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