The Moritz Family

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
  • Chase rides his first roller coaster
  • Symphony starts AWANA Sparks
  • Jeremy begins work as a Senior Software Engineer for Principle Studios
  • Angel and Tony in front of 3000 people sing the National Anthem for summer camp
  • Angel starts work M.E. Pearson Elementary as a library aide
  • Everyone goes to Branson for the first-ever full family vacation
  • Tony gets hired at Success Vision
  • 2022
  • Family takes a vacation to St. Louis to visit the Reeves family
  • Charity begins flute lessons
  • Charity and Chase go to Kansas Bible Camp
  • Angel gets a 31 on her ACT
  • Jeremy's brother Robbie has his first baby--Phoenix Moritz!
  • Chase starts AWANA Truth 'n Trust
  • Angel starts work at Chili's
  • Symphony starts AWANA Cubbies
  • Go on a family cruise
  • 2021
  • Almost the whole family catch COVID-19
  • Chase earns all 8 gym badges in Pokémon Shield
  • Tony starts his first job at Chick-fil-A
  • Tony takes a mission trip to Puerto Rico
  • Charity celebrates her golden birthday on June 11th
  • Tony learns to drive
  • Jeremy's brother Davey starts working with Jeremy at Subsplash
  • Jeremy and Christine celebrate their 20th Anniversary
  • Harmony quits using forks
  • Harmony has a spoon-themed birthday party
  • Harmony attends middle school church camp
  • We build a new deck outside
  • Symphony releases her binky to the sky--never to be used again
  • Jeremy, Angel, Tony, Harmony, and Charity all perform in Rhythm City!
  • Angel becomes Youth Worship Leader
  • Jeremy's sister Mindy delivers her first baby: J.J. Belden!
  • Jeremy writes and professionally records three new rap songs to include in Rhythm City
  • Christine and Jeremy turn 40
  • 2020
  • 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
  • Christine contracts COVID-19 but somehow everyone else in the family avoids catching it
  • Angel gets her first car: Aunt Mindy's 2008 Honda Civic
  • Symphony plays dozens of rounds of her new favorite bedroom activity: The Floor is Lava (pronounced "Da Fyoor is Yava")
  • Tony performs in his first musical: Footloose
  • Harmony gets braces
  • The latest video game craze "among us" hits our family with full force
  • Jeremy gets to work from home for nearly the entire year
  • Christine and Angel take a trip to Biltmore Estates in North Carolina for Angel's 16th birthday
  • Angel starts her first job at Early Learning Academy
  • Jeremy starts a new job at Subsplash
  • The family watches the Chiefs win their first Super Bowl in 50 years
  • 2019
  • 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
  • Chase sets the family record for building over 20 levels in Mario Maker
  • The whole family participates in Mindy and Brice's Musical Wedding
  • Angel gets her learner's permit and begins learning to drive
  • Harmony attends her first summer camp at Kansas Bible Camp
  • Angel joins the worship team at New City Church
  • Symphony starts potty training
  • Charity and Harmony perform as dancing elves in Elf the Musical
  • Angel gets all "A"s in her first semester of public school at Shawnee Mission NW High School
  • Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp is in use in 7 retail stores nationwide
  • Christine and Jeremy visit 4 different cities marketing their book
  • Symphony figures out how to open all of the baby-proof cabinet locks
  • Tony and Angel help start the Youth worship team at New City Church
  • 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
  • Christine completes the Green-2-Gold leadership training
  • Symphony attends Early Learning Academy
  • 2018
  • Angel begins school at Christ Preperatory Academy
  • Tony can solve Rubik's Cube in under 1 minute
  • Symphony learns to walk
  • Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp debuts in production
  • Jeremy and Christine's new book Code for Teens is released nationwide
  • Harmony goes gluten free
  • Charity beats the game "Super Mario Odyssey"
  • New City Church moves to a new building
  • 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
  • Chase and Tony unlock all of the playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
  • Charity plays Young Eponine in the musical "Les Miserables" (a.k.a. "Les Charitables")
  • Harmony begins violin lessons
  • Chase learns to swim
  • Chase and Charity beats the game "Kirby Star Allies"
  • Christine's Sister Stacy and her husband Clint welcome their second baby Felix
  • Symphony says her first word: "Dada"
  • Jeremy, Tony, and Harmony shoot thousands of zombies in Black Ops 3
  • Harmony goes on her first cruise to celebrate her 10th birthday
  • 2017
  • 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"
  • Harmony and Charity travel to Tulsa to visit their second cousin Haven
  • Chase starts gymnastics classes
  • Harmony gets baptized
  • Chase learns from his siblings how to do addition, subtraction, basic multiplication, division, and writing his name
  • Family visits Great Wolf Lodge during a staycation
  • Symphony is born!
  • Jeremy and Christine begin writing and illustrating their first book "Code for Kids" (later renamed "Code for Teens")
  • Robbie and Norie get married!
  • Angel goes gluten-free
  • Tony takes 1st place two months in a row at Google's CoderDojo
  • Grandpa Rob buys a theater: "Dramatic Impact Theater and Event Center (DITEC)"
  • Jeremy breaks his left index finger in a sports injury
  • The family buys an 8-passenger van
  • Angel turns 13
  • Angel writes several original songs and accompanies herself on guitar on piano
  • Christine completes over 25 construction and remodeling projects around the house
  • Jeremy and Christine visit the Creation Museum and Ark encounter in Kentucky
  • 2016
  • Christine's brother John and his wife Mel welcome their first baby Julia
  • Chase creates his 25th level on Super Mario Maker
  • Christine travels to Canada for her sister-in-law Melanie's baby shower
  • Tony begins drum lessons
  • Jeremy's brother Davey and his wife Megan welcome their first baby Erick
  • Jeremy leaves Parnell to work as a Senior Software Engineer at National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
  • Angel gets braces
  • Charity starts gymnastics classes
  • Harmony celebrates "Moving Day" (moving into Angel's room) with cupcakes and a party
  • Tony earns his first computer (by learning to write HTML, CSS, use email, Google Docs, and type 30wpm)
  • Tony and Angel get their first experience of summer camp
  • Angel's YouTube channel DeerAngel celebrates 20th video and over 50 subscribers!
  • Jeremy and Tony go on a ski trip with Grandpa Rob and Uncle Andrew
  • Christine and Jeremy discover they're pregnant again (sadly this ended in a miscarriage)
  • Tony gets baptized
  • Christine's Sister Stacy and her husband Clint welcome their first baby Winnie
  • Tony legitimately beats his dad in a competitive game of Table Tennis with no handicaps
  • 2015
  • Tony chooses to come back to homeschool
  • Harmony gets baptized
  • Jeremy and Davey create an immersive escape game called "The Game Escape"
  • Chase becomes the scissor bandit and opens random food packages with scissors
  • Christine builds a stage in Harmony and Charity's room
  • Angel chooses to come back to homeschool
  • Jeremy leaves UnitedLex to work as a Senior Digital Technology Developer at Parnell
  • Christine's brother John gets married to Melanie
  • 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)
  • Tony begins public school
  • Angel starts her bi-weekly YouTube channel: DeerAngel
  • 2014
  • Christine's grandmother Maxine Farthing ("Gramma Gigi") passes away
  • Mike comes to stay in the basement
  • Jeremy leaves Walsworth to work as a Senior Software Developer at UnitedLex
  • Angel plays Molly in CYT's musical "Annie"
  • Chase gets a Spider-man four-wheeler and drives all over the house
  • Christine visits twin brother John in Canada
  • Jeremy begins work as a software engineer for Walsworth Publishing Company
  • Immeasurable Productions performs "42nd Street"
  • Tony starts the Legend of Zelda game series
  • Jeremy starts the first chess club at Broken Arrow Elementary (Angel and Tony join)
  • Charity discovers Pikmin on the Wii U (and asks to play it every day)
  • Harmony takes a trip with Mimi and Grandpa to Iowa (this is a HUGE deal to her)
  • Angel begins her first year of public school (in 4th grade)
  • 2013
  • Angel and Tony participate in their first chess tournament
  • Angel gets baptized
  • Charity builds a giant Keva blocks structure
  • 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)
  • Chase becomes the #1 contributor to the high playcount of Youtube's "The Balloon Song"
  • Jeremy is hired on as a full-time employee at Solidify
  • Tony and Angel learn to ride bikes
  • Immeasurable Productions performs "Bye Bye Birdie"
  • Jeremy creates "Bad Bats" video game
  • 2012
  • Immeasurable Productions performs "Footloose"
  • Tony takes Karate classes
  • Chase is born!
  • Jeremy begins work as a full-time software engineer contractor at Solidify Software
  • Tony takes gymnastics classes
  • Christine, Jeremy, and Chase are flown out to Oregon to be guests of honor at the west coast premiere of Rhythm City
  • 2011
  • Jeremy gets LASEK (not LASIK) eye surgery
  • Tony begins homeschool
  • "Rhythm City" is performed by multiple schools around the country
  • Immeasurable Productions performs and films "Rhythm City Junior"
  • Jeremy and Christine create "Rhythm City Junior" to market to middle schools
  • Jeremy creates a new production company: Immeasurable Productions
  • Christine begins teaching piano lessons at Blues to Bach
  • 2010
  • Angel has her first supporting role as Young Cosette in Les Miserables
  • Jeremy begins freelancing as a web developer
  • Jeremy begins participating in multiple clinical research studies
  • Charity is born!
  • "Rhythm City" makes its world premiere performance!
  • Jeremy quits coaching chess
  • Angel begins homeschool
  • Harmony learns to use/break the microwave and sets a juice bottle on fire
  • 2009
  • Jeremy begins working at American Income Life Insurance (mistake)
  • Angel has her first dance recital at Miller-Marley
  • Harmony is born!
  • Jeremy quits working at American Income Life
  • 2008
  • Angel begins dance classes at Miller-Marley
  • 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)
  • 2007
  • Tony inspires the renaming of KFC to "Badguy's Chicken"
  • Jeremy and Christine go on a cruise to Western Caribbean (again)
  • Angel dresses as Dorothy for Halloween
  • Jeremy studies fight choreography and performs in an all-fighting stunt show
  • 2006
  • Jeremy and Christine open life insurance policies
  • Tony is born!
  • Jeremy is promoted to CEO of Cities Unlimited
  • Angel has her first snow day
  • Jeremy, Christine, and sister Mindy direct, music direct, and choreograph The Jungle Book" for CYT
  • Jeremy begins teaching chess classes and coaching competitive chess students
  • 2005
  • 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.
  • Angel crawls to cell phones
  • Jeremy and Christine perform together in West Side Story at The Theatre in the Park
  • 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
  • Christine begins writing accompaniment for "Rhythm City"
  • Jeremy and Christine take a snowboarding trip to Colorado
  • Jeremy graduates from Wichita State University with a BFA degree in Musical Theater
  • Jeremy and Christine move to Minnesota to begin a 47-week tour as directors for Prairie Fire Children's Theater
  • Jeremy and Christine produce/direct/perform in Jeremy's Senior Concert at WSU
  • 2002
  • Christine and Jeremy move into their first apartment in Wichita: Cross Creek Apartments
  • Jeremy learns to play chess
  • Christine begins teaching piano lessons
  • Christine lands a job as a server at Red Rock Canyon Grill (with Jeremy)
  • Christine begins coaching cheerleaders for Word of Life School
  • Christine starts work at Applebee's
  • Christine and Jeremy go on a mission trip to Mexico with SoulTeam Missions
  • 2001
  • 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
  • Christine and Jeremy get married!
  • 2000
  • Christine and Jeremy meet online!
  • 1999
  • Jeremy directs and choreographs his first musical "Schoolhouse Rock Live!"
  • Jeremy begins writing the musical "Rhythm City"
  • 1993
  • Jeremy performs in his first musical
  • Christine starts cheerleading
  • 1986
  • Christine starts homeschool and Jeremy starts Maranatha Christian school
  • 1981
  • Jeremy is born!
  • Christine is born!