Newbie Help - Trouble with NPN resistor
Maybe something like this is what you have mind, but from your description you could just use one switch and two resistors and no transistors. 







simulate this circuit &ndash; Schematic created using CircuitLab

Even if you put the PNP in there for some reason, R2+D1 and R3+D2 could be put in parallel and lose the NPN.