Calendar invites going to email not iCal

My family relies heavily on calendar invites, it's how we all sync our schedules and know what's going on when, who needs to be where, etc.  Several months ago when sending an invite to my daughter from my Outlook calendar she was no longer receiving the invites to accept.  I found a work around of sending the inviteto her iCloud.com address instead of her outlook.com address.  When sending an invite to her iCloud email the event would automatically pop up in her phone calendar inbox (she would get an audible alert and the red 1 circle would show up on her phone calendar), she could accept and the event would then be on her calendar.
Fast forward a few months, I got an invite from my husband to my gmail.com accnt as always and instead of allowing me to decline or accept via email on my phone like it always had, the invite shows up in my email as a mime-attachment.ics attachment.  In the past I could accept the invite, but it goes to my gmail calendar which I never use and not my iPhone calendar.  The event doesn't show up on my iPhone calendar, but I will get a reminder from gmail on my phone at the time the event is due (which is not helpful, I need the events on my phone calendar, not my gmail calendar.  I don't even know how to view my gmail calendar and I need to know of appointments before they're due).  I've always used my gmail account on my phone and it is also my apple ID.  There must have been an update somewhere along the way where things changed.  So, I created an iCloud.com accnt and when my husband sends the invite from his Outlook on his laptop to myiCloud.com address it's still going to my email and not my calendar on my phone.  Now, when I click on the attachment to accept it closes out my email and takes me to my home screen.  I know that my phone calendar is working.  If I add events via my laptop in Outlook they will sync to my phone.  And if my older kids send me a calendar invite from their iPhones, it will pop up in my iPhone calendar and I can accept and the event goes onto my phone calendar. I need to know how/where people who do not have an iPhone should send me invites so they show up in my iPhone calendar. I have an iPhone 5S with IOS 8.1.  

Any help out there?  All I use is Apple, need Google calndar to go away...

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