Alana,
The theme does defer loading of scripts. In fact, this is a requirement of ThemeForest submission process to improve performance. You can do two things, if you have not done so already, to improve the performance if hosting is not the issue.
1) Disable Smooth load from the General tab of the theme options, at least until you feel the speed looks ok.
2) Use caching plugin like WP Total Cache or WP Super Cache with compression enabled to help the site load faster.
If you still have trouble, pls post a temp login here as a private message and I can take a look. Thanks