23.

Short after our Camp Pendleton trip we celebrated by 23rd Birthday! I've probably already mentioned this, but July is a big birthday week for my family! My older sister Nicole's birthday is July 17th, my birthday is July 15th, and my younger brother Chris' birthday is July 13th. And that wasn't even planned! Prior to all of our birthdays, we went to California Pizza Kitchen to celebrate all three birthdays. Aside from pretty slow service and being seated in a really warm area (think sun room with no AC), it was a fun bday dinner! It's always interesting to tell the waiter you're there celebrating 3 birthdays when they let you know they do free birthday desserts.

For my actual birthday I was able to last-minute get the day off (shout out to my co-workers who took bits and pieces each of my shift!), so Tay and I spent all day together (a rare occasion at that time since I was working full time). I slept in then caught up on my favorite TV shows while Tay had a dentist's appointment. It was so nice to have a relaxing morning. When Tay got home we kick-started the day with some Waffle Love (if you're in Utah County you HAVE to try it. SOO yummy!). Since we counted Disneyland as my main birthday gift, we kept the bday shopping spree confined to just using the gift cards and money sent from family (thank you!). We enjoyed dinner at Macaroni Grill (thanks to an awesome Graduation gift we got!) after. Sooo yummy!

Had to take a pic of this cute bday card/gift from the doTERRA executives. Little oil candles!

 

Valentine's & Tay's Birthday!

Hello! 

I've been slacking at the blog. Things have been nuts around here. But first, let's talk about this first photo... My phone loves to randomly apply effects to the most random pictures on my phone. To be honest I have no idea how this photo even got on my phone (it's from my computer), but I thought it was perfect for writing about Valentine's! (ps you know technology is taking over the world when your phone outsmarts you). 

I hope you all had the loveliest of Valentine's Days! I have always loved Valentine's, even when I didn't have a significant other (hello super fun girls nights!), so it's extra fun now that I have a forever Valentine! 

Valentine's this year was a little different because Taylor was in Houston for a grad school interview for most of the day. However, I sent him off with some gifts, and he surprised me at work with a yummy and pretty Edible Arrangement! I'm new at my job so I was a little embarrassed but 100% excited and flattered. I picked up Tay that night happy to have him home (by the way they accepted him to the school less than an hour after his interview!).

Just SOME of the treats passed around at work that day: 

My gift sent to work from Tay!

 Tay has brought me home some goodies from each of his trips. Yessss.

Some of our gift giving. PS that huge stack of paper is the gift I talked about here . It took a LONG time but it was worth it!

And of course, Tay had a birthday! I decided to throw a little surprise get together the Sunday before his birthday since he has been traveling a lot and super stressed with school. Taylor is really hard to surprise so I was so nervous, but it turned out! We just had some different cakes and ice cream. Thanks to all who came! 

Then the celebrations continued! 

Taylor's dad bought us a Ruth's Chris gift card for Christmas so we were super excited to use it for Tay's birthday (he love steak almost as much as he loves Costco). The day before Tay's birthday we saw Enless Love then drove up to SLC for dinner! 

And then came his actual birthday! Since we'd eaten out a lot for dinner we just decided to do lunch. I have NEVER liked seafood, but since dating then marrying Tay, I've little by little started to like SOME things. I finally felt like we could get our money's worth going out for a sushi lunch (I'd learned to like enough rolls), and you guys. I LOVE sushi. YUM! 

Other than that we've just been busy working and figuring out where we're going to go to school for Taylor! Oh, and going to Costco of course! :) 

25

Today my favorite person turns 25! I realized that I mention Tay a lot on here, but there's probably many of you who don't know much about him!

^^The picture above is my favorite picture of Taylor. Three years ago when my roommates, friends, or family would ask to see a picture of the boy I had a huge crush on, this is the picture I would show them. Something I love about Taylor is his smile and this picture shows it perfectly. I probably FB stalked a little too much back then just to see this picture.

So here's a little bit about Tay: 

He is a great cook. This is probably why I don't like/am not good at cooking. He loves it and he's good at it, so sometimes I just let him :).

He can catch on to any foreign concept very quickly. If I can't figure out a sewing pattern or how to resize something on Photoshop, or even if I get "writer's block" when designing an invite for my shop, Tay can take a look at it and help me figure it out.

He is very much a homebody. We love to stay in and cuddle and watch movies together, and it's my favorite.

He LOVES steak. So much. And he has turned me into a red meat girl.

He speaks Spanish after serving a 2-year church mission in Guatemala. I try to practice with him but I think my horrible Spanish accent makes us both just want to speak English!

He is VERY good at math. I'm so grateful because I haven't taken math since my junior year of high school. Hopefully our kids will be well-balanced and get English skills from me, and math skills from Tay! My favorite is taking Taylor fabric shopping with me when I'm doing a project because he can calculate fractions (for how much fabric I need) so incredibly fast.

He really, really loves Costco. People who know that about him laugh when I start a story with "when we were at Costco the other day...."

He wears shorts and "slippers" (flip flops) outside in the winter. Unless it's SUPER damp outside and if it's not a total blizzard he does it.

He was born and raised in Hawaii. He love seafood, spam (yuck), and raw fish (yikes!). He is always missing home!

He had always wanted to get married in the Laie Hawaii LDS temple, but he told me that once he started to like me he realized he was OK getting married in exotic Provo, UT if that's what made me happy :)


Well I hope you all enjoyed hearing a little more about Taylor. He is my best friend (so cheesy, but true!). He is a very hard worker and he is always thinking about what is best for our family. I'm grateful to have him as my companion forever!

Happy Birthday Taylor!

Invites, invites, invites!

So I've already posted some screen shots of these before, but I wanted to feature some of the invites I've created recently in their full glory (not screenshots from InDesign). I have a second Etsy shop in the works right now for designing invitations, so I'm trying to spread the word a little. I'm finishing up compiling some example invites for my shop, so if you have ideas for some that you think would be fun to see, or if you need an invite for an upcoming event let me know and we could work out a deal (pretty much you just help me advertise :)) since I'm trying to build up my portfolio (it's a lot more fun and easy to make example invites when they're actually for real events!). Basically for my shop I'll be consulting with customers to make custom designs, or customizing existing designs I've created for customers. I'll be selling PDFs, not prints, so customers will be purchasing the PDF then printing the invites locally themselves. Essentially all the extra shipping and handling costs are cut out, yay! People can also use the PDFs for E-invites, which is really popular and convenient now-a-days. Anyway, I have a couple names in mind for my shop, but if any of you have some mind-blowing ideas, let me know and maybe you could get an invite or two if I pick that name. 

Have a wonderful night y'all! 

{Love is a Journey}: One of my childhood best friends got married a couple weeks ago, so my other best friend (Madie) and I threw her (Andrea) a bridal shower! Andrea wanted something nice and classy, and she travels a LOT (we're talking going to China every other year since high school), so Madie and I decided on throwing a travel-themed shower with the title "love is a journey". For this invite I used a picture of Andrea and her fiancé (now husband!) during one of their travels and made the photo look vintage and rustic. I created the stamp image which includes the actual shower date and time in it. I also found a Chinese stamp image to use for a final touch. 

{Ahoy! It's a Boy!}: My sister and her friend threw one of their childhood best friends a baby shower for her future baby boy. The theme was obviously nautical. They wanted it to be the perfect shade of red and blue (no 4th of July!), while incorporating a nautical feel. I think it turned out pretty well!

 Our adorable niece has a birthday coming up and she is having her party at a local waterpark in Hawaii. For this invite I tried to keep it childish but not immature (we've all seen invites that are too cheesy for most people's taste). The waterpark's logo has splashes coming out from it so I tried to keep that theme as well. My niece loves pink so I tried to incorporate that as much as possible without it being overbearing (let's be honest though I personally could never have enough pink!)

I recently blogged about my friend Lauren's wedding. She asked me to do her invite and I was thrilled. Here is a close-up of the invite. The invites were printed on specialty paper which is why there is no specific background or anything. Lauren wanted super classy, traditional, formal, and simple.

Below is one of my favorite parts of Lauren's invites. Lauren had a lot of inserts because she had a lot of events going on, but this one was one of the best I think. She had the same layout below for inviting close family and friends to the wedding ceremony inside the temple, but she also wanted to make those who could not go inside the temple to be a part of the day and feel included. We camp up with the design below to invite people to welcome them out of the temple and to take photos. 

Sealing invitation: 

Dinner invitation: 

I love feedback, so if you have some give me!! :) Also, if you're interested in working with me on an invite before the shop is open, email me at kelseybhibbs@gmail.com! 

**All invites were altered to protect the privacy of clients :) 

Hibbs Go to Hawaii: Days 4-6

We've been in Hawaii a week already and the time has gone by so, so fast! We don't exactly know when we're headed home because we're flying standby so we're just going to enjoy this next week and not worry about it until the weekend I guess :)

DAY 4:
Day 4 was quite uneventful actually. We were tired from our late night up after going to the PCC the night before so we had a lazy day in (days that we love probably way too much). Being comfy and watching movies is the best ever! We watched a church movie called One Good Man. It was kind of cheesy acting but it had very good lessons and it was fun to watch.

DAY 5: 
Friday morning Taylor took his grandma to the commissary (on the military base) to get groceries. Each time we visit Tay takes her, and the past couple times I've just stayed at home because I wanted to give Tay time with his grandma as she's getting older and he's definitely a "grandma's boy". I had yet another "lazy morning" while he was out, but hey, that's what vacation is for, right?

Later we had lunch with Josh and also our friends Tyler and Alana who live here in Hawaii. We hit up Nordstrom Rack for a little shopping and I'm proud to say I only bought a few small things...But that's because we're going shopping to my favorite mall ever tomorrow with Tay's mom :)

OH! Ok so the night before I had had this dream where I was working at Cold Stone again (hello, 15-year-old self), and I was making myself a cup of ice cream: Cake Batter ice cream with brownies. I haven't craved Cold Stone ever since I worked there, but in this dream it just looked so, so yummy. So when we were with Tyler and Alana they wanted to go to a Cold Stone we passed, and I was so excited that my dream craving could be fulfilled! So needless to say I went in and ordered Cake Batter with brownies. YUM.

As if we hadn't eaten enough that day, that night we went out with Taylor's siblings, their kids, Tay's mom, and Grandma and Uncle Ronnie. It was nice to get together with the in-laws to spend time with everyone. But seriously though, we've eaten a lot on this trip! The gym will be calling my name when we go back to Utah!

Love when Tay walks with his grandma...melts my heart! 

Little Miss P 

Always in action, this girl!

Banana Cream pie for dessert. So yummy! 

My BFF. This girl always makes me laugh! 

The night just kept getting better as our nieces and I had our third annual "Girls Night". We painted nails and watched Hotel Transylvania, then in the morning Tay's mom made us a yummy breakfast. I was itching for some Vitamin D since we'd had a couple lazy days so Taylor and I took the girls to the pool for a while. I love the pool at my mother-in-law's neighborhood because you just have the gorgeous Hawaiian trees and mountains in the background while you swim. I love it!

Sisters :) 

More sisters!

Adorable Kea choosing to read while we started to do nails. This girl is so good and such a good reader! No worries though, she joined the girly goodness about five minutes after we started :) 

She really is excited I promise! 

Nail polish for days 

Just some morning Temple Run 

Ok I look scary but just being real here! :) Morning lounging with these lovelies 

obsessed with P's face

Glued to the iPad

Look at that view...beautiful! 

Quality pool time with my girls. Now we just have to have a pool day with the nephews! 

This girl just being silly as always! 

Classic Mickey D's picnic after the swim (blanket underneath cause they were all wet!)

Happy to say I held on to my willpower and said "no" to MD this lunch around.

DAY 6:
After our swimming and Mickey D's lunch me, my sister-in-law Trisha and my mother-in-law (I'd just say MIL but for some reason that abbreviation bugs me I have no idea why!) found out about a sale at Macy's (pay $5 for a 25% off of everything (including clearance and sale!) all day long!) so we ran over and did a little shopping. Those ladies are my favorite shopping buddies ever. After we got ready and went to Taylor's dad's house for dinner with all of Tay's siblings for my father-in-law's birthday. I'm probably going to self-destruct because of all the food we've been eating. Don't worry, there's another dinner we're going to today!

Still have a huge crush on this boy! Ps check out his work on that cake! 

The boy still includes Spanish punctuation on things... 

Happy Birthday "Papa"!