Photos

The first picture we ever took together! On Rachel's 17th birthday in April 2007!

During our first few months of dating, summer 2007!

Our first formal dance together

Fall 2007 Formal at Carrol!

Our second formal together!

We've been laughing together for over 12 years now!

Winter 2008 Formal at Carrol!

Rachel's junior prom in spring 2008. This also happened to be her 18th birthday!

How I convinced this beauty to settle for this dweeb will always surprise me.

La Salle's Junior Prom in 2008!

Our first (of many!) Phillies games together, May of 2008

Senior Prom, Spring 2009! Rachel wore green just for me :)

Meggy sandwich during senior prom photos! 😂

During our freshman year of college. Rachel visiting me at UConn!

Christmas during our Sophomore year of college together.

Our 4th year anniversary in 2011 while we were Sophomores in college!

Far out! We always loved this selfie with 3D-Glasses during the summer of 2011. Peep the UConn National Champions hat!

Fall of 2012. I surprised Rachel at a football game, where she was a Cheerleader for UNH!

This is still one of our all time favorite pictures together! At a UNH Basketball game during our senior year

I've always had such a great singing voice, just ask Rachel! She's so lucky she gets to hear it for the rest of our lives now!

At my brother Kevin's wedding during Fall 2012. Rachel and I started dating first of these couples, but are the last to get married 😂😂😂

The happy couple 😁😁😁

Spring of 2013 during our senior year, picture taken in Eddy 612 (my RA room at UConn!)

Our 6th Anniversary Dinner at the Nathan Hale Inn at UConn in April 2013!

April 2013. We both really liked this picture of us 😊

Patrick's graduation from UConn!

We got dressed up for Rachel's end of senior year banquet

I, too, wonder why she has put up with me over the years

Summer 2013, after graduation, on Rachel's parents' new deck!

Halloween 2013, after moving in together at Towson University, we finally did a couples costume! Bert Macklin, FBI, and Janet Snakehole

Christmas 2013

Christmas 2013

Right after UConn won the Men's National Championship of Basketball in Spring 2014!

Celebrating 8 years of being together in April of 2015

Our first trip (of many) to Disney together, in November of 2015!

Patrick's graduation from grad school at Towson University, during the Spring of 2016!

Mood after putting up with my nonsense for 9+ years 😅😅😂😂😂

Fall of 2016 at Tito & Sarah's wedding!

October of 2016. My Dad came up to visit us and we went to the Gold Rush WVU football game!

November of 2016, our 2nd trip to Disney together. This trip was filled with lots of great photos!

Portrait Mode Selfies baby!!!

We been dabbing on em for 12 years now

Over the years we have perfected the Disney action shot poses 😂😂

A whole Disney couples photo 🥰

Spring 2017, celebrating 10 years together. The end of our first year together at WVU. This was shortly after I started plotting my engagement surprise that wouldn't happen until 15 months later!

Reverse angle, with the sun at our backs

Fall of 2017, our traditional Apple Picking before an Eagles game!

We love this tradition so much ❤️

Our 3rd Annual November Disney trip in 2017. During this trip I started lying the foundation of going to Disneyland in July of 2018!

Halloween of 2017. Our first Halloween with Maya and Riley. Maya the witch, and Riley the bumblebee!

We got to see Morgan on Thanksgiving of 2017, and part of that visit was furthering the trap that was set for Rachel awaiting her in Disneyland in the coming July!

Eagles Superbowl Parade together!

February of 2018, Baby!!!

The last picture we took together before I proposed. With my co-conspirators, Morgan and Laura!

"OH MY GOD, SHUT UP! STOP IT! PATRICK!" -- Famous last (single Rachie) words. July 9th, 2018

Moments after the big moment!

Christmas 2018, our first and last Christmas engaged!

July 2019, vacationing in OC, MD with Rachel's parents! The ice cream was great, but the company was better!

Rachel's surprise wedding shower with my Mom, the Sug!

Our last trip to Florida, September 2019, before we say I do!