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It seems lack of friends may be an issue.
When I was about 9-11 I lived in an apartment complex with a bunch of kids my age. There was a shaded tree area with dirt hills great for our bikes, the road was very steep which made rollerblading and bikes even more fun, and tons of berry bushes that we enjoyed just beating down with sticks -- we made a path where you could walk ON the bushes that have been beaten down (a foot or so off the ground).
Later I moved to another apartment complex not too far away (a mile or so) but there were hardly any kids my age. The place was much more nice, but that meant that there were only really grass hills and a play ground. I was bored as hell that summer and spent my days inside watching TV. Hell, I even watched previews on pay per view to the new James Bond movie over and over.
That's not to say I wasn't inside before. I was just getting into Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, and I had sega channel. So I did spend a lot of time inside still.
If you can't get your kids to play inside, maybe just put them to productive means inside. Get the 10 year old interested in reading and find some good novels. Reading will make a drastic difference in his/her writing skills and reading skills during high school. Easier said than done, but ya never know.
Bikes/Rollerblades/Basketball hoop are always good investments. Maybe try to do sports all year round. Soccer in fall, basketball (wrestling maybe for the 10 year old) in winter, baseball during spring. Camps or something for summer.
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