carolina for Angel's 16th birthday
Christine contracts COVID-19 but somehow everyone else in the family avoids catching it
Chase and Charity play a lot of Animal Crossing and Pikmin
Angel gets her first car: Aunt Mindy's 2008 Honda Civic
Jeremy gets to work from home for nearly the entire year
2019
Symphony starts potty training
Angel gets all "A"s in her first semester of public school at Shawnee Mission NW High School
Christine and Jeremy visit 4 different cities marketing their book
Symphony figures out how to open all of the baby-proof cabinet locks
Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp is in use in 7 retail stores nationwide
Angel joins the worship team at New City Church
Chase sets the family record for building over 20 levels in Mario Maker
Tony joins SoulTeam Missions to serve in Guatemala on his first mission trip
Jeremy's brother Davey and his wife Megan welcome their baby daughter Anna
Tony and Angel help start the Youth worship team at New City Church
Charity and Harmony perform as dancing elves in Elf the Musical
The whole family participates in Mindy and Brice's Musical Wedding
Symphony attends Early Learning Academy
Angel gets her learner's permit and begins learning to drive
Christine completes the Green-2-Gold leadership training
Jeremy starts a new job as a Senior Software Engineer at VMLY&R
The whole Moritz family lives in a hotel for a week while getting floors redone
Harmony attends her first summer camp at Kansas Bible Camp
2018
Symphony learns to walk
Jeremy, Tony, and Harmony shoot thousands of zombies in Black Ops 3
Christine's Sister Stacy and her husband Clint welcome their second baby Felix
Chase and Tony unlock all of the playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Jeremy and Christine's new book Code for Teens is released nationwide
Angel begins school at Christ Preperatory Academy
Tony creates a video game called "Punchout" and it receives over 10,000 views on Scratch
Harmony takes 1st place (out of 50 attendees and 20 entries) at Google's CoderDojo
New City Church moves to a new building
Symphony says her first word: "Dada"
Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp debuts in production
Tony can solve Rubik's Cube in under 1 minute
Charity plays Young Eponine in the musical "Les Miserables" (a.k.a. "Les Charitables")
Harmony goes gluten free
Chase and Charity beats the game "Kirby Star Allies"
Harmony begins violin lessons
Harmony goes on her first cruise to celebrate her 10th birthday
Chase learns to swim
Charity beats the game "Super Mario Odyssey"
2017
Jeremy and Christine visit the Creation Museum and Ark encounter in Kentucky
Jeremy and Christine attend the Angular Developer Conference in Salt Lake City
Charity, Chase, Angel, and Harmony participate in a camp production of "Seussical the Musical"
Grandpa Rob buys a theater: "Dramatic Impact Theater and Event Center (DITEC)"
Chase learns from his siblings how to do addition, subtraction, basic multiplication, division, and writing his name
Symphony is born!
Harmony and Charity travel to Tulsa to visit their second cousin Haven
Family visits Great Wolf Lodge during a staycation
Robbie and Norie get married!
Angel turns 13
Jeremy and Christine begin writing and illustrating their first book "Code for Kids" (later renamed "Code for Teens")
Tony takes 1st place two months in a row at Google's CoderDojo
Harmony gets baptized
Angel goes gluten-free
Christine completes over 25 construction and remodeling projects around the house
The family buys an 8-passenger van
Angel writes several original songs and accompanies herself on guitar on piano
Chase starts gymnastics classes
Jeremy breaks his left index finger in a sports injury
2016
Jeremy leaves Parnell to work as a Senior Software Engineer at National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
Jeremy and Tony go on a ski trip with Grandpa Rob and Uncle Andrew
Harmony celebrates "Moving Day" (moving into Angel's room) with cupcakes and a party
Christine and Jeremy discover they're pregnant again (sadly this ended in a miscarriage)
Angel's YouTube channel DeerAngel celebrates 20th video and over 50 subscribers!
Tony earns his first computer (by learning to write HTML, CSS, use email, Google Docs, and type 30wpm)
Christine's brother John and his wife Mel welcome their first baby Julia
Charity starts gymnastics classes
Tony gets baptized
Christine travels to Canada for her sister-in-law Melanie's baby shower
Tony and Angel get their first experience of summer camp
Jeremy's brother Davey and his wife Megan welcome their first baby Erick
Christine's Sister Stacy and her husband Clint welcome their first baby Winnie
Tony begins drum lessons
Chase creates his 25th level on Super Mario Maker
Angel gets braces
Tony legitimately beats his dad in a competitive game of Table Tennis with no handicaps
2015
Chase becomes the scissor bandit and opens random food packages with scissors
Jeremy leaves UnitedLex to work as a Senior Digital Technology Developer at Parnell
Jeremy and Davey create an immersive escape game called "The Game Escape"
Tony begins public school
Christine builds a stage in Harmony and Charity's room
Christine's brother John gets married to Melanie
Tony chooses to come back to homeschool
Harmony gets baptized
Christine leaves Blues to Bach to become a full-time stay-at-home mother and homeschool teacher
Harmony participates in her first chess tournament (and wins a TROPHY!... for last place)
Angel starts her bi-weekly YouTube channel: DeerAngel
Angel chooses to come back to homeschool
2014
Angel plays Molly in CYT's musical "Annie"
Jeremy begins work as a software engineer for Walsworth Publishing Company
Christine visits twin brother John in Canada
Tony starts the Legend of Zelda game series
Chase gets a Spider-man four-wheeler and drives all over the house
Jeremy starts the first chess club at Broken Arrow Elementary (Angel and Tony join)
Angel earns her first computer (by learning to write HTML, CSS, use email, Photoshop, MS Word, Excel, write programs in Scratch, create her own website, and type 30wpm)
Jeremy creates "Bad Bats" video game
Angel gets baptized
2012
Chase is born!
Tony takes Karate classes
Jeremy begins work as a full-time software engineer contractor at Solidify Software
Christine, Jeremy, and Chase are flown out to Oregon to be guests of honor at the west coast premiere of Rhythm City
Tony takes gymnastics classes
Immeasurable Productions performs "Footloose"
2011
Immeasurable Productions performs and films "Rhythm City Junior"
Christine begins teaching piano lessons at Blues to Bach
Jeremy gets LASEK (not LASIK) eye surgery
"Rhythm City" is performed by multiple schools around the country
Jeremy creates a new production company: Immeasurable Productions
Jeremy and Christine create "Rhythm City Junior" to market to middle schools
Tony begins homeschool
2010
Harmony learns to use/break the microwave and sets a juice bottle on fire
"Rhythm City" makes its world premiere performance!
Jeremy begins participating in multiple clinical research studies
Angel has her first supporting role as Young Cosette in Les Miserables
Jeremy begins freelancing as a web developer
Charity is born!
Angel begins homeschool
Jeremy quits coaching chess
2009
Jeremy quits working at American Income Life
Angel has her first dance recital at Miller-Marley
Jeremy begins working at American Income Life Insurance (mistake)
Harmony is born!
2008
The family moves to a new house
Tony proves to be a master foam swordsman
Jeremy begins working as a landlord renting out the old home (mistake)
Angel begins dance classes at Miller-Marley
2007
Angel dresses as Dorothy for Halloween
Jeremy studies fight choreography and performs in an all-fighting stunt show
Jeremy and Christine go on a cruise to Western Caribbean (again)
Tony inspires the renaming of KFC to "Badguy's Chicken"
2006
Angel has her first snow day
Jeremy begins teaching chess classes and coaching competitive chess students
Jeremy is promoted to CEO of Cities Unlimited
Tony is born!
Jeremy and Christine open life insurance policies
Jeremy, Christine, and sister Mindy direct, music direct, and choreograph The Jungle Book" for CYT
2005
Angel crawls to cell phones
Jeremy and Christine perform together in West Side Story at The Theatre in the Park
Jeremy learns to write HTML and program in PHP
Jeremy, Christine, and sister Mindy direct, music direct, and choreograph "Honk! Jr." for Indian Woods M.S.
2004
Angel is born!
Jeremy and Christine leave Praire Fire Children's Theater and move to Shawnee, KS
Jeremy starts working at Cities Unlimited as Director of Marketing
2003
Jeremy and Christine take a snowboarding trip to Colorado
Jeremy and Christine produce/direct/perform in Jeremy's Senior Concert at WSU
Jeremy and Christine move to Minnesota to begin a 47-week tour as directors for Prairie Fire Children's Theater
Christine begins writing accompaniment for "Rhythm City"
Jeremy graduates from Wichita State University with a BFA degree in Musical Theater
2002
Christine and Jeremy move into their first apartment in Wichita: Cross Creek Apartments
Christine lands a job as a server at Red Rock Canyon Grill (with Jeremy)
Christine begins teaching piano lessons
Jeremy learns to play chess
Christine and Jeremy go on a mission trip to Mexico with SoulTeam Missions
Christine begins coaching cheerleaders for Word of Life School
Christine starts work at Applebee's
2001
Christine and Jeremy get married!
Jeremy starts work as a server at Red Rock Canyon Grill
Christine and Jeremy honeymoon in Florida for a week and a cruise to Caribbean
2000
Christine and Jeremy meet online!
1999
Jeremy begins writing the musical "Rhythm City"
Jeremy directs and choreographs his first musical "Schoolhouse Rock Live!"
1993
Jeremy performs in his first musical
Christine starts cheerleading
1986
Christine starts homeschool and Jeremy starts Maranatha Christian school