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
Jeremy's brother Davey starts working with Jeremy at Subsplash
Jeremy's sister Mindy delivers her first baby: J.J. Belden!
Harmony attends middle school church camp
Tony learns to drive
Tony takes a mission trip to Puerto Rico
Symphony releases her binky to the sky--never to be used again
Jeremy and Christine celebrate their 20th Anniversary
Chase earns all 8 gym badges in Pokémon Shield
Harmony has a spoon-themed birthday party
Almost the whole family catch COVID-19
Tony starts his first job at Chick-fil-A
Jeremy, Angel, Tony, Harmony, and Charity all perform in Rhythm City!
Harmony quits using forks
We build a new deck outside
Jeremy writes and professionally records three new rap songs to include in Rhythm City
Angel becomes Youth Worship Leader
Christine and Jeremy turn 40
Charity celebrates her golden birthday on June 11th
2020
Chase and Charity play a lot of Animal Crossing and Pikmin
Symphony plays dozens of rounds of her new favorite bedroom activity: The Floor is Lava (pronounced "Da Fyoor is Yava")
Christine contracts COVID-19 but somehow everyone else in the family avoids catching it
Angel starts her first job at Early Learning Academy
The latest video game craze "among us" hits our family with full force
Tony performs in his first musical: Footloose
Harmony gets braces
Jeremy starts a new job at Subsplash
Jeremy gets to work from home for nearly the entire year
The family watches the Chiefs win their first Super Bowl in 50 years
Christine and Angel take a trip to Biltmore Estates in North Carolina for Angel's 16th birthday
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 gets her first car: Aunt Mindy's 2008 Honda Civic
2019
Christine completes the Green-2-Gold leadership training
Jeremy starts a new job as a Senior Software Engineer at VMLY&R
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 joins the worship team at New City Church
Symphony figures out how to open all of the baby-proof cabinet locks
The whole family participates in Mindy and Brice's Musical Wedding
Chase sets the family record for building over 20 levels in Mario Maker
Harmony attends her first summer camp at Kansas Bible Camp
Tony joins SoulTeam Missions to serve in Guatemala on his first mission trip
Symphony starts potty training
Tony and Angel help start the Youth worship team at New City Church
Charity and Harmony perform as dancing elves in Elf the Musical
Jeremy's brother Davey and his wife Megan welcome their baby daughter Anna
The whole Moritz family lives in a hotel for a week while getting floors redone
Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp is in use in 7 retail stores nationwide
Angel gets all "A"s in her first semester of public school at Shawnee Mission NW High School
2018
Chase and Charity beats the game "Kirby Star Allies"
Symphony says her first word: "Dada"
Chase and Tony unlock all of the playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Angel begins school at Christ Preperatory Academy
Chase learns to swim
Harmony begins violin lessons
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
Harmony goes gluten free
Jeremy's Success Vision Online webapp debuts in production
Charity beats the game "Super Mario Odyssey"
Jeremy and Christine's new book Code for Teens is released nationwide
Tony creates a video game called "Punchout" and it receives over 10,000 views on Scratch
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")
Harmony takes 1st place (out of 50 attendees and 20 entries) at Google's CoderDojo
New City Church moves to a new building
Symphony learns to walk
Tony can solve Rubik's Cube in under 1 minute
2017
The family buys an 8-passenger van
Tony takes 1st place two months in a row at Google's CoderDojo
Robbie and Norie get married!
Grandpa Rob buys a theater: "Dramatic Impact Theater and Event Center (DITEC)"
Angel goes gluten-free
Jeremy breaks his left index finger in a sports injury
Jeremy and Christine begin writing and illustrating their first book "Code for Kids" (later renamed "Code for Teens")
Jeremy and Christine attend the Angular Developer Conference in Salt Lake City
Jeremy and Christine visit the Creation Museum and Ark encounter in Kentucky
Harmony gets baptized
Angel writes several original songs and accompanies herself on guitar on piano
Symphony is born!
Christine completes over 25 construction and remodeling projects around the house
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
Angel turns 13
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
Chase starts gymnastics classes
2016
Harmony celebrates "Moving Day" (moving into Angel's room) with cupcakes and a party
Jeremy's brother Davey and his wife Megan welcome their first baby Erick
Chase creates his 25th level on Super Mario Maker
Tony gets baptized
Christine's Sister Stacy and her husband Clint welcome their first baby Winnie
Tony and Angel get their first experience of summer camp
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
Christine travels to Canada for her sister-in-law Melanie's baby shower
Angel's YouTube channel DeerAngel celebrates 20th video and over 50 subscribers!
Christine and Jeremy discover they're pregnant again (sadly this ended in a miscarriage)
Angel gets braces
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
Tony legitimately beats his dad in a competitive game of Table Tennis with no handicaps
Tony begins drum lessons
Charity starts gymnastics classes
2015
Christine builds a stage in Harmony and Charity's room
Angel starts her bi-weekly YouTube channel: DeerAngel
Chase becomes the scissor bandit and opens random food packages with scissors
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
Jeremy leaves UnitedLex to work as a Senior Digital Technology Developer at Parnell
Angel chooses to come back to homeschool
Harmony gets baptized
Harmony participates in her first chess tournament (and wins a TROPHY!... for last place)
Tony chooses to come back to homeschool
Tony begins public school
Jeremy and Davey create an immersive escape game called "The Game Escape"
2014
Chase gets a Spider-man four-wheeler and drives all over the house
Chase becomes the #1 contributor to the high playcount of Youtube's "The Balloon Song"
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 is hired on as a full-time employee at Solidify
Angel and Tony participate in their first chess tournament
2012
Christine, Jeremy, and Chase are flown out to Oregon to be guests of honor at the west coast premiere of Rhythm City
Chase is born!
Tony takes gymnastics classes
Tony takes Karate classes
Jeremy begins work as a full-time software engineer contractor at Solidify Software
Immeasurable Productions performs "Footloose"
2011
Jeremy gets LASEK (not LASIK) eye surgery
Tony begins homeschool
Jeremy and Christine create "Rhythm City Junior" to market to middle schools
Christine begins teaching piano lessons at Blues to Bach
Immeasurable Productions performs and films "Rhythm City Junior"
Jeremy creates a new production company: Immeasurable Productions
"Rhythm City" is performed by multiple schools around the country
2010
Angel begins homeschool
Jeremy quits coaching chess
"Rhythm City" makes its world premiere performance!
Angel has her first supporting role as Young Cosette in Les Miserables
Jeremy begins freelancing as a web developer
Charity is born!
Jeremy begins participating in multiple clinical research studies
Harmony learns to use/break the microwave and sets a juice bottle on fire
2009
Angel has her first dance recital at Miller-Marley
Harmony is born!
Jeremy begins working at American Income Life Insurance (mistake)
Jeremy quits working at American Income Life
2008
The family moves to a new house
Jeremy begins working as a landlord renting out the old home (mistake)
Tony proves to be a master foam swordsman
Angel begins dance classes at Miller-Marley
2007
Jeremy and Christine go on a cruise to Western Caribbean (again)
Jeremy studies fight choreography and performs in an all-fighting stunt show
Tony inspires the renaming of KFC to "Badguy's Chicken"
Angel dresses as Dorothy for Halloween
2006
Jeremy begins teaching chess classes and coaching competitive chess students
Jeremy and Christine open life insurance policies
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
Tony is born!
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.
Jeremy and Christine perform together in West Side Story at The Theatre in the Park
Angel crawls to cell phones
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 graduates from Wichita State University with a BFA degree in Musical Theater
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
Jeremy and Christine produce/direct/perform in Jeremy's Senior Concert at WSU
2002
Christine begins teaching piano lessons
Christine starts work at Applebee's
Jeremy learns to play chess
Christine and Jeremy move into their first apartment in Wichita: Cross Creek Apartments
Christine begins coaching cheerleaders for Word of Life School
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)
2001
Christine and Jeremy get married!
Christine and Jeremy honeymoon in Florida for a week and a cruise to Caribbean
Jeremy starts work as a server at Red Rock Canyon Grill
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