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
2021
Charity celebrates her golden birthday on June 11th
Chase earns all 8 gym badges in Pokémon Shield
Jeremy's sister Mindy delivers her first baby: J.J. Belden!
Christine and Jeremy turn 40
Angel becomes Youth Worship Leader
Tony starts his first job at Chick-fil-A
Harmony quits using forks
Symphony releases her binky to the sky--never to be used again
Jeremy writes and professionally records three new rap songs to include in Rhythm City
Harmony has a spoon-themed birthday party
Harmony attends middle school church camp
Tony takes a mission trip to Puerto Rico
Jeremy and Christine celebrate their 20th Anniversary
Jeremy, Angel, Tony, Harmony, and Charity all perform in Rhythm City!
Jeremy's brother Davey starts working with Jeremy at Subsplash
Tony learns to drive
Almost the whole family catch COVID-19
We build a new deck outside
2020
Jeremy starts a new job at Subsplash
Symphony plays dozens of rounds of her new favorite bedroom activity: The Floor is Lava (pronounced "Da Fyoor is Yava")
The family watches the Chiefs win their first Super Bowl in 50 years
Angel gets her first car: Aunt Mindy's 2008 Honda Civic
Tony performs in his first musical: Footloose
Christine and Angel take a trip to Biltmore Estates in North Carolina for Angel's 16th birthday
Harmony gets braces
Chase and Charity play a lot of Animal Crossing and Pikmin
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
Christine contracts COVID-19 but somehow everyone else in the family avoids catching it
Jeremy gets to work from home for nearly the entire year
Angel starts her first job at Early Learning Academy
2019
Angel gets her learner's permit and begins learning to drive
Christine and Jeremy visit 4 different cities marketing their book
Tony and Angel help start the Youth worship team at New City Church
Harmony attends her first summer camp at Kansas Bible Camp
Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp is in use in 7 retail stores nationwide
Symphony attends Early Learning Academy
Angel gets all "A"s in her first semester of public school at Shawnee Mission NW High School
Tony joins SoulTeam Missions to serve in Guatemala on his first mission trip
The whole family participates in Mindy and Brice's Musical Wedding
Charity and Harmony perform as dancing elves in Elf the Musical
Jeremy's brother Davey and his wife Megan welcome their baby daughter Anna
Christine completes the Green-2-Gold leadership training
Angel joins the worship team at New City Church
Symphony figures out how to open all of the baby-proof cabinet locks
Chase sets the family record for building over 20 levels in Mario Maker
The whole Moritz family lives in a hotel for a week while getting floors redone
Symphony starts potty training
Jeremy starts a new job as a Senior Software Engineer at VMLY&R
2018
Angel begins school at Christ Preperatory Academy
Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp debuts in production
Harmony goes on her first cruise to celebrate her 10th birthday
Charity plays Young Eponine in the musical "Les Miserables" (a.k.a. "Les Charitables")
Chase and Tony unlock all of the playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Christine's Sister Stacy and her husband Clint welcome their second baby Felix
Tony can solve Rubik's Cube in under 1 minute
Symphony says her first word: "Dada"
Harmony begins violin lessons
Symphony learns to walk
Jeremy and Christine's new book Code for Teens is released nationwide
New City Church moves to a new building
Chase and Charity beats the game "Kirby Star Allies"
Harmony takes 1st place (out of 50 attendees and 20 entries) at Google's CoderDojo
Harmony goes gluten free
Tony creates a video game called "Punchout" and it receives over 10,000 views on Scratch
Chase learns to swim
Charity beats the game "Super Mario Odyssey"
Jeremy, Tony, and Harmony shoot thousands of zombies in Black Ops 3
2017
Jeremy breaks his left index finger in a sports injury
Angel turns 13
Angel goes gluten-free
Chase starts gymnastics classes
Harmony and Charity travel to Tulsa to visit their second cousin Haven
Chase learns from his siblings how to do addition, subtraction, basic multiplication, division, and writing his name
Harmony gets baptized
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)"
Christine completes over 25 construction and remodeling projects around the house
Tony takes 1st place two months in a row at Google's CoderDojo
Robbie and Norie get married!
Jeremy and Christine begin writing and illustrating their first book "Code for Kids" (later renamed "Code for Teens")
Symphony is born!
Jeremy and Christine visit the Creation Museum and Ark encounter in Kentucky
The family buys an 8-passenger van
Angel writes several original songs and accompanies herself on guitar on piano
Jeremy and Christine attend the Angular Developer Conference in Salt Lake City
Family visits Great Wolf Lodge during a staycation
2016
Angel's YouTube channel DeerAngel celebrates 20th video and over 50 subscribers!
Jeremy leaves Parnell to work as a Senior Software Engineer at National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
Angel gets braces
Tony earns his first computer (by learning to write HTML, CSS, use email, Google Docs, and type 30wpm)
Christine and Jeremy discover they're pregnant again (sadly this ended in a miscarriage)
Jeremy and Tony go on a ski trip with Grandpa Rob and Uncle Andrew
Jeremy's brother Davey and his wife Megan welcome their first baby Erick
Tony gets baptized
Tony begins drum lessons
Chase creates his 25th level on Super Mario Maker
Tony legitimately beats his dad in a competitive game of Table Tennis with no handicaps
Tony and Angel get their first experience of summer camp
Charity starts gymnastics classes
Harmony celebrates "Moving Day" (moving into Angel's room) with cupcakes and a party
Christine's brother John and his wife Mel welcome their first baby Julia
Christine's Sister Stacy and her husband Clint welcome their first baby Winnie
Christine travels to Canada for her sister-in-law Melanie's baby shower
2015
Jeremy and Davey create an immersive escape game called "The Game Escape"
Christine builds a stage in Harmony and Charity's room
Christine leaves Blues to Bach to become a full-time stay-at-home mother and homeschool teacher
Chase becomes the scissor bandit and opens random food packages with scissors
Angel starts her bi-weekly YouTube channel: DeerAngel
Tony chooses to come back to homeschool
Harmony gets baptized
Harmony participates in her first chess tournament (and wins a TROPHY!... for last place)
Christine's brother John gets married to Melanie
Angel chooses to come back to homeschool
Jeremy leaves UnitedLex to work as a Senior Digital Technology Developer at Parnell
Tony begins public school
2014
Harmony takes a trip with Mimi and Grandpa to Iowa (this is a HUGE deal to her)
Tony starts the Legend of Zelda game series
Jeremy leaves Walsworth to work as a Senior Software Developer at UnitedLex
Angel begins her first year of public school (in 4th grade)
Mike comes to stay in the basement
Immeasurable Productions performs "42nd Street"
Angel plays Molly in CYT's musical "Annie"
Jeremy begins work as a software engineer for Walsworth Publishing Company
Charity discovers Pikmin on the Wii U (and asks to play it every day)
Jeremy starts the first chess club at Broken Arrow Elementary (Angel and Tony join)
Chase gets a Spider-man four-wheeler and drives all over the house
2013
Angel and Tony participate in their first chess tournament
Jeremy is hired on as a full-time employee at Solidify
Harmony learns to whistle (and invents the wildly popular new game "Whistle Zombie Grave")
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)