Sorry for confusing everybody. I'm new here and only have a superficial knowledge of this stuff. I signed up here to learn more. I can see that one needs to be precise when commenting here. My original post was like a mixed metaphor. Let me restate so I know I understand correctly:
We can view light from the earliest time of the universe because of the distance light has to travel to get to us. There were no galaxies that far back in time so we won't see any, or maybe just proto galaxies. If we now consider present day, that same region is now populated with galaxies, although we won't see them because it takes so long for the light to get here. Also, due to expansion, whatever was in that region billions of years ago is now much farther away. In my original comment I was merely considering two observers, each in their own galaxy, at the edge of each other's observable universe.