MonaVie Ranks No. 1 in Utah Business Fast 50 Awards

I am so fortunate to work for this amazing company, with strong business ethics, morals and values! Go MonaVie!!

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705339026/MonaVie-takes-top-honors-for-Utah-growth.html


A South Jordan-based multilevel marketing company that sells juices was Utah's fastest-growing company in 2009 — and Friday it was given the award to prove it.

MonaVie received top honors given by MountainWest Capital Network at the 15th annual Utah 100 Awards Program. The event lauds the 100-fastest growing companies in the state, the top 15 revenue-growth companies and 12 "emerging elite" companies that are young but show great promise.

Gov. Gary R. Herbert heralded all the companies for their outstanding contributions to Utah's economy. His own "first priority" is to "grow the economy, followed by education and energy," he said. It's a list of priorities he emphasized in similar fashion recently during a press conference with the Governor's Office of Economic Development.

But he called Friday's honorees the "backbone" of state competitiveness and said that "their hard work, sacrifice and success represent all Utah businesses." Every day, he added, he hears that "Utah is a state that understands it and gets it right."

For the companies being honored, "success is no accident," said Lex Watterson, MWCN president. He said they are "well-conceived," with strong staffs and excellent leadership.

The 100 fastest-growing companies are selected from thousands of applicants and represent a cross-section of industries. The ranking of the top 100 is determined by the percentage revenue increased from 2004 to 2008.

The top 10 was rounded out by Skullcandy, American Liberty Insurance, VMI Nutrition, Interbank FX, Revinetix, SwarmBuilder Inc., Hyper Interactive Media, Cymphonix Corp. and Wasatch Software Inc.

Top revenue-growth winners had the largest dollar-amount revenue increase in that same five-year period. This year, top-five honors in that category went to Questar, Zions Bancorp., MonaVie, The Layton Cos. and Sportsman's Warehouse.

The 15 "emerging elite" companies had to be at least two years old but to not have been around the full five years to be measured in the other categories, so they were not ranked.

The complete list is online at www.mwcn.org.

Armando moved to Denver!

Our very favorite Mexican, Armando Varela has moved to Denver, Colorado. He left last Wednesday with his wife for her new job as a furniture sales person.

Armando and I became friends 13 years ago. We went to the same Jr. High. We are closer than friends, I would say we're more like family.

Anyway, Armando is like a brother to me, we are super duper close and would do anything for each other. Although, there was this one time he let me down... not entirely his fault though. He has apologized and I have forgiven. :)


We went out last Tuesday night to bid him farewell and wish him the best of luck in his new endeavors.

We will miss you Armando!

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I found this cool new search tool on the left. You can now search my blog for anything you like. If you want to read everything I've ever posted about Rocky, my wedding, Kaia, Mexico, or anything else that I may have written about, just type the keyword in the little box and it will pull all of my posts related to that word.

Special thanks to all of you who care so much about Jeff and I, we love you more than you know! You complete us! :)

Last Day in Cancun! Friday October 2nd -Isla Mujeras

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My funnest day!! We took a ferry boat over to the Isla Mujeras (Island of the Women) for the day. When we got there we got to see a short dolphin show! I love these guys, they're like labradors! Then from there, we went down town and rented these golf carts. Jerica wasn't with us this day because she partied hardy the night before and was too tired. So we made friends with a 23 year old girl from Switzerland, traveling by herself named Nadine. Very cool chik! She tagged along with us all day! That's her in the green. When we got back we headed to the zip line. It was SOOO much fun. I'd never been on one before and was a little apprehensive, but I'm so glad I cowgirled up and did it. Alas it was time to head back home! Russ and I started a conga line and got the whole boat to join in, it was a blast. He still wanted to dance and so he did.

Xcaret - Thursday Oct 1st

We had heard so many good things about this place. It was the most pricey tour we went on at $120.00 per person! Sad to say, we all thought it was the most stupid thing we had ever done! We were all bored. It's a very expensive zoo, that's all it is. I didn't take any pictures because we didn't really care.

Anniversary Massages Wednesday, Sep 30

To celebrate our anniversary, Jeff and I went to the Fiesta Americana resort to get a couples massage. It was so awesome and very romantic. We were in a little hut thing right on the beach and the thunder was rolling a little, it was perfect!

Tuesday, September 29th - Chichen Itza (Mayan Ruins)

Happy Anniversary!! It's been two years since we took the plunge and became one.

Today we ventured out to Chichen Itza, it's about two hours from our resort. On the way out it started raining, and most of you know what happens to me when it starts to rain while I'm in a vehicle! If you don't be thankful you haven't had to see it first hand! We made it through the rain (just barely) and then stopped at this run down gift shop. I have never seen such poor living conditions, I'm sure there are worse, but this was truly an eye opener for me. There were starving dogs
everywhere. :(



We learned about the Mayan people and how smart they were. They strategically built all of these temples. There is one that you can clap from the ground and at the top of the temple you hear the clap's echo is a bird, i guess the sacred bird.

There's also a temple that every April 6th, (jesus's birthday) the sun sits in between the two posts and it looks as though the little guy in the middle of the posts is holding the sun.



Here is what Jeff and I looked like only HALF WAY though the tour!!!! It was SCORCHING HOT!! We all had sweat dripping from our bodies.



After the ruins, we headed to our next stop, the "cenote". It's a sink hole in the earth with water in it, the group swam here for a little bit and Russ even jumped from a really really high spot that no one else was allowed to jump from, he payed 50 pesos to do it.



After the "cenote", we made our last stop in Colonial Town. I made friends with these cute kids and met some LDS missionaries.