Last weekend, Nicole Pietz set out early in the morning to meet with friends. She never made it.

That same Saturday, she didn't show up for a dinner party with friends and her husband of four years either. When she wasn't home by the next morning, her husband David called police and then Nici's parents in Arizona.

"I knew we had to get on an airplane as soon as possible. For her not to come home at night - as a young girl she always called. Even if she's going to be ten minutes late she calls, because she's so considerate," said her mother Gael Schneider from her daughter's living room.

Nici and her husband just bought their first home -- a condo in Lynnwood. The couple was under some financial strain and Nici just found out her beloved dog Boomer had cancer, but her family says she would never just leave. They've been searching ever since.

"I'm just trying to focus on what we can do to find her. So that you don't let your mind go to the bad places," said her husband, David Pietz.

Snohomish County detectives say they don't have a reason suspect foul play at this point, but they are concerned because it is so unlike the young woman not to contact her family or show up for work.

"We just want to know she's safe. We love her very, very much," said David Pietz.

Nicole was driving a dark grey 2003 Volkswagen Jetta with the Washington license plate, 991-TEF. She stands five feet, three inches and weights about 125 pounds.

Her family has been combing neighborhoods looking for her car or any clues that can tell them what's happened to a woman who by all accounts is responsible and happy.

"I'm crying an awful lot. How could a mother not?" said a tearful Schneider, "She's got to be somewhere."

Anyone with information is urged to call the Snohomish County Sheriff's Tip Line at: 425) 388-3845, or Nicole's step-father, Rod Schneider, at 623) 680-9414.