Hugging her tight this morning... because she scared me half to death today. Seriously. I think she took about 10 years off of my life. I woke up this morning as usual and got myself ready (everyone else was still asleep). After I came out of my room, I shut off the house alarm and took Rudy outside. Came back in to wake up Anne.I was dreading it because I thought it was going to be really hard to get her up since she was up until almost 10:00 pm last night. I go in and open her blinds and notice she isn't in her bed. I assume she got up and went into our bed while I was showering and I just didn't see here when I came out of the bathroom. Go in our room. No Anne. Go back to her room and pull back all the covers. I open her closet and search her entire room. No Anne. Yell her name about 5 times. Go back in our room and wake up Troy. By this time I'm shaking like a leaf. Run in the toy room. Not there. By this time I'm just yelling her name and starting to cry. I run upstairs to see if she woke up and went to sleep up there for some reason. Not up there. A thousand things are running through my head by this time. I'm trying to figure out how the hell the alarm didn't go off if someone came in the house or she went out the door. Did I leave a window open? When was the last time I checked her last night? What the hell am I going to do? Should I go drive around the neighborhood? So I start running down the stairs and I'm crying, getting ready to call the police when all the sudden I hear her yell from behind the couch "I tricked you!!". She looked so proud of herself. Honestly, I have never been so happy and so mad at the same time in all of my life. I could barely even talk. Half of me wanted to hug her and the other half wanted to strangle her. It was horrible. For about 3 minutes I had no idea where my daugther was and was assuming someone had come in and taken her. I've never had so many things run though my head at one time. On the way to school, I told her how upset I was and that I was really afraid she was lost and I was crying. She felt really bad and said she was just trying to trick me. She promised she would never do it again and told me she was very sorry for making me cry. I swear to God, she better NEVER do that to me again.