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In Texas, you can't sling a dead cat without hitting a Peewee organization of some sort. PW football is on Saturdays. Most of the organizations I'm familiar with are assigned and supervised by guys who officiate in TASO chapters. Essentially, you can worry about Peewee later. Get signed up now with a TASO chapter. In TASO, you'll get training and start working Jr. high and maybe some HS games, depending on what's available. Then you find the guys who do the peewee assignments and just get in with the group that best suits you. Some peewee is tough to break into while other leagues will take anyone, but most want officials who are TASO members even though the games are in no way affiliated with TASO or UIL.
In Willis, you have a few choices. I'm not sure which chapter serves Willis schools now (I worked Willis games on the road years ago in the College Station basketball chapter, but I've never had a home game there). Houston probably gets close to there, as does College Station, and I don't know if there's a chapter that serves Huntsville/Conroe/Woodlands or if one of those two serve those areas. You'll have to check with them. I would get online and find TASO Houston football and TASO CS football and call or email whoever is listed as the new officials coordinator.
You will need the following: black hat, striped football shirt, black pants and belt (shorts for scrimmages and some peewee), black socks and shoes, a flag or two and a bean bag, a down indicator (I make my own), a set of note cards and a card wallet, along with a pen or pencil. Also grab a few quarters while you're at it. You can get all this stuff online or depending on which chapter you join, some meetings will have gear vendors there. DON'T buy anything right now. You'll have plenty of time to put together a uniform. Just save up as you'll need to spend about $250, depending on what shoes you get and if you need to get undergarments.
Subvarsity in Texas isn't uniform across the entire state, but the gist of starting times is this: Monday and Tuesday are jr. high games that start between 4:30 and 5:30, and there are 2-3 games a night. In the smaller areas, there aren't games on Mon/Tues, as the jr. high plays on Thursdays with the HS. In my area there aren't many Wed games, but in larger metro areas there might be. In Houston, there are probably a lot of Thurs varsity games due to need for stadiums, so Var thurs means JV Wednesday.
In my area, we start most games, (M-Th) at 5:30, though an occasional freshman C or sophomore game might be scheduled earlier. In smaller areas, they may start jr. high games at 5 or even 4:30 in order to get in 3 or 4 games that night. The trend has been against starting before 5 so more parents can attend, more butts in the seats and more money. The 4:00 start will be for schools playing on fields without lights or a C team game hastily scheduled at the last minute. The 4:30 or 5 game will be the first of a 3 game night at that field, and the 5:30 will be most of the rest. However, what is specifically done in your area, I can't speak to.
Feel free to ask any other questions. I've been under the weather lately and haven't really been checking this board that often.
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