The Highlight Reel

Some of Each Year's Notable Events in the Moritz Household

• 2021
• Jeremy writes and professionally records three new rap songs to include in Rhythm City
• Tony takes a mission trip to Puerto Rico
• Tony starts his first job at Chick-fil-A
• Almost the whole family catch COVID-19
• Jeremy and Christine celebrate their 20th Anniversary
• Jeremy's sister Mindy delivers her first baby: J.J. Belden!
• Chase earns all 8 gym badges in Pokémon Shield
• Harmony attends middle school church camp
• Angel becomes Youth Worship Leader
• We build a new deck outside
• Jeremy's brother Davey starts working with Jeremy at Subsplash
• Charity celebrates her golden birthday on June 11th
• Harmony quits using forks
• Jeremy, Angel, Tony, Harmony, and Charity all perform in Rhythm City!
• Christine and Jeremy turn 40
• Tony learns to drive
• Symphony releases her binky to the sky--never to be used again
• Harmony has a spoon-themed birthday party
• 2020
• The latest video game craze "among us" hits our family with full force
• The family watches the Chiefs win their first Super Bowl in 50 years
• Chase and Charity play a lot of Animal Crossing and Pikmin
• Tony performs in his first musical: Footloose
• 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")
• 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
• Angel starts her first job at Early Learning Academy
• Harmony gets braces
• 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
• Jeremy gets to work from home for nearly the entire year
• Angel gets her first car: Aunt Mindy's 2008 Honda Civic
• 2019
• Symphony starts potty training
• 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
• Jeremy starts a new job as a Senior Software Engineer at VMLY&R
• Charity and Harmony perform as dancing elves in Elf the Musical
• Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp is in use in 7 retail stores nationwide
• Jeremy's brother Davey and his wife Megan welcome their baby daughter Anna
• Harmony attends her first summer camp at Kansas Bible Camp
• The whole family participates in Mindy and Brice's Musical Wedding
• Tony joins SoulTeam Missions to serve in Guatemala on his first mission trip
• Angel gets her learner's permit and begins learning to drive
• Symphony attends Early Learning Academy
• Christine and Jeremy visit 4 different cities marketing their book
• Angel gets all "A"s in her first semester of public school at Shawnee Mission NW High School
• Tony and Angel help start the Youth worship team at New City Church
• The whole Moritz family lives in a hotel for a week while getting floors redone
• Chase sets the family record for building over 20 levels in Mario Maker
• 2018
• Tony can solve Rubik's Cube in under 1 minute
• Symphony learns to walk
• Harmony goes gluten free
• Harmony takes 1st place (out of 50 attendees and 20 entries) at Google's CoderDojo
• Christine's Sister Stacy and her husband Clint welcome their second baby Felix
• Symphony says her first word: "Dada"
• Angel begins school at Christ Preperatory Academy
• Jeremy, Tony, and Harmony shoot thousands of zombies in Black Ops 3
• Chase and Charity beats the game "Kirby Star Allies"
• Charity plays Young Eponine in the musical "Les Miserables" (a.k.a. "Les Charitables")
• Tony creates a video game called "Punchout" and it receives over 10,000 views on Scratch
• Chase and Tony unlock all of the playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• Chase learns to swim
• New City Church moves to a new building
• Harmony goes on her first cruise to celebrate her 10th birthday
• Harmony begins violin lessons
• Jeremy and Christine's new book Code for Teens is released nationwide
• Charity beats the game "Super Mario Odyssey"
• Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp debuts in production
• 2017
• Family visits Great Wolf Lodge during a staycation
• Chase learns from his siblings how to do addition, subtraction, basic multiplication, division, and writing his name
• Jeremy and Christine begin writing and illustrating their first book "Code for Kids" (later renamed "Code for Teens")
• Chase starts gymnastics classes
• Jeremy and Christine attend the Angular Developer Conference in Salt Lake City
• Tony takes 1st place two months in a row at Google's CoderDojo
• Christine completes over 25 construction and remodeling projects around the house
• The family buys an 8-passenger van
• 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)"
• Harmony and Charity travel to Tulsa to visit their second cousin Haven
• Jeremy and Christine visit the Creation Museum and Ark encounter in Kentucky
• Angel writes several original songs and accompanies herself on guitar on piano
• Harmony gets baptized
• Jeremy breaks his left index finger in a sports injury
• Angel goes gluten-free
• Robbie and Norie get married!
• Angel turns 13
• Symphony is born!
• 2016
• Harmony celebrates "Moving Day" (moving into Angel's room) with cupcakes and a party
• Tony and Angel get their first experience of summer camp
• Charity starts gymnastics classes
• Christine and Jeremy discover they're pregnant again (sadly this ended in a miscarriage)
• Angel gets braces
• Tony gets baptized
• Tony begins drum lessons
• Tony earns his first computer (by learning to write HTML, CSS, use email, Google Docs, and type 30wpm)
• Christine travels to Canada for her sister-in-law Melanie's baby shower
• Christine's brother John and his wife Mel welcome their first baby Julia
• Jeremy leaves Parnell to work as a Senior Software Engineer at National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
• Chase creates his 25th level on Super Mario Maker
• Tony legitimately beats his dad in a competitive game of Table Tennis with no handicaps
• 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
• 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
• 2015
• Harmony participates in her first chess tournament (and wins a TROPHY!... for last place)
• Angel starts her bi-weekly YouTube channel: DeerAngel
• Jeremy leaves UnitedLex to work as a Senior Digital Technology Developer at Parnell
• Angel chooses to come back to homeschool
• Tony chooses to come back to homeschool
• Christine leaves Blues to Bach to become a full-time stay-at-home mother and homeschool teacher
• Christine builds a stage in Harmony and Charity's room
• Chase becomes the scissor bandit and opens random food packages with scissors
• Christine's brother John gets married to Melanie
• Harmony gets baptized
• Jeremy and Davey create an immersive escape game called "The Game Escape"
• Tony begins public school
• 2014
• Jeremy leaves Walsworth to work as a Senior Software Developer at UnitedLex
• Jeremy begins work as a software engineer for Walsworth Publishing Company
• Angel begins her first year of public school (in 4th grade)
• Harmony takes a trip with Mimi and Grandpa to Iowa (this is a HUGE deal to her)
• 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)
• Mike comes to stay in the basement
• Charity discovers Pikmin on the Wii U (and asks to play it every day)
• Christine's grandmother Maxine Farthing ("Gramma Gigi") passes away
• Angel plays Molly in CYT's musical "Annie"
• Tony starts the Legend of Zelda game series
• Immeasurable Productions performs "42nd Street"
• Christine visits twin brother John in Canada
• 2013
• 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
• Jeremy is hired on as a full-time employee at Solidify
• Charity builds a giant Keva blocks structure
• Tony and Angel learn to ride bikes
• Angel and Tony participate in their first chess tournament
• Harmony learns to whistle (and invents the wildly popular new game "Whistle Zombie Grave")
• Angel gets baptized
• Immeasurable Productions performs "Bye Bye Birdie"
• Chase becomes the #1 contributor to the high playcount of Youtube's "The Balloon Song"
• 2012
• Immeasurable Productions performs "Footloose"
• Chase is born!
• Christine, Jeremy, and Chase are flown out to Oregon to be guests of honor at the west coast premiere of Rhythm City
• Tony takes Karate classes
• Jeremy begins work as a full-time software engineer contractor at Solidify Software
• Tony takes gymnastics classes
• 2011
• "Rhythm City" is performed by multiple schools around the country
• Jeremy gets LASEK (not LASIK) eye surgery
• Immeasurable Productions performs and films "Rhythm City Junior"
• Tony begins homeschool
• Christine begins teaching piano lessons at Blues to Bach
• Jeremy and Christine create "Rhythm City Junior" to market to middle schools
• Jeremy creates a new production company: Immeasurable Productions
• 2010
• Charity is born!
• Jeremy quits coaching chess
• Jeremy begins freelancing as a web developer
• 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 begins homeschool
• Angel has her first supporting role as Young Cosette in Les Miserables
• 2009
• Harmony is born!
• Jeremy begins working at American Income Life Insurance (mistake)
• Jeremy quits working at American Income Life
• Angel has her first dance recital at Miller-Marley
• 2008
• Tony proves to be a master foam swordsman
• The family moves to a new house
• Jeremy begins working as a landlord renting out the old home (mistake)
• Angel begins dance classes at Miller-Marley
• 2007
• Jeremy studies fight choreography and performs in an all-fighting stunt show
• Angel dresses as Dorothy for Halloween
• Jeremy and Christine go on a cruise to Western Caribbean (again)
• Tony inspires the renaming of KFC to "Badguy's Chicken"
• 2006
• Jeremy begins teaching chess classes and coaching competitive chess students
• Tony is born!
• Jeremy is promoted to CEO of Cities Unlimited
• Jeremy, Christine, and sister Mindy direct, music direct, and choreograph The Jungle Book" for CYT
• Jeremy and Christine open life insurance policies
• Angel has her first snow day
• 2005
• Jeremy learns to write HTML and program in PHP
• Angel crawls to cell phones
• Jeremy, Christine, and sister Mindy direct, music direct, and choreograph "Honk! Jr." for Indian Woods M.S.
• Jeremy and Christine perform together in West Side Story at The Theatre in the Park
• 2004
• Jeremy starts working at Cities Unlimited as Director of Marketing
• Angel is born!
• Jeremy and Christine leave Praire Fire Children's Theater and move to Shawnee, KS
• 2003
• Jeremy graduates from Wichita State University with a BFA degree in Musical Theater
• Jeremy and Christine produce/direct/perform in Jeremy's Senior Concert at WSU
• Jeremy and Christine take a snowboarding trip to Colorado
• Christine begins writing accompaniment for "Rhythm City"
• Jeremy and Christine move to Minnesota to begin a 47-week tour as directors for Prairie Fire Children's Theater
• 2002
• Christine and Jeremy go on a mission trip to Mexico with SoulTeam Missions
• Christine lands a job as a server at Red Rock Canyon Grill (with Jeremy)
• Christine begins teaching piano lessons
• Christine and Jeremy move into their first apartment in Wichita: Cross Creek Apartments
• Jeremy learns to play chess
• Christine begins coaching cheerleaders for Word of Life School
• Christine starts work at Applebee's
• 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 begins writing the musical "Rhythm City"
• Jeremy directs and choreographs his first musical "Schoolhouse Rock Live!"
• 1993
• Christine starts cheerleading
• Jeremy performs in his first musical
• 1986
• Christine starts homeschool and Jeremy starts Maranatha Christian school
• 1981
• Jeremy is born!
• Christine is born!