Ashlyn J'mya Heard, daughter of Ashley and Jackie Heard, celebrated her second birthday at a party March 9 at the home of her grandmother, Lizzie M. Harris, in Tignall. Her birthday was March 7.

Ashley was treated to a SpongeBob theme celebration. She and her guests enjoyed hot dogs, hamburgers, meatballs, chicken salad, chips and her SpongeBob cake with ice cream.

Celebrating the occasion with Ashlyn, her parents and grandmother were her uncles, Charlie Norman and Joseph and Mamie Norman; cousins and friends, Shameka, Jayla, Jaden and Jamia Davis, Shaundra Norman, Margie Willis, Patricia Walton, Alexis Jenkins, Harold, Millicent, Jay and Akeelah Blackwell, Currie and Xavier Hulin, Mya Norman, Amanda, Taja, Shaun, and Quan Hawes, Kindred, Veronica and Virkenya Chennault, Barbara and Monique Walton, Rachel Jackson, Mamie and Monique Booker, Linda Cook, Danissha Norman, and Jasmin Hulin, all of Wilkes County, Donnisha and Karmen Davis of Gwinnett, Altonese and Jordan Samuels of Athens, Shaneika and Shareka Norman, Lucille Allerte and Pearl Miller of Augusta and special guest, Joann Ramsey of Far Rockaway, N.Y.