I have wanted a Vitamix ever since my friend Jessica's mother made me a smoothie with one post college. Sadly, this dream never came to fruition until recently when my husband and I decided that we needed to take our smoothie making to the next level and my father decided to buy us one as an early holiday gift. I never knew a blender could induce so many emotions, but as you can see below the Vitamix has great powers (literally and figuratively).